Education Sep 19 'Now it's me as their elder': After a mother's death, a struggle to finish school in Kenya In 2000, the UN set a goal that by 2015, every child in every nation should be able to obtain free basic education. At the time, 100 million children of primary school age worldwide had never set foot in a school. Today,…
Sep 18 Baratunde Thurston on fighting racist absurdity with laughs When you're the one black friend, says Baratunde Thurston, you're kind of like a double agent trying to prevent thermonuclear war. The former Onion digital director, “Daily Show” producer and author of “How to Be Black,” gives his Brief but…
Arts Sep 18 An art collector with Broad influence opens his own museum Billionaire Eli Broad began his fortune building tract homes in the Detroit suburbs, and over the decades he and his wife also built an impressive art collection. Now the brand new Broad Museum is set to open in Los Angeles,…
Politics Sep 18 Smartphone user? The 2016 candidates are watching you If you own a smartphone, you are already on the frontline of the 2016 presidential race. On the left and the right, campaigns are amassing information about you and figuring out how to influence you with individualized marketing. And that's…
World Sep 18 Elated to reach Greece, migrants face obstacles on the road ahead On the Greek isle of Lesbos, thousands are coming to shore by boat every day; most are refugees from Syria and Afghanistan. Special correspondent Malcolm Brabant reports on how they are being greeted.
World Sep 18 What happened for two Syrian families who made it to Germany A week ago we followed two Syrian families along the grueling and unpredictable migration to Germany. Already, much has changed for the two families. William Brangham offers an update.
World Sep 18 News Wrap: Overwhelmed Croatia moves migrants to Hungary In our news wrap Friday, after 17,000 migrants surged across Croatia's border with Serbia in just days, Croatia's government announced it could not cope and began moving people into Hungarian territory. Also, Taliban gunmen stormed an air force base in…
Politics Sep 18 Shields and Brooks on GOP debate standouts, Pope Francis goes to Washington Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks join Hari Sreenivasan to discuss the week’s news, including how the second Republican debate helped or hurt the candidates, why Donald Trump didn’t contradict bigoted remarks at a campaign…
Nation Sep 17 Why the law doesn't actually cover GM's deadly defects General Motors has agreed to pay $900 million in a settlement with the U.S. government over a deadly flaw in its ignition switches, after admitting it hid the problem for over a decade. In addition to the fine, an independent…