Nation Dec 28 Return of the debtors' prison? Many jailed for inability to pay fines Cities across the country are increasingly turning to what are known as private probation companies to collect unpaid fines. But are indigent people ending up in jail because they can't afford to pay? Since NewsHour Weekend's first story on this…
Episode Dec 27 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode Dec. 27, 2014 Thousands attend the funeral of one of two New York City police officers murdered while on duty last weekend. Later, North Korea ridicules President Obama and accuses the US of causing internet shortages in that country. And, in our signature…
Nation Dec 27 One family moves on from its sharecropping past in Arkansas In the second installment of "Flying Coach," special correspondent John Larson's series on people he encounters while traveling to report on other stories, we meet Donna Hahn, whose family worked as sharecroppers in Arkansas until the Ku Klux Klan drove…
Episode Dec 26 PBS NewsHour full episode Dec. 26, 2014 Friday on the NewsHour, we look back at the banner year in corporate mergers and the effect on the economy. Also: Deteriorating conditions for people living in Islamic State territory, the Affordable Care Act’s impact on hospitals, restoring a Rothko…
Arts Dec 26 Conservators shine new light on irreplaceable art A series of paintings created by Mark Rothko for Harvard University was thought irreparably damaged by years of sun exposure and removed from view. Thirty-five years later, the paintings have returned, thanks to art historians and curators using digital projection,…
Arts Dec 26 Readers relate to New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast's personal book on aging parents Known for her dry wit, cartoonist Roz Chast finds humor in caring for aging parents in her first graphic memoir, "Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?" Jeffrey Brown speaks with the New Yorker artist about taking on more personal…
Politics Dec 26 Shields and Gerson on cyber-attacks after Sony, Obama's year ahead Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson join Judy Woodruff to discuss this week’s news, including the state of race relations in America in the wake of continuing protests and the killing of two New York police…
Health Dec 26 How a state's choice on Medicaid expansion affects hospitals In negotiating the creation of the Affordable Care Act, hospitals took a big gamble, with the expectation that they would soon have millions of new Medicaid customers. In states that expanded Medicaid, the bet paid off. Sarah Varney of Kaiser…