Politics Oct 06 Remembering Lady Bird Johnson's whistle-stop tour for civil rights Fifty years ago, in October 1964, less than a month before the presidential elections, Lady Bird Johnson boarded a train in Washington to stump through eight Southern states -- a gamble to help win back disaffected voters after the passage…
Health Oct 06 Weighing the health costs of high school football The debate over the health risks of high school football has escalated since three student players died in a week. PBS NewsHour’s Student Reporting Labs talk to the football team at T.C. Williams High School in Virginia for their response.
Arts Oct 06 Lev Grossman's 'Magicians' series casts spell on adult readers Lev Grossman’s bestselling series “The Magicians” proves that fantasy literature isn’t only for kids, having captured a new generation of readers with new worlds and mature, complicated characters. Grossman joins Jeffrey Brown to discuss his work and why the genre…
Science Oct 06 News Wrap: Neuroscientists to share Nobel in Medicine for discovering brain's 'GPS' In our news wrap Monday, the Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to three neuroscientists for discovering the brain system that helps people orient themselves. Also, pro-democracy protests seemed to wane in Hong Kong. Talks have begun between the government…
Economy Oct 05 New York City, LA among cities moving to raise minimum wage Matt Flegenheimer of the New York Times joins Hari Sreenivasan to talk about the U.S. cities moving to raise minimum wage on the local level, as the issue lingers in Congress.