Nation Aug 06 Climate change is making wildfires more extreme. Here's how High winds, high temperatures, pervasive drought. These extreme conditions are driving two enormous fires in California, and many more throughout the American West and much of Northern and Western Europe. William Brangham talks with Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University…
Politics Aug 06 Tamara Keith and Eliana Johnson on Trump's meeting tweet, Paul Manafort on trial Tamara Keith of NPR and Eliana Johnson of Politico join Nick Schifrin to discuss President Trump’s explanation of a 2016 meeting in Trump Tower related to the Russia probe, the testimony of former Trump campaign aide Rick Gates in the…
Nation Aug 06 How prepared is the U.S. to fend off cyber warfare? Better at offense than defense, author says “We spent years worrying about the giant cyber-Pearl Harbor,” says David Sanger, author of “The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage and Fear in the Cyber Age.” But, he argues, that has blinded us to more subtle uses, in which we are…
Arts Aug 06 Are you a man who is interested in book clubs? Here are rules for starting your own Maybe you’re a guy. Maybe you like books. Maybe you like talking with people about books. So what's stopping you from having your own book club, a.k.a. “Literary Domination Society”? Author Nick Arvin shares his humble opinion on why men…
Episode Aug 05 August 5, 2018 - PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode On this edition for Sunday, Aug 5, 40 years since the Love Canal environmental crisis, residents say that chemicals there continue to make them sick. Also, hundreds of toxic sites await cleanup under the Superfund program. Megan Thompson anchors from…
Nation Aug 05 Hundreds of toxic sites await cleanup under Superfund program In 1980, the Congress approved the Superfund program, generating money to clean up the country’s most hazardous toxic sites by imposing a tax on industries that polluted the most. Since 2000, the program’s purchasing power has declined by 40 percent…
Episode Aug 04 August 4, 2018 - PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode On this edition for Saturday, Aug 4, the long-term implications of top cybersecurity officials leaving the FBI. Later, lawmakers and scientists try to establish when someone may be too high to drive and the Trump administration gets blowback for proposing…
Politics Aug 04 Trump administration set to face off with California over fuel standards The Trump administration proposed on Thursday to rescind an Obama-era regulation that aimed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by requiring automakers to design vehicles that would average 50 miles per gallon by 2025. The move pits the federal government against…
Nation Aug 04 The FBI's cybersecurity brain drain has long-term implications As the Trump administration grapples with cybersecurity concerns in the upcoming elections, it is also facing the loss of four top cybersecurity experts from the FBI. These exits could have a potentially long-term impact on strategy decisions for the division.
Episode Aug 03 August 3, 2018 - PBS NewsHour full episode Friday on the NewsHour, Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa declares victory as the opposition challenges the results of the highly contested election. Also: Who is responsible for reuniting separated migrant families, mapping poverty in Kenya, David Brooks and Ezra Klein analyze…