May 10 Watch Brave New Workshop takes satirical look at hot-button issues By PBS News Hour Continue watching
May 10 As oil booms in North Dakota, questions of rail safety linger By Stephen Fee After a series of fiery derailments over the past year -- including a deadly incident in Quebec last summer -- regulators and policy makers are asking questions about the safety of oil by rail. Continue reading
May 09 Watch Shields and Brooks on primary points for GOP, politics of climate policy By PBS News Hour Continue watching
May 09 Watch Should parents let their kids take more risks? By PBS News Hour For children in the U.S., unsupervised play is largely a pastime of previous generations. Hanna Rosin of The Atlantic writes about the consequences of guarding children from perceived dangers in her article, “The Overprotected Kid.” Judy Woodruff interviews Rosin about… Continue watching
May 09 Chinese authorities cut off tap water in city of 500,000 over pollution fears By Ellen Rolfes Don't drink the water in Jingjiang. Due to high levels of an unnamed contaminant, authorities have cut off the tap water in the Yangtze River city of about a half million people. "We don't have the results yet and… Continue reading
May 09 Model aircraft nearly collided with U.S. airliner in March By Joshua Barajas The pilot told officials that he saw a small, camouflaged fixed-wing aircraft about 2,300 feet above the ground fly "so close to his jet that he was sure he had collided with it," said Jim Williams, manager of the FAA's… Continue reading
May 09 Three takes on disciplining your child, from toddler to teen By Jenny Marder We turned to three experts with different backgrounds and asked them how they would deal with a variety of real-world scenarios. Continue reading
May 09 Baby name trends show parents want their kids to stand out By Stephen Ohlemacher, Associated Press WASHINGTON — When it comes to baby names, blending in is out, and standing out is in. Noah and Sophia top the Social Security Administration's list of most popular American baby names for 2013, but they don't begin to approach… Continue reading
May 09 Ask yourself, says a notorious 'Occupy' academic, should your job exist? By David Graeber Increasingly, anthropologist and Occupy activist David Graeber argues, American workers are paid to look busy. The expansion of our days with meaningless work and the growth of entire industries that shouldn't exist, Graeber writes, fuel resentment toward "real" professions like… Continue reading
May 09 'Batdad' fights to put humor into parenting with a mask and a smartphone By Ariel Min He’s just an ordinary dad with a smartphone ... and a cape. And he's using them for good. Meet Blake Wilson, the real guy behind the Batman mask and the husky voice for which his character “Batdad” is famous. Continue reading