Oct 08 Dissident Vietnamese Poet Nguyen Chi Thien, Author of 'Flowers of Hell,' Dies at Age 73 By Tom LeGro Nguyen Chi Thien, a Vietnamese dissident poet who spent 27 years in communist prisons and was the acclaimed author of "Flowers of Hell," died last week in California after a long bout of illness. Continue reading
Oct 08 On the PBS NewsHour Tonight By News Desk On Monday's NewsHour: The differences between the presidential candidates on foreign policy A deadly meningitis outbreak, now in nine states The Nobel Prize for discovering how to reprogram adult cells to behave like embryonic stem cells And Salman Rushdie's memoir… Continue reading
Oct 05 Shields and Brooks on Biden vs. Ryan, MLB Playoffs By Hari Sreenivasan It's another episode of the Doubleheader, where we talk about the sport of politics and the politics of sports with syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks. Tonight's semi-serious topic is how our two… Continue reading
Oct 05 On the PBS NewsHour Tonight By News Desk On Friday's NewsHour: The jobless rate slides under 8 percent for the first time since January 2009 The hotly contested Senate race in Missouri Mark Shields and David Brooks And, an election story from Venezuela -- where an opposition candidate… Continue reading
Oct 04 Watch Detroit Tigers' Miguel Cabrera Wins Baseball's 'Triple Crown' for Batting Detroit Tigers' Miguel Cabrera Wins Baseball's 'Triple Crown' for Batting… Continue watching
Oct 04 Watch Debate Was 'Watershed' Moment of Multiple Screen Use by Viewers Debate Was 'Watershed' Moment of Multiple Screen Use by Viewers… Continue watching
Oct 04 Watch Antagonized by Border Violence, Turkey Shells Military Targets Inside Syria Antagonized by Border Violence, Turkey Shells Military Targets Inside Syria… Continue watching
Oct 04 On the PBS NewsHour Tonight By News Desk On Thursday's NewsHour: The candidates are back on the campaign trail, fresh off their first debate We drill down into two issues from last night: taxes and the deficit Florida voters tell us what they heard And, baseball's first triple… Continue reading
Oct 04 Conversation: Kevin Powers, Author of 'The Yellow Birds' By Tom LeGro Jeffrey Brown talks to Kevin Powers, author of the novel "The Yellow Birds" and who served in the U.S. Army in Iraq in 2004 and 2005. Continue reading
Oct 03 Watch Closing Statements at the First Presidential Debate Closing Statements at the First Presidential Debate… Continue watching