Jan 20 Airman, Actors Seek to Inspire Youth with 'Red Tails' "Nothing's difficult. Everything's a challenge. Through adversity to the stars. From the last plane to the last bullet to the last minute to the last man - we fight. WE fight! We FIGHT!" That's the mantra of executive producer George… Continue reading
Jan 18 Watch Are U.S. and Iran Veering Toward War? Riding on more sanctions and rhetoric, tensions between the U.S. and Iran continue to escalate. Margaret Warner discusses whether the U.S. and Iran appear to be sliding into war with Tufts University's Vali Nasr and Dennis Ross, who served in… Continue watching
Jan 18 SOPA Blackouts: Reaction and Resources Many sites, including Wikipedia, Craigslist, Google and Boing Boing, have posted messages against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) or are completely blacked out Wednesday. Reaction came quickly, from students wondering how they would do their homework to… Continue reading
Jan 18 Are U.S., Iran Headed Toward War? Omani fisherman in a harbor along the Strait of Hormuz. Photo by Marwan Naamani/AFP/Getty Images. In the salons of foreign policy wonks in Washington and New York, a fast and furious debate is raging over whether the United States… Continue reading
Jan 17 Watch A World Without Wikipedia: For SOPA, Websites Threaten a Midnight Blackout Beginning midnight Wednesday, some major Internet companies could go dark for 24 hours as part of an online protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA. Ray Suarez discusses the planned blackout with Ben Huh, the CEO of a… Continue watching
Jan 17 The Rich are Getting Richer and the Poor, Poorer...'We Know!' A cardboard poster on display at Occupy D.C. Photo by Elizabeth Shell/PBS NewsHour. Paul Solman frequently answers questions from the NewsHour audience on business and economic news on his Making Sen$e page. Here are Tuesday's queries: A pair… Continue reading
Jan 16 Watch In Smaller Voices, 'I Have a Dream' Echoes Again Over National Mall For the past seven years on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, children from a Washington, D.C., elementary school have climbed the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to proclaim "I have a dream," just as Dr. King did 48 years ago. Continue watching
Jan 12 Watch Who's Killing Iran's Nuclear Officials? After Wednesday's deadly attack on a nuclear scientist in Tehran, Jeffrey Brown discusses the unclear covert sabotage on Iran's nuclear program with Ronen Bergman from the newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth and David Albright of the Institute for Science and International Security. Continue watching
Jan 12 Watch How Will Marines Video Affect Relations Between U.S., Afghanistan, Taliban? U.S. and Afghan officials denounced a video Thursday that appeared to show American troops urinating on enemy dead in Afghanistan. Judy Woodruff discusses the video's effects on potential peace talks with Andrew Exum of the Center for a New American… Continue watching
Jan 12 Beyond Dot-Com: Web Domains Set To Expand Judging by name alone, iFriends.com seems innocent enough. But, in fact, it is self-described as "the largest premium and free adult webcam sex chat community in the world." IFriends, which has existed since 1998, is one of millions… Continue reading