• Ahead of midterms, politicians try to woo Puerto Ricans who fled storm

    Ahead of midterms, politicians try to woo Puerto Ricans who fled storm

    Apr 30, 2018 02:16 PM EDT

    ... state. Their single representative in the House of Representatives has only limited voting power and they have no senators. But their votes have the same weight as other Americans when they move to the mainland, as hundreds of thousands have done over the past decade, first because of a deep ...

  • Decades later, Bosnia still struggling with the aftermath of war

    Decades later, Bosnia still struggling with the aftermath of war

    Nov 19, 2017 07:34 PM EDT

    ... any more. MALCOLM BRABANT: After the war, Garbo married Enisa, the sister of his dead friend. ENISA GARBO, SISTER OF BOSNIAN SOLDIER: Another of my brothers was killed and he took his last breath in my arms. I was just nine-years-old. MALCOLM BRABANT: Today, the Garbos live in ...

  • How a serious illness gave Eugene O’Neill his dark literary power

    How a serious illness gave Eugene O’Neill his dark literary power

    Oct 16, 2017 07:47 PM EDT

    ... Gaylord for five months a year earlier, but because her mother was dead and she was the principal caregiver for her nine younger sisters and brothers, she was prematurely discharged. When Eugene met her in March of 1913, Kitty was 23 and seriously ill with a TB relapse. O’Neill ...

  • Erie longs for its manufacturing past, but what’s the future?

    Erie longs for its manufacturing past, but what’s the future?

    Feb 23, 2017 12:14 AM EDT

    ... a coal miner, worked his butt off. They moved up here when I was 1 years-old to go to work at G.E. My brothers and my nephews, they all worked at G.E. They wanted me to go down to G.E., but I said, I like this ...

  • Michelle Obama's legacy spans from healthy food to girls' empowerment

    Michelle Obama's legacy spans from healthy food to girls' empowerment

    Dec 24, 2016 08:17 PM EDT

    ... out for military families. And when the first lady put in the White House garden, "it made me think about eating better food and losing weight," Inara said. "Without her I'm not sure I would have done that." Norfolk, Virginia, 10th-grader Kassidy Carey canvassed for Hillary Clinton and ...

  • Sister's worry over another deployment inspires this Veterans Day poem

    Sister's worry over another deployment inspires this Veterans Day poem

    Nov 11, 2016 05:04 PM EDT

    ... Read next: How a WWII pilot explained the quiet moments after an enemy attack “Boy” is one of several poems that Marquette wrote about her brother’s deployment in her debut collection, “May Day,” which was just published by Graywolf Press. When she goes to poetry readings, she says those ...

  • Seeking solace in poetry after a mass shooting

    Seeking solace in poetry after a mass shooting

    Jun 13, 2016 04:20 PM EDT

    Poets Marjory Wentworth and Marcus Amaker found that poetry helped them cope in the aftermath of the shooting at Charleston's Emanuel AME Church one year ago.

  • Loretta Lynn asks, 'Who's gonna miss me when I'm gone?'

    Loretta Lynn asks, 'Who's gonna miss me when I'm gone?'

    Mar 05, 2016 03:01 PM EDT

    In "Full Circle," the 83-year-old country doyenne takes stock of her legacy.

  • New House GOP chairman had early democratic roots

    New House GOP chairman had early democratic roots

    Nov 08, 2015 09:39 PM EDT

    The House's newest and perhaps most powerful committee chairman is a 60-year-old Texas Republican who began life in a family of stalwart Democrats from South Dakota and lost his father at age 12 in a courtroom shooting.

  • The new tool colleges are using in admissions decisions: big data

    The new tool colleges are using in admissions decisions: big data

    Aug 21, 2015 06:24 PM EDT

    The same big data techniques that are transforming other industries are seeping into the college and university admissions process to help predict whether students will succeed and graduate.