• Watch the 1000-year-old dance tradition nearly killed by the Khmer Rouge

    Watch the 1000-year-old dance tradition nearly killed by the Khmer Rouge

    Apr 07, 2015 08:55 PM EST

    ... that I had not only been naive but culturally insensitive was the sight of Burt and her sister walking toward the studio, laboring under the weight of numerous stuffed satchels and rolling a suitcase. When the bags were opened, they overflowed with embroidered silk, massive gold jewelry and a couple ...

  • Terrorist training of Paris attacker puts spotlight on Yemen

    Terrorist training of Paris attacker puts spotlight on Yemen

    Jan 13, 2015 01:19 AM EST

    ... GWEN IFILL: The discovery that one of the brothers involved in the Paris attacks received al-Qaida training in Yemen put that terrorist group and Yemen back in the spotlight. Joining me for more on the threats from both, and the U.S. strategy to try to contain them ...

  • 12 Days of NewsHour: Download the 2014 Shields and Brooks Guide to Holiday Civility

    12 Days of NewsHour: Download the 2014 Shields and Brooks Guide to Holiday Civility

    Dec 18, 2014 09:40 PM EST

    ... over political differences. Mark Shields: While, to the world, we may be sophisticated grownups who know what wine to order with swordfish, our families (especially brothers and sisters and parents and cousins) remember us today as yesterday—when we were scared of the dark, before we could ride a bike ...

  • Weekly Poem: Alison Powell reads 'The Fields'

    Weekly Poem: Alison Powell reads 'The Fields'

    Dec 15, 2014 09:40 PM EST

    Listen to Alison Powell read her poem “The Fields” from her new collection, “On the Desire to Levitate.” The Fields A boy is raised up in the fields. He knows his hard feet in the husks. He knows his mother, her bottles and naps. Knows his brother's war dreams ...

  • DSCC stops running TV ads in Kentucky Senate race

    DSCC stops running TV ads in Kentucky Senate race

    Oct 14, 2014 08:55 PM EST

    ... million immigrants living in the country illegally. Grimes was heavily recruited by Democrats to challenge McConnell, but her support eroded in recent polls under the weight of attacks by McConnell and his allies. While McConnell has been plagued by low approval ratings, he has sought to turn the election into ...

  • Protesters converge on Wall Street to call attention to climate change

    Protesters converge on Wall Street to call attention to climate change

    Sep 23, 2014 01:03 AM EST

    ... and its human and natural resources. So we have to stop them. GWEN IFILL: A short distance away, Secretary of State John Kerry lent his weight to the cause, opening what organizers are calling climate week. He underlined findings that 2013 saw the largest single-year increase in carbon pollution ...

  • How scandals could change the business of football

    How scandals could change the business of football

    Sep 18, 2014 12:32 AM EST

    ... Peterson. What you should really be embarrassed about a half-a-billion dollars of taxpayers' money that the governor of Minnesota gave to the Wilf brothers to build the stadium in which they will keep all of the profits. If people become more aware of those issues, if football becomes ...

  • The issue that could roil the midterms

    The issue that could roil the midterms

    Aug 28, 2014 01:03 PM EST

    ... Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., has a book coming out early next month, and in it, she writes about male senators commenting on her weight. One colleague told her, “Don’t lose too much weight now. I like my girls chubby.” Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is suing the U ...

  • Louis XIV's accounting shenanigans and the threat they pose today

    Louis XIV's accounting shenanigans and the threat they pose today

    Jun 27, 2014 08:08 PM EST

    Leaders have known how to do good accounting for nearly a millennium, but many financial institutions and regimes have just chosen not to do it. Historian Jacob Soll traces the origins of capitalism and representative government to basic accounting, and argues that financial and political crises often stem from the breakdown of a culture of...

  • DC community tries new anti-poverty program

    DC community tries new anti-poverty program

    May 24, 2014 07:00 PM EST

    Modeled after the Harlem Children's Zone in New York, "promised neighborhoods" are being planned or underway in at least 20 states.