• Teens weigh in on future of American political system

    Teens weigh in on future of American political system

    Nov 04, 2014 04:12 PM EDT

    ... YBM6xSWkBq — Black River Falls HS (@BRFHighSchool) November 3, 2014 Produced by Alyssa Phillips, a student at Black River Falls High School in Black River Falls, Wisconsin. Are young people in tuned with politics? Check out this infographic to learn more @reportinglabs @PBS pic.twitter.com/0m088jxRsZ — CPBN Media Lab (@CPBNMediaLab ...

  • Join an election live chat and viewing with NewsHour's politics team

    Join an election live chat and viewing with NewsHour's politics team

    Oct 29, 2014 10:50 PM EDT

    Throughout the 2014 campaign season, PBS NewsHour has been reporting on some of the most exciting races directly from the field. With a week left until Election Day, revisit some of our favorite segments alongside the producers and reporters who made them happen and experts who will tell us more ...

  • How to watch the 2014 midterm debates

    How to watch the 2014 midterm debates

    Oct 14, 2014 02:00 PM EDT

    PBS NewsHour will live stream some of the debates, including the Kansas gubernatorial debate on Oct. 21, in the player above. We will also provide links to watch some of the other closely contested races. See the schedule below and click the link to find a live stream of the ...

  • Morning Line’s October Top 10

    Morning Line’s October Top 10

    Oct 03, 2014 01:19 PM EDT

    hey will hear more cases for the upcoming 2014-2015 term Thursday, including a housing discrimination case in Texas, a campaign contribution case in Florida and a congressional redistricting case out of Arizona. PBS NewsHour’s Judy Woodruff spoke with National Law Journal’s Marcia Coyle about the newly taken ...

  • Obama to defend economic legacy

    Obama to defend economic legacy

    Oct 02, 2014 01:02 PM EDT

    ... female millennial voters care a whole lot about wedding dresses. GOP strategists in the House and Senate are split over how to advance tax reform. PBS NewsHour’s Judy Woodruff spoke with one of the players in that tax debate, Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan about his new book “The Way ...

  • People in Ferguson talk about Michael Brown's shooting and the aftermath

    People in Ferguson talk about Michael Brown's shooting and the aftermath

    Aug 20, 2014 07:20 AM EDT

    ... I-can-do-what-I-want-and-get-away-with-it badge. That's not it." For more voices from the people in Ferguson, watch PBS NewsHour's Wednesday broadcast. Photos by Mike Fritz/PBS NewsHour Correction: An earlier version of this post misspelled the name of Ferguson resident Yale ...

  • Troubled teens find a 'new light' with nature photography

    Troubled teens find a 'new light' with nature photography

    Aug 05, 2014 03:36 PM EDT

    Photographer and counselor Ben Thwaits takes young people from the Northwest Passage treatment center into the wild armed with cameras, as part of a program called In a New Light. Wisconsin Public Television spoke to Thwaits for its Wisconsin Life series to learn more about helping teens gain confidence through ...

  • U.S. public high schools reach milestone graduation rate

    U.S. public high schools reach milestone graduation rate

    Apr 28, 2014 02:15 PM EDT

    ... administration ordered all states to begin using this method. States previously used a wide variety of ways to calculate high school graduation rates. Iowa, Vermont, Wisconsin, Nebraska and Texas ranked at the top with rates at 88 percent or 89 percent. The bottom performers were Alaska, Georgia, New Mexico, Oregon ...

  • Ryan to release latest budget with little fanfare

    Ryan to release latest budget with little fanfare

    Apr 01, 2014 01:24 PM EDT

    ... heralded on the right as sweeping visions for how to get the country’s fiscal house in order. But Tuesday’s expected release of the Wisconsin Republican’s 2015 plan does not appear to be garnering as much attention as those previous editions. And part of that may be by ...

  • Report finds chemical cleanup leaves hazardous 'toxic trail' across U.S.

    Report finds chemical cleanup leaves hazardous 'toxic trail' across U.S.

    Mar 17, 2014 04:27 PM EDT

    In many cases, the original toxic water, which is the byproduct of solvents used by Silicon Valley’s earliest tech companies to degrease computer chips, is almost untreatable. The report estimates it would take 700 years of continuous treatment to make the groundwater below some parts of Silicon Valley drinkable again.