• Breaking the school-to-prison pipeline for young offenders one class at a time

    Breaking the school-to-prison pipeline for young offenders one class at a time

    Jun 29, 2016 11:35 PM EDT

    ... the 60,000 children locked up in juvenile detention facilities across the nation. Hari Sreenivasan takes us inside one state that is working to do better. It's another in our ongoing series Broken Justice. HARI SREENIVASAN: Graduation day in Lowell, Massachusetts, with all the typical fanfare, balloons, beaming parents ...

  • How migrants control one of the world's most powerful economic engines

    How migrants control one of the world's most powerful economic engines

    Apr 13, 2015 04:08 PM EDT

    ... as one of the most stable forms of aid, even more than what one nation may send to another, an amount that can change given the donor country’s political or economic climate. These deposits represent promises to help family and friends left back home while the migrant works in ...

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    As Immigration Reform Returns to Agenda, Republicans Counter With 'Achieve Act'

    Nov 28, 2012 11:30 PM EDT

    ... to understand what the issues are and to try to build a consensus over time. RAY SUAREZ: And either way, immigration reform appears to be back on the agenda for the new Congress, opening for business in January. Where does the immigration debate go from here? We get the views ...

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    Super Tuesday: Which Republicans Will Show Strength in South?

    Mar 01, 2012 11:34 PM EDT

    ... himself. In Atlanta, Santorum said it showed Romney's not a conservative "at the core." RICK SANTORUM (R): What's a winning formula is having better ideas, motivate the base of the Republican Party, being authentic, having the character to go out there and talk about core convictions in America ...

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    Extended Interview: Google China President Kai-Fu Lee

    May 30, 2008 04:50 PM EDT

    ... the American dream as the same dream that they have. And it's kind of viewed as a role model. So you know people like Bill Gates or Larry (Page) and Sergey (Brin) at Google are the idols of the teenagers in China. And that's what they want to ...

  • 5 important stories that were overlooked in last week’s news frenzy

    5 important stories that were overlooked in last week’s news frenzy

    Jun 01, 2017 02:14 AM EDT

    ... such trip made by a sitting president, set the Internet afire with theories about a glowing orb at the opening of an anti-extremist center in Riyadh and spent time at the Vatican with one-time foe Pope Francis, who asked the first lady “What do you give him to ...

  • Move over Silicon Valley. The new startup nexus is...northern Vermont?

    Move over Silicon Valley. The new startup nexus is...northern Vermont?

    Dec 18, 2015 01:02 AM EDT

    Middlebury College, a liberal arts school in northern Vermont with just 2,500 students, has become an unlikely hothouse for cultivating entrepreneurs. Does using college to start a business help support the larger liberal arts mission? Economics correspondent Paul Solman reports.

  • Why scientists want to protect the piping plover’s winter home
  • Is the Federal Reserve printing a free lunch?

    Is the Federal Reserve printing a free lunch?

    Sep 17, 2014 02:00 PM EDT

    The Federal Reserve is nearing the final drawdown of its quantitative easing program, which, in several ways, has helped reduce the budget deficit. But has that really been such a free lunch, asks economist Terry Burnham?

  • How Rosetta can help decipher a comet’s secrets

    How Rosetta can help decipher a comet’s secrets

    Aug 06, 2014 11:52 PM EDT

    After a 10-year journey, the space probe Rosetta is orbiting a comet. The spacecraft is slated to follow the comet for more than a year on its way toward the sun. Hari Sreenivasan talks to Mark McCaughrean, senior scientific advisor of the European Space Agency, about sifting through a cosmic “garbage pile” in hopes of...