• These volunteers search for migrants who go missing trying to reach the U.S.

    These volunteers search for migrants who go missing trying to reach the U.S.

    Feb 21, 2017 12:34 AM EST

    ... would help me. JEAN GUERRERO: So he went out on foot, with the help of human rights activist named Rafael Hernandez. Together, they found his brother's body. It was closure for the Ortiz family. Inspired, Ortiz launched Aguilas del Desierto. He chose the name Aguilas because of the eagle ...

  • Democrats aim to reclaim the working class vote

    Democrats aim to reclaim the working class vote

    Feb 19, 2017 08:33 PM EST

    ... have proposed bills that would make college free for students that get at least a 3.0 GPA JEFF GREENFIELD: Holly Otterbein profiled the Boyle brothers for Philadelphia Magazine. HOLLY OTTERBEIN: At the same time, there are parts of the Boyle brother’s agenda that disappoints progressives in the party ...

  • Column: Distinctly two states in every way possible

    Column: Distinctly two states in every way possible

    Feb 16, 2017 02:13 AM EST

    ... older man in his 50s in the room, turned to my camera and started talking about how he didn’t know a thing about his brother’s plans to carry out the suicide bombing attack that killed seven people in 1997 at the Ben Yehuda street. Fumbling a little and ...

  • How Smokey Robinson knows a good song when he sees one

    How Smokey Robinson knows a good song when he sees one

    Feb 11, 2017 12:42 AM EST

    ... Detroit's North End, where, quite literally, the stars aligned. SMOKEY ROBINSON: Diana Ross grew up four doors down the street from me, Aretha Franklin right around the corner, you know, and the Temptations right across the area, I mean, right across the avenue, and the Four Tops. We had ...

  • News Wrap: Trump visits CENTCOM, defends travel ban

    News Wrap: Trump visits CENTCOM, defends travel ban

    Feb 07, 2017 12:34 AM EST

    ... Washington, families previously denied entry under President Trump's travel order now met with applause, some due to the weekend's court orders, others like brothers Tareq and Ammar Aziz from Yemen because they are green card holders who had to reschedule after confusion over their status. TAREQ AZIZ, Green ...

  • 5 important stories that aren't getting much attention this week

    5 important stories that aren't getting much attention this week

    Jan 30, 2017 09:58 PM EST

    ... children buzzing around the camps that get set up for internally displaced persons." Now, they're seldom seen, the organization said. "We saw only older brothers and sisters. No toddlers straddling their big sisters’ hips. No babies strapped to their mothers’ backs. It was as if they had vanished," they ...

  • Jeff Sessions to face Sen. Cory Booker and civil rights questions at confirmation hearing

    Jeff Sessions to face Sen. Cory Booker and civil rights questions at confirmation hearing

    Jan 10, 2017 02:35 PM EST

    Democrats are expected to use the two days of hearings to challenge Sessions' commitment to civil rights, a chief priority of the Justice Department during the Obama administration.

  • Column:  What I learned about motivation from being a teenage burn victim

    Column: What I learned about motivation from being a teenage burn victim

    Jan 05, 2017 09:19 PM EST

    When behavioral psychologist Dan Ariely was asked to share his experience as a teenage burn victim, he couldn't say no. But he wondered: What could possibly motivate him to revisit the suffering he had endured?

  • Column: Work means everything to us — and hereafter it can’t

    Column: Work means everything to us — and hereafter it can’t

    Jan 05, 2017 06:56 PM EST

    We’ve placed so many bets on the social, cultural and ethical import of work that when the labor market fails, we’re at a loss to explain what happened or to orient ourselves to a different set of meanings for work and for markets.

  • Column: Why we need to say goodbye to work

    Column: Why we need to say goodbye to work

    Jan 03, 2017 09:44 PM EST

    Work means everything to us. But our beliefs around work are no longer plausible. In fact, they’ve become ridiculous, because there’s not enough work to go around, and what there is of it won’t pay the bills.