• Nashville’s storied music spaces threatened with silence

    Nashville’s storied music spaces threatened with silence

    Dec 13, 2016 01:00 AM EDT

    ... JUDY WOODRUFF: Nashville often likes to refer to itself as Music City. And given its history and heritage, that seems just right. But as real estate development explodes in one of the nation's fastest growing cities, some of the very studios, locations and neighborhoods that were so important ...

  • In a land of thundering reindeer, suicide stalks the indigenous Sami

    In a land of thundering reindeer, suicide stalks the indigenous Sami

    Dec 11, 2016 03:21 PM EDT

    ... to disease and death. “It’s just not fun anymore,” Heaika told his parents. With no way to relax, and with thoughts of his older brother’s death replaying in his mind, Heaika’s depression and anxiety grew dramatically worse. He told friends that he felt his brother beckoning him ...

  • Business leaders warn Trump of economic fallout from mass deportation

    Business leaders warn Trump of economic fallout from mass deportation

    Dec 09, 2016 06:02 PM EDT

    ... reform. At an American Enterprise Institute forum in 2013, he described a path to legalization for millions of undocumented immigrants in the country as "the right thing to do," according to a video of the event. That support prompted criticism from anti-immigration groups like NumbersUSA. The group's Roy ...

  • Fidel Castro interred in Cuban ceremony

    Fidel Castro interred in Cuban ceremony

    Dec 04, 2016 11:49 PM EDT

    ... Revolutionary Square, for the final public farewell to the man they call their eternal commander. Cuban President Raul Castro has promised to continue his older brother’s work. And amid the flying flags, we found no Fidel critics. No critics of the Cuban government's persecuting its enemies or curtailing ...

  • With ‘Day Breaks,’ Norah Jones builds on signature sound

    With ‘Day Breaks,’ Norah Jones builds on signature sound

    Nov 27, 2016 05:38 PM EDT

    ... that that’s it for the song. It can have its own little life, I think. BROWN: That’s, of course, also part of performing, right? Do you like performing? JONES: Yeah, I think playing music is one of my great joys in life. I had success early on where ...

  • Exuberant Cubans in Miami flood streets, celebrate Castro's death

    Exuberant Cubans in Miami flood streets, celebrate Castro's death

    Nov 26, 2016 04:42 PM EDT

    The streets of Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood were celebrating early Saturday morning the death of Fidel Castro, a Cuban revolutionary whose dictatorial style defined Cuban politics for nearly 50 years and triggered mass waves of migration to the U.S. Cuban President Raul Castro announced his brother's death ...

  • Honored for songwriting, Motown legend Smokey Robinson proves he really got a hold on pop music

    Honored for songwriting, Motown legend Smokey Robinson proves he really got a hold on pop music

    Nov 18, 2016 08:33 PM EDT

    ... be mentioned in the same breath as George and Ira Gershwin, a songwriting team that ceremony host Samuel Jackson earlier referred to as "eternally cool brothers." "This is such a wonderful, spectacular, incredible night in my life. I've had many of them, and this is right at the top ...

  • What veterans are expecting from President Trump

    What veterans are expecting from President Trump

    Nov 12, 2016 12:19 AM EDT

    In Tuesday’s presidential contest, veterans preferred Donald Trump to Hillary Clinton at a rate of nearly 2 to 1, according to exit poll data. So on this Veterans Day, what are former military service members expecting from the new president? Judy Woodruff interviews Paul Rieckhoff, Executive Director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, about...

  • Column: Washington's carbon tax doesn't address environmental justice

    Column: Washington's carbon tax doesn't address environmental justice

    Nov 08, 2016 04:40 PM EDT

    Putting a price on carbon is just one tool in the toolbox for cutting climate pollution, not a solution in and of itself, the columnists say.

  • Column: Growing up, I didn't know my mother had a lobotomy

    Column: Growing up, I didn't know my mother had a lobotomy

    Oct 28, 2016 01:30 PM EDT

    "What my mother really suffered, though, was the brutal loss of her self. But it’s taken me decades to understand that...," author Mona Gable writes.