Feb 25 Watch 6:09 Does China have a secret plan to take America’s place? By PBS News Hour In the bestselling but controversial new book "The Hundred-Year Marathon," author and former Pentagon official Michael Pillsbury argues that China is angling to replace the United States as a global superpower. Chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Warner interviews Pillsbury about… Continue watching
Feb 23 Watch 4:12 How raising tigers as farm animals drives illegal poaching in the wild By PBS News Hour In “Blood of the Tiger,” author J.A. Mills examines the multi-billion dollar market for tigers -- a worldwide problem but most prominent in China. Jeffrey Brown interviews the author about how tiger farms drive mass demand for products made from… Continue watching
Feb 19 Watch 5:16 Diva Deborah Voigt on the ‘lonely business’ of opera that led to addictions By PBS News Hour Opera performer Deborah Voigt has starred on some of the world’s great stages, rising to be one of the most prominent singers of her generation. But she’s also made headlines for her figure, which has sometimes stopped her from portraying… Continue watching
Feb 18 Watch 7:10 Photojournalist Lynsey Addario focuses on war and love in her new memoir By PBS News Hour Photojournalist Lynsey Addario has traveled the world, capturing images of war, famine, brutality and displacement, from Darfur to Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. She joins Jeffrey Brown to discuss her career, how she managed her fear and a new memoir, "It's… Continue watching
Feb 17 Watch 6:37 Author Alexandra Fuller on how growing up in Africa inspired a ‘very honest’ divorce memoir By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Feb 16 Watch Exploring Robert E. Lee’s connections to George Washington By PBS News Hour Robert E. Lee was the son of a Revolutionary War hero who was a trusted aide to George Washington. In 1861, after 25 years in the U.S. Army, Lee turned down an offer to command Union forces in the Civil… Continue watching
Feb 11 Watch 8:02 David Axelrod on Obama, Clinton and still believing in the political process after 40 years By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Feb 10 Watch 7:46 In ‘Still Alice,’ a neuroscientist-novelist explores what it’s like to live with Alzheimer’s By PBS News Hour Confronted by her own grandmother’s illness, writer and neuroscientist Lisa Genova started her exploration of Alzheimer’s with one question: What does it actually feel like to have the disease? Her resulting novel, “Still Alice,” was adapted into a film that… Continue watching
Feb 09 Watch 7:40 New series explores how to fight gender oppression at home and abroad By PBS News Hour Journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn have exposed widespread problems of abuse, sex trafficking and violence against women in Africa and Asia. Now they also bring their focus home, shining a light on the ways American women are commonly hurt,… Continue watching
Feb 07 What a 1925 novel by Sinclair Lewis can teach us about health care today By Dr. Howard Markel Feb. 7 marks the 130th birthday of Sinclair Lewis, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930. At first glance, one might ask what does an American novelist have to do with a column devoted to medical discoveries and… Continue reading