Sep 17 Watch Edwidge Danticat Reflects on 'Going Back' to Haiti Through Her Writing In a seaside town in Haiti, a fisherman's daughter goes missing on her seventh birthday. What happens to the community as they search for her is the subject of a new novel, "Claire of the Sea Light." Acclaimed author Edwidge… Continue watching
Sep 13 Watch How Latino Americans Have Shaped the U.S. and Fought for Acceptance How Latino Americans Have Shaped the U.S. and Fought for Acceptance… Continue watching
Sep 12 Watch How an Innovation by 9/11's First Victim Kept the Web Afloat Amid Catastrophe How an Innovation by 9/11's First Victim Kept the Web Afloat Amid Catastrophy… Continue watching
Sep 05 Watch After 75 Years, an Untarnished Reputation for America's Man of Steel After 75 Years, an Untarnished Reputation for America's Man of Steel… Continue watching
Sep 04 Watch Author Argues Colleges Focus More on Professional Training Than Transformation Author Argues Colleges Focus More on Professional Training Than Transformation… Continue watching
Aug 27 Watch Storytellers Find Fertile Material in Fictionalizing Washington Dysfunction Storytellers Find Fertile Material in Fictionalizing Washington Dysfunction… Continue watching
Aug 22 What Makes a Great American Comic Book Superhero? By Christina Bellantoni Comic books galore, sold on the streets of New York City. Photo by Christina Bellantoni/PBS NewsHour. It's not just great CGI animation and big-name actors that make Spiderman and Iron Man such big hits at the box office. The resurgence… Continue reading
Aug 16 Watch Ecuador Exposes Rain Forest and its Inhabitants to Oil Extraction Effort Ecuador Exposes Rain Forest and its Inhabitants to Oil Extraction Effort… Continue watching
Aug 08 Watch In 'Collision 2012,' an Outside-In Look at Wider Forces That Shaped the Election In 'Collision 2012,' an Outside-In Look at Wider Forces That Shaped the Election… Continue watching
Aug 05 Fine Art Can Be Funny and Offensive: Victor Navasky on Political Cartoons By Katelyn Polantz Slide Show: A collection of cartoons that rocked art and politics. One can write a number of things about David Levine's 1984 cartoon of Henry Kissinger, shirtless in bed, on top of an anthropomorphized globe. But seeing the cartoon… Continue reading