Full Episode
Friday, Mar 5
PBS NewsHour
  • Episodes
  • Podcasts
  • Subscribe
  • The Latest
  • Politics
    Politics
    • Shields and Brooks
    • Politics Monday
    • Supreme Court
  • Arts
    Arts
    • CANVAS
    • Poetry
    • Now Read This
  • Nation
    Nation
    • Supreme Court
    • Race Matters
    • Essays
    • Brief But Spectacular
  • World
    World
    • Agents for Change
  • Economy
    Economy
    • Making Sen$e
    • Paul Solman
  • Science
    Science
    • The Leading Edge
    • ScienceScope
    • Basic Research
    • Innovation and Invention
  • Health
    Health
    • Long-Term Care
  • Education
    Education
    • Teachers' Lounge
    • Student Reporting Labs
  • For Teachers
  • About
    • Feedback
    • Funders
    • Support
    • Jobs

Educate your inbox

Subscribe to Here’s the Deal, our politics newsletter for analysis you won’t find anywhere else.

Form error message goes here.

Thank you. Please check your inbox to confirm.

Nation
PBS NewsHour

Get news alerts from PBS NewsHour

Turn on desktop notifications?

Books and Authors

  • Full Episodes
  • Podcasts
  • Subscribe
  • Live

Jul 22

Watch 4:42
Pulitzer winner wants his readers to question their limits

By PBS NewsHour

When Gregory Pardlo found out he won the Pulitzer Prize for his book “Digest,” he thought there had been some mistake. Jeffrey Brown speaks to Pardlo -- the author of two collections but not previously well-known within the poetry community…

Continue watching

Jul 21

Watch 9:19
Being shamed by a CEO turned this mom into a health privacy advocate

By PBS NewsHour

Deanna Fei was thrilled when her daughter, born premature at 25 weeks, came home from the hospital. Then, her husband’s boss – the CEO of AOL – claimed he was trimming workers’ retirement benefits because the company had spent too…

Continue watching

Jul 16

Watch 6:14
Crime novelist of ‘The Cartel’ calls for end to war on drugs

By PBS NewsHour

The escape of Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán felt to novelist Don Winslow like it came straight out of the pages of his new book, "The Cartel." Winslow has been writing about the drug wars for years, sharing…

Continue watching

Jul 13

Watch 1:50
Harper Lee’s ‘Go Set a Watchman’ offers surprising shift

By PBS NewsHour

The first surprise was the manuscript itself: an unpublished novel by Harper Lee that predated "To Kill a Mockingbird." The existence and subsequent publication of "Go Set a Watchman" has spurred huge national interest, as well as record book orders.

Continue watching

Jul 09

Watch 8:43
Former President Jimmy Carter shares his full, lucky life in new memoir

By PBS NewsHour

Now the author of his 29th book, “A Full Life: Reflections at 90,” former President Jimmy Carter joins Judy Woodruff to discuss race relations in America, the Democratic candidates for the upcoming presidential race, growing up wishing for more approval…

Continue watching

Jun 15

Watch 7:17
You think you know the story of Stalin until you read about the extraordinary life of his daughter Svetlana

By PBS NewsHour

She was born into a life of privilege amidst terror -- her father the dictator of the Soviet Union. Her story is told in the new biography "Stalin's Daughter: the Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva" by Rosemary Sullivan.

Continue watching

Jun 09

Watch 6:10
New Yorker’s ‘Comma Queen’ offers a guide for the grammatically insecure

By PBS NewsHour

In "Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen," Mary Norris recounts a life of grammatical grief and glory as a copy editor for The New Yorker. Norris joins Jeffrey Brown to discuss the magazine’s style standards, and whether…

Continue watching

Jun 01

Watch 4:48
Author poses as Islamic State recruit to understand the world of jihad

By PBS NewsHour

In the new book “In the Skin of a Jihadist,” a journalist goes undercover to understand the mind of a terrorist and his recruitment techniques. The author, whose identity has been hidden to protect her safety, speaks with Hari Sreenivasan…

Continue watching

May 07

Emma Sky’s remarkable rise in Iraq, in a virtually all-male sea of military men

By Margaret Warner

British Middle East scholar Emma Sky was an early opponent of the Iraq invasion but nonetheless volunteered to work for the U.S. and British-led Coalition Provisional Authority to stand up a post-Saddam government. She took clothes for 3 months --…

Continue reading

May 07

Watch 3:24
Author Emma Sky on the fateful mistakes made after the Iraq invasion

By PBS NewsHour

Continue watching

Jump to the First Page Previous Page
1 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 44
Next Page Jump to the Last Page

Support Provided By: Learn more

Educate your inbox

Subscribe to Here’s the Deal, our politics newsletter for analysis you won’t find anywhere else.

Form error message goes here.

Thank you. Please check your inbox to confirm.

Full Episode
Friday, Mar 5

Additional Support Provided By:

  • BNSF Railway
  • Consumer Cellular
  • Corporation for Public Broadcasting
  • Fidelity
  • Johnson & Johnson
  • Mutual of America: Your Retirement Company
  • Viewers Like You
  • Friends of the NewsHour
PBS NewsHour

© 1996 - 2021 NewsHour Productions LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Sections

  • The Latest
  • Politics
  • Arts
  • Nation
  • World
  • Economy
  • Science
  • Health
  • Education

About

  • About Us
  • TV Schedule
  • Press
  • Feedback
  • Funders
  • Support
  • Subscribe
  • NewsHour West
  • Jobs
  • Privacy

Stay Connected

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • RSS

Subscribe to ‘Here's the Deal,’ our politics newsletter

Form error message goes here.

Thank you. Please check your inbox to confirm.

Support our journalism

Learn more about Friends of the NewsHour.

Support for NewsHour Provided By

  • BNSF Railway
  • Consumer Cellular
  • Corporation for Public Broadcasting
  • Fidelity
  • Johnson & Johnson
  • Mutual of America: Your Retirement Company