Dec 23 Watch 7:31 6 of the best books to curl up with from 2015 By PBS News Hour What were the must-read books of 2015? Jeffrey Brown gets favorite picks from Daniel Pink, business writer and author of "Drive," and novelist Jennifer Close, author of "The Smart One."… Continue watching
Dec 22 Watch 4:42 What a reusable rocket means for the future of spaceflight By PBS News Hour A SpaceX rocket made a historic landing Monday night. After taking off from Cape Canaveral, the rocket booster landed gently back on Earth, suggesting a possible future for reusable rockets. Science correspondent Miles O’Brien joins Judy Woodruff to discuss the… Continue watching
Dec 21 Watch 7:37 Steve Martin and Edie Brickell team up for Broadway-bound musical By PBS News Hour "Bright Star," a new musical set in North Carolina in 1920s and '40s, involves hidden identities, tragedy, love lost and found and a bluegrass-style band, complete with banjo. Its creators, famed entertainer Steve Martin and veteran singer-songwriter Edie Brickell, join… Continue watching
Dec 20 Watch 9:55 This is how your personal data helps candidates predict your vote By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Dec 19 Watch 6:26 Inside Ralph Nader’s American Museum of Tort Law By PBS News Hour The American Museum of Tort Law, which recently opened in Ralph Nader's hometown of Winsted, Connecticut, features exhibits on groundbreaking civil cases on auto safety, tobacco, asbestos, and many other issues. NewsHour's Phil Hirschkorn visited the museum to speak with… Continue watching
Dec 18 Watch 10:02 One last visit to Downton Abbey before fans say goodbye By PBS News Hour For the past five years, the Crawley family and their household of servants have entertained audiences with comedic one-liners from the Dowager Countess and dramatic calamity befalling nearly every character. Now the top-rated PBS drama of all time is drawing… Continue watching
Dec 17 Watch 8:18 Move over Silicon Valley. The new startup nexus is…northern Vermont? By PBS News Hour Middlebury College, a liberal arts school in northern Vermont with just 2,500 students, has become an unlikely hothouse for cultivating entrepreneurs. Does using college to start a business help support the larger liberal arts mission? Economics correspondent Paul Solman reports. Continue watching
Dec 16 Watch 8:29 What the Fed’s interest rate hike means for your wallet By PBS News Hour The Federal Reserve is doing something it hasn't done since 2006: raising interest rates. The long-awaited announcement by Fed chair Janet Yellen hikes a key short-term rate from near zero. For a closer look at how the Fed made its… Continue watching
Dec 16 How one Iraqi refugee’s story reached thousands on ‘Humans of New York’ By News Desk Aya Abdullah, an Iraqi interpreter, became a refugee at the age of 14. Continue reading
Dec 15 Fact checking the 5th Republican debate By Tami Abdollah and Vivian Salama, Associated Press A look at some of the claims in the latest Republican presidential debate and how they compare with the facts. Continue reading