Jun 19 Watch Cicada Mania: The Entomologists’ ‘Super Bowl’ Miles O'Brien looks at the cicada emergence along the Eastern United States… Continue watching
Jun 19 Watch Abolitionist Frederick Douglass Honored With Statue in the Capitol At the U.S. Capitol's Emancipation Hall, lawmakers honored the legacy and spirit of Frederick Douglass -- freed slave, abolitionist and human rights advocate -- with a new statue in his likeness. Ray Suarez offers excerpts from the ceremony. Continue watching
Jun 19 Watch Afghan Government Backs Away From Talks With Taliban, U.S. A day after an announcement that the Afghan government would open negotiations with the Taliban, President Hamid Karzai reversed that decision, raising objections including the Taliban's use of its formal name at its new office in Qatar. Karzai also suspended… Continue watching
Jun 19 Watch Will Setback in Afghan Negotiations Affect Long-Term Prospects for Talks? A day after a breakthrough agreement on holding direct talks, Afghan President Hamid Karzai backed away from announced negotiations with the U.S. and the Taliban. Jeffrey Brown talks with The New York Times' Rob Nordland, from Doha, Qatar, for more… Continue watching
Jun 19 Watch Report Argues U.S. Is Neglecting, Undervaluing Education in the Humanities A new report by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences panel warns that the U.S. could lose its competitive edge in the liberal arts and social sciences. Jeffrey Brown talks with two members of the panel: actor and writer… Continue watching
Jun 18 Pulling Back the Burka: A Glimpse of Afghan Life Through Poetry By Molly Finnegan, Mary Jo Brooks Journalist and poet Eliza Griswold set out to document Afghan life through the prism of oral folk poems shared mostly among Pashtun women. Seamus Murphy, the London-based photographer and filmmaker who worked with Griswold on the landay project, narrates a… Continue reading
Jun 18 Widening the Experiential: Jaron Lanier Explains Virtual Reality By Jaron Lanier // Jaron Lanier, the widely regarded father of virtual reality, recounts his early experience introducing virtual reality to Hollywood and how his vision of his own technology differed from what some people wanted. Our interview with Lanier about his book,… Continue reading
Jun 18 At Guantanamo, Red Cross Defends Keeping Detainee Records Confidential By Larisa Epatko The pre-trial hearing on the five suspected 9/11 plotters continued Tuesday at the U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba -- without the accused present. The day focused on why the International Red Cross opposes requests to disclose its confidential condition… Continue reading
Jun 18 How to Woo a Cicada A periodical cicada basks in the sun at a cemetery in Lorton, Virginia. Photo by Jenny Marder. On a hot spring day in late May, I went hunting for periodical cicadas with John Cooley, a veteran expert… Continue reading
Jun 18 Obama: I’m No Cheney on Spying Protesters rally outside the U.S. Capitol against the NSA's recently detailed surveillance programs. Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images President Barack Obama is defending his administration's broad collection of information from technology and phone companies, outlining what he deems… Continue reading