Feb 18 After Losing Its Bookstore, Laredo Tries to Write the Next Chapter By Tom LeGro The last bookstore in Laredo, Texas, closed its doors for good one month ago this week. This bilingual and bicultural border town, long challenged by high illiteracy rates, is now adjusting to its new reality. Continue reading
Dec 10 School Opens Doors with Second Language Learners in Focus By Anna Shoup The New America School in Eagle County, Colo., opened three years ago to educate the area's Latino high school students. Continue reading
Oct 23 Watch In U.K., Political Extremism on BBC Causes Outrage A heated debate over political extremism in the United Kingdom came to a head this week when the leader of the British National Party appeared on a BBC show. Continue watching
Aug 28 Watch Kennedy’s Immigration Legacy Shaped Makeup of U.S. Ray Suarez examines the impacts of the 1965 Immigration Reform Act, one of Sen. Edward Kennedy's earliest and most-enduring pieces of legislation. Continue watching
Aug 28 Watch Mourners Prepare to Bid Kennedy a Final Farewell Kwame Holman reports on the scene in Boston, where mourners braved long lines to bid a final farewell to Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass. Continue watching
Apr 16 Watch Obama Pledges to Help Mexico Fight Flow of Drugs, Guns During a visit to Mexico, President Barack Obama pledged renewed U.S. support to help curb the country's drug-related violence. Analysts mull the possible policy changes. Continue watching
Apr 16 Watch U.S.-Mexico Relations Take Center Stage as Presidents Obama, Calderon Meet Margaret Warner reports on President Obama's meeting with Mexican President Felipe Calderon and their discussions of cooperation on curbing drug violence. Continue watching
Apr 15 ‘Sin Nombre’: Strangers on a Train While all independent filmmaking could be considered dangerous in these economic times, what young American director Cary Joji Fukunaga did to make "Sin Nombre" is a more literal interpretation. Continue reading
Apr 15 Napolitano Names New U.S. ‘Border Czar’ By PBS News Hour Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano named former federal prosecutor Alan Bersin as the next "border czar" to lead U.S. Customs and Border Protection during a Wednesday news conference in El Paso, Texas. Continue reading
Feb 04 Watch Global Economic Downturn Slams Ireland, Spares Poland The economic slump is affecting European Union member countries very differently. In Ireland, companies are laying off workers, while the Polish economy is growing. Special correspondent Jeffrey Kaye reports. Continue watching