Oct 25 Watch With 20% Flat-Tax Plan, Perry Eyes Distinction From GOP Field GOP hopeful and Texas Gov. Rick Perry unveiled his flat-tax proposal Tuesday at a South Carolina plastics plant. Judy Woodruff discusses his and other candidates' ideas for reforming the U.S. tax code with Stephen Moore of the conservative Club for… Continue watching
Sep 22 Watch ‘Last Train Home’ Traces Travels of China’s Migrant Workers In "Last Train Home" filmmaker Lixin Fan documents the migration of millions of Chinese workers during the Chinese New Year -- the largest human migration in the world -- through the prism of one family. This documentary is part of… Continue watching
Aug 30 Watch In Brazil, Women’s Changing Roles, Attitudes Leading to Smaller Families Despite having the most Catholics in the world, 80 percent of Brazilian women of childbearing age are using some form of artificial contraception. In partnership with National Geographic Magazine, special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro examines the declining fertility rate,… Continue watching
May 26 Watch ‘Kimjongilia’ Film Highlights Harrowing Stories of Escape From North Korea In her documentary, "Kimjongilia," filmmaker N.C. Heikin tells tales of life in North Korea from the perspective of those who have managed to escape the country and its regime. This excerpt is part of a series of independently produced films… Continue watching
Mar 24 Income Inequality: Where Do You Fall? By Elizabeth Shell Updated March 25, 2011 at 1:33 p.m. with a fixed link to the Slate interactive. Income inequality has changed over time: today the richest one percent of Americans hold about 24 percent of U.S. wealth. But almost a century ago… Continue reading
Jul 15 Celebrating the Marriage of Art and Technology at the Creators Project By Molly Finnegan A partnership between Vice Magazine and Intel, the Creators Project was launched on June 26th in New York, bringing established and emerging artists from around the world together to explore the use of technology in art. Continue reading
Jan 05 Tuesday on the NewsHour: National Geographic Unearths Its Buried Treasure By Arts Desk For every glossy copy of National Geographic magazine you've paged through, there are hundreds of photos that you haven't seen, photographs that didn't make the final cut, but did make it into a massive underground vault. Continue reading
Oct 08 Famed Photographer Irving Penn Dies at 92 By Arts Desk Fashion and celebrity photographer Irving Penn died Wednesday in his Manhattan home at the age of 92, according to his photo assistant Roger Krueger. He is remembered for creating striking, minimalistic images and for adopting a craftsman-like approach to his… Continue reading
Sep 11 Conversation: Oxford American Takes On Southern Literature By Arts Desk The Oxford American bills itself as "the Southern Magazine of Good Writing." This month the emphasis is on the good and the truly great, as the magazine offers its first ever "Southern Literature" issue. Continue reading