Oct 08 Watch 7:18 Michael Lewis traces the ‘gutting of the civil service’ under Trump Bestselling author Michael Lewis says the idea that civil servants are “lazy or stupid or dead weight on the society is...the most sinister idea alive in this country right now." In his new book, “The Fifth Risk,” Lewis examines how… Continue watching
Oct 01 Watch 7:14 ‘Earning the Rockies’ author Robert Kaplan answers your questions Robert Kaplan, author of our September pick for the NewsHour-New York Times book club Now Read This, joins Jeffrey Brown to answer questions from readers, plus Jeff announces October’s book. Continue watching
Sep 10 Watch 7:43 Concussions, Trump, and the NFL’s biggest dangers to tackle By some measures, the NFL is in great shape. But the sport is also wrestling with the long-term health threats for players, as well as attacks by President Trump over high-profile political protests. To write his new book "The Big… Continue watching
Sep 03 Watch 6:42 New novel ‘A Terrible Country’ rediscovers Russia and its paradoxes In the new novel "A Terrible Country," young, Soviet-born Andrei Kaplan is struggling in his academic career and getting over a breakup, when he returns to Russia to care for his aging grandmother. Jeffrey Brown talks with author Keith Gessen… Continue watching
Aug 14 Watch 9:17 A festering opioid crisis, worn-out families and ‘so much pain to process’ By Jeffrey Brown, Mike Fritz In “Dopesick,” journalist and author Beth Macy takes readers to the front lines of the opioid epidemic in Roanoke, Virginia, and other nearby communities, telling the story of grieving families, exhausted medical workers and convicted heroin dealers. Jeffrey Brown reports… Continue watching
Aug 13 Watch 12:30 Omarosa: I never signed that ‘draconian’ White House nondisclosure agreement By Judy Woodruff, Stephanie Kotuby, Matt Loffman “A racist, a bigot and a misogynist.” Those are just some of the explosive claims made against President Trump by his long-time associate and former White House adviser Omarosa Manigault Newman in her new book, “Unhinged.” She joins Judy Woodruff… Continue watching
Aug 13 Watch 9:08 ‘The Fighters’ help us understand Iraq and Afghanistan wars No matter what you may think about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the more than 3 million men and women who have fought are America's sons and daughter, wives and husbands, brothers and sisters. In “The Fighters: Americans in… Continue watching
Aug 09 Watch 8:00 David and Lauren Hogg never thought it would happen in Parkland. Now they say #NeverAgain It’s been almost six months since the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where 17 people were killed. But out of that tragedy emerged a group of students dedicated to preventing future school shootings, including David… Continue watching
Aug 08 Watch 6:16 A journalist’s journey, guided by curiosity for her father’s illness Jean Guerrero’s "Crux" is the odyssey of a daughter in search of herself as she comes to terms with her own mentally ill father. Amna Nawaz talks with the author, who is also a journalist for KPBS, about how she… Continue watching
Jul 31 Watch 6:51 The problem with fear in politics Philosopher Martha Nussbaum wrote her latest book, “The Monarchy of Fear,” to better understand the 2016 election. She tells Jeffrey Brown that when fear gets into the mix, we fail to work out actual problems. Continue watching