May 13 Watch New Anthology Celebrates ‘Ascent’ of African-American Poets Jeffrey Brown talks with longtime literary editor Charles Henry Rowell about his passion for promoting undiscovered and underappreciated African-American poets and artists. His latest effort is a new anthology called "Angles of Ascent."… Continue watching
May 06 How Did Watergate Affect You? EmbedVideo(6418, 482, 304); "Covering Watergate," a PBS NewsHour special report, will air May 17. Forty years ago, in the summer of 1973, Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer led public broadcasting's gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Senate Watergate hearings -- co-anchoring… Continue reading
May 01 Watch U.S. Faces ‘Real-Time Experiment’ in Economic Recovery While Cutting Spending U.S. Faces 'Real-Time Experiment' in Economic Recovery While Cutting Spending… Continue watching
Apr 25 Watch U.S. Believes Syrian Regime Has Used Chemical Weapons, Waits for Confirmation U.S. Believes Syrian Regime Has Used Chemical Weapons, Waits for Confirmation… Continue watching
Apr 02 Watch Poet Gerald Stern Looks Back on a Career Spent Reading and Writing Poet Gerald Stern Looks Back on a Career Spent Reading and Writing… Continue watching
Mar 25 Watch Local Businesses Help Refresh Irish Economy After Global Recession Local Businesses Help Refresh Irish Economy After Global Recession… Continue watching
Mar 25 Watch Cyprus Avoids Potential Bankruptcy Plunge After Agreeing to Bailout Terms Under crippling financial strains and with bankruptcy on the horizon, Cyprus agreed to a bailout from its eurozone partners. Margaret Warner reports on the bailout deal totaling $13 billion, as well as the mixed reactions from neighboring countries. Continue watching
Mar 22 Startupland: Ireland Climbing out of Recession One Chip at a Time By Ray Suarez Trams on Dublin's new light rail system stop for passengers. Photos by Ray Suarez/PBS NewsHour. There's no oil. The domestic market is small, and scared. Overseas customers who once made you rich are now in economic crisis. After a… Continue reading
Mar 19 Ireland: Is the Worst Over? Unfinished homes sit empty on an abandoned housing development in Keshcarrigan, Ireland. Photo by Aidan Crawley/Bloomberg. Ireland was once one of the poorest countries in Western Europe. Then it went on a tear, became "The Celtic Tiger," and was… Continue reading
Mar 19 Watch News Wrap: Syrian Government Accuses Rebels of Chemical Attack in the North In other news Tuesday, rebel forces were accused of launching a chemical attack in Northern Syria, but the rebels denied they fired any chemical weapons. Also, seven U.S. Marines were killed during a training exercise in Nevada after a mortar… Continue watching