PBS NewsHour

NK Jemisin

Arts Jun 12

How the protests in Ferguson helped inspire this fantasy novel

By Elizabeth Flock

Discussion questions for ‘The Fifth Season’

Our June pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club is N.K. Jemisin's "The Fifth Season." Here are some questions to guide your reading.

By Elizabeth Flock

portrait of N.K. Jemison

‘The Fifth Season’ is June’s pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club

In N.K. Jemisin's Hugo Award-winning fantasy novel "The Fifth Season," the world is menaced by environmental catastrophe, and its inhabitants struggle to survive.

By Elizabeth Flock

Support Provided By: Learn more

Educate your inbox

Subscribe to Here’s the Deal, our politics newsletter for analysis you won’t find anywhere else.

Monday, Dec 9

Additional Support Provided By:

Read Dec 10 WATCH: House Democrats unveil 2 articles of impeachment against Trump
Watch Dec 06 How van Gogh became van Gogh: Rare show presents artist alongside those who inspired him
Read Dec 09 WATCH LIVE: The Trump impeachment hearings – Judiciary Committee – Day 2
Watch Dec 09 Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on Warren vs. Buttigieg, candidates of color
Read Dec 09 6 video moments to watch from the Judiciary Committee’s second impeachment hearing

World Dec 10

Tens of thousands of Czechs call on prime minister to resign

By Associated Press

Nation Dec 10

Broken Justice Episode 3: When things go wrong – the full transcript

By PBS NewsHour

Nation Dec 10

Broken Justice Episode 4: Public defenders fight back – the full transcript

By PBS NewsHour

Nation Dec 10

University of Phoenix agrees to $50M settlement over false ad claims

By Collin Binkley, Associated Press

World Dec 10

Finland votes in world’s youngest prime minister, 34- year- old Sanna Marin

By Jari Tanner, Associated Press

Bill Cosby reacts while being notified a verdict is in at the Montgomery County Courthouse in his sexual assault retrial, in Norristown, Pennsylvania. Photo by Mark Makela/Reuters

Nation Dec 10

Bill Cosby loses appeal of sexual assault conviction

By Maryclaire Dale, Associated Press

Politics Dec 10

Read the full articles of impeachment against Trump

By Gretchen Frazee

A pilot of the Chilean Air Force is seen from the cockpit of his F-16 jet fighter during CRUZEX, a multinational air exercise hosted by the Brazilian Air Force in Natal, Brazil November 21, 2018. REUTERS/Paulo Whitaker

World Dec 10

Chilean military plane missing with 38 people on the way to Antarctica

By Associated Press

FILE PHOTO: Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks during a media briefing ahead of a House vote authorizing an impeachment inquiry into U.S. President Trump on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., October 31, 2019. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts/File Photo

Politics Dec 10

WATCH: Pelosi announces USMCA trade pact

Michael Kremer, Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, Economic Sciences Laureates, The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel react after their Nobel lectures at Stockholm University in Stockholm, Sweden December 8, 2019. Photo by TT News Agency/Christine Olsson via Reuters

Making Sen$e Dec 10

How the economics Nobel laureates’ methods could help fight poverty in the U.S.

By Vincent Quan, Econofact

FILE PHOTO: Reindeers are herded by a Sami person riding a snow scooter on the Hardangervidda plain near Kautokeino in northern Norway in this April 5, 2000 file photo. Photo by Lise Aserud/SCANPIX/Reuters

World Dec 10

Climate change threatens reindeer and a way of life

By David Keyton, Associated Press

Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi attends a hearing in a case filed by Gambia against Myanmar alleging genocide against the minority Muslim Rohingya population, at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Netherlands December 10, 2019. Photo by Yves Herman/Reuters

World Dec 10

UN high court hears Rohingya genocide allegations

By Aleksandar Furtula, Lorne Cook, Associated Press