Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks discuss the week's top political news with Judy Woodruff, including the November jobs report, the state of U.S. budget negotiations and Sen. Jim DeMint's resignation for a job as head of the Heritage Foundation.
The world's oceans are absorbing carbon dioxide at an unprecedented rate and the resulting acidification is transforming marine ecosystems.
How does modern technology allow us to engage in conversations about the past? Gwen Ifill talks to presidential historian Michael Beschloss about how the Twitter-verse has opened up new ways to view history in the digital age.
Find the best of the PBS NewsHour’s international reporting and analysis.
Online coverage of the arts from Jeffrey Brown and NewsHour reporters.
On-the-ground reports from Ray Suarez on health issues around the world.
Track how 12 different U.S. communities adapt to changing economic times.
Profiles, readings and conversations with contemporary American poets.
Find the best of the PBS NewsHour’s political reporting and analysis.
Paul Solman explains the ins and outs of the global economy.
Covering efforts to tackle the world's biggest challenges in the smallest of ways.
Purpose-built videos for teachers supported by lesson plans with content-based standards.
Bringing the views of ordinary citizens to the national discussion on the important issues of the day.
Coverage of the critical issues in science and technology reporting.
Judy Woodruff explores how young people are handling the economic downturn.
David Denby writes about the latest movies in his role as film critic for The New Yorker. He also looks at the much bigger picture in his latest book, "Do the Movies Have a Future?"
This week, the annual Capitol Christmas Tree lighting ceremony, representatives seek to deny visa for Indian politician, Senate approves trade with Russia, Mitch McConnell filibusters his own proposal, and a treaty to protect rights of disabled people fails in Senate.
Today, Lunch in the Lab mourns the loss of Nefertiti, the courageous space spider who soared into low-Earth orbit on a Japanese HTV spacecraft and spent three months hunting fruit flies aboard the International Space Station. She lived the fullest life a spider can live.
News broke that Britain's Prince William and his wife Catherine were expecting their first child when the duchess was admitted to the hospital for acute morning sickness, a condition that affects 60,000 women every year.
A look at today's unemployment data, and our own U-7 statistic, provide a less rosy picture than you may be seeing elsewhere.
Nafal is determined to do something his father did not -- graduate from high school -- and that's why he takes his dad's advice to heart: "Stick in school and do your best." City Year helps make this happen at a school that once had a 50 percent suspension rate.
President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner have agreed to negotiate one-on-one in an effort to broker a deal to prevent the country from going over the so-called fiscal cliff at year's end.
Hindsight is a form of grace in the political world. At a recent event at Harvard’s Institute of Politics, campaign operatives and reporters got a chance to rehash the 2012 election season. In a day and a half of sessions, the pros were at turns rueful, curious, baffled and only a little boastful about their successes.
Face the Facts USA delivers provocative facts about big issues to help Americans debunk myths, hold better conversations, get involved, and make choices as smarter citizens.
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A new documentary follows one wood duck family; how a male and female create a bond, migrate together across thousands of miles, nurture and protect a brood of chicks and come full circle as they head to their wintering grounds.
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FRONTLINE explores the hidden world of assisted suicide and takes viewers inside one of the most polarizing social issues of our time. The documentary is told from the perspective of those choosing to end their lives, and the individuals who choose to help them.
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Dec. 7, 2012
More than 20,000 students will have longer school days and possibly less vacation next year as part of an experiment to see if more time spent in school raises test scores and achievement.
