Bill Moyers sits down with history and international relations expert and former US Army Col. Andrew J. Bacevich to encourage viewers to connect the dots between U.S. foreign policy, consumerism, politics, and militarism. Watch an interview with Bacevich, his second with Moyers in 2 months.
Pennsylvania is facing decaying bridges, freeways, railways, and more. PA’s Governor Rendell talks to NewsHour’s Ray Suarez about how to pay for repairs. See interview…
The Human Spark crew visited neuroscientist Helen Neville in her Brain Development Lab at the University of Oregon. Check out some behind-the-scenes photos from the visit and the process of videotaping brain activity. View photo gallery…
The NYC Teaching Fellows program is designed to provide a steady influx of qualified teachers to NYC’s desperately underserved school systems. Learn more about the program’s failures, successes, problems and challenges…
Randall Filer, a professor of economics at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of CUNY, speaks with Martin Savidge about how the crisis affects the borrowing power and interest rates in developing countries. Filer also expects the crisis to subside in a few months with a boon to U.S. taxpayers. Watch…
This is your chance to ask documentarian Ken Burns about his career, his documentaries, and plans for the future. PBS Engage will ask Ken Burns 5 questions from the ones submitted by you. They’ll post the Q&A next week. Ask here…
A proposed list for an update to the H.S. required reading list, (See the 1993 top ten list)–this list attempts to strike a balance between accessible stories speak to a student’s high school experience, while maintaining high literary quality. See list…
Charlie Rose discusses the economy and the 700 billion bailout of Wall Street with Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) Chair, House Financial Services Committee. Watch now.
The students are mostly women. Some are grandmothers and illiterate. Hundreds have come here from villages across India and a dozen other countries to learn how to solar-electrify a village. Watch.
