* The controversial film “Obsession” this election season
* One man’s aid efforts in Afghanistan
* Perspectives from around the world on the historic election

An award-winning filmmaker, Eugene Jarecki tackles challenging topics. This week on Tavis Smiley, Jarecki discusses how the Bush Doctrine goes against what the Framers of the Constitution intended and would have wanted.Watch interview.

“Fixing the Financial Crisis” looks at three areas of finance that will be transformed as a result of mistakes — Wall Street, U.S. regulatory agencies, and the global financial system. How can Wall Street operate without a standalone investment bank? How will regulators adapt? Watch.

Wide Angle visits the city of Limerick– once a slum in Ireland known as “stab city” and the impoverished setting of the best-selling memoir Angela’s Ashes. The Limerick of today has all the main ingredients of change, including foreign investment, a miniature property boom and a burgeoning services industry. Watch. (Originally aired: 7/18/2006).

After months of cascading news about the financial crisis, many of you are asking, “What Do I Do Now?” …How to navigate a prolonged recession? Where to turn for guidance? Watch WHAT DO I DO NOW? – a personal show about finance – online.

* Unemployment surges in Europe
* Violence in the middle east
* After the fall: The shipyards of Gdansk
* Censorship in Thailand
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A look at Lee Atwater’s rise from his beginnings in South Carolina all the way to the White House, where his political strategy was both admired and reviled for its controversial, sometimes racially-charged tactics that helped elect George H.W. Bush president and inspired protégés such as Karl Rove. Watch segments of the program. (Originally aired: [...]

* Obama’s new plan for Afghanistan
* Remembering the fallen in Europe and the U.S.
* After the fall: the Czech Republic’s fading history
* Ancient art: turning trees into treasure in Morocco
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This month’s IN THE LIFE features the vulnerable in our society: children, queer teens at-risk, and the dying. In this episode: The fight to combat suicide among LGBT youth; Randi Weingarten and Alan Van Capelle talk about Labor, Education and Pride; and Freeheld, a Real to Reel about survivor’s benefits for LGBT partners. Watch.

Each veteran’s experience is an important part of history that should be passed on to future generations. There is an urgent need to record their personal accounts while they are still among us. Read more about the project, or contribute a story or interview a veteran in your community.