Religion & Ethics Newsweekly this weekend ran a feature on the population influx to Utica, and the role of churches in settling immigrants from Somalia, Burma, Bosnia and more. GO
While the national press speculates over Barack Obama’s relationship with his controversial former pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Bill Moyers goes beyond the national brouhaha and will engage the pastor in conversation on Friday, April 25 at 9 p.m.; at 10 p.m. the interview will be online.
Yesterday, in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, the area hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Senator John McCain called the response to Katrina “a perfect storm” of mismanagement by federal, state and local governments, and promised the people of New Orleans “never again.” Democrats immediately criticized McCain’s 20-minute news conference –The Democratic [...]
Can poor children get the same shot at college as those on the opposite end of the economic scale, or will rich students always have the advantage? As rejection and acceptance letters arrive in the mail, see who comes closer to achieving their dreams. This week NOW on PBS shares a year-long investigation of an [...]
Much was made in the recent Democratic debate about a connection between Barack Obama and ‘60s radical Bill Ayers, a founding member of the violent student protest group known as The Weather Underground.
Last night’s (Earth Day 2008) Frontline examined the politics behind the government’s failure to act on the biggest environmental problem of our time. The full episode is available to view online.
Sen. Hillary Clinton emerged victorious yesterday in the Pennsylvania Democratic primary, but it’s unclear how much the victory will help close her delegate deficit against the better-funded Sen. Barack Obama NewsHour reported.
New York’s Hillary Clinton now leads Barack Obama, 51% to 41%, according to a Zogby poll of the Democratic Presidential Primary in Pennsylvania.
The average food item at the supermarket travels some 1,500-2,500 miles to get to the store, according to WorldWatch.
What if you could save fossil fuels and help small farmers just by visiting your local farmers’ market? Find out the 10 steps to becoming a “Locavore”, and watch NOW as they travel to Virginia to meet [...]
While the developed world has begun to embrace green energy over the past decade, the governments of impoverished nations say the shift is keeping food out of the reach of the destitute. Crop shifts and subsidy politics are changing land use in the U.S. and India.
