Moyers talks with Leo W. Gerard, president of the United Steel Workers (U.S.W.), the largest industrial union in North America, about what organized labor wants in the middle of an economic crisis and the future of American manufacturing. Watch.
Should updating the electrical grid be part of an economic stimulus package? This panel discussion, from Oct. 14, 2008, addresses the potential and challenges in creating an efficient, modern national electric power grid. Watch now.
* Israel, Hamas defy UN call for ceasefire
* Day 14 of the war on Gaza
* A new study out of Britain gives Alzheimer’s warning
* Freedoms and constraints in Iranian university life
* What would Darwin say?
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Will efforts to make hospital costs more transparent pay off for patients? NBR Correspondent Jeff Yastine reports on hospital pricing and other emerging trends in healthcare. Watch a video about hospitals that are testing a new type of radiation treatment for cancer patients. (Originally aired: 9/25/2008).
Tavis Smiley interviews Oscar winner Marisa Tomei, star of “The Wrestler”, about her aspirations before deciding on acting as a career. The Brooklyn-born actress was attending Boston University when she was asked to co-star on a daytime drama. Watch. (Originally aired: 1/6/2009).
* Militants fire rockets into Northern Israel
* Red Cross: Israel accused of blocking medical aid
* A tale of two hospitals in Israel and Gaza
* Russia and Ukraine feud over natural gas
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Charlie Rose interviews Joseph Stiglitz, a professor of economics at Columbia University and author, and Harvard economist Martin Feldstein about President-elect Barack Obama’s economic stimulus package, on Jan. 6, 2009.
The first episode of the new weekly series includes these interviews, conducted by host NY Times correspondent Andrew Ross Sorkin:
* Steve Forbes on bailouts and the stimulus package
* Richard Parsons on NY State’s financial woes
* Ellen Zimiles on the Madoff Ponzi scheme
In honor of one year of Reel 13, Thirteen interviews two of the stars in the January 10 movies. Neal Gabler interviews Martin Landau, who originally appeared in Hitchcock’s North by Northwest, and Richard Pena talks to Debbie Harry, who stars in the indie film My Life Without Me. Watch now.
See inside the catacombs and crypts of Brooklyn’s historic and sprawling Green-Wood Cemetery, and read more about the man who designed it.
