It’s not “beginner English,” it’s not Spanglish and it’s not watered-down Spanish. Chicano English is a distinctive U.S. English dialect. In this interview, Carmen Fought discusses the dialect common to the Southwestern United States and its roots in a bilingual culture.

In India and Africa, vulture numbers are severely threatened. In India, drugs given to livestock are having unintentionally bad effects on white-backed vulture populations; in Africa, the practice of poisoning carcasses is killing record numbers of vultures. More…

In 2003, Gene Robinson became the first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church and in the worldwide Anglican Communion. Now Robinson is planning another controversial ceremony: In June, Robinson and his partner Mark Andrew will have their relationship officially recognized at the New Hampshire statehouse.

A conversation with Sen. Raymond Lesniak, Democrat from the 20th District. Elected to the Assembly in 1977 and to the State Senate in 1983, Lesniak served as State Democratic Chairman from 1992 to 1994. He has long been known as one of New Jersey’s major power brokers, and he’s one of the few Democratic leaders [...]

On April 30, 2008 Cyberchase actor Christopher Lloyd was nominated for a Daytime Emmy in the “Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program” category for his portrayal of The Hacker.
“Hacker is fun because he is so treacherous, so vain… He’s a brute!” says Lloyd. In Cyberchase, the villainous Hacker is on a mad mission to take [...]

Watch this week’s Foreign Exchange program online, with stories about Jimmy Carter and Syria, Afghani opium farmers, and the Chinese perspective on the Olympic protests.

See the winning caption from NOW’s political cartoon contest, “Stating Their Case,” and put your own words to their all-new May election cartoon– “Welcome to Electoral College.” You may win a NOW DVD. See the official rules.

The one-man play “Primo” recounts the Holocaust experiences of Primo Levi, an Italian chemist who was arrested and transported to Auschwitz in the final year of World War II. He was one of only 22 Italian Jews who left the camp alive. Written by/starring South African-born actor Sir Antony Sher, the play is an adaptation [...]

When the German war machine stormed into Poland, 19-year-old Zula Schibuk was sent from her home to Kaiserwald, a concentration camp in Latvia. This is her story.

Renowned children’s author and illustrator Maurice Sendak collaborated with playwright Tony Kushner to adapt Brundibar, a children’s opera written in 1938 by Czech composer Hans Krása, into a book and a play.
Brundibar is a work with a dark history; it was performed over 50 times in the Czech concentration camp Terezin. The one-act parable [...]