Georgetown University’s legal and finance scholar Emma Coleman Jordan looks at the politics of the Wall Street bailout debate on Capitol Hill and ‘Main Street’. Watch now. (Originally aired: 10/3/2008) Read more about Jordan here.

Should kosher certification depend not only on how an animal is slaughtered but on how workers are treated? R & E reports from Iowa, where a kosher meat packing plant is owned and run by Orthodox Jews from Brooklyn, and where authorities have uncovered evidence suggesting serious safety violations and child labor abuse by plant officials. Watch. (Originally aired: 10/3/2008).

NOW on PBS takes a look at the “10 Most Challenged Books of 2007″ during Banned Books Week, Sept. 27 -Oct. 4. See the previous lists and more on book censorship on the Banned Books site of the American Library Association.

Authorities in India blame homegrown terrorists for bombings that have killed more than 150 people in that nation in recent months; A young activist from Hiroshima revives the memory of The Bomb; And will Israel elect a woman Prime Minister? Watch now.

Most telling in the Vice-Presidential candidates’ debate were the responses to the questions concerning vice presidential power. It was a question that neither candidate could have anticipated (or, it would have been very low on their list of prepared talking points), and neither candidate got it exactly right. Read more…