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Former ABC journalist says Mark Halperin allegations reflect harmful female objectification in TV news
Numerous women have come forward to allege that political journalist and
author Mark Halperin harassed them while he was at ABC. One of those
journalists, Lara Setrakian, now the executive editor of News Deeply, joins
Judy Woodruff...
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Octavio Solis on growing up a 'skinny brown kid' on the U.S.-Mexico border
As politicians spar over immigration, playwright Octavio Solis recounts his childhood as a "skinny brown kid" in El Paso in his memoir "Retablos". Solis says that though he was in the U.S. legally, Border Patrol would ask him to recite...
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Rebuilding a Chicago neighborhood thru connections to Muslim community
The South Side of Chicago has long been plagued with some of the highest crime rates in the nation, but a man of faith is trying to transform the area by focusing on the everyday needs of those who live there. Jeffrey Brown visits the...
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Michael Lewis traces the 'gutting of the civil service' under Trump
Bestselling author Michael Lewis says the idea that civil servants are "lazy or stupid or dead weight on the society is...the most sinister idea alive in this country right now." In his new book, "The Fifth Risk," Lewis examines how the...
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"Heart Berries" Author Terese Marie Mailhot Answers Your Questions
Terese Marie Mailhot, author of our January pick for the NewsHour-New York Times book club, Now Read This, joins Jeffrey Brown to answer reader questions on “Heart Berries,” and Jeff announces the February book selection.
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As Taliban Peace Talks Resume, What's At Stake For Afghan Women?
During his surprise Thanksgiving trip to Afghanistan, President Trump announced he had restarted talks with the Taliban.The ability of the conflict-wracked nation to achieve peace is at stake -- but so is progress for women, who could...
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Inventive Classical Music
For the past several years, classical music composers have gathered to share their more eclectic scores at the "Bang on a Can" festival in North Adams, Mass. Jeffrey Brown explores the origins of the event.
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Melinda Gates on her foundation’s work and the need to ‘lift up women’ worldwide
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is the world's largest private philanthropic organization, with an endowment of $50 billion. Melinda Gates plays a huge role in shaping its work, and her new book, The Moment of Lift: How Empowering...
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In Italy, rising anxiety over falling birth rates
Family size has been shrinking in the industrialized world for decades, and in Italy, the decline has been particularly dramatic. A generation ago, Italian mothers commonly had more than four children. Now they average less than two....
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Author And Journalist Sarah Smarsh On Resisting 'Bogus' Labels That Divide Us
Sarah Smarsh is an author and a journalist whose environment as an adult diverges greatly from her childhood on a Kansas wheat farm. With exposure to extremely different regions and cultures within the U.S., Smarsh shares her humble...
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House Democrats In Trump Districts Tread Delicately On Impeachment
Only seven of the 235 House Democrats have not articulated support for the impeachment inquiry. Each represents a district President Trump won in 2016. John Yang traveled to upstate New York to find out what constituents are saying to...
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Inside African Migrants' Fight Against ‘Slave-Like’ Conditions In Italy
Some 13,000 migrants, mainly from Africa, have landed in Italy so far this
year — three times the number from the same period in 2020. The struggle
for migrants doesn't end when they reach European shores. Senior Producer
Adam Raney...
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People in recovery find the recipe for a fresh start in cooking career training
Blocks from the White House, DC Central Kitchen is the nation's largest community kitchen, putting out 5,000 meals a day to homeless shelters, schools, halfway houses and other nonprofits. But the kitchen's other output is training men...
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Veteran graffiti artist RISK on his evolving art form
"For more than 30 years, Los Angeles-based artist RISK has made the world his canvas, creating colorful murals on everything from highway overpasses -- known ..."
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Congo Basin’s Endangered Wildlife Find Unlikely Guardians In Indigenous Hunters
The Congo Basin is home to the world’s second-largest rainforest and a unique array of biodiversity. But the ecosystem's remote location cannot protect it from the threat of poaching. Special correspondent Monica Villamizar and...
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A Career Truck Driver On Why His Is No Longer 'A Middle-Class Job'
Jobs in the trucking industry are increasingly threatened by technology and the rise of driverless trucks. But what explains the contradictory dynamic between fears of job elimination and a current shortage of truck drivers in the U.S.?...
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Getting a B.A. Behind Bars
What college is tougher to get into than Harvard, Princeton or Yale? Bard College. Not the campus in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., but the one behind bars in five Empire State prisons. The privately funded Bard Prison Initiative is putting...
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Fighting, Starvation And Disease Yield Grim Crisis In Yemen
The United Nations calls Yemen the site of the worst humanitarian suffering in the world. Years of war have caused widespread starvation and disease; supply routes are blocked by fighting, and fuel and food prices have spiked. With the...
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How these Alabama architecture students are improving lives with low-cost home designs
For decades, students and faculty from Auburn University's Rural Studio have been working, studying and living in Hale County, Alabama, and using architecture to serve the greater good. There, more than two dozen different homes that...
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How This Community College Is Preparing Students For Careers In Aviation
According to Boeing, 800,000 new pilots will be needed worldwide over the next 20 years. In Bend, Oregon, a community college is preparing students to resolve this critical need -- and cultivate their own career success. Special...
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How A Centuries-Old Water Mill Is Providing This British County Its Daily Bread
We close the week with an uplifting tale from the United Kingdom. Amid shortages of essential supplies during the coronavirus era, a picturesque water mill of the medieval period has been pressed back into service -- to provide bakers...
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Wisconsin Nonprofit Seeks To Better Connect U.S. Farmers With Their Mexican Employees
Mexicans who come to the U.S. seeking employment often leave their loved ones and culture behind. In Wisconsin, a nonprofit helps connect American farmers with their migrant employees through language and cultural education. Some of the...