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Susan Choi’s novel “Trust Exercise” takes place in a high school for theperforming arts in an unnamed southern city. But the subjects examined,including consent, power and memory, are universally relevant. “TrustExercise” won the 2019 National Book...

Russia’s HIV epidemic is growing by 10 percent per year, and yet many proven HIV prevention and treatment strategies aren’t being used. William Brangham and Jason Kane report in collaboration with Jon Cohen of Science Magazine and the Pulitzer Center...

In chef and culinary historian Michael Twitty's new book, ancestry -- both his own and that of Southern food -- is a central theme. With The Cooking Gene: A Journey through African-American Culinary History in the Old South, Twitty addresses the...

Voormi transforms locally sourced Rocky Mountain sheep wool into high-end outdoor clothing. But the Colorado startup is also hoping to help transform rural communities into small manufacturing hubs, where economic development is needed the most. Hari...

In downtown Denver, a recently built public housing project is designed to foster healthy living, with access to nutritious food, access to doctors and ease of exercise. Jeffrey Brown reports. Author - PBS NewsHour. Narrator - PBS NewsHour. Published...

In the mid-20th century, it was a railroad; now it’s a public park. Built in the 1930s, 30 feet above the streets of Manhattan, the High Line was crucial for transporting cargo. But with the decline of rail transportation, it closed in 1980 and was...

There’s a deep-seated culture of violence against teen inmates at one of the country’s largest municipal jails, Rikers Island in New York City. That’s how the U.S. attorney in Manhattan described practices and conduct there in a report.It also said...

It has been nearly three weeks since an enormous explosion at Beirut’s porttore through the city. With Lebanon already suffering from food scarcity,economic collapse and the coronavirus pandemic, the blast turned a grimsituation to dire crisis. In the...

The global economy is likely to take a massive hit from the pandemic, andthe World Bank warns poverty levels will rise as a result. It’s alreadyhappening in Italy, Europe's third-largest economy. The country suffered adevastating human toll from...

It was as a big surprise to his family when Racheed Benyahia, born and raised in Britain, became a fighter for the Islamic State. In the wake of his death, Racheed’s mother Nicola launched a deradicalization project as part of her personal war against...

President Trump’s executive order banning travel from seven Muslim-majority nations took effect Jan. 27, complicating plans for some in the Middle East who dreamed of coming to America. With the travel ban now on hold, special correspondent Marcia...

Central Asia and Eastern Europe have the world’s fastest growing HIV epidemic, and Russia accounts for more than 80 percent of those infections. As at-risk groups like injection drug users are stigmatized and ignored, health officials say the death...

"Former vice president and climate change activist Al Gore warns that climate change could be an “existential threat” and calls President Trump’s response an “outlier reaction.” In a wide-ranging interview, Judy Woodruff speaks with Gore about...

The Albuquerque Police Department has come under national scrutiny for shootings involving officers, including 28 fatal incidents in the last five years. In March, two policemen shot and killed a mentally ill homeless man, all captured on a body...

The first all-female college in Rwanda is making strides in empowering women from all backgrounds to become the nation’s next business leaders, part of an effort to leave behind an image of a violent country, wracked by genocide. At the Akilah...

Some California preschools are getting children to participate in conversations about racial differences at an early age by introducing an anti-bias curriculum that teaches kids about diversity and inclusion. Against a backdrop of national divides...

What’s online doesn’t necessarily last forever. Content on the Internet is revised and deleted all the time. Hyperlinks “rot,” and with them goes history, lost in space. With that in mind, Brewster Kahle set out to develop the Internet Archive, a...

Elizabeth White was once comfortably middle class, but recently she has been severely underemployed. Now as she approaches the traditional age for retirement, she is struggling to make ends meet, and her story is not uncommon. Economics correspondent...

Desert sand is slowly taking over Somalia. Just six years after the last major drought emergency, the rains have failed again -- a devastating trend in a country where around 80 percent of people make their living on the land. Special correspondent...

Despite having the largest oil reserves in the world, Venezuela’s economy is in a freefall, necessities have become scarce and tens of thousands of residents are fleeing across the border to Colombia. With support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis...

As coronavirus has spread across the U.S., so have reports of violenceagainst people of Asian descent, and the FBI warns a surge in hate crimescould be yet to come. These fears have led to the creation of a website forreporting such attacks -- and it...

A tour guide at George Washington's Mt. Vernon, who is also a distant relation of a person who was enslaved at the Virginia estate, offers his perspective about American history, slavery and the founding fathers. This story was produced by as part of...

Lauren Wilkinson, author of our June pick for the NewsHour-New York Timesbook club, Now Read This, joins Jeffrey Brown to answer reader questionsabout “American Spy.” Author - PBS NewsHour. Narrator - PBS NewsHour. Published Date - Thursday, 19...

Iraq may have ousted Islamic States militants from the city of Mosul over the summer, but the major task of finding and destroying the mines, booby traps and bombs remains. A security firm hired by the U.S. and Iraqi workers are making progress to...