How Norman Borlaug Went With the Grain
“Our Daily Bread: The Essential Norman Borlaug” is a multivolume biography that chronicles the microbiologist and his Nobel Prize-winning work to thwart starvation.
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Explaining Liberals to Conservatives, and Vice-Versa
Psychologist Jonathan Haidt can tell you why you feel so righteous about your politics, but will you listen?
Does Black History Need More Than a Month?
The documentary "More Than a Month" asks: Does Black History Month still inspire reflection, or just Nike sales?
PBS to Show ‘Where Soldiers Come From’
A PBS documentary follows a group of friends before, during, and after their time in Afghanistan.
‘If a Tree Falls’ Revisits the Earth Liberation Front
PBS looks at the radical environmentalists whose turn to terrorism discredited their quixotic campaign in "If a Tree Falls."
Teaching Kids to Love Nature (and Buy Less Stuff)
A new book, "The Failure of Environmental Education," says schools are failing to teach kids how to save the planet.
Invasion of the Unregulated Chemicals
Carl Cranor's book "Legally Poisoned" says lax, outdated law puts Americans at risk from untested industrial chemicals.
Welcome to Shelbyville: Loving, Fearing Thy Neighbors
In the documentary film "Welcome to Shelbyville," a small Tennessee town deals with an influx of residents from Somalia.
Mentally Ill Homeless Improve With Group Living
Bucking a trend, a new book shows that group living can inoculate the homeless who are mentally ill against a return to the streets.
Lee Baca Wants to Educate L.A.’s Prisoners
In this Miller-McCune Q&A, Los Angeles County's top cop Lee Baca explains why he wants to offer an education to tens of thousands of prisoners.