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Editors’ Picks – PBS NewsHour
Analysis, background reports and updates from the PBS NewsHour putting today's news in context.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates on the unfair expectation that one black president could undo inequality
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio JUDY WOODRUFF: Now some perspective on the presidency of Barack Obama and the election of Donald Trump. Hari Sreenivasan has this latest addition to the NewsHour Bookshelf. HARI SREENIVASAN: Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential election was historic for many reasons,...
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Analyzing Trump’s angry tweets about NBC and Sen. Corker
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio JUDY WOODRUFF: Twitter remains President Trump’s preferred platform to vent frustrations. This week’s targets, the NFL, a high-ranking Republican senator, and claims of fake news. They speak to and, in some cases, fuel debates that divide the country. More on…
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How one group of doctors drastically decreased opioid prescriptions
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio JUDY WOODRUFF: But, first, we continue with our America Addicted series, looking at the opioid epidemic. Roughly 100 million Americans suffer from chronic pain. And most health officials agree that legal painkillers, prescribed by doctors and filled by…
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Understanding the science of pain with the help of virtual reality
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio JUDY WOODRUFF: Now let’s turn to our series on the opioid crisis, its enormous toll in American life, and efforts to get a handle on it. We have spent the past couple of days showing some of the devastation it has wreaked, as more and more people have become...
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The legal gun device that likely sped up the carnage in Las Vegas
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio JUDY WOODRUFF: While the shooter’s motives remain unclear, we are learning more about the veritable arsenal that this man brought into his hotel room. William Brangham explains how some of those weapons were likely modified to become even more deadly. WILLIAM...
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The grim political routine of responding to a mass shooting
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio HARI SREENIVASAN: But first: The political storms keep raging around the Trump White House, from Puerto Rico to North Korea. Lisa Desjardins has more. LISA DESJARDINS: That’s right. Thanks, Hari. It means it’s time for Politics Monday. We’re joined, of course, by...
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Supreme Court to hear case testing the limits of partisan gerrymandering
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio By Sam Weber and Laura Fong JEFF GREENFIELD: On a recent Tuesday evening, dozens of Wisconsin voters gathered in a Milwaukee public library, to hear about a campaign — aimed not at protecting the right to vote, but about where those votes are cast. The featured...
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Puerto Ricans in anguish as they await news from the island
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio By Ivette Feliciano and Zachary Green IVETTE FELICIANO: Since Hurricane Maria hit, 40-year-old barber Hector Cruz Santiago hasn’t been able to reach his 20-year-old daughter, who’s a student at the University of Puerto Rico, in San Juan. HECTOR CRUZ SANTIAGO:...
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Why I broke the rule of survival for black Americans
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio JUDY WOODRUFF: Sometimes overlooked in this week’s debate over whether athletes should take a knee during the playing of the national anthem before games is the original focus of Colin Kaepernick’s protest, the deaths of unarmed black men in confrontations with…
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How to fight extremist psychology with social media
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio JUDY WOODRUFF: But first: the dangers of domestic terrorism, extremism and efforts to counter its use of social media. The attack in Charlottesville underscored just how real this is. As Miles O’Brien explains, experts who study the psychological and…
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Is the government doing enough to help Puerto Rico?
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio JUDY WOODRUFF: Puerto Rico, prostrate. The U.S. territory’s cries for help grew louder today, and echoed all the way to the White House. P.J. Tobia begins our coverage. P.J. TOBIA: The desperate plea of an island in distress painted on a rooftop. Nearly a week...
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What does Trump gain politically by attacking NFL players?
Watch Video | Listen to the Audio JUDY WOODRUFF: Meantime, it’s time for our Politics Monday team to look at not just the Affordable Care Act, but what we have been talking about earlier in the program, the feud between the president and the National Football League. Joining us now, Amy Walter of...
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