Robert Kuttner, author of the new book “Obama’s Challenge,” talks to NOW on PBS about the enormous obstacles to — and potential solutions for — getting America’s economy back on …
Consuelo Mack interviews one of the most successful investors in modern times. For years, legendary value investor Jeremy Grantham has warned of financial and market disaster. In his first television interview, Grantham tells Consuelo Mack why he is now positive on stocks and what he sees ahead for the global financial system. Watch. (Originally aired: 11/21/2008).
At Duke University, they’re performing a series of experiments with Professor Tanya Chartrand on how we humans unconsciously mimic each other, and how doing so helps us become more social. Alan Alda visits…see article.
Violinist Gil Shaham plays the music of Sarasate with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Lincoln Center’s Kaplan Penthouse. Watch now. (Originally aired: 11/23/2008).
Less than a year ago, Pandit became CEO of this now-troubled organization. Charlie Rose talks to Pandit about Citi’s problems and government bailout, in his first tv interview on the subject. Watch now.
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and WNET.ORG jointly announce that a street-level, glass-walled production facility and television studio will open spring 2009 on the Lincoln Center campus, at the corner of Broadway and 66th Street.
He believes he is destined to change Venezuela and the whole of Latin America–who is Hugo Chavez, and where is he headed? Watch this 90-minute documentary online, and view the Frontline site with more stories, interviews, discussion and more. (Airs 11/25 at 9:00 pm)
When Cooke first arrived in the U.S. in 1932, he began filming his travels. The footage offers a record of the unseen life behind Cooke’s polished words. This special chronicles Cooke’s decades in America, Hollywood friendships, journalism career and years as Masterpiece’s host. Watch it online for a limited time.
Time is running out for the Bush Administration, and they are making a last-minute push to instate new policy changes — a practice commonly known as “midnight regulations.” Watch. (Originally aired: 11/21/2008).
Brett Shipp, television reporter from Dallas-Fort Worth’s WFAA, investigates what’s behind a series of deadly house explosions in North Texas. He traces the trouble to a piece of aging equipment that connects homeowners’ gaslines to their gas meters. Watch. (Originally aired: 11/21/2008).
