Can you name all three branches of the U.S. government? Do you know who Susan B. Anthony was? Do you know what rights the First Amendment guarantees? Most American's don't. That's according to a report from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., that surveyed about 2,500 randomly selected citizens, asking them 33 basic questions about history, government and economics. ...more

November 24, 2008

A PBS documentary explores a dark chapter in modern American medicine. ...more

January 21, 2008

Tackling the history of Jews in America became much more complex than documentarian David Grubin first imagined. ...more

January 7, 2008

Jewish-American humor is all around us. Artists such as Mel Brooks, Woody Allen and Jerry Seinfeld have injected a decidedly Jewish-American perspective into their works. Consider the self-deprecating humor, the neuroses, the outsider's constant desire to fit in, the fascination with wordplay and arguments, the uncut umbilical cords. ...more

November 1, 2007

Jewish-American humor is all around us. ...more

October 31, 2007