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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to a joint meeting of Congress on March 3, 2015. Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) and President pro tempore of the Senate Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) applaud behind Netanyahu.

Netanyahu punctuates speech to Congress with American pop culture and flattery

Global Politics

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu creates lively political theater in his speech to Congress, amid pomp and circumstance fit for a president.

Censorship? It’s as bad as ever in Egypt

Global Scan
The Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and Robert Frost took the fork to stardom

Arts, Culture & Media

Inaugural Poetry and The Takeaway’s #PrezPoem Challenge

The Unofficial, Crowd-Sourced Inaugural Poem

Talking With New Poet Laureate Philip Levine, Part Two

Last week, the Library of Congress named Philip Levine as the next poet laureate, succeeding W.S. Merwin. Previous writers who were awarded that title include Robert Frost, Billy Collins, and Maxine Kumin. Levine was once an auto plant worker in Detroit, and that city became the basis for many of his poems. We spoke with […]

The World

Philip Levine named as new Poet Laureate

Arts, Culture & Media

Last week, the Library of Congress named Philip Levine as the next poet laureate, succeeding W.S. Merwin. Levine joins us from his home in Fresno, California and talks about his reputation as a working class poet.

Mountain Home, With John Elder

In the Green Mountains just above Bristol, Vermont, the notion of home and the wild meet. Once celebrated in the poetry of Robert Frost, the re-forested hills of Vermont have found a new voice in writer John Elder and his book “Reading the Mountains of Home.”

Mountain Home, With John Elder

In the Green Mountains just above Bristol, Vermont the notion of home and the wilds meet. A resurgence of trees, bear and moose there is obscuring traces of family homesteads. Once celebrated in the poetry of Robert Frost, the re-forested hills of Vermont have found a new voice in writer John Elder and his book […]

The World

Along fences in Mexico, do good fences make good neighbors

Conflict & Justice

Documentary film maker Rory Kennedy directs a new HBO documenatary ‘The Fence.’ Kennedy interviewed Arizona resident Bill Odle about what he sees down on the US-Mexico border. He says the fence simply doesn’t work.