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Presenting the new sound of PRI’s The World

Music

The familiar song that starts PRI’s The World won’t be quite as familiar today. Our signature tune is getting an update after 18 years, and composer Eric Goldberg explains how he gave a fresh sound to our theme.

Exercise for education in France

Health & Medicine

Condoleezza Rice visits India

Cold War Modern

Arts, Culture & Media

Impact of free anti-AIDS drugs

Health & Medicine

Global Online Freedom Act

Environment

‘The World’ reports on new legislation to prevent Internet companies from turning over information about their users.

Tavis Smiley one of “Time’s” 100 Most Influential

Arts, Culture & Media

PRI host chosen for his leadership, a growing media empire, and for encouraging Americans to hold this country’s leadership accountable.

Lessons from the Civil Rights Movement About ‘Failing Up’

The Supreme Court fight over the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is just the latest struggle in a battle over civil rights that stretches back more than a century in this country. It’s a struggle marked with many victories, big and small – and many failures along the way, too. Tavis Smiley is the host […]

Sound Tracks: Music Without Borders

The new PBS series Sound Tracks roams the world in search of the most compelling music, musicians and singers. A new one-hour episode hosted by The World’s Marco Werman airs nationally on PBS on Friday, October 5, 2012 at 9 pm.

Political Ads on Public Broadcasting?

Public broadcasting doesn’t have commercials. It has underwriting announcements – and few of them at that. But that could change, now that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the FCC Congress violated the First Amendment when it blocked public broadcasters from airing political advertisements.  Jeffrey Rosen, professor of Law at George Washington University, […]