The award-winning nationally-broadcast newsmagazine NOW on PBS airs its last episode on April 30, 2010, after an eight-year run. In this personal letter, Executive Producer John Siceloff reflects on the issues, the inspiration, and the controversies that gave the show such a stand-out presence and a lasting legacy...

NOW on PBS has released an amazing preview of its powerful program "Targeting the Taliban" (airing January 8, check local listings), which features rarely-seen footage of an embedded reporter shadowing the Pakistani army on a dangerous combat mission along the volatile Afghanistan/Pakistan border.

Illustrating how...

Last weekend, NOW on PBS aired an insightful, hard-hitting interview with Elizabeth Warren that moved much of our audience to write in with their opinions and reactions.

A Harvard professor and outspoken economic analyst, Warren has most recently been heading up the congressional panel overseeing how the bailout...

Does your health insurance cover overexposure to news media? There's certainly no shortage of punditry and rhetoric on the health care reform front, but with so much at stake it's time to take a truly deep dive into the most pressing health care reform issues.

NOW on PBS has...

With health care reform now the most pressing and talked-about domestic issue in America, the hallmark PBS programs Now On PBS, Tavis Smiley and Nightly Business Report are collaborating to provide a single timely and much-needed in-depth look at health care reform in America and the latest government proposals to...

As part of its investigation of a breakthrough health care innovation in Rwanda, NOW on PBS host David Brancaccio interviews Rwandan President Paul Kagame about why he believes universal health care in Rwanda is crucial for the country's social, political, and economic advancement.

President Kagame also discusses international...

Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Couch, a government prosecutor, was more than motivated to convict alleged 9/11 conspirator Mohamedou Ould Slahi. After all, Couch was friends with Michael Horrocks, a co-pilot of one of the jets hijacked on September 11, 2001.

But when Couch gained access to details of Slahi's treatment at...

One of the most compelling and touching NOW on PBS programs of the year received an enormous and historic response from our audience.

The topic was how massive student loan debts are sinking American dreams and causing a national economic headache, but the focus was the tragic and heroic...

Babak Rahimi, an assistant professor of Iranian and Islamic Studies at the University of California, has been in Iran since March to cover today's elections, and files a special online exclusive report for NOW on PBS.

As I watch thousands of young Iranians energetically dance to the fast...

The California Supreme Court may have just weighed in on gay marriage, but participants in the NOW on PBS gay marriage interactive debate are still having their say.

The unique "Issue Clash" pits San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom against National Organization for Marriage president Maggie...

"No one could ask for a better performance from a sheriff in a state that has to apprehend the lawbreakers, catch illegal aliens, and jail those that are caught according to the judge's sentencing."

"He allowed response times to erode, major violent crimes to...

NOW on PBS interviewed Howard Dean as part of its show, "Gambling with Health Care," examining the health care crisis created by the economic meltdown. The full text of that interview is pasted below.

In it, Dr. Dean talks about his support of Medicaid, the need to cover...

Just this month, a top UN official predicted that by the middle of this century, the world should expect six million people a year to be displaced by increasingly severe storms and floods caused by climate change. But for many island nations in the South Pacific, climate change is already...

With the campaign and the election finally behind him, President-elect Barack Obama is now focusing on governing, but in which direction will he take the country? Charles Ogletree is in a unique position to know. The Harvard professor was an advisor to the university's Black Law Students Association when Obama...

There are roughly eight million more female voters than male, and more women than men say they are still undecided. Senator Hillary Clinton and Governor Sarah Palin have undoubtedly changed the debate for many women voters, and it seems like every pundit in America has weighed in on the issue,...

What's going on in Virginia? The once capital of the Confederacy, a state that has not voted for a Democratic President since 1964, is now an official "swing state," leaning for Obama, but still in the cross-hairs of the McCain campaign.

But polls don't tell the story of Virgina's...

The so-called "Bradley Effect" is named after Tom Bradley, who lost his bid to become America's first black governor in 1982. The theory is that voters in California purposely misrepresented themselves and their biases against Bradley, an African American, leading to inaccurate poll results.

Of course, with Barack...

NOW on PBS talked this week with Ian Rowe, senior vice-president of strategic partnerships and public affairs for MTV, about young peoples' enthusiasm for participating in the 2008 election and what MTV is doing to motivate them. Will THIS be the year that young people make a big difference, or...

You may have seen or been forwarded an email pleading with you to visit the NOW on PBS website to vote on what we now call the "Palin Poll." This poll question, asking if Sarah Palin is qualified to serve as Vice President, was launched during the Republican Convention, and...

Psychologist Drew Westen, author of The Political Brain recently spoke with NOW on PBS host and senior editor David Brancaccio about how Barack Obama may be blowing his best chances of winning the Presidency. Westen says Obama was at his tactical best during his Denver convention speech, but at his...