The six-part documentary explores the United States’ founding struggle and its eight-year War for Independence, examining how these “turned the world upside-down.” It airs nightly through Nov. 21.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confronted ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos on Sunday for calling Republicans "terrorists" during the 1995 government shutdown. Stephanopoulos asked Bessent on ...

A 1975 episode introduced audiences to one of the first openly gay couples in mainstream American television not depicted as deviants or criminals. By Erik Piepenburg A half-century ago, ABC’s “Barney ...

Public media, including the Public Broadcasting System, finds itself in uncharted waters in the aftermath of the almost complete shutdown of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting on October 1. In ...

Cuts to NPR, PBS and other public media outlets have been in the news all year long, but now the federal funds have actually run out. With Tuesday marking the end of the federal government’s fiscal ...

From the “Today” show to PBS Kids, Al Roker has been waiting decades for this moment. The 71-year-old weather presenter and “Today” show host announced in 2023 that he was working on a new animated ...

Al Roker and his wife Deborah Roberts sitting down at a restaurant in Brooklyn. Screengrab from @alroker’s Instagram From the “Today” show to PBS Kids, Al Roker has been waiting decades for this ...

Style Points is a column about how fashion intersects with the wider world. A 1972 commercial imagined a young Barney Pressman sitting on a Brooklyn stoop with young Humphrey Bogart and young Louis ...

Smack dab in the middle of the final decade before the millennium—when some truly believed the world would end—chaos and catastrophe marked a year of strong attempts towards peace and world change.