A Look Back

One of Afghanistan's few women scholars, a young writer and poet, is about to be unwillingly sold for marriage.

The American economy survives because of a highly efficient transportation system that relies on trucks. But the drivers of those trucks are working longer hours and making less money than ever.

The Catholic Church faces hundreds of lawsuits in the wake of the sex abuse scandal.  Also, a look at the fight for millions of federal dollars, all over rum.

The Dominican Republic supplies more MLB talent than any country except the US. The lure of big money is so strong, thousands of boys give up everything, including an education, for a shot.

Americans are so over-medicated with antibiotics that drugs once used to save lives are no longer effective.   Plus we travel to Norway, a country that makes it difficult to obtain antibiotics.

American high-tech companies have been laying off thousands of workers in Silicon Valley but they're hiring like mad in India.

Scientists are worried Lionfish are now a threat to wipe out native fish populations in the Atlantic. Also, micro loans.

Honor killings are on the rise in Great Britain. Analysis of the situation in Egypt with a Muslim advisor to President Obama.

Despite unrest in the region, a previously little-known U.S. program that has produced calm in the West Bank and fostered unprecedented cooperation between Israel and the Palestinians.

Is the White House jobs plan less than advertised? Brazilian  immigrants to the U.S. returning home and NY Times statistician Nate Silver on the 2012 presidential race.

A new generation of nuclear power generators is on the horizon.  Plus, "corrective rape" in South Africa and an electronic voting machines update.

The Supreme Court hears arguments in the largest class action case ever. Betty Dukes vs Wal-Mart is about gender discrimination and the nation's largest employer. 

How Christians can opt-out of mandatory health care coverage. Scientist Eric Lander. And cleaning up trash in the Pacific.

A Look Back about Mexico's bloody U.S.-backed war on drug trafficking.

The last U.S. television interview with Chinese activist Ai Weiwei before he was arrested by Chinese authorities. 

No place on the US-Mexico border better exemplifies the problem with illegal immigration than an open gate in the Arizona desert. A Look Back to 2013 and the San Miguel Gate.

A look back to Katrina and all the trash, enough to fill the Louisiana Superdome many times over -- some of it's toxic, and dangerously close to New Orleans' water supply.

After hunting down Jared Fogle and Jerry Sandusky on Pedophile charges , American justice extends to countries like Cambodia, where American pedophiles travel to score underage sex.

Flash back to Biloxi, Mississippi in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Death and destruction is everywhere, wiping out virtually everything but people`s individual determination to overcome.

A look at the role of the United States military's Special Operations Command in the hunt for Osama bin Laden.  Also, the revolution the Syrian government doesn't want you to see.  

Copper about to be mined in Afghanistan by a Chinese company accused of massive bribery. Also, Kenneth Feinberg and paying the victims of the Gulf oil spill.

It is pirating season off the coast of Somalia where we take you on board a warship as it patrols dangerous waters.

Argentina's brutal military regime kidnapped thousands of men and women in the '70's and '80's, almost all were executed. But many of their children were spared and stolen by military officials.

Chinese workers say that making iPhones makes them sick. It may make you think about your gadgets a little differently.

Just as NASA shuts down the Shuttle, private companies are in a headlong rush to make space more accessible to scientists and thrill-seekers.