and inhe meante, the stus beeen the gean and amerin o remains.ther: we're standing at the outlet of the spangdlem airbase's sewage plant. th water flows from here i a stream, and from there a further two kilometers to one of the most important rivers in the eifel region, the kyll. but there's growing opposition to the american famics used to be completely saying sometaboo.against the it meant you were a kind of traitor, endangering the prosperity. fortunately, that's changed a bit. residents and environmeal -- >> resides and environmental activists became more optimistic in the summer when president trump announced plans to withdraw the fighter-jets from spandahlem. they, at least, would have no problem with the americans leaving town altogether. >> now it's time for global ideas and this week our focus is cocoa farming. two years ago we visited a cocoa farmer in ghana whose livelihood was under threat due to increasingly poor harvests. but there was a solution. we returned to see how things have developed. >> saplings in full oom. so of the po a

we will do our conversation no before we get to the book itself so many amerins. i'm big fan of podcast. this is maybe twor three on a given day. when i came across years i was astounded. it's so quickly enged with these. the rst question is how does it feel to be nominated for a pulitzer prize. it is just incdible that your work makes it into the public. all the more incredible that people engage in it. writing is such lonely work. just like the hours that you spenn the knuckle biting hair pulling 11th revision of the piece. and then for it to be acknowledged like that a couple more questions. and i will not spoil it for people who have not heard the podcast. in the podcast near the end of the series is one of the biggest twists i was just wondering how does it feel out there on the scene. you actually got some answers. true in any story really. you jus head to keep showing up. youust head to keep asking. and putting your way -- puing yourself in the way of the story. i think a lot of it in the particulars o the story. it has to do with that a lot of the sources

hardest and i will conclude with a few remarks by the next break conservative project, the revival of amerin civil culture. a highly influential book called thinking and he argued it begs two different forms. the first ishat he called system number one that is intuitive and emotionally major. it's slow, deliberative and logical in nature, the kind of thinking we associate with science and a terrible decision making. part of that suggested we tend to do too much of the former and not enough of the latter which has all sorts of problems for science. it's a fair point. but i submit system one thinking is actually an important part of the story how culture. from system number one taking precedence over system number two. much of it is hardwired but much of it is also the product of adult teaching and practices. here's an example of what, i mean. every good, everything that is good is easier to achieve it takes individuals directly to the answer. i know this sounds a little crazy but is it so bad to live in a society when no one even considers harming other individuals or the community at large.

president that what you may not know is the are many people who are excit that the first african-amerinhad become preside created and it's the truth. "dreams from my father was taught in african-american literature classes alongside books like frederickouglass's narrative the autobiography of malcolm x books where reading literacy as freedom more very important ideas that were completely carried throu in james from my father. also there is aicture of you a few days after that firs election curing of look of llected poems while going to your daughter's sool so there were peoe who said, the public all cheered and said there's something about holding complexity simultaneously that poetryoes. an we thought oh he does that too. what i would like to know is what has youbeing a writer, a iter writer how has tt informed your governance in your leadersh? >> you know it's a good question and i think a timely one. because the essence to me of writing is being able to use your imagination to stand in somebody else's shoes and see through their eyes, to engage in this radical at of empathy and shape

states shut down the death paltynd support by the amerin people for the death penalty is the lowest it has been in 30 years, there is an unprecedented state of generalxecutis at the nd of the trump administration and attorney general barr. amy: we will also look at the case of lisa montgomery, scheduled to be the first woman executed by the federal government in nearly 70 years. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracynow! democracynow.org, the quarantine report. hospitalizations have topped 90,000 for the first time. 4 million new cases were recorded in november, double the record set in october, bringing the u.s. death toll to 267,000. among the dead are over 100,000 residents and staffers in nursing homes. in nine states, more than one in a thousand people have died of coronavirus-related causes since march. experts are warning the worst is yet to come, and the u.s. could see some 4,000 deaths per day this winter. post-thanksgiving holiday travel could also lead to what the government's leading infectious disease expert, doctor anthony fauci called a superimposed surge as

curiouand creative, rose loved learning about her family's native amerin history and culture in north dakota, and spent lots of her free time drawing. she also had a silly side on full display on her soci media, where she enlisted her brothers, sisters and friends s dances and lcs. ray and joan connery first met in the summer of 1953. >> there was i was on craigville beach in hyannis minding my own business with four of my friends. just happened to run into ray. >> there were excitingooking woman. >> what made you talk to me?d >> you looke you had money. (laughter) >> woodruff: ray served in the navy during the second world war. when he returned he became a rhode island state trooper. joan was a dietitian.ar theyed within a year of meeting and raised five children together.ad both passion for bettering the community. joan started a literacy program at the advocated for better union contracts and teacher pay. ray served 10 years town council. they traveled the world together, but were equally happi at home, h dinners with their grandchildren and great- grandchildren. they passed within

their bases and turn back saying they had engi problems and were not able to find the fleet from the amerins point of view seeing hundreds, literally hundreds and hundreds of enemy planes come in behaving like man guided missiles was unique sort of horror, somethg many of our forces never thought they would see, hard to understand and it contributed to the sense that many people on our side, the japane were fundamentally different. they we fanatics in a way that made it difficult to understand. that probably contributed to the context of the strategic bombing and the atomic bombs as well. >> host: from "twilight of the gods: war in the wester pacific, 1944-1945," the kamikaze hit bunker hill and moved to t enterprise guided by a kamike and then the flagship, new mexico, all in the same -- >> guest: about three days. >> host: astonishing story. you write about the wartime conferences where the japanese were warned of prompt and utter destruction if they did not agree to unconditional surrender. i was haunted by this passage of the japanese prime minister's response. he used a japanese word th

hav never had, in this country, any exit strategy in iraq of afghanistan, the two longest wars in amerinory we don't know how to measure what victory or success would be, and that is a failure, it's been a failure for a administrationd the fact strategy, with no end in sightd is a terrie indictment, andr it's the only nce the mexican-american war longer that three that america has fought without a draft and with tax cuts insad of tax raises. and both republican presidents during this war, their principal domestic policy has been to c taxes. spent 5 ther $5 trillion, thousf lives nsd disrupted millf lives, and i ask for what? >> wootuff: a week t's raised a lot of questions. mark shieldsdavid brooks, we thank you both. another heartbreaklestonesed this week, with more than d-250,000 lives lost to co. we remember ve of them now. 64-year-old isabel papadimitriou of dallas, texas had a warmness abo her that drew people in, said her daughter. isabelle's calling was to help people. she worked as spiratory therapist for nearly 30 years, and had a way of making her patients feel seen, heard and

from michigan's rural thumb and a creative way to draw attention to these imperilled icons of the amerindscape. for the "pbs n jeffrey brown. judy: tnk you, jeffrey brown, taking us places we don't get to see very often. that is the "newshour" for tonight. join usin online and aga here tomorrow evening. r all of us here at the "pbs newshour," thank you, please stay safe and see you soon. announcer: major funding for the "newour" has been provided by -- >> for 25 years, consumer cellular has helped people do more of what they like. r u.s.-based customer service help find. a plan that fits you for more, visit csumer cellular.tv. >> when the world gets complicated, a lot goes through your mind. th fidelity wealth management, a dedicated advisor can ta ror advice andommendations to your life. that is fidelity wealth management. announcer: johnson & johnson. financial services firm raymond james. bnsf railway. the ford foundation. working with visionaries on the front lines of social change worldwide. and with the ongoing support of these insta -- individuals and institutions. this program wa

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juan, thank you so much for explaining the significance of both losses today as we remember n, amerinyor of new york -- african-american mayor of new york, david dinkins. with some 54 million americans going hungry, the food line my people in lines, cars in lines for miles are seen across this country. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: "can i kick it" by a tribe called quest. a shout out to david dinkins, who died about a month after his wife died. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. we look now at the growing number of people in the united states who do not have enough food to eat. thousands are standing in lines across the country at food pantries, and parked in hours-long lines of cars at food banks. a recent poll found 4-in-10 americans say they've experienced food insecurity for the first time during the covid-19 pandemic. here in new york, some food banks had to turn away some families amid unprecedented demand. this is harlem resident ruth crawford in line at a food bank that handed out 500 turkeys to residents,

favor business engagement and so on and then the sort of unilateral hawks that want and assertive amerin power but don't mind having out associated allies and don't want to see america compromised so you now have these two between themt is pretty much the bulk of the republican par. >> i think it is very reminiscent of the 20s because what you had was called the irreconcilable and they were basically the nativist libertarians, th nationalists and then you had the weighing of the republican pty but it was a unilateralist internaonalism and today we see more or less the same thing and the democratic party meanwhile has gone in the direction of the earlier democratic party and much more committed to multilateralism and international teamwork. it's a little more complicated because in the 20s we had a progressive but irreconlable and i would think today, you know, somebody like bernie sanders or these other figures on the democratic left are much more cautious about and want a much moreestrained foreign policies so i looks to me as if d by the way it is interesting if you think about the vot

they just think in terms of african-american most the country african amerin, black and white. said we'll sunny let people know you are latino. you're stuck in that world of no man's land sort of. i am i this? am i that? drafted choose one? >> guest: our offices were right next to cnn espanola. they never asked me to it do any reporting period is kd of weird. i think one of the reasons, right about also in the book, one of the reasons and i blame myself is because i chang my name. [inaudible] that is my real name. what did you morph to make it more american, cuter, friendlier? tell me about a printer you about of it tell people. >> host: might family and friends from back in the day i'll call me. when i was in college as a couple people that would say and i noticed it. and so i'd say you can call me whatever you want to and they said how about sunshine? i'm okay okay fine. so they called me sunny, sunshine. my starter and court tv with nancy gray who was a great friend of mine, she could not pronounce my name. in the struggle was real. like she would like and joining me the coa

maybe it was a lite maniacal but that's who i i was, and i s an amerin.that's very much having grown up in an american boy in this country, having dreams be on all dreams a believing you could be anything you wante to be the matter whatappened to you. that sustained me,ven back then after i was paralyzed i said i want to do something grt with my life. i did say those things, you. >> i want to interrupt for a second about the bulova -- >> watch company. >> that was a progr started for the world war ii vets by mr. bulova. he built a watchmaking schl in queens. wh you're going to john f. kennedy airport you will go buy some of those buildings there and eventually they had a basketball team called the bulova watchmakers. >> they had a wheel chair team called -- i had no idea. >> when you think abo it, it was one of the first corporate sponsors, you know, sports team. not that far away there was another company team called the pan and jets. they were mostly post polio. >> that's the part of the sto about bulova watmakers. as you mention, ron, that was part of

for the first time in amerin history, we are seeing a sitting president of the united states make wild and baseless accusations that undermine the democratic process. that don'just delegitimize it. what the president of the united states is doing is trying to thwart our democracy. donald trump is waging an all-ut war on the truth and our democratic systems. and one of his weapons of choice in this disinformation war is social media and specifically the two gentlemen here, their platforms, twitter and facebook. you have the tools to prevent him from weaponizing these platforms, to degrade our democracy and our democratic institutions and to cause such damage that even after january 20th, it could one of the first times that millions of americans think and believe that this election was baselessly being charged by donald trump. and so let's be clear on what's happened. donald trump's shameful and shameless lies that are persisting about voter fraud and the outcome of this election were some of the most engaged content on social media in the days after the election. by one measure, during

does have a plan, he does not seem to be aware of it, because he has not vocalized that wit to the amerin people. >> what is your plan, senator, for the runoffs in georgia? keepyoung: look, we will the engines fired up, we will continue to pull in resources to make sure our candidates can put the ads on the air, to make sure we get out the vote, but we will continue to continue what we have been doing. i think these fundraising records at the senatorial committee, working with the campaigns to not only ensure that voters are educated about the qualifications, kelly leffler, who is this -- who is likely to go to a runoff, and may senator david perdue, but in this job interview, unlike most job interviews, it is also our duty to communicate to the american people and to georgians , more specifically, the deficiencies in qualifications of our opponents. so, you know, unfortunately, we have got a runoff, a person running for the democratic nomination, who seems like he is slotted in the number two or top two position. it will probably be him against senator leffler, should that race go to a r

services and unfortunaly, the social security card is one of those but i also want to say that most amerinsho need a replacement card can use social security services to go online social security.govet up an account and request a no change replacement card fully online. >> thank you. mr. washington, how many years have you worked withot? >> i worked there for 29 yrs. >> okay. you testified be in attendance? >> this is my first opportunity to testify in a closet going? >> so far, so good. >> ok. when i was governor, i used to testy at hearings. i hope you get to do it as much as i did. was encouraged to learn the department of transportation has successfully moved its in-person program with its fully virtual format and flexibility virtual allows more senior leaders to participate. as you know, in the next couple months, we will have a new administration, thousands of new employees serving in the federal government. would you take a moment and explain how the department of transportation ensures that new employees have resources and what they need to be successful in this? the second half of

cuban amerins who vote mostly for republicans in miami are much diffent than puerto ricans who live inal florida and orlando, as well as mexicans who are living in texas. the president was making the pitch that joe biden would bring bac socialism. specifically making that message for republican cubans and ni nicaraguans. and if those numbers hold, the president will be able toay he was ablto do better among latinos, but democrats say that the president's rhetoric, and his actions on immigration, separating faly -- that might hurt him. we'll have to watch this base closely because that could really be a big topic as we look at the election results. >> woodruff: not to mention the fact that joe biden is not aocating socialism or communism -- right?should sa say that, >> woodruff: now, let's go to john yang with the biden inmpaig delaware. john, we're asking each one of you what are you hearing ile we wait for results to come in. i> patience is what they're ung, the bide officials, that has been their message all alos . thising to take some time and they're urging patience. when you get d