park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> welcome. once again, we are remembering the author and poet maya angelou, who died three months ago at the age of 86. at the time of her death, one of the cable news websites proclaimed that "a literary voice revered globally for her poetic command and her commitment to civil rights has fallen silent." well, not exactly. because we'll be hearing maya angelou's voice for a long time to come. she left seven autobiographies, three books of essays, volumes of poetry and many recorded appearances on stage, television, and at public readings of her work. here she is in 1993, reading her poem "on the pulse of morning," written for bill clinton's first inauguration as president. >> history, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

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who supports creatiivity in our society, committed to building a more just and peaceful world, park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues, the colbert foundation and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, that's why we're your retirement company. >> welcome. if you had trouble sorting through the decisions released by the supreme court led by chief justice john roberts, you have come to the right place. two of the most knowledgeable in journalism are here to help decode the implications of those 5-4 rulings on public prayer, organized labor and the hobby lobby case. that's the decision that certain companies on religious grounds do not have to provide health insurance for some forms of birth control. linda greenhouse covered the supreme court for "the new york times" for 30 years and still writes a biweekly column for that paper. she's a lecturer at the yale law school. dalia litwick is a senior editor where she writes supreme court dispatches columns. currently she's working on a book about the four women who have served as supreme court justices.

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park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. he kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. many of this region's hill towns date back to etruscan times, well before ancient rome. others date to the fall of rome. when rome fell, europe was engulfed in chaos. people naturally grabbed for the high ground to escape the marauding barbarians that characterized those dark ages. over time, these towns were fortified and eventually functioned as independent city-states. in their glory days, they proudly charted their own course, generally free from the dictates of popes or emperors. then, the bubonic plague swept through tuscany in 1348. that, combined with the increasing dominance by the regional bully, florence, turned many bustling cities into docile backwaters. ironically, the bad news of the 14th century mothballed these towns, leaving them with a unique charm and a tourism-ba

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park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> welcome. in the 40-plus years since the supreme court affirmed a woman's right to an abortion with its roe v. wade decision, conservatives and the religious right have crusaded to overturn it, sometimes peacefully, sometimes not. >> now in 1994, the violence reaches an all-time high. >> thanks to a sustained legal strategy in particular, which includes achieving a supreme court majority of five conservative catholic men, all appointed by republican presidents, they have been inching toward success. this session alone, the court limited health insurance coverage for contraception and made it easier for protesters to demonstrate outside abortion clinics. meanwhile, several states have already passed regulations that effectively restrict access to safe, legal clinics. more than half

additional support is provided by the park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the ford foundation, working with visionaries on the front lines of social change worldwide. at fordfoundation.org. the wyncote foundation. and by the frontline journalism fund, with major support from jon and jo ann hagler. >> michelle was the youngest of all of us-- of six-- and she was the one that we always looked out for. she was an amazing athlete. she loved to swim. she could climb a tree faster than anybody. michelle was very fun-loving. she was very outgoing. >> i mean, michelle just embraced life. >> she loved being a mom, even though she was a single mom. she made the best out of that situation. she worked two jobs, sometimes three jobs, just to support alexis. >> michelle went skydiving one time, and before she could go, she had to write a letter to lexi just in case something was to happen to her. >> "my life began after having alexis, and the love i have for her could never be measured. but i want to make sure that if something does happen to me, that alexis will

additional support is provided by the park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the ford foundation, working with visionaries on the front lines of social change worldwide. at fordfoundation.org. the wyncote foundation. and by the frontline journalism fund, with major support from fund, with major support from jon and jo ann hagler. in this bad economy are borrowing from their 401(k)s... >> the number of workers borrowing from their accounts has reached a ten-year high... >> a record number of workers now raiding their 401(k)s... >> martin smith: let's begin with one simple fact: america is facing a retirement crisis, and the statistics are grim. half of all americans say they can't afford to save for retirement. one third have next to no retirement savings at all. >> i just don't know if i'll be able to save that much. god willing, social security will still be there. for someone like me, it'll probably be enough to keep me out of poverty. >> the retirement fund gets sliced and diced and divvied up for wall street to play with... >> i'm just going to hav

additional support is provided by the park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the ford foundation, working with visionaries on the front lines of social change worldwide. at fordfoundation.org. the wyncote foundation. and by the frontline journalism fund, with major support from jon and jo ann hagler. and additional support from scott nathan and laura debonis. >> the pta put together this event tonight because as parents, we're all going through the digital revolution with our kids. we have douglas rushkoff... >> douglas rushkoff: i've been speaking at events like this for more than 20 years now. >> my sister has two twitter accounts... >> rushkoff: i've written books and taught classes about this stuff, so people turn to me for answers. >> what do you do in the case of extreme bullying? >> my son plays a game called starcraft. >> how much does that show up in tracking? >> rushkoff: i don't think it's going to affect the kid's job for the rest of their lives... >> rushkoff: but lately i've been wondering: are we all asking the wrong questions when we fo

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park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> welcome to "first." i'm nichelle mckelvey-polston with mark eichmann and shirley min. >> prison overcrowding is a big deal. i knew kitchen in one of the prisons will make operations more efficient and provide a little training. >> like to own a part of the pipe organ in wilmington? all the have to do is sponsor a pipe. find out about it all week on "first." our show starts right now. ♪ week, new numbers will be out. the economy is sure to be a big topic in the election. housing is a big part

park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. e kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >>> welcome. to you. and welcome to my guest, king lear. king lear, that is, as portrayed by the actor, john lithgow, who grew the beard for the role and has been frightening our neighbors here in new york city merely by walking down the street at twilight's last gleaming, headed to central park, where under the stars, he storms and stalks and strides the stage as shakespeare's aging, raging old tyrant, descending into dementia, at war with time, his daughters and himself. there is no more difficult role in the theater, and no play more relevant to the moment, anytime and anywhere it's performed. with all the carnage and violence around us in the world, king lear mirrors the folly of reckless leadership, the arrogance of power, and the depth of human anguish. >> blow, winds, and crack

park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >> rose: i'm charlie rose. the program is "charlie rose the week." just ahead a conversation with sting and then a selection of songs from his new broadway show. >> momentum is important to me. and i'm still on that journey. i'm still trying to finish this journey but it's very, very exciting, very absorbing and probably the most difficult thing i've ever tackled. >> rose: because? >> there are so many moving parts. it's very collaborative, the musical theater. there are bleached corpses on either side of of you, you know. it's a very dangerous place to be. every song fight for its life on a daily base. every character fight for his or her life. every line in every song, every verse. there is no fact. there is no time to waste. you have to tell a story in a very

park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >>> coming up, lucky severson looks at the ethics of private for profit companies that oversee probation. and kim lawton on the continuing legacy of the chabad lubavitch rebbe menachem mendel schneerson 20 years after his death. >>> plus comfort dogs to soothe the pain of people who are hurting. >> dogs are part of god's creation. >> major funding for religion and ethics news weekly is provided by the lillie endowment, a private family foundation dedicated to

park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the kohlberg foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. >>> welcome. here's something to make you really, really mad. our country's infrastructure is crumbling. potholes are becoming sinkholes, axle-killers, tire-busters. our cities struggle to pay for services. the powers-that-be in bankrupt detroit even cut off the water to some residents. schools and libraries are closing. public parks decay. and the war party in washington clamors for billions of dollars more for foreign interventions -- bombs, rockets, drones, even troops. 20 million americans who would like a full-time job still can't get one, yet corporations are sitting on more than $2 trillion in cash while revenue from corporate income taxes are down from 40% in 1943 to just below 10% in 2012. all this as some of the largest and richest corporations are now resorting to legal h