paul solman reports on how hard economic times haven't deterred some starving artists. >> we don't go into music for the money. we go into music because it's part of our soul. it's part of who we are. it's what we have to do. >> brown: we move ahead to the new battlegrounds in the fight over same-sex marriage on the heels of yesterday's landmark rulings from the supreme court. >> warner: and ray suarez looks at the new federal rules, aimed at making meals and snacks offered in schools healthier. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour."

. >> woodruff: paul solman reports on people working beyond retirement age, even into their hundreds, and whether having more older workers is a plus for the economy, social security and more. >> ifill: an accused boston mob boss has his day in court, we look at the trial of whitey bulger, charged with involvement in 19 murders carried out by the winter hill crime gang. >> woodruff: and we continue our "food for nine billion" series with a story from singapore. on one farm-owner's bid to get around the lack of open land by taking farming in a new direction. >> land here comes at a premium, forcing people to expand up rather than out. and it's not just office towers and apartment complexes that are reaching skyward: singapore now has one of the world's first commercial vertical farms. >> ifill: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> i want to make things more secure. >> i want to treat more dogs. >> our business needs more cases. >> where do you want to take your business? >> i need help selling art. >> from broadband, t

. >> brown: paul solman has the second of two takes on policy- making in times of economic crisis. tonight, he talks to nobel- prize-winning economist paul krugman. >> it's all very easy now, now that it turned out that we did not have a collapse in the auto industry to say, oh well everything would have been fine if we did nothing, but that's certainly not the way it looked we did need to act and it's a good thing we did. >> woodruff: and on this anniversary of d-day ray suarez talks to author rick atkinson, whose new book chronicles the hard road to victory for allied forces in world war two. >> the horror of it is difficult to imagine some 70 years later and continued until almost the last gun shot. >> brown: that's all ahead. on tonight's "newshour." >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> more than two years ago, the people of b.p. made a commitment to the gulf. and everyday since, we've worked hard to keep it. today, the beaches and gulf are open for everyone to enjoy. we shared wha

paul solman reports on how hard economic times haven't deterred some starving artists. >> we don't go into music for the money. we go into music because it's part of our soul. it's part of who we are. it's what we have to do. >> brown: we move ahead to the new battlegrounds in the fight over same-sex marriage on the heels of yesterday's landmark rulings from the supreme court. >> warner: and ray suarez looks at the new federal rules, aimed at making meals and snacks offered in schools healthier. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> brown: a bipartisan senate ma

paul solman reports on new research to determine whether wealth may make us more likely to bend the rules. >> people all the way at the top were actually cheating four times as much as someone all the way at the bottom, just to win credits for a $50 cash prize. >> brown: mark shields and david brooks analyze the week's news. >> suarez: and we close with the author of a new book "does jesus really love me?" and his journey as a gay christian to find answers that question as church's struggle with homosexuality. >> you look at american families and how there isn't one that's untouched by this issue. the conversations are happening at kitchen tables in a way that they weren't. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> i want to make things more secure. >> i want to treat more dogs. >> our business needs more cases. >> where do you want to take your business? >> i need help selling art. >> from broadband, to web hosting, to mobile apps, small business solutions from a.t.&t. can help get you there. we can show you how a.t

but paul solman asks, can it buy me happiness? >> the wealthier you are, the more money you spend on stuff that increases your sense of what you need in life, and that can be a little bit of an addictive cycle that does not bring you happiness. >> suarez: plus, two storied series; two championships on the line. we discuss the last second shots and overtime goals that have made this year's n.b.a. finals and stanley cup contest games to be watched and remembered. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> suarez: t

. >> brown: paul solman has the second of two takes on policy-

. >> woodruff: and paul solman closes with a conversation with the author of a new book, "who owns the future?," which poses a provocative way to think of our digital lives. >> the government should have to pay for whatever it does, including getting information from people, and should be constrained by its budget. so if they have to pay for collecting those images of you walking around, then they have to create a sense of balance about how often they do it. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> i want to make things more secure. >> i want to treat more dogs. >> our business needs more cases. >> where do you want to take your business? >> i need help selling art. >> from broadband, to web hosting, to mobile apps, small business solutions from a.t.&t. can help get you there. we can show you how a.t.&t. solutions can help your business today. >> and by bp. >> bnsf railway. >> and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21

. >> woodruff: and paul solman closes with a conversation with the author of a new book, "who owns the future?," which poses a provocative way to think of our digital lives. >> the government should have to pay for whatever it does, including getting information from people, and should be constrained by its budget. so if they have to pay for collecting those images of you walking around, then they have to create a sense of balance about how often they do it. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> i want to make things more secure. >> i want to treat more dogs. >> our business needs more cases. >> where do you want to take your business? >> i need help selling art. >> from broadband, to web hosting, to mobile apps, small business solutions from a.t.&t. can help get you there. we can show you how a.t.&t. solutions

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because i could come to wall street and raise it in a half a day. >> solman: the last question. paul krugman called you a cranky old man. and the essence was that you are putting all of your faith in a free market that surely has its own excesses, its own degradations, its own horror shows. >> i struck a raw nerve because i said you guys are pedaling nothing more than debt, and debt, and more debt, and more money printing. and it's not sound economics, and it's going to fail. and they didn't like that. >> solman: david stockman, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> brown: we'll hear a very different take on this in the coming days, from nobel prize- winning economist and new york times columnist paul krugman. online now, you can get a sneak peak at krugman's response. >> ifill: we'll be back shortly with, but first, this is pledge week on pbs. this break allows your public television station to ask for your support, and that support helps keep programs like ours on the air.s reporting on our "copg with climate change" page on our web site. >> brown: finally tonight, chasing storms,

on "making sense," paul solman asks for prescriptions to heal the economy from stockman as well as economistand columnist paul krugman, who will be featured in an upcoming "newshour" conversation. and for science wednesday, we go inside a high school classroom where the emphasis is on trying to solve real-world problems, like finding alternative fuel sources. all that and more is on our website newshour.pbs.org. judy? >> woodruff: and that's the "newshour" for tonight. on thursday, we'll look at paul krugman's take on the government's role in the economy. i'm judy woodruff. >> and i'm gwen ifill. we'll see you online and here again tomorrow evening. thank you and good night. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> more than two years ago, the people of b.p. made a commitment to the gulf. and everyday since, we've worked hard to keep it. today, the beaches and gulf are open for everyone to enjoy. we shared what we've learned so that we can all produce energy more safely. b.p. is also committed to america. we support nearly 250,000 jobs and invest more here than anywhere

tonight, economics correspondent paul solman gets a different perspective part of his ongoing reportingaking sense of financial news." >> reporter: we recently interviewed former reagan budget chief and private equity dealmaker david stockman. about his provocative best- seller, "the great deformation," in which he argues that americas economic system is busted. corrupted by debt, crony- capitalism, and government meddling. case in point: the bailouts during the crash of 2008. >> what we did was, made a mockery out of free markets and financial discipline and well never come back. >> reporter: but of course stockman's verdict has its share of critics, including the prodigiously well-read nobel prize-winning economist paul krugman. a "times" opinion piece by stockman drew several written retorts from "times" columnist krugman. in one he called stockman a cranky old man. we asked krugman to respond to stockman at some length, first to the idea that we should have let foundering financial firms simply fail in 2008. but that risked doomsday, krugman said. >> destroying the world is not some

one of our readers posed the question, and so we put economics correspondent paul solman on the case. he picks up the discussion on our "making sense" page. all that and more is on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. judy? >> woodruff: before we go tonight, we'd like to remember one of our own. julian dawkins worked as a shuttle driver at the newshour for the last three years. he was fatally shot in the early hours of may 22 by an off-duty police officer. last night, that sheriff's deputy was arrested and charged with julian's murder. since julian's death, friends and family have created a makeshift memorial at the site where he was slain, near his aunt's house in a washington suburb. and today, hundreds gathered for his funeral in alexandria, virginia. the crowd was so large it spilled out into the street. to us, julian was a sweet man who brightened our days with his warm smile. and we miss him. you can go to our web site to read gwen ifill's eulogy from today's service. that's the newshour for tonight. i'm judy woodruff. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. "washington week" can be seen la

economics correspondent paul solman gets that take, part of his reporting on making sense of financial news. >> in berkeley, california, the studio of jaron lanier, author, composer is, computer scientist and lately leading critic of the digital technologies he himself helped invent. they're widening the economic divide, he says. darkening our future by destroying paid jobs. like musicians, which is how he once supported himself. >> this is shaku, it's classical japanese flute. ♪ lanier has also long worked in technology. still does as a telecommuting consultant microsoft research in seattle. but in recent years, he's grown skeptical of the internet. in 2010 he published "you are not a gadget" a manifesto, critique of digital networks like facebook and twitter which he calls shallow and dehumanizing. >> you don't do the -- i used to for money. >> it was the computerization much the music industry that helped inspire his new book "who owns the future" in which he argues that digital networks are destroying jobs and the middle class, ex exacerbating economic inequality by providing free