"new york times" magazine contributor suzy hansen reflected on her travels abroad and weighed in on america's global standing and progressive policy institute senior fellow david osborne examined the charter school movement and offered his outlook for the future of public education. in the coming weeks on afterwards, craig shirley will discuss the life and political career of newt gingrich, federal judge john newman will detail his career of the judicial system first of a prosecutor and currently has a federal appellate judge. former face the nation anchor bob schieffer will examine the role of the media today. this weekend on afterwards former radio host and msnbc contributor charles sykes will provide his thoughts on the conservative movement in america. >> i'm a conservative who believes that america should be based on an idea. they reject the idea took they reject the values of the declaration of independence rather explicitly. they don't believe america is an idea took they can get geographical location. people by people of certain ethnic and racial backgrounds and there is a real dark s

. >> woodruff: journalist suzy hansen grew up in a small town in new jersey, before moving first to newk city and later to turkey, where she now works as a foreign correspondent. what she discovered, as you'll hear in tonight's "in my humble opinion," is how living abroad forced hansen to reconsider what she thought she knew about her own country. >> ten years ago, i moved to istanbul to become a foreign correspondent. i had only been there a month before someone called me a spy. he was a young turkish man, he had gone to a very good college in the united states, and he was a brilliant person. so i was a little surprised that he would repeat that kind of clichÉ, that kind of conspiracy theory, about americans abroad. and he said, "why not? even if you are not technically a spy, no doubt that the information you are sending back to your country will be used for something terrible." i didn't understand what he meant by that, really. but then he said something else that surprised me even more. he said that he believed the americans had planned september 11th, that there was no way that the