Maverick journalist goes inside the Obama campaign

Michael Hastings made national headlines with his Rolling Stone article "The Runaway General," a story that sparked General Stanley McChrystal's ouster... Read More

The fight to segregate the U.S. military

The U.S. military has often served as a kind of mirror to the nation itself. Historian Rawn James Jr. says that efforts made to integrate the U.S. Army served as a precursor to the civil rights movem Read More

Thomas Ricks questions the brass

Journalist Thomas E. Ricks says that military leadership is suffering from a lack of imagination at the top. Read More

A new stage for women in the military

Tanya Biank, author of "Army Wives," says that the opening of combat roles for women in another gain for female soldiers... Read More

Jake Tapper: heroism and heartbreak in Afghanistan

CNN Anchor and Chief Washington Correspondent Jake Tapper spent two years reporting on Combat Outpost Keating, the site of one of America's deadliest battles in Afghanistan... Read More

The soulful journey of Booker T. Jones

Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Booker T. Jones began playing professionally at age 14. Best known as the leader of Booker T. and the MG's, Jones always had a hunger to learn more about music... Read More

Mary Todd Lincoln's sanity on trial

In 1875 former first lady Mary Todd Lincoln was committed to an insane asylum in Batavia, Illinois... Read More

Rebecca Pidgeon takes on songwriting role

Singer-songwriter and actress Rebecca Pidgeon has collaborated with husband David Mamet on her new album "Slingshot"... Read More

2012: The year we discovered the end of the universe

In the summer of 2012 scientists announced the historic discovery of a Higgs particle. Using the largest machine ever constructed, the Large Hadron Collider, physicists smashed atoms... Read More

Where public spaces and religious freedom meet

Randall Bezanson tells Steve Fast that Supreme Court decisions over the last ten years have given local governments more power over what can and can't be displayed on public property... Read More