Reporter sees change coming to the Vatican

Catholic News Service reporter John Thavis covered the Vatican for 30 years. He tells Steve Fast that many cardinals are looking for change within the church... Read More

Hearing only half the world

A childhood illness left Gerald Shea with partial deafness. But he did not realize the extent of his hearing loss until he was 34 years old. Read More

Fact, fiction and secrecy in the "Covert Sphere"

With the government's covert actions veiled in secrecy, how can Americans separate fact from fiction in films like "Zero Dark Thirty?" Read More

Lincoln and the fall of Dixie

Historian Bruce Levine says that the 13th Amendment was neither the beginning or the end of the slow and painful process to grant freedom to America's slaves. Read More

The unlikely pair of Ike & Dick

Former New Yorker editor Jeffrey Frank examines the poltical odd couple of Eisenhower and Nixon... Read More

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