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Leaders of organized labor say they'll go along with a plan to tax so-called "Cadillac" health care policies after winning concessions designed to shield middle-class families. Many Democrats in Congress are eager to put the health care fight behind them and go to work on the issue that's uppermost in voters' minds: jobs.

Former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch explains why she was once an early advocate of No Child Left Behind, school vouchers and charter schools — and what changed her mind.

Turkey's ambassador to the U.S. warned Friday that his country could sever diplomatic relations with Israel over the deadly raid last week on a Turkish vessel carrying humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. Rocky Israeli-Turkish relations could affect U.S. policy in the region.

Airs Sunday, December 6, 2009 at 4:30 p.m. on KPBS TV

The president visited Louisiana Friday on the 45th day of the Gulf of Mexico oil catastrophe, as BP reported that some oil was flowing up a pipe from a funnel-like lid wrestled onto the broken well.

Airs Friday, August 27, 2010 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

This week, San Diego CityBeat publishes its local music issue. We'll talk to editors David Rolland and Seth Combs about the hottest bands in San Diego.

Over 100 African-American women have written letters to Michelle Obama on the occasion of her historic entry into the White House. Those letters are gathered in a book called "Go, Tell Michelle." A staged reading of "Go, Tell Michelle" takes place tonight in San Diego. We'll talk with the book's editors.

San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders launched an ambitious plan at the beginning of 2008 to cut costs by opening city departments to competition with the private sector. But the so -called “managed competit

Roman Duris Shines in French Romantic Comedy