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Most families know that their kids need to exercise. In a poll that NPR recently conducted with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health, practically all of the parents surveyed said it's important for their kids to exercise. But about one third of them said that can be difficult.

Airs Friday, January 27, 2012 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV

Airs Tuesday, April 19, 2011 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals plans to file a lawsuit today seeking to extend constitutional rights to captive whales on grounds that performers such as SeaWorld's Shamu are essentially slaves.

San Diego has regained about half of the tens of thousands of jobs lost during the financial collapse. The region's jobless rate hovers just below 10 percent, but a recent Gallup Poll survey found California has one of the highest underemployment rates in the country.

Airs Saturday, September 26, 2009 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

The essays range in subject from Axl Rose to the Southern Agrarian novelist Andrew Nelson Lytle. What they have in common is John Jeremiah Sullivan's essential curiosity about the world, his eye for the perfect detail, and his great good humor in revealing both his subjects' and his own foibles.

Saying he is prepared "to take significant heat" from members of his own party in order to achieve meaningful debt and deficit reduction, President Obama this morning again pushed for a big, long-term budget deal with Republicans.

The Casual Vacancy is worlds away from Hogwarts and Harry Potter. It's a dark comedy of manners, set in a small town in the aftermath of a local politician's death. Rowling says her experiences with poverty informed her gritty portrayal of English life.

Airs Sunday, January 6, 2013 at 4 p.m. on KPBS TV