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Promotional graphic for the film, 'Backfired: When VW Lied To America."

Airs Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV

Buying Greenland? That's Nothing To Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel García Márquez's intricate, confusing, magnificent novel centers around a monstrous, nameless dictator — known only as the General or the Patriarch — who sells the entire Caribbean Sea.

A morning view of downtown Los Angeles from the Hollywood Bowl Overlook in January. The city will be hosting the Summer Olympics in 2028.

Los Angeles Will Host Summer Olympics In 2028

LA last hosted the Summer Games in 1984. The city had originally been bidding for the 2024 games, which will go to Paris instead.

Energy Companies Urge Trump To Remain In Paris Climate Agreement

Shell CEO Ben van Beurden says he wants the U.S. to remain in the 2015 Paris climate accord. Energy companies like Exxon Mobil and BP have also urged President Trump to continue supporting the deal.

Gertrude Bell on camel between W. Churchill and T.E. Lawrence. Photographed at the Cairo Conference in 1921.

Letters From Baghdad

Airs Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

Nicolas Hulot, the French environmental minister, departs a weekly Cabinet meeting in Paris in February. "I don't want to give the illusion that my presence in government means we're answering these issues properly," Hulot said in resigning Tuesday.

French Environment Minister Quits In Live Interview: 'World Is Not Doing Enough'

"I don't want to give the illusion that my presence in government means we're answering these issues properly," Nicolas Hulot said, criticizing President Emmanuel Macron's environmental policies.

On the facade of the Wittenberg Town Church in Germany, a relief depicting Jews and a large pig is at the heart of controversy and a legal battle.

A German Jew Vows To Fight On To Remove Anti-Semitic Sculpture After Court Defeat

"This is a church, a holy place. You can't mix it with such a shameful assault on the Jews," plaintiff Michael Düllmann says of the medieval work portraying Jews with a pig.

People in Bayonne, France, walk past posters for parliamentary elections, scheduled to take place June 11 and June 18.

'Citizen Candidates' Aim To Support French President Macron With Bids For Parliament

Emmanuel Macron promised France a "political revolution" if he became president. Now he is encouraging members of the public with little or no political experience to run for the National Assembly.

Police officers and soldiers check passengers leaving from the main train station in Milan, Italy. The government declared on Monday that the whole country is a "red zone."

Life During Coronavirus: What Different Countries Are Doing To Stop The Spread

From a nationwide "red zone" to travel restrictions to school closures, governments around the globe are taking steps to try to slow the spread of the outbreak.

Graceful 'Court Dancer' Can't Escape Her Sorrows

Kyung-Sook Shin's atmospheric, tragic novel follows a beautiful orphan whose dancing skills secure her a place at the Korean court, and later a life in Belle Époque France — but not happiness.

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