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Airs Sunday, June 19, 2011 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV

Poppy is a key crop in the deadly Sangin District, and in a way, flowers fuel the fight: The Taliban earns hundreds of millions of dollars from the drug trade, which supplies 90 percent of the world's raw opium used for heroin. And during harvest season, fighting practically comes to a halt.

The same laid-back attitude and openness to outsiders that draws tourists to the peaceful country has also attracted Mexican cartels and their Colombia cocaine suppliers. Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla says it tests Costa Rica's view of itself as a peaceful country in a violent region.

Pakistan's security forces continue to battle Taliban militants in the country's once idyllic Swat Valley. The Army says 35 militants have been killed in the past 24 hours of fighting. Thousands of civilians have been forced to flee.

With Hüsker Dü, Mould helped invent alt-rock, and he's kept innovating ever since. "For so many years, I ran away from my own sound," he says. At 53, he's caught up to himself.

SDLFF and FilmOut Present Basque Film Tonight at UltraStar Mission Valley

Airs Sunday, November 21, 2010 at 10:30 p.m. on KPBS TV

The Volatility Index — or VIX — was created in 1992 to measure market nervousness, and even trade on it. And with the stock market logging huge single-day gains and losses, the volume of VIX-related trades hit record highs this month.

Best Foreign Film Oscar Winner Opens in San Diego

We celebrate the deeply embedded ideal of the American dream every day, and yet the phrase has always been fraught. For many, there is no dream, so here, we give you "A Brief Diary of the American Nightmare."