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Many think of the feminist movement as a thing of the past, but Debora Spar says the battle isn't won yet. She tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross about the misinterpretation that got us where we are, and the need to improve support and pay for working women.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan ended a back-to-school bus tour in Chula Vista Friday, and praised the district's success in raising attendance and test scores.

Rebecca Musser was raised in an extremist, polygamist church. She tells the harrowing story of her childhood, her first marriage, and her escape in her autobiography.

Border Technology Contracts Take New Approach

Encore, Sundays, Sept. 18, 2022 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Sept 25 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on KPBS TV / On demand now with the PBS Video App. LATINO AMERICANS is the first major documentary series for television to chronicle the rich and varied history and experiences of Latinos, who have helped shape North America over the last 500-plus years and have become, with more than 50 million people, the largest minority group in the U.S.

Hispanic Heritage Month 2013 Honoree

The Obamacare web-based health insurance marketplace goes online at the start of October. That's when consumers will finally get to see just how much it's going to cost them to enroll in the various health insurance plans.

Airs Tuesday, September 17, 2013 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV

The opening of the new central library is just a few weeks away. As the books are unpacked, artwork is being installed. That includes an eye-popping work in the library’s main elevator shaft by the de la Torre brothers. It will be, hands down, the best elevator ride in San Diego.

A chance encounter with a little girl in an ice cream store inspired R.J. Palacio to write a novel about a boy born with distorted facial features. She says it got her thinking about what it's like to "have to face a world every day that doesn't know how to face you back."