The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang.

Now the testimony phase of the Prop 8 Trial has ended, the covers have been pulled back on the motives and operations of the proponents of Prop 8. While we had an entire Prop 8 political campaign in 2008, and since then a court case to the California Supreme Court, it is only in the [...]

The official rollout is tomorrow, but a couple stories have come out today about President Obama’s budget, where we’ll see the newfound emphasis on fiscal discipline turned into actual policy. It didn’t get much pub, but Obama’s first budget from last year was actually pretty progressive, and got through Congress without much trouble. What’s in store for this year?

A look at the work of impressionist painter Vincent Van Gogh.

It would seem unnecessary to kill a guy for planning the Cole bombing if you knew you had the suspect who planned the Cole bombing in custody. But claiming a tie between him and the Cole bombing might provide the excuse to target a car carrying your real target: Derwish.

At what point in history did humans decide it was a good idea to apply poison to food crops? And with all of the science we have on the toxicity of pesticides, why do we still do it?

Here in Arkansas, we know Dotty Oliver as the brave, smart, fun and irreverent woman who published the Arkansas Free Press, which started around the time Bill Clinton became president in 1993 and lasted until 2008.

What White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel’s new priority ordering on health care also does is it pushes all the bigger bills to the end of the line, in particular, the climate and energy legislation which was already hanging by a thread.

The most interesting thing about Greg Miller’s story on whether Anwar al-Awlaki has been added to the CIA’s list of assassination targets is how it differs from the two stories already written on this subject. Miller says that al-Awlaki has not yet been added to the list.

I have no idea why Jabba the Ailes decided to appear on “This Week” — but after this beatdown by Krugman, I doubt he’ll be back.