In December, PBS President Pat Mitchell predicted in a routine speech that 2005 would be a transformational year for public broadcasting. She couldn’t have known that an animated rabbit would become ...

When she took over PBS five years ago, Pat Mitchell seemed expertly qualified. She had been a college professor, a local TV producer, reporter and anchor as well as a correspondent on NBC’s “Today” ...

As television viewers, we watch some cooking shows to learn the host's recipes and techniques (how wonderful, we think, to wield a knife like Jacques Pepin). We watch others to spend fantasy time with ...

Rutherford B. Hayes, our 19th president, wrote: "In the civilized countries of the world, the question is how to distribute most generally and equally the property of the world." Hayes was concerned ...