Dick speaks with Yang Li, who was born and raised in China. As soon as he got his citizenship in the U.S., he bought a gun. He considers it a tool that defends against tyranny, and he has joined gun rights groups and spoken at rallies.
Carlos Martinez had a master’s in engineering, but was an undocumented immigrant and couldn’t work legally. He was one of the first to apply for the deferred action plan this summer.
Dick speaks with longtime civil rights and voter registration activist Alice Tregay of Chicago, about the on-the-ground work that it takes to register and get people to the polls.
Iraqis went to the polls 6 weeks ago, expecting to choose a new government, but it hasn't actually worked out that way. Ahmed Fadaam noticed that people on the street were doing something curious with the campaign posters.
In today's diary, Ahmed reveals just how deeply the Sunni-Shia divide goes. Even going to the hospital can get you killed if you find yourself on the wrong side of the divide.
The first episode of The Story was produced in Feb 2006 never aired widely. Our founding Senior Producer Greg Kelly sent us an e-mail recently to reflect on that show. "Dick and I had been puzzling for weeks on the show's DNA. I was the Senior Producer and was...
