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An executive order axed funding for PBS and its popular kids shows like Sesame Street. Now, PBS is fighting back. (Kris Connor / Getty Images)

PBS challenges executive overreach

CK Smith
A graduate holds a Kermit the Frog doll as he addressed the graduates at University of Maryland on May 22, 2025. (The Washington Post / Contributor / Getty Images)

Kermit speaks. Are we listening?

CK Smith
Buster and Arthur from the PBS children’s television program “Arthur” (Photo Illustration by Salon / Courtesy PBS/WGBH / Getty Images / mikroman6 / Marina Kislitsyna)

The MAGA war on PBS is not about money

Melanie McFarland
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) speaks in front of a photo of drag queen Lil Miss Hot Mess during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing at the U.S. Capitol on March 26, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

MTG’s DOGE fight is a hot mess

Melanie McFarland
Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell and Damian Lewis as King Henry VIII in "Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light" (Nick Briggs/Playground Television/PBS)

In "Wolf Hall" sequel, death is a mirror

Nicholas Liu
Still from "Eyes On The Prize III" (Courtesy of HBO)

"Eyes on the Prize": We are the hope

Melanie McFarland
Commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission Brendan Carr speaks during the 2024 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland, United States on February 24, 2024. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Trump's FCC investigating NPR, PBS

Griffin Eckstein
Donald Trump on television yelling (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty images)

Project 25 state media plot may backfire

Russell Payne
Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump, brings boxing legend Thomas Hearns to the stage during a campaign rally on October 18, 2024, in Detroit, Michigan. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Trump says GOP "must kill" PRESS Act

Alex Galbraith
Self portrait by Leonardo Da Vinci and The Last Supper (Photo illustration by Salon/PBS)

PBS' mesmerizing "Leonardo Da Vinci"

Melanie McFarland
Four competitors in the We the People national championship viewed the Washington Monument from the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. (Moriah Ratner/Retro Report/PBS)

"Citizen Nation": Hope for democracy

Melanie McFarland
Derrick Wilburn at Freedom Ride Rally in Cortez, Colorado. (Photo courtesy of PBS)

"One Person, One Vote" is a must-watch

Melanie McFarland
The Choice (WGBH)

The challenge of "The Choice" in 2024

Melanie McFarland
Blake Edwards: A Love Story in 24 Frames (PBS)

PBS' delightful Blake Edwards doc

Gary M. Kramer
Amythyst Kiah performs onstage for Georgia On My Mind at Ryman Auditorium on May 10, 2022 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Danielle Del Valle/Getty Images)

Black country music truth is being told

Nardos Haile
Dule Hill (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Dulé Hill: West Wing "still rings true"

D. Watkins
Young woman on sofa with grandmother looking at photo album (Getty Images/Gpointstudio)

"Finding Your Roots" highlights its fans

Nardos Haile
Biometric eye scan and network (Getty Images/Yuichiro Chino)

The benefits of our "A.I. Revolution"

Melanie McFarland
Domhnall Gleeson as Jack and Andrea Riseborough as Alice in "Alice and Jack" (Fremantle/PBS)

"Love can look like so many things"

Melanie McFarland
All Creatures Great and Small (PBS)

All Creatures: "War starts to rumble on"

Hanh Nguyen
Sunny Hostin on "Finding Your Roots" (PBS)

Sunny Hostin descends from slave owners

Nardos Haile
Sammy Hagar on "Finding Your Roots" (PBS)

The lie Sammy Hagar found in his "Roots"

Nardos Haile
LeVar Burton in "Finding Your Roots" episode "Fathers and Sons" (PBS)

LeVar Burton Confederate roots revealed

Nardos Haile
All Creatures Great and Small (Playground Entertainment/Masterpiece PBS)

"All Creatures" finds life in wartime

Melanie McFarland
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