Here & Now previews this week's congressional hearings that aim to redesign military commissions to try Guantanamo Bay detainees.

After a half century of effort, China launches "Sky Train," which will allow an estimated one to two thousand passengers armed with oxygen masks to travel from Beijing to Tibet in only two days.

As communities around the nation musts choose if they will offer a friendly environment to illegal immigrants, Here & Now takes a look at two Massachusetts towns that have adopted two, very different, attitudes.

What books will get your fourth grader reading this summer? Nina Lindsay, 2007 Chair of the Newbury Awards Selection Committee, joins us with her top titles.

In a spectacular new book, entitled "Black Farmers in America," photographer John Francis Ficara documents the experience of black agriculture.