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Need To Know | Fri., May 6, 2011 | PBS

Duration: 53:20 (Full Program)
Program: Need to Know #152
Broadcast Date: May. 6, 2011

Need to Know looks at the State Department's recent suspension of international adoption of abandoned children in Nepal. We explore the financial cost of the war on terror after Osama bin Laden's death. Jon Meacham considers how it might change the national agenda. Alison Stewart moderates a panel on the economic political and legal status of women. Plus New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast.

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Post Date: May 6, 2011