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Steve Kroft reported on the financial instruments that fueled the 2008 economic crisis.
Steve Kroft interviewed then-Senator Barack Obama for the first time in February 2007, when Obama was just announcing his bid for the presidency.
In 1999, Steve Kroft profiled Robert Gardiner, an 88-year-old aristocrat in the Hamptons, who was one of the most eccentric people ever to appear on 60 Minutes. In 2011, producer Frank Devine described why the story was one of his favorites.
American youth struggled with mental health challenges in the aftermath of the COVID pandemic. In 2022, Sharyn Alfonsi sat down with kids confronting those challenges – and the health care providers working to make care more accessible.
In 2003, Mike Wallace reported on North Korea, a country rarely visited by foreigners, where people lived in abject poverty and disease and malnutrition were rampant.
In 2004, Mike Wallace spoke to a Dutch reporter, who saw firsthand how North Korea was using "The Diary of a Young Girl" — the chronicle of Anne Frank — to teach students to fear and hate America.
In 2005, Scott Pelley spoke with Charles Robert Jenkins, a former U.S. soldier who had deserted to North Korea in 1965, about the abuse and control he suffered over his nearly 40 years there.
In 2017, Bill Whitaker reported on the continuing military threat posed by North Korea, a threat exacerbated by dictator Kim Jong-un's possession of nuclear weapons and his pursuit of an intercontinental ballistic missile.
In 2001, 60 Minutes reported on "mammoni," Italian mama's boys who, well into adulthood, lived at home, slept in their childhood bedrooms, and were waited on by their mothers. At the time, one 39-year-old called the set-up "paradiso."
In 1998, musician Billy Joel sat down with Steve Kroft for a candid conversation in which he shared a theory on his success. "When you're competent, and you live in an age where there's a lot of incompetence, it makes you appear extraordinary," he said.
