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Nature: Grand Teton National Park

We leave you this Sunday morning at Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. Videographer: David Bhagat.

• Nov 2, 2025
• 03:56

Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber on addressing challenges facing higher education

Universities have found themselves under pressure from President Trump – from blocked funds for research, to attacks on their admission policies and diversity programs. Princeton's president says, "The stakes are really high."

• Nov 5, 2025

Universities address challenges to free speech

Universities have found themselves under pressure from President Trump – from blocked funds for research, to attacks on their admission policies and diversity programs. Robert Costa talks with Princeton University President Christopher Eisgruber about the challenges facing higher education today – on campuses and in Washington – and about his focus on promoting civility and independence. Costa also talks with Lee Bollinger (the former president of Columbia and the University of Michigan) and with former Harvard president Lawrence Summers, about the government's relationship with higher education.

• Nov 2, 2025
• 07:10

George Clooney on "Jay Kelly," fame and family

In his latest film, George Clooney plays a familiar role – one of the world's biggest movie stars – who nonetheless tries to reconcile professional success and his personal shortcomings.

• Nov 2, 2025

Extended interview: George Clooney

In this web exclusive, George Clooney talks with Seth Doane about his character in Noah Baumbach's "Jay Kelly," playing a movie star dealing with the drawbacks of fame and living with regrets. He also discusses aging; the fun of not being typecast; his wife Amal and children; the 2024 presidential race; and why failure is an important tool.

• Nov 2, 2025
• 23:03

George Clooney on "Jay Kelly," fame and family

In his latest film, "Jay Kelly," George Clooney plays a familiar role – one of the world's biggest movie stars – who nonetheless tries to reconcile professional success and his personal shortcomings. Clooney talks with Seth Doane about how he is different from the character of Jay Kelly, and what he doesn't regret about living the life of an A-List celebrity. He also talks about how he works hard to create a "normal existence" for his children.

• Nov 2, 2025
• 08:34

The Great Heflin, Alabama Toilet Paper War

After the senior class at Cleburne County High School, in Heflin, Ala., covered the local police department in toilet paper last month, folks were surprised to see the police chief's response: Fight toilet paper with toilet paper. Steve Hartman reports from the front lines of a battle that has tickled the fancies of pranksters everywhere.

• Nov 2, 2025
• 02:56

"Inheritances": Adam Tendler's musical testimony of love, grief and memory

Concert pianist Adam Tendler had a distant relationship with his father. So, when he inherited a sum of money from his dad, he used it to commission piano works by 16 acclaimed composers, creating music that touches on a vast range of emotions encompassing grief, loss, parent-child relationships, and estrangement. Lee Cowan reports on Tendler's moving tribute, "Inheritances."

• Nov 2, 2025
• 07:15

Dealing with the crushing costs of child care

For some, the high cost of child care in the U.S. is a higher expense than rents and mortgages, or even in-state college tuition, and has pushed tens of thousands of women out of the workforce this year alone.

• Nov 2, 2025

Dealing with the crushing costs of child care

For some, the high cost of child care in the U.S. is a higher expense than rents and mortgages, or even in-state college tuition, and has pushed tens of thousands of women out of the workforce this year alone. Tracy Smith talks with Reshma Saujani, CEO and founder of Moms First, who says Americans need to rethink how we think about child care. Smith also talks with parents in New Mexico, which has become the first state to offer free child care to all residents; and with Republican Senator Katie Britt and Democratic Senator Tim Kaine, who see child care as an economic issue America cannot afford to ignore.

• Nov 2, 2025
• 07:42

Salman Rushdie on "The Eleventh Hour" and free speech

The author talks about his first fiction published since the 2022 attack that nearly killed him; his own immigrant experience in the U.S.; and what happens when freedom of speech dies.

• Nov 2, 2025

Extended interview: Salman Rushdie

In this web exclusive, author Salman Rushdie talks with Martha Teichner about his new book, "The Eleventh Hour," a collection of short stories and a novella, and the first fiction Rushdie has published since the 2022 attack that nearly killed him.

• Nov 2, 2025
• 24:30

Salman Rushdie on "The Eleventh Hour"

"The Eleventh Hour," a collection of short stories and a novella, is the first fiction Salman Rushdie has published since the 2022 attack that nearly killed him. He talks with Martha Teichner about his new book; the fatwa issued by Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989, claiming passages in Rushdie's novel, "The Satanic Verses," insulted Islam; his own immigrant experience in the U.S.; and what happens when freedom of speech dies.

• Nov 2, 2025
• 07:16

Aurel Bacs, "the Indiana Jones of watches"

Auctioneer Aurel Bacs knows what makes watch enthusiasts tick, as he puts exquisite, rare and vintage timepieces on the auction block. For 30 years, Bacs (whose love of watches began as a teenager in Zurich) has sold luxury timepieces at the world's most celebrated auction houses. Over the past decade, he and his wife, Livia Russo, partnering with Phillips Auctioneers, have been responsible for $1.6 billion in watch sales, catering to thousands of collectors from around the world. Correspondent Mark Strassmann talks with the flamboyant Bacs, the man some have called "the Indiana Jones of watches," who says watch collecting is not rational: "It's a love affair, and you cannot put limits on love."

• Nov 2, 2025
• 04:58

Almanac: November 2

"Sunday Morning" looks back at historical events on this date.

• Nov 2, 2025
• 00:43

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