Articles / Harry Zahn

Articles

Some of my written pieces published on the PBS NewsHour website.

PBS NewsHour • 25th December 2019

This teen CEO is empowering young volunteers to give back

The holidays will be a little brighter for thousands of low-income and homeless families in California this year because of a nonprofit with an unusual CEO.

PBS NewsHour • 19th December 2018

What we learned -- and still don’t know -- from Senate reports on Russian election propaganda

Russia’s attempts to amplify division in the U.S. have not stopped, according to a pair of reports released Monday.

PBS NewsHour • 22nd June 2018

A mystery illness is still affecting diplomats in Cuba and China

Another U.S. Embassy worker stationed in Havana has been afflicted by a mysterious health ailment that has affected at least two dozen other diplomatic workers and family members in Cuba since late 2016, the State Department said this week.

PBS NewsHour • 13th April 2018

Mainers voted to expand Medicaid last year. Could these states be next?

Citizens in Idaho, Utah, Missouri and Nebraska have taken Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act into their own hands via ballot initiative campaigns, hoping to force statewide votes to either adopt or reject expansion this coming November.

PBS NewsHour • 14th March 2018

4 experts grade Rex Tillerson's short tenure as secretary of state

Tillerson, the former CEO of ExxonMobil, served just more than 13 months as secretary of state. His tenure was one of the shortest in the agency’s history.

PBS NewsHour • 24th October 2017

Kim Jong Un is dangerous and a risk-taker, but not a 'madman,' analysts say

Despite the labels, some experts on North Korea say Kim’s actions may be coming from a more calculated and strategic place than many realize.

PBS NewsHour • 23rd December 2016

Why ‘negative partisanship’ is flipping politics on its head

The negativity on display in the 2016 election – from the candidates, their surrogates and the public alike – also exposed a trend in American politics that predates Clinton and Trump’s brutal showdown.