PBS News Weekend full episode, Dec. 6, 2025

Narsiso Martinez is a visual artist whose drawings, paintings, and mixed-media installations honor the dignity and struggles of U.S. farmworkers, a perspective shaped by his own experience working in Washington’s fields before earning his MFA from Cal State Long Beach. Best known for portraits painted on discarded produce boxes, Martinez combines figuration, installation, and sculpture to expose the contrast between agricultural abundance and the exploitation of laborers, many undocumented and u

With the longest government shutdown in U.S. history still ongoing, more Americans are feeling the effects. Major airports have begun cutting thousands of flights, and millions who rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program face growing uncertainty. “The idea that the administration has chosen to not find money to fund the food assistance program for some 42 million Americans, 1 in 8 Americans, but they have found money for military payments and ICE officers and others — that's a choi