During an interview with Scott Pelley of CBS News, President Barack Obama said he thinks the Boy Scouts of America should be open to gay members. The Boy Scouts recently announced intentions to reverse a ban on gays participating in the organization.

Assignment: China, a project of the USC US-China Institute, looks back at President Nixon's trip to China exactly 40 years ago, a trip that marked the beginning of the end of decades of hostility. This is an excerpt of their film, "The Week That C...

From the video: Mosaic News - 12/20/11

Steve Kroft profiles Vanity Fair columnist, author, and public intellectual Christopher Hitchens, for whom nothing is off-limits when making his wry and often outrageous observations, including the cancer he is suffering from.