Karen M. Sughrue
Karen M. Sughrue is a Senior Producer at Retro Report. Karen has worked as a producer at 60 Minutes, where her stories included the growing knowledge gap with American boys falling behind girls in school, an exposé of the U.S. military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" policy and the impact of the one-child policy on Chinese society today. Karen also served as Executive Producer of CBS News Face the Nation and Berlin Bureau Chief covering the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union.
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Labor Union Activism Is on the Rise, Recalling the Great Depression
Spurred by the pandemic, new groups of workers are pushing to form unions in activism not seen since the 1930s.
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Holocaust Survivors Fleeing Ukraine Find a New Home in Germany
In Ukraine, elderly Jewish citizens threatened by the war with Russia are being evacuated. As children, they escaped the Nazi invasion. Now some are finding refuge in a most unlikely place: Germany.
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Crossing Borders: How Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine Echoes a Strategy of Aggression
“Peace on our continent has been shattered.” With those words, the secretary general of NATO condemned Russia’s massive ground, air and ballistic missile assault on Ukraine. The attack is the first major military conflict in Europe since World War II, and there are other, darker parallels to that era that the invasion has brought to […]
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How Ping-Pong Thawed a U.S.-China Standoff
In Tokyo this weekend, the U.S. teams will compete in the lightning-fast game of table tennis, an Olympic sport since 1988. It was also the sport that, 50 years ago, launched a breakthrough in U.S.-China relations known as “Ping-Pong diplomacy.”In April 1971, at the table tennis championships in Nagoya, Japan, American player Glenn Cowan was […]
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Special Education: The 50-Year Fight for the Right to Learn
Today’s special education system was shaped five decades ago, when parents fought for disabled children’s right to learn.
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Special Education: The 50-Year Fight for the Right to Learn
Schools across the nation have been disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, leaving millions of students behind academically. The burden of the disruptions has fallen especially heavily on students with special needs – those who, under federal law, are entitled to services most often provided in person, like language therapy, physical therapy and one-to-one instruction. “If […]
