This week on “Sunday Morning” (Sept. 14)

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Hosted by Jane Pauley

      
HEADLINES: Historian Jon Meacham on political violence and the risk to American democracy
The homicide of conservative activist Charlie Kirk final week follows a litany of violent acts towards political targets, from Democratic lawmakers and officers, to a police officer at CDC headquarters, to President Trump himself final summer season. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham talks with Robert Costa in regards to the existential questions going through our nation proper now, and the way the present local weather of political violence should be addressed if American democracy is to endure. 

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THESE UNITED STATES: A historical past of America’s Structure
Over the previous a number of a long time, the checks-and-balances of our authorities have been more and more examined in methods our founding fathers by no means anticipated. Tony Dokoupil talks with Jill Lepore, creator of “We the Individuals: A Historical past of the U.S. Structure,” and Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the Nationwide Structure Middle, about our nation’s bedrock doc, which Rosen calls “completely everlasting and timeless.”

READ AN EXCERPT: “We the Individuals: A Historical past of the U.S. Structure” by Jill Lepore
Harvard professor and New Yorker author Jill Lepore explores the continuing wrestle to amend America’s founding doc and maintain it a dwelling framework for an evolving nation.

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• America Structure (Full textual content)
• “We the Individuals: A Historical past of the U.S. Structure” by Jill Lepore (Liveright), in Hardcover, eBook and Audio codecs, out there September 16 by way of Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Bookshop.org
• Jill Lepore, The New Yorker
• “The Pursuit of Liberty: How Hamilton vs. Jefferson Ignited the Lasting Battle Over Energy in America” by Jeffrey Rosen (Simon & Schuster), in Hardcover, eBook and Audio codecs, out there Oct. 21 by way of Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Bookshop.org
• Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO, Nationwide Structure Middle
• “Celebrating 250 Years of america at NYPL,” New York Public Library

       
ALMANAC: September 14
“Sunday Morning” seems again at historic occasions on this date.

U.S.: A blue ribbon-worthy exhibition of state truthful crafts
To honor the cultural traditions of state gala’s, a brand new exhibition on the Renwick Gallery in Washington, D.C., brings collectively crafts courting from the mid-nineteenth century to the current – quilts and pottery and butter cows – that talk to one in all America’s most cherished establishments. Conor Knighton studies.

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MOVIES: Marlon Wayans on “Him,” and on veering from comedy to horror
Within the new psychological horror movie “Him,” Marlon Wayans performs an getting older soccer celebrity tempting a rookie quarterback – who needs to be the best – with an evil cut price. Wayans, who juggles movies with stand-up, talks with Tracy Smith about how his new function is a giant change for somebody raised on comedy, and who realized the best way to flip private loss into dramatic energy.

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PASSAGE: In memoriam
“Sunday Morning” remembers a number of the notable figures who left us this week.

WORLD: La Foce: A Renaissance portray come to life
The La Foce property is the showpiece of 1 aristocratic household’s generations-long effort to revitalize an space in Italy’s Val d’Orcia area that was impoverished within the early twentieth century. Seth Doane studies on how a farmer-entrepreneur helped remake the 7,000-acre property, which is now a backdrop for weddings and movie shoots.

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• La Foce Property, Chianciano Terme, Italia
• “La Foce: Paradise in Tuscany” by Katia Lysy, images by Simon Upton and Matteo Carassale (Rizzoli), in Hardcover, out there by way of Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Bookshop.org
• Katia Lysy on Instagram

• “Battle in Val d’Orcia: An Italian Battle Diary, 1943-1944” by Iris Origo (New York Overview Books Classics), in Commerce Paperback and eBook codecs, out there by way of Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Bookshop.org

TV: Jason Bateman on “Black Rabbit”
Jason Bateman has been performing since he was a baby; he is since added director and podcaster to his résumé. Now, the Emmy Award-winner is starring with Jude Regulation within the Netflix sequence “Black Rabbit,” enjoying brothers whose troubled relationship threatens to destroy extra than simply the restaurant they based. Bateman talks with Lee Cowan in regards to the enchantment of directing; sobriety; and recording his podcast, “Smartless,” with fellow actors Sean Hayes and Will Arnett.

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A NEW LEAF: The delight and perils of plant parenthood
Not each “plant mum or dad” has a inexperienced thumb. For a lot of, the enjoyable of rising houseplants is tempered by a way of withering loss when a leafy dependent dies. Nancy Chen studies on a typical hazard of indoor gardening, and one plant proprietor’s unusual funeral preparations.

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ARTS: A brand new take a look at French Impressionist Gustave Caillebotte
Now displaying on the Artwork Institute of Chicago, an exhibition of works by Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) gives a contemporary perspective on a lesser-known French painter who’s ripe for rediscovery. Jane Pauley studies.

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• Gustave Caillebotte: Portray His World, on the Artwork Institute of Chicago (by means of Oct. 5)
• Exhibition catalogue: “Gustave Caillebotte: Portray Males,” edited by Scott Allan, Gloria Groom and Paul Perrin (J. Paul Getty Museum), in Hardcover, out there by way of Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Bookshop.org
• Gustave Caillebotte. “Paris Avenue; Wet Day,” 1877. The Artwork Institute of Chicago, Charles H. and Mary F. Worcester Assortment
• Gustave Caillebotte. “Ground Scrapers,” 1875. Musée d’Orsay, Paris, Reward of the Caillebotte heirs by means of Auguste Renoir, 1894. Picture courtesy of Musée d’Orsay, Dist. GrandPalaisRmn/Franck Raux
• Gustave Caillebotte. “Man at His Bathtub,” 1884. Museum of Advantageous Arts, Boston, Museum buy with funds by change from an Nameless reward, Bequest of William A. Coolige, Juliana Cheney Edwards Assortment, and from the Charles H. Bayley Image and Portray Fund, Mary S. and Edward J. Holmes Fund, Fanny P. Mason Fund in reminiscence of Alice Thevin, Arthur Gordon Tompkins Fund, Reward of Mrs. Samuel Parkman Oliver – Eliza R. Oliver Fund, Sophie F. Friedman Fund, Robert M. Rosenberg Household Fund, and funds donated in honor of George T.M. Shackelford, Chair, Artwork of Europe, and Arthur Okay. Solomon Curator of Fashionable Artwork 1996–2011. Picture © 2025 Museum of Advantageous Arts, Boston
• Footage courtesy of Musée d’Orsay Digital Division/YouBLive

        
COMMENTARY: James Fallows on the teachings to take from political violence
“Breaking the Information” author James Fallows says political gun murders have written an excessive amount of of the American story. However when political violence erupts, and we’re conscious that “historical past is going on round us,” there are two classes we will take – about cycles of political violence, and our reactions to it – that may form how our nation strikes ahead. 

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NATURE: Forest regrowth

    

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FROM THE ARCHIVES: Impressionism at 150 (YouTube Video)
On April 15, 1874, the primary Impressionist exhibition opened in Paris. Watch these fascinating “Sunday Morning” portraits of the modern painters who created a brand new language of artwork, together with: 

• Édouard Manet
• Vincent Van Gogh 
• Claude Monet 
• Camille Pissarro 
• Edgar Degas 
• Mary Cassatt 
• Paul Cézanne 
• Georges Seurat 
• Gustave Caillebotte 
• The Brooklyn Museum of Artwork exhibition “Impressionists In Winter: Effets de Neige” 
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir 
• late-period Degas 
• Childe Hassam 
• Director Julian Schnabel and actor Willem Dafoe speak about reimagining Vincent Van Gogh’s life within the movie “At Eternity’s Gate” 

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