January 26, 2016

PBS News Hour • Season 41 • Episode 18

About this episode

Tuesday on the NewsHour, President Obama announces plans to ban solitary confinement for youth in federal prisons. Also: Campaigning intensifies as Iowa draws near, how presidential candidates tap into fear, high school vocational training as an alternative to college, the government battles postpartum depression, Mozart reaches 260 years and a student challenges stereotypes with dance.