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When the show cast The Doctor as a woman, it avoided exploring her gender. Now that Ncuti Gatwa is The Doctor, critic Eric Deggans writes, Doctor Who shouldn't avoid his Blackness.

Actress Rosie Perez steps behind the camera for a documentary on Puerto Rico's people, politics, and culture. Perez, actor Jimmy Smits, and co-director Liz Garbus discuss Yo Soy Boricua, Pa Que Tu Lo Sepas! (I Am a Boricua, Just So You Know It.)

Just how swanky does your office need to be? That's a loaded question in parts of China, where some district governments have built huge, palatial headquarters. There has long been unrest in China over waste and mismanagement in local government. But as the country's economy has expanded, the problem only seems to get worse.

Bluegrass legend Del McCoury, a devout Baptist and internationally known musician, is getting around to something that he's always wanted to do in his five-decade career — he's releasing his band's first gospel album.

The chairman of the Sept. 11 Commission, Tom Kean, and vice-chair Lee Hamilton have written the new book, Without Precedent: the Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission. The two write about the challenges of completing their work on the commission with little money, a tight timeline, constant wrangling to gain access to classified documents, and the necessity of forging a consensus among Republican and Democratic commissioners.

Farai Chideya discusses last week's rejection by the Senate of a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. She discusses how Americans view gay marriage with John Brittain, chief council and senior deputy with the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.

Over the weekend, 83 bodies were delivered to the Baghdad morgue. The figure is high even by the grim standards of a venue that has seen thousands of corpses this year.

Bringing vitality -- and economic viability -- back to troubled urban areas relies on close collaboration across public and private sectors, says Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. The Fed chief was speaking at an economic summit on the rebuilding of Washington, D.C.'s Anacostia waterfront.

The alleged Buffalo shooter, age 18, had no problems buying his semi-automatic rifle. Some states have tried to limit sales to those under 21. A new generation of conservative judges stand in the way.

The new poet laureate of the United States will be introduced Wednesday. The poems of Donald Hall, a New Hampshire native, have been compared to those of Robert Frost. He will succeed Nebraskan Ted Kooser.

Ground will be broken at the Pentagon on Thursday for a memorial to the victims who died there on Sept. 11, 2001. There will be 184 benches lining the path American Airlines Flight 77 took before smashing into the Pentagon.

President Bush, back from a visit to Iraq, says violence there will never be eliminated but that a security crackdown and new intelligence on terrorism are contributing to "steady progress."