This week on "Sunday Morning" (Jan. 11)
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COVER STORY: State of denial: How insurance companies impact health care today | Watch Video
Millions of Americans are struggling with medical care – either unable to pay high premiums, burdened with high deductibles, or denied coverage for necessary tests and treatment by health insurance companies. Erin Moriarty of "48 Hours" talks with doctors and health experts about how medical care is being eroded by insurers motivated by profit. As one doctor says, insurance companies have "made it more difficult to be healthy in the United States."
For more info:
- Ron Howrigon, president and CEO, Fulcrum Strategies
- Dr. Elisabeth Potter on Instagram
- Miranda Yaver, assistant professor, School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh
ALMANAC: January 11 (Video)
"Sunday Morning" looks back at historical events on this date.
ARTS: The art of Anselm Kiefer: "Becoming the Sea" | Watch Video
Anselm Kiefer, one of the world's most prolific living artists, is now the subject of a retrospective in St. Louis. He talks with Mark Whitaker about how rivers cutting through America's Midwest, and a Beat Generation poet, inspired his three-story-tall abstract canvases, in a show entitled "Becoming the Sea."
FROM 2018: In the studio with artist Anselm Kiefer (Video)
In this web exclusive CBS News got a glimpse at the labors of German artist Anselm Kiefer, considered one of the world's most important living painters. Kiefer is seen working in his studio outside Paris, where he applies molten lead to his canvases.
For more info:
- "Anselm Kiefer: Becoming the Sea," solo exhibition at Saint Louis Art Museum (through January 25)
- Anselm Kiefer (Gagosian)
HARTMAN: A mangled pickup truck draws mockery – and kindness (Video)
In South Bend, Ind., Mo Riles' pickup truck was impossible to miss, with damage so severe it was hard to believe it was still drivable. For the past few months, people online have been mercilessly poking fun at the truck, until one man reached out to Riles in a way that was life-changing. Steve Hartman reports.
STAGE: Carrie Coon and Tracy Letts on their joint love for, and beyond, the theater | Watch Video
Actress Carrie Coon ("The Gilded Age," "The White Lotus") has returned to Broadway in "Bug," written by her playwright-actor husband, Tracy Letts. The two talk with Jim Axelrod about their on- and off-stage partnership.
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Extended interview - Tracy Letts and Carrie Coon (Video)
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Extended interview - Carrie Coon (Video)
For more info:
- "Bug," at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, New York City | Ticket info
PASSAGE: Remembering CBS makeup artist Riccie Johnson (Video)
Jane Pauley looks back on a longtime member of the CBS family, makeup artist Riccie Johnson, who died last weekend at age 101, after decades of making up everyone from presidents and broadcasters to Beatles.
PASSAGE: In memoriam (Video)
"Sunday Morning" remembers some of the notable figures who left us this past week, including Bob Weir, co-founder of The Grateful Dead.
HEADLINES: Minnesotans speak out about fatal ICE shooting of Renee Good | Watch Video
Videos of Wednesday's fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis have led to anti-ICE protests across the country, while putting Minnesota officials sharply at odds with the Trump administration. Nicole Sganga talks with former Minneapolis Mayor Sharon Sayles Belton about the reaction to the killing of Good (a 37-year-old mother of three), and why she says it is a time for action.
COMMENTARY: Jim Gaffigan: Children are not pancakes | Watch Video
The comedian, who has raised many kids, says parenting is not like whipping up a stack of pancakes, but it may be like eating them.
BOOKS: "Enough": Oprah Winfrey on her weight-loss lessons | Watch Video
Oprah Winfrey is one of the best-known, most-admired and successful people on the planet. But for years she seemed powerless to conquer her fluctuating weight problem … until new medications, and a new attitude about her weight, gave her a breakthrough, which she describes in "Enough," a new book she has co-written with Dr. Ania Jastreboff. They talk with Jane Pauley about an individual's genetically-influenced weight range, and how to reset it. Winfrey also relates the long road she traveled since she began her TV career in Nashville, facing sexism, racism, and comments about her weight.
WEB EXCLUSIVE: Watch an extended interview with Oprah Winfrey (Video)
READ AN EXCERPT: "Enough" by Dr. Ania Jastreboff and Oprah Winfrey
For more info:
- "Enough: Your Health, Your Weight, and What It's Like To Be Free" by Ania M. Jastreboff, M.D., Ph.D., and Oprah Winfrey (Avid Reader Press), in Hardcover, eBook and Audio formats, available January 13 via Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Bookshop.org
- oprah.com
- Ania Jastreboff, M.D., Ph.D., Yale School of Medicine
U.S.: The surprising history of the Monroe Doctrine | Watch Video
In 1823, President James Monroe called for European powers to stay out of the Americas. What came to be known as the Monroe Doctrine would influence U.S. foreign policy for generations, and lead to military interventions across the Western Hemisphere. This past week President Donald Trump repeatedly invoked the Doctrine when discussing last week's incursion into Venezuela. Mo Rocca talks with historian Jay Sexton, author of "The Monroe Doctrine: Empire and Nation in Nineteenth-Century America," about how Monroe's words – and how presidents have interpreted them – have affected world history.
For more info:
- "The Monroe Doctrine: Empire and Nation in Nineteenth-Century America" by Jay Sexton (Hill and Wang), in Trade Paperback and eBook formats, available via Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Bookshop.org
- Jay Sexton, professor of history, University of Missouri
NATURE: Turtles in Hawaii (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday with turtles relaxing on the beach in Maui. Videographer: Jamie McDonald.
WEB EXCLUSIVES:
EXTENDED INTERVIEW: Grateful Dead co-founder Bob Weir (Video)
Nearly 60 years after Bob Weir helped form the eclectic rock group The Grateful Dead in Palo Alto, Calif., the music of the Dead was adapted for the concert hall. In this extended interview originally posted on Nov. 27, 2022, correspondent John Blackstone talked with Weir about the Dead's music, adapting it to performance by a symphony orchestra, the curious life of a song "critter," and the unfinished business resulting from bandmate Jerry Garcia's passing. [Bob Weir died on January 10, 2025 at age 78.]
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Pioneering dancer and choreographer Carmen de Lavallade (Video)
Dancer, choreographer, actress and teacher Carmen de Lavallade, one of the pioneers of American modern dance, and the first prima ballerina of Creole descent to perform at New York's Metropolitan Opera, died on Dec. 29, 2025 at age 94. In this Dec. 3, 2017 "Sunday Morning" report, de Lavallade talked with Rita Braver about her artistic journey (including her collaborations with Alvin Ailey and future husband Geoffrey Holder), and her decision to boycott a 2017 Kennedy Center Honorees reception following President Trump's remarks about White nationalists who marched in Charlottesville, Va.
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