Stretching its way through 140 countries, "Sesame Street" is the longest street in the world. And the iconic children's program is using its Muppets cast to delve into far more sensitive issues and ...

Sesame Street revolutionized early learning nearly five decades ago by using the emerging technology of the day, television, to teach children important basics like colors, numbers and letters of the ...

This article emerges from Future Tense, a partnership of Slate, the New America Foundation, and Arizona State University that examines emerging technologies and their effects on policy and society. On ...