Columnists Mark Shields and David Brooks discuss the week's top political news including a recent Obama campaign video that tries to debunk Mitt Romney's job creation claims, JPMorgan Chase losses and the expected renewal of the debt ceiling debate.
Ray Suarez and USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah discuss President Obama's private-public initiative to lift millions out of poverty and hunger through farming partnerships.
Clay Johnson, author of "The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption", discusses with Hari Sreenivasan how abundant technology affects our health -- producing pulsing side effects such as "email apnea" or "reality dysmorphia."
Find the best of the PBS NewsHour’s international reporting and analysis.
Online coverage of the arts from Jeffrey Brown and NewsHour reporters.
On-the-ground reports from Ray Suarez on health issues around the world.
Track how 12 different U.S. communities adapt to changing economic times.
Profiles, readings and conversations with contemporary American poets.
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Paul Solman explains the ins and outs of the global economy.
Covering efforts to tackle the world's biggest challenges in the smallest of ways.
Purpose-built videos for teachers supported by lesson plans with content-based standards.
Bringing the views of ordinary citizens to the national discussion on the important issues of the day.
Coverage of the critical issues in science and technology reporting.
Judy Woodruff explores how young people are handling the economic downturn.
There's an assumption that in order to do well in school, you have to be in school. But new data suggests that 5 to 7.5 million students, especially from low-income areas, are missing more than one month of school a year.
As a 7-month old fetus, Cami Santee's life was threatened by a large tumor growing from her lower body. To remove it, doctors had to operate before she was born, cutting away the growth while she still lay half inside her mother's womb.
Is it just my imagination, or have politics and politicians grown smaller? I've been flirting with this conclusion after diving into two enjoyable presidential history books by night while covering 2012 politics by day.
Mitt Romney's campaign is giving voters a preview of what the Republican might do on January 20, 2013, if he is elected president, outlining a positive message in its first television ad of the general election.
We drove 600 miles south last weekend to find dueling graduation speeches from Michelle Obama and Mitt Romney.
On Saturday, if all goes as planned, the privately owned spaceflight company SpaceX will launch its Dragon capsule into low-Earth orbit and three days later dock with the International Space Station.
In Missouri, consumer advocates are on the verge of putting an initiative on the ballot this November that would cap interest rates at 36 percent. Backers of the measure say it will protect the poor, but opponents claim it will hurt the very people it's intended to help.
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Called "Next Avenue," a new PBS multimedia initiative -- aimed at people over 50 -- taps experts and trusted sources for information about health, finances, work, leisure and caregiving.
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In anticipation of an exciting election season, PBS launched an aggregate election news center on Super Tuesday. The page will host content from affiliate station sites as well as NewsHour, Frontline, Need to Know and Washington Week.
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May 18, 2012
President Obama clearly stated his support for same-sex marriage for the first time as president in a recent interview with ABC News. The statement placed Obama firmly on the side of gay rights advocates ahead of an election that's likely to spotlight social issues polarizing many Americans.
