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Columnists Mark Shields and David Brooks discuss the stories of the week, including the political fallout from the failed attempt to blow up a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day and the prospects for politics in 2010.
In terms of the economy, it's good riddance to 2009. As for 2010, Ray Suarez speaks with a panel of experts about reasons for hopes and fears in the new year.
The aughts saw tremendous changes in the way we consume and converse about books and movies. Jeffrey Brown talked to three culture critics about trends and highlights of the past decade.
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.
Betty Ann Bowser helps decode the debate over health care reform.
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.
The United States is heading into a deeper war in Afghanistan/Pakistan and toward a confrontation with Iran, two stories that will likely top the international news agenda for the NewsHour in 2010.
Wall Street Journal economics editor and Fed watcher David Wessel stopped by the Rundown to talk shop on different parts of the economy and what to expect in 2010.
On Friday's NewsHour, there's a second look at a Fred de Sam Lazaro report from India on the Aravind system of eye hospitals and clinics, the largest such system in the world. These clinics subsidize sight-restoring surgery for impoverished patients and provide top-of-the-line care for patients who can pay.
Another year, another few million Americans. There are 2,606,181 more Americans today than there were on Dec. 31, 2008, according to the Census Bureau's annual year-end projections. That's about 0.9 percent growth for the year.
In New Year's Day headlines, the TSA nominee is under new scrutiny amid reports that he misled Congress about accessing confidential records of his estranged wife's boyfriend and the fallout continues from a judge's decision to drop charges against five Blackwater guards accused of killing Iraqi civilians in 2007.
2009 was an odd year for anyone who makes a living in and around economics. Odd because there's a version of survivor guilt: The worse the world has gotten, the more interest there's been in what economics reporters have to say. I said to a finance professor friend not long ago, somewhat sheepishly: "We're counter-cyclical."
From new global alliances to simmering conflicts, explore some of the stories not widely covered by mainstream media in 2009.
[PRI's To the Point]
As the first bank bailouts hit, one big question was what does this mean for Main Street? Over the past year, WNYC reporters have made repeated visits to six area neighborhoods, talking to local businesses and residents about how the economic downturn is experienced at street level.
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Is now a good time to buy a home? Should you spend more money to help boost the economy? Challenge your point of view on current economic issues with the online tool "You Decide."
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Jan. 1, 2010
As 2009 turns to 2010, which inventions, events and stories of the past decade changed the world, and which will shape our lives for decades to come?
