July 12, 2012  |   News broke late last night that the Yahoo Voices service was hacked, exposing more than 450,000 usernames and passwords. If you'd like to check whether your email address was included we've built this tool: Type in your username or email...

June 13, 2012  |   Verizon Wireless, the nation's largest mobile carrier, announced they are changing up how they will bill for data services across devices. The new plan, called Share Everything, means new customers and current customers who choose to opt in have...

May 11, 2012  |   The Doubleheader is ready for your weekend viewing pleasure. Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks discuss the surprise results in the Senate race in Indiana this week and the consequences. In...

May 4, 2012  |   The Doubleheader is back with syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks. Since someone turned on the humidity in the D.C. area this past week, I figured it might be time to...

April 20, 2012  |   In this week's Doubleheader, syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks tackled whether the Los Angeles Times ought to have published the two-year-old photos of soldiers in Afghanistan posing with the bodies...

April 16, 2012  |   Anytime a story about Google's omniscient car cameras comes up, there is an inevitable gasp in the newsroom about the information that is available to anyone, anywhere thanks to images nabbed when the company's cars drove down familiar streets....

April 13, 2012  |   Would syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks dare do the Doubleheader on Friday the 13th? But of course. No black cats or broken mirrors could keep them from it. In the...

April 3, 2012  |   Do you read or write a language other than English? If so, we need your help. In partnership with the Participatory Culture Foundation through the Universal Subtitles project, the all-volunteer PBS NewsHour captioning and translation team is up and running....

March 30, 2012  |   Admit it, you're in an office pool. You're trying to win a kajillion dollars just like everyone else playing the Mega Millions lottery. The Doubleheader team -- syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist...

March 30, 2012  |   Updated April 3 Kids who play football make -- and take -- hits to the head just as hard as any high school, college or NFL player. That's what the data show; it's not partisan, it's...

March 23, 2012  |   Our dynamic duo of syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks, who shock and surprise us every week with their vast knowledge of sports and (sometimes) pop culture weigh in again on...

March 16, 2012  |   Tonight we tackle a topic that has been bandied about for weeks as citizens across the U.S. face sticker shock at one gas pump after another. Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David...

March 2, 2012  |   Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks weigh in on radio host Rush Limbaugh's comments about Georgetown student Sandra Fluke over her testimony to Congress last week urging that insurers be required...

February 24, 2012  |   When we have the chance to have an informal chat with Mark Shields and David Brooks, we take it. The sport of politics portion of our conversation includes their views on super PACs. This week Bill...

February 3, 2012  |   It might be the first time in the history of the NewsHour that we used that word in a headline, but that's what you may have come to expect from The Doubleheader, where we talk about...

January 25, 2012  |   If you speak more than one language, please join The PBS Newshour's volunteer translation team. Help us translate the words of both President Barack Obama's 2012 State of the Union address as well as Indiana...

January 24, 2012  |   The capitol rotunda. Photo by Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images I'll tell you how we got here in a second, but if you can read and write in another language, and are interested in becoming part of the NewsHour's team of...

January 20, 2012  |   The first edition of the Doubleheader for 2012 is here. Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks tackle Topic No. 1 of the debates in South Carolina last night. If you missed the debate -- and...

December 13, 2011  |   The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday "called on the 50 states and the District of Columbia to ban the nonemergency use of PEDs (other than those designed to support the driving task) for all drivers." On...

November 25, 2011  |   The facts that paint a bleak, dark, down-and-out Motor City are not scarce. Whether it is the unemployment, or foreclosures, or crime, Detroit finds itself on lists like Forbes' 20 most miserable cities. But in my travels, it ranks only...

November 22, 2011  |   Depending on where you live, the word startup has different connotations. For some, it means embarking on an adventure filled with unknown risk and ending in likely peril; for others, like those in our story on Tuesday's NewsHour broadcast, it's...

November 4, 2011  |   Now that baseball season is over, where will syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks spend their leisure hours? They'll likely be back to the heavy lifting of political news. In our "sport of politics" section...

November 4, 2011  |   More than 500 days of isolation with five other guys ... could you do it? That is what one Chinese man, two European and three Russian men have been through to simulate what humans might encounter if they attempted...

October 21, 2011  |   Why are there rumors every presidential cycle that the incumbent will switch his vice president out for someone else? That is topic No. 1 on this week's Doubleheader: the potential for Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary...

October 14, 2011  |   In this week's edition of The Doubleheader, syndicated columnist Mark Shields, New York Times columnist David Brooks and I chat about Herman Cain's surge in recent polls, the merits of his 9-9-9 plan see the fact-check of the plan by...

September 30, 2011  |   Its no secret that syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks are avid baseball fans, so you know we had to talk about the topsy-turvy night that was Wildcard Wednesday. It was such an exceptional night...

September 22, 2011  |   Infographic and Poster from Girl Effect report Each teenage mother in India can lose up to $100,000 in potential income over her lifetime. Multiply that by the number of teenage mothers in India and you have a total of...

September 7, 2011  |   We've been testing a product called SNAPPY TV for a few months now, and would like to open it up to a larger audience for testing: you. Snappy allows you to clip any highlight from a tv program and...

September 6, 2011  |   "Better this World" is the name of a film airing on POV Tuesday night, but it may as well be the credo and intentions behind the two central characters and their decision to protest the Republican National Convention in 2008....

August 26, 2011  |   It has been forever and a day since we got the band back together. By that, I mean of course syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks to talk about the politics of sport and the...

August 5, 2011  |   Syrian protest; file photo The Syrian uprising is escalating as the size, number and geographic range of protests have continued to increase day-by-day. The holy month of Ramadan has only added an automatic reason for large groups of people...

July 22, 2011  |   It has been a rare feat in recent times due to summer schedules, but we managed to get another episode of the Doubleheader with syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks recorded...

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June 22, 2011  |   When 27 marine experts from a half-dozen countries met in England this April for a workshop on the state of the oceans, they knew the news would not be good. But seeing the data on overfishing, acidification, chemical pollution, temperature...

May 20, 2011  |   New York Times columnist David Brooks just flew back to D.C. from across the pond (London) in time to make his appearance on the Newshour and of course for a Doubleheader segment with syndicated columnist Mark...

May 6, 2011  |   Google is constantly experimenting, and this morning I happened to be one of the lucky random people included in what looks to be an experiment for a potential redesign to the front door of Google News. The lede story cluster...

April 29, 2011  |   While I was one of the few who enjoyed a complete night's rest and did not wake in the wee hours of the morning to see the marriage of a couple in England -- and one of the few...

April 29, 2011  |   As many as "two billion" viewers may watch tonight's Doubleheader with syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times Columnist David Brooks. Though I do not have the finely tuned research apparatus of the British Cultural Affairs Minister to make...

April 22, 2011  |   In this week's Doubleheader with syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks, we discussed how the arguments over the U.S. debt ceiling don't seem to be disappearing. While Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner...

April 21, 2011  |   The smart-phone world is buzzing over the fact that some iPhones store location data in your phones and keep a copy on the computers that sync with your devices. Two software developers have come up with a way to...

April 19, 2011  |   A disaster that began with a deadly explosion in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico became a months-long drama that captured the world's attention and drew increased scrutiny to undersea oil drilling. With Wednesday marking the first anniversary of...

April 15, 2011  |   After a spring hiatus, Mark Shields and David Brooks are back under the same roof and swung by before Friday's program for a new Doubleheader. When talking about the sport of politics this week, we discussed the gamesmanship that both...

March 18, 2011  |   Our serious business this week had our wonder twins discussing a proposal from Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan. For the first time, a...

March 4, 2011  |   Those topics are not at all related, but they got our attention this week at The Doubleheader. Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks spoke a bit about the billions being bandied about on Capitol...

February 25, 2011  |   One of our segments on Friday's PBS NewsHour was not like the other ones, in that it came together in a slightly different manner than what has been standard operating procedure here. While we can count on our partners...

February 18, 2011  |   It's always a pleasure to have the boys of spring and summer -- syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks -- back in action together. In this week's Doubleheader, we discuss the massive jump states...

February 17, 2011  |   We caught up with NPR's Senior Strategist Andy Carvin between his 400+ tweets a day for a chat about his Twitter stream. It has become a must-follow wire service of sorts for people interested in the latest developments in Tunisia,...

February 16, 2011  |   Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter -- the least-likely Jeopardy! underdogs ever -- found themselves no match Wednesday night for Watson -- IBM's Frankenstein of trivia. I haven't watched Jeopardy in more than a decade, but in what may be a...

February 4, 2011  |   We run a tight ship here in public media land, but nevertheless Mark Shields was late to the party Friday. He missed the bus or boat or whatever, but New York Times columnist David Brooks fielded questions by himself from...

January 28, 2011  |   We're back. It's 2011, and we're bringing our brand of political flavor to new audiences around the globe. Unfortunately tonight, many of our Doubleheader devotees in Egypt will not be seeing our work. President Obama called for Egypt to open...

January 27, 2011  |   Part of the reason people join the PBS NewsHour for news events like the State of the Union is because we give you the primary source without too much clutter. There are no NFL-style dancing robots with whiz-bang sound effects....

December 23, 2010  |   With the release of Google Books Ngram Viewer, diving through the rise and fall of a word's usage across 5.2 million books spanning several decades became quite...

December 17, 2010  |   DetectFlashDecision_Blog; In this edition of The Doubleheader, we talk a bit about the grand compromise struck during the lame-duck session of Congress to extend tax cuts enacted under President Bush plus unemployment benefits. We also explore possible...

December 16, 2010  |   With the midterm campaign season in the rear-view mirror and issue ads fading from memory, the death of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in Southern Arizona this week shone a new light on the illegal immigrant traffic across the...

December 12, 2010  |   Gawker Media, one of the web's largest publishers, has been hacked. The insides of the multiple websites within their portfolio, their 1.3 million user names, e-mail addresses and passwords, are now splayed all across the Internet for anyone to...

December 9, 2010  |   They're the presentations that your friends forward you through an e-mail or social network, the ones where you drift off for 18 minutes into the dream worlds of scientists, the powerful stories of social activists and or talks by plain,...

November 29, 2010  |   DetectFlashDecision_Blog; An Environmental Protection Agency memo on ocean acidification played a role in the settlement of a lawsuit that challenged the EPA's failure to address the issue under the Clean Water Act. To help us understand the...

November 12, 2010  |   DetectFlashDecision_Blog; In this week's Doubleheader with syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks, topic No. 1 was the expiring Bush-era tax cuts and what will happen during the lame-duck session of Congress. Both...

November 12, 2010  |   While the title of Senior Adviser for Innovation at the State Department may sound vague, the problems Alec Ross and his colleagues tackle are very real; from poverty to pandemics, from disaster to diplomacy....

November 9, 2010  |   DetectFlashDecision_Blog ; The volcano erupting on Indonesia's Mount Merapi has continued to claim lives as hot ash and gas spew over surrounding areas in one of the worst eruptions in a century. The last time we connected...

November 5, 2010  |   DetectFlashDecision_Blog; In the sport of politics and the politics of sport, as we say, we talk in this week's Doubleheader about President Obama's trip to Asia and whether it can be effective spurring job growth considering how...

November 5, 2010  |   DetectFlashDecision_Blog; Photos courtesy of Will Carless Residents living near Mount Merapi are fleeing once again today, as the volcano continues to spew ash and could erupt at any time. The death toll rose again on Friday after...

October 22, 2010  |   Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks stopped by the newsroom for yet another edition of The Doubleheader. We talked about Anita Hill and the latest developments in a saga that began, oh so many years...

October 21, 2010  |   According to Toyota, there maybe a problem with the brake master cylinder cup in nearly 1.5 million of its vehicles around the world. Without getting too technical, if you have the problem, you'll notice your brakes feel a bit "spongy."...

October 19, 2010  |   Just a little over a year ago my jaw dropped while reading David Grann's New Yorker account of the Cameron Todd Willingham case. The central character is a man who beats his wife, parties too much, listens to heavy metal...

October 19, 2010  |   Every year, the Courage in Journalism Awards honor a group of women for their reporting in dangerous locales around the world. The International Women's Media Foundation has recognized four winners this year: Vicky Ntetema, Claudia Julieta Duque, Alma Guillermoprieto, and...

October 18, 2010  |   Seeing the White House illuminated in pink recently sparked a conversation in the newsroom about how the color seems ubiquitous around the world during this year's breast cancer awareness campaign. These photos illustrate the point....

October 13, 2010  |   Washington, D.C.'s embattled schools chief Michelle Rhee resigned her post Wednesday. She drew national attention -- and criticism-- for her efforts to reform the city's troubled school system. The NewsHour and correspondent John Merrow have been chronicling the challenges facing...

October 8, 2010  |   The sport of politics and the politics of sport is what we are all about in our Friday night check-ins with Mark Shields and David Brooks. On this webisode of The Doubleheader we start the conversation with the new advertisements...

October 8, 2010  |   If you are one of the millions who take Pfizer's heart drug Lipitor and happen to have one of the unlucky 90 count bottles of the 40mg pills you may notice an odd, musty odor. Pfizer says...

October 7, 2010  |   Ever since I began researching material for a Stuxnet virus segment last week on the Newshour broadcast, I've been fascinated with this little worm, and I can't seem to flip by an article about it without stopping to take...

September 28, 2010  |   Thanks to all of those who waited -- and those who nudged, pushed and shoved for us to go mobile. We quietly rolled out a test version of our iPhone app a few weeks ago and more than 70,000 of...

September 24, 2010  |   As far as House Judiciary subcommittee hearings on agricultural jobs go, this one had a bit more celebrity shine. Stephen Colbert, the comedian and satirist, knew that, and hoped his presence would vault the hearings up to "CSPAN 1" status....

September 23, 2010  |   According to the timeline at Healthcare.gov, at least a half dozen new health care laws go into effect Thursday. The fact that there is even such a transparent timeline on a website is one of the cornerstones of the efforts...

September 17, 2010  |   I might have finally figured out after nine or so months what makes this little segment of ours so unique: It is the only program I know of that tackles both what is at times the "sport of politics" and...

September 16, 2010  |   While attention on the Gulf has mostly focused on oil, the explosion and spill also released tremendous amounts of natural gas. David Valentine, a microbial geochemistry professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his research team have been...

September 15, 2010  |   For the 1 percent of users who woke up to a different Twitter experience Wednesday morning, it was probably the biggest change they have ever seen to the real time information service. Twitter has approximately 160 million users and there...

September 10, 2010  |   Not wanting to tread too heavily on what syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times Columnist David Brooks will discuss on the PBS NewsHour broadcast Friday, we focused in on the president's recent attacks on House Minority leader John...

September 8, 2010  |   If you've ever found an unconscious loved one with nothing more but a nearby pill and a glass of water as clues, you would certainly want a service that could help you quickly and easily identify what drug might have...

September 8, 2010  |   Carl Malamud has been fighting for transparency issues since before most of us started using 28k modems, since before there was a movement and conferences devoted to Gov2.0 principles. His most recent focus is Law.gov, a project by Public.Resource.org that...

September 3, 2010  |   In their Friday stop at the Rundown, columnists Mark Shields and David Brooks answered some of your hard-hitting questions submitted via Facebook and Twitter, including ones about President Obama's handling of foreign affairs and the debate over whether to let...

August 27, 2010  |   Earlier this week, my old colleague Marc Ambinder wrote an article stating that the former RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman has become more open about his homosexuality in recent weeks and months. It came as no shock to some who suspected...

August 25, 2010  |   We talked this week with A.C. Thompson, one of the reporters from ProPublica who has been investigating the New Orleans Police Department in the years since Hurricane Katrina. He has been exploring reports of specific acts of excessive force...

August 23, 2010  |   In the second officially named installment of the weekly Political Checklist, Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff talk about what's at stake in Tuesday's primaries, most notably in Florida and Arizona, where former GOP presidential nominee John McCain has orchestrated a...

August 20, 2010  |   Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and Washington Post opinion columnist Michael Gerson, sitting in for David Brooks, stopped by The Rundown before this week's broadcast appearance and disagreed whether President Obama's campaigning will resonate with voters ahead of this year's midterm...

August 19, 2010  |   Updated 3:18 p.m. EDT, Aug. 20 | Another Iowa farm is recalling eggs due to the potential to be contaminated with salmonella. Hillandale Farms said that it was recalling its eggs after lab tests confirmed illnesses associated with them. The...

August 16, 2010  |   As we near the end of official combat operations in Iraq at the end of August, the NewsHour's Margaret Warner is headed there for a reporting trip. We caught up with her on the Rundown for a pre-brief on the...

July 30, 2010  |   On this edition of NewsHour Plus, we check in with Steve Myers, managing editor of Poynter Online, a training facility for journalists, who wrote this week about how WikiLeaks is changing the power structure in the news business and how...

July 28, 2010  |   While the enigmatic WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been in and out of the press in the past few days in the wake of his site's latest major publication, he is not an easy man to track down. We caught...

July 26, 2010  |   People who own iPhones will now be able to crack electronic locks on them, allowing them to install applications that might not have Apple's blessing, according to new rules announced Monday by the U.S. government. The primary source for all...

July 23, 2010  |   In another color-coordinated edition of the "extra-extra, read-all-about-it" segment we do with Mark Shields and David Brooks on The Rundown, the columnists weigh in on what the new Tea Party Caucus could mean for Republicans. Our duo also pontificated on...

July 23, 2010  |   It's been a long, slow summer for those waiting for a verdict in the legal dispute over Proposition 8. Californians went to the polls and voted Proposition 8 into law, overturning a state Supreme Court decision that said gays have...

July 22, 2010  |   In our continuing coverage of issues across the United States, this Newshour Connect focuses on the economy. We speak with Thanh Tan of Idaho Public Television, Lori Rasmussen from OETV in Oklahoma City and Erik Anderson from KPBS in San...

July 16, 2010  |   Even after the Senate's passage of a landmark financial reform bill, Mark Shields and David Brooks tell us about how difficult a sell Democrats and the administration face with voters as the midterm elections draw closer yet unemployment remains high....

July 16, 2010  |   Responding to weeks of complaints about reception issues with Apple's popular iPhone 4, CEO Steve Jobs mounted a defense at a Friday news conference, announcing that customers will be able to get a free rubber case to alleviate the problem...

July 14, 2010  |   Oceanographer and documentary filmmaker Jean-Michel Cousteau recently checked in with the Rundown to update us on his team's explorations since returning to the Gulf Coast. Since his last visit, Cousteau has been both on the water with local fishermen and...

July 13, 2010  |   NewsHour Political Editor David Chalian makes one of his first appearances here on the Rundown Tuesday, to break down what he thinks will be on the agenda for Congress ahead of their summer break and the turn into full mid-term...

July 9, 2010  |   Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks stopped by the Rundown Friday to talk about the future of the Defense of Marriage Act, the impact of different interest groups on the political future of President Obama...

July 7, 2010  |   What happens in that split second between when the penalty kick taker approaches the ball, and when the ball hits the back of the net? In the instant replays from behind the kicker's shoulder, you can see in slow motion...

July 2, 2010  |   You might remember we gave Mark Shields a hall pass to come in late a few weeks ago. On Friday, we decided to leave a chair open for David Brooks who was zooming in from an undisclosed location. RNC Chairman...

June 25, 2010  |   Columnists Mark Shields and David Brooks stopped by The Rundown again for "just one more thing" to discuss what message President Obama and the Democrats might be able to use to persuade voters in this fall's elections. Will voters care...

June 24, 2010  |   Rolling Stone's profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal stirred a storm of controversy that cost the leader of military operations in Afghanistan his job, but also raised questions about how the media operate. Michael Hastings was a freelance reporter on assignment...

June 22, 2010  |   Politico's White House editor Craig Gordon stopped by The Rundown again Tuesday afternoon to discuss the tricky political situation for the White House caused by a revealing Rolling Stone article on Gen. Stanley McChrystal -- the top American commander in...

June 18, 2010  |   Columnists Mark Shields and David Brooks swung by the newsroom after the Friday broadcast to ponder a litany of subjects, including the apparent winners and losers at Thursday's hearing with BP CEO Tony Hayward, along with comments by Rep. Joe...

June 11, 2010  |   New York Times columnist David Brooks and, eventually, syndicated columnist Mark Shields, joined us on the Rundown Friday to discuss the effects of President Obama's stimulus plan, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's Proposition 14 election reform and the NBA Finals. We...

June 11, 2010  |   The government of Thailand, recently in the news for political unrest and protests, has dispatched its president of the Thailand Trade Representative's Office, Kiat Sittheeamorn, as an envoy of the prime minister. He's on a mission to assure the world...

June 3, 2010  |   Much like you're likely about to do, more Americans are watching online video, a new survey from the Pew Internet & American Life Project has found. Kristen Purcell, associate director for research, stopped by The Rundown to discuss the key...

June 2, 2010  |   <!-- _pap_embed_custom; //--><!]]> The Rundown caught up with ocean explorer and occasional PBS host Jean-Michel Cousteau to chat about what his team discovered on dives last week into the Gulf of Mexico oil leak. Cousteau, founder of the Ocean Futures...

June 1, 2010  |   <!-- _pap_embeddable; //--><!]]> Politico White House reporter Josh Gerstein stopped by The Rundown Tuesday to talk with us about how the White House is dealing with a domestic crisis - the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico -...

May 28, 2010  |   <!-- _pap_embeddable; //--><!]]> Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks stopped by the Rundown Friday before their discussion with Jim Lehrer on the NewsHour broadcast. They discussed how they view the government's and President Obama's...

May 28, 2010  |   Tim O'Reilly is the founder of O'Reilly Media, but beyond that he is someone who is constantly thinking of the nexus between open and closed systems of information and how they interact. His company co-sponsored the recent Gov 2.0 Expo...

May 27, 2010  |   The Rundown took the show on the road this week, visiting the Gov 2.0 Expo in downtown Washington, D.C., to get some perspectives on efforts to make government more transparent and useful for its citizens. Everyblock.com founder Adrian Holovaty spoke...

May 26, 2010  |   Facebook unveiled new privacy controls Wednesday, after the social networking site came under heavy criticism in recent weeks for hard-to-use new settings and for making chunks of previously private information public. Leslie Harris of the Center...

May 25, 2010  |   As the Gulf Coast oil leak continues, we want to hear your thoughts on the best way to stop the spill and also how to clean up the oil that has been gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. Visit...

May 25, 2010  |   <!-- _pap_embeddable; //--><!]]> Politico's Deputy Political Editor Alexander Burns stopped by The Rundown to talk about the Republican Party's new Web initiative, which is designed to allow anyone to submit ideas to their plan to take control of the...

May 24, 2010  |   Miles O'Brien joins us again on The Rundown to talk about the last mission for the Space Shuttle Atlantis, the rarity of Neil Armstrong's recent public testimony on the direction of the space program's future, and the pressure on the...

May 21, 2010  |   BP's live video stream of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico is simultaneously tragic and hypnotic. With each passing second, more gallons of crude oil and natural gas escape into the ocean. Until Thursday, BP and NOAA had stood...

May 21, 2010  |   Columnists Mark Shields and David Brooks stopped by The Rundown again on Friday to discuss Kentucky's new -- and newly controversial -- Republican Party Senate nominee Rand Paul, the strength of the tea party movement, how libertarians view the world...

May 18, 2010  |   "The Wounded Platoon," the latest FRONTLINE documentary, explores the mental health implications of war by focusing on "the dark tale of the men of 3rd Platoon, Charlie Company, 1st Battalion of the 506th Infantry, and how the war followed them...

May 14, 2010  |   <!-- _pap_embeddable; //--><!]]> New York Times columnist David Brooks and syndicated columnist Mark Shields stopped by the Rundown after their regular Friday slot on the NewsHour to discuss the political impact and the broad national support for Arizona's controversial...

May 14, 2010  |   Beyond the environmental effects of the gulf oil spill disaster, there are several economic ones washing ashore. Along the coast of Louisiana thousands of people in the fishing and tourism industries are suffering. Louisiana Public Broadcasting will include a story...

May 14, 2010  |   <!-- _pap_embeddable; //--><!]]> The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza stopped by the Rundown to provide some details on his story explaining how the Republican game plan for retaking control of the House of Representatives includes targeting some of the most...

May 12, 2010  |   <!-- _pap_embeddable; //--><!]]> Simon Marks, who has been covering the British elections for the PBS NewsHour, stopped by the Rundown to offer a preview of the political compromises that the Conservatives may have to make in order to maintain...

May 11, 2010  |   <!-- _pap_embeddable; //--><!]]> Politico White House editor Craig Gordon stopped by the Rundown Tuesday to give us a look at their reporting on President Obama's nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to serve on the Supreme Court. Gordon told...

May 7, 2010  |   Regular NewsHour analysts Mark Shields and David Brooks stopped by the Rundown after their appearance on Friday's program. With plenty happening in Washington and beyond this week, we discussed how the chances for passage on climate legislation are shifting and...

May 6, 2010  |   Dante Chinni wrote a new post this week as part of the Patchwork Nation project on the composition of tea parties around the country and the diverse set of issues that do -- or do not -- bring them together....

May 4, 2010  |   As his road trip across the country continues, Jim Lehrer checked in with us from Albuquerque. He recently managed to check out the Greyhound Museum in Hibbing, Minn., while in Minneapolis for a speaking engagement. Jim tells us one of...

May 4, 2010  |   <!-- _pap_embeddable; //--><!]]> Politico White House reporter Josh Gerstein stopped by the Rundown Tuesday to talk about his coverage of the late Monday arrest of Faisal Shahzad, the suspect in the attempted bombing in Times Square. Shahzad was removed...

May 4, 2010  |   We spoke with CNET Executive Editor Molly Wood on "NewsHour Plus" back when the iPad was unveiled following months of speculation. We brought her back to chat about the rollout of the 3G iPad and whether that would slow down...

April 28, 2010  |   Since the explosion and destruction of the Deep Horizon oil rig last week in the Gulf Coast off Louisiana, hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil have continued bubbling up from the ocean floor. As the sheen of oil...

April 28, 2010  |   By now you've heard about the new law in Arizona which allows police to ask for proof of immigration status if they have reason to suspect that someone is not in the country legally. While the world may have focused...

April 27, 2010  |   Politico reporter Andy Barr, who has been covering Arizona's controversial new immigration law and its aftermath, stopped by The Rundown to talk about the fallout in Washington and whether Congress will take up the hot-button issue this election year. "The...

April 23, 2010  |   Syndicated columnist Mark Shields stopped by the Rundown Friday to talk with us about his latest column and the prospects for major financial reform and immigration reform legislation in Congress. New York Times columnist David Brooks joined us solo last...

April 23, 2010  |   Within the matter of a week, we've seen Jim Lehrer e-mail us pictures from his phone, write his first blog post and use Skype to file dispatches from his voyage across the country in...

April 22, 2010  |   Stop us if you've heard this one. So an Apple employee walks into a bar ... and walks out leaving behind what is believed to be the next generation iPhone. Long story short, tech blog Gizmodo paid for the first...

April 20, 2010  |   Politico reporter Eamon Javers, who "covers the intersection of Wall Street and Washington," stopped by The Rundown Tuesday afternoon to talk about financial reform legislation advancing through Congress. President Barack Obama is headed to New York City on Thursday to...

April 20, 2010  |   We try not to toot our own very often but there are certain exceptions which must be made, and this is one of them. Our own Judy Woodruff receives a lifetime achievement award Tuesday -- along with NPR's Deborah Amos...

April 19, 2010  |   Whether the measure is how people feel about their lawmakers, how they feel about the efficiency of government agencies, or simply whether or not the government has a positive or negative impact on their day-to-day lives, the numbers from the...

April 16, 2010  |   I remember walking into Jim Lehrer's office for the first time last summer for my job interview and no amount of preparation could have readied me for the enormous collection of intriguing and distracting bus memorabilia in there. For a...

April 16, 2010  |   Columnist David Brooks -- one half of our regular Shields and Brooks analysis team -- stopped by The Rundown Friday for a conversation about the latest headlines, including the Security and Exchange Commission filing fraud charges against financial firm Goldman...

April 16, 2010  |   Marc Ambinder and I worked together at ABC News for a few years. He was one of the rising stars in their political unit, and has since moved through National Journal's Hotline and now is planted firmly at The Atlantic....

April 1, 2010  |   A U.N.-sponsored donor conference in Haiti exceeded expectations and generated nearly $10 billion in pledges to help Haiti recover from a Jan. 12 earthquake, said U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday. U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice said on...

March 30, 2010  |   Now that President Obama has shepherded historic health care reform legislation into law, will that translate into a higher approval rating? Politico reporter Josh Gerstein spoke with us about what the health care victory may or may not do for...

March 25, 2010  |   Welcome to another episode of "NewsHour Plus" where we see what is bubbling up in the world of technology and science. We recently talked to Mark McClusky, a senior editor at Wired in San Francisco. He tells us about Sprint's...

March 24, 2010  |   We're kicking off a new series of conversations called "NewsHour Plus" here on the Rundown that will explore how science and technology intersect with our daily lives. With the April 3 release date for Apple's iPad inching closer, we sat...

March 23, 2010  |   As we start to look closer at the political fallout from health care reform, Politico White House Editor Craig Gordon spoke with us Tuesday about how the legislative battle over the bill in Congress will now shift to a political...

March 19, 2010  |   While most of the political attention in Washington in focused squarely on the fate of the health reform bill, demonstrators are planning rallies in Washington this weekend to bring more attention to the seventh anniversary of the U.S. invasion of...

March 19, 2010  |   This year, none of us here at the @Newshour were lucky enough to get to #SXSW , so we lived vicariously through the posts of some public media...

March 18, 2010  |   Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro visited the Rundown to talk about the reporting he's recently done on water issues in Ethiopia -- including the steps one village is taking to address them in a country where perhaps three-quarters of...

March 17, 2010  |   Continuing our series of conversations about the Middle East, NPR foreign correspondent Deborah Amos joined us on the Rundown to talk about her new book, "Eclipse of the Sunnis," which chronicles the reasons behind the exodus of so many middle-class...

March 16, 2010  |   Craig Gordon, White House editor for Politico, spoke with us about the possible final week for the health care reform debate as President Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rally Democrats to secure final passage of health care reform in...

March 15, 2010  |   With Vice President Joe Biden visiting the Middle East recently in hopes of reviving the peace process, we decided to speak with a pair of authors whose latest books on the region made it onto our radar screen here at...

March 12, 2010  |   Columnists Mark Shields and David Brooks stopped by The Rundown again to talk about the implications of Vice President Joe Biden's trip to the Middle East and what it meant for hopes of restarting peace talks. The NewsHour regulars also...

March 10, 2010  |   President Obama signed the $787 billion stimulus package a little more than a year ago to spur job creation during the economic downturn. Through the end of January, $283 billion had been allocated, according to a new analysis by ProPublica,...

March 9, 2010  |   Politico Deputy Managing Editor Tim Grieve spoke with me Tuesday about House Speaker's Nancy Pelosi's tough task of getting enough House Democrats to again vote for politically controversial health care reform legislation. We also discussed the controversy surrounding former Rep....

March 5, 2010  |   With NewsHour regular David Brooks away this week, syndicated columnist Mark Shields goes toe-to-toe with Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson on The Rundown about press reports and other rumblings surrounding White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. The reported infighting...

March 5, 2010  |   The Oscar race this year, like most years - recession or not, has a lot to do with money: big-budget films up against small independent releases, and deep-pocketed studios ready to spend big to win Oscars, hoping awards will give...

March 3, 2010  |   "Talk to your doctor." It's a phrase ingrained in our brains at the end of every pharmaceutical advertisement on television. But on Wednesday, the American Cancer Society said men considering getting tested for prostate cancer should talk to their doctors...

March 2, 2010  |   President Obama is expected to announce his preferred way forward on health care reform Wednesday. Politico assistant managing editor for enterprise Jeanne Cummings stopped by the Rundown to speak to us about the president's likely message and the challenges Democratic...

March 1, 2010  |   As you read this blog and watch this video online, you're digesting your news on the third-most-popular news platform: the Internet, a new study shows. For news consumers, the Internet ranks ahead of national print newspapers, local print newspapers and...

February 26, 2010  |   In the wake of President Obama's marathon health care reform summit on Thursday, we spoke with Kaiser Health News reporter Mary Agnes Carey about what comes next in the overhaul push. Carey said the lawmakers in the room appeared to...

February 24, 2010  |   No one disputes that the Italian video -- posted online in 2006 -- showing a young man with Down syndrome being bullied was despicable. An organization working on behalf of people with Down syndrome complained to Google, which says it...

February 23, 2010  |   Last summer, Afghan reporter Najibullah Quraishi got an unprecedented look at the Taliban's attack tactics in Baghlan province in the northern part of the country, living with the insurgents and documenting their moves. We spoke with Quraishi and producer Jamie...

February 23, 2010  |   Ahead of this Thursday's bipartisan health care reform summit convened by President Obama, we spoke with Politico reporter Craig Gordon about the president's new health reform proposals, how Democrats will try to sell his plan and whether there's any room...

February 22, 2010  |   After President Obama rolled out his health care reform plan on Monday, health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser stopped by The Rundown to talk about what specific changes he's seeking in the lead-up to Thursday's bipartisan health reform summit. Watch the...

February 19, 2010  |   After snow and traffic prevented him from joining us on The Rundown last week, we managed to check in with columnist Mark Shields this week to get his take on the annual CPAC summit of conservatives and how the "recklessly...

February 17, 2010  |   Washington Post reporter Chris Cillizza, author of The Fix blog, joined us again Wednesday to share his reporting and political news analysis. It's the first anniversary of President Obama's economic stimulus bill, the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, and Cillizza...

February 17, 2010  |   Is your member of Congress bringing home the bacon? A breakdown by Patchwork Nation community types looked at where the government distributes money across U.S. counties. The money flow, project director Dante Chinni told The Rundown, has little to do...

February 16, 2010  |   Mike Allen, chief White House correspondent for Politico, spoke with us Tuesday afternoon about the political uncertainty caused by the latest Democratic Senate retirement announcement - Indiana's Evan Bayh. Allen said that as anger toward Washington grows, both Democrats and...

February 16, 2010  |   Rajiv Chandrasekaran of the Washington Post is on the frontlines of the Marine offensive in Marjah, Afghanistan, where U.S. and Afghan forces are trying to clear the Taliban stronghold of militants. "What we've been seeing here over the past couple...

February 12, 2010  |   With snow and traffic preventing his political sparring partner Mark Shields from making it to the NewsHour studios, David Brooks made a special solo appearance on The Rundown after Shields and Brooks had their weekly chat about the top political...

February 9, 2010  |   President Barack Obama said Tuesday that he would be open to starting over on health care reform and incorporating ideas from the Republican minority -- as long as the final bill fulfills his goals of extending coverage, ending insurance company...

February 5, 2010  |   Just like one of the December visits to The Rundown by Mark Shields and David Brooks, the Mid-Atlantic again finds itself in the crosshairs of a massive winter storm. In the latest installment of The Rundown with Mark and David,...

February 4, 2010  |   After returning from Port-au-Prince, senior correspondent Ray Suarez dropped by The Rundown to describe what it was like covering Haiti's earthquake recovery efforts, saying the terribleness of the situation was difficult to capture in words or pictures. "There were people...

February 4, 2010  |   In the wake of The Lancet medical journal fully retracting its 1998 study suggesting a link between the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine and autism, we spoke with New York Times public health reporter Gardiner Harris for some perspective on the significance. <!--...

February 3, 2010  |   Amanda Lenhart of the Pew Internet & American Life Project dropped by The Rundown to outline the highlight of their latest report examining social media use among teens and young adults. Among the major findings were: Just 8 percent of...

February 3, 2010  |   Dante Chinni, project director for Patchwork Nation, dropped by The Rundown again to talk about how the massive Toyota* recall could create a opportunity for American automakers to regain some market share. Patchwork Nation analyzed data from the "cash for...

February 2, 2010  |   Digital Nation correspondent Douglas Rushkoff spoke with The Rundown to give us a sneak peak of the intriguing Frontline broadcast airing Tuesday night on many PBS stations. The 90-minute program takes viewers around the globe to explore how our brains...

February 1, 2010  |   Fresh off his interview with President Barack Obama, YouTube's Steve Grove stopped by The Rundown Monday evening to discuss new ways the public is communicating its concerns and suggestions with the White House. <!-- _pap_embeddable; //--><!]]> Watch Grove's full...

January 28, 2010  |   Amy Walter of the Hotline, used the magic of the Internet to swing by the Rundown blog and discuss the challenges President Obama still faces in the Senate after he outlined his legislative priorities last night at the State of...

January 28, 2010  |   We asked for your videotaped reactions to President Obama's first State of the Union address, and they started to be posted to our YouTube channel as soon as his speech was over -- not to mention the hundreds of comments...

January 27, 2010  |   If they were smaller, perhaps you would purchase fewer iPhones; if they were smaller, perhaps you would purchase fewer MacBooks -- is the category Apple is trying to create with its new iPad sustainable? Is there a reason that it...

January 27, 2010  |   President Obama's overall approval rating has slipped over the first year of his presidency. However, on the cusp of his first State of the Union address, it's his fellow Democrats who probably need to worry more about how voters view...

January 27, 2010  |   Ray Suarez is reporting from Haiti for the Newshour. The Rundown blog caught up with him between stories to get his thoughts on what he is seeing as the country struggles with the rebuilding process. <!-- _pap_embeddable; //--><!]]> Watch...

January 25, 2010  |   <!-- _pap_embed_custom; //--><!]]> The NewsHour offered special live coverage of President Obama's State of the Union address at 9pm ET on Jan. 27, including the analysis of Mark Shields and David Brooks. We're also trying a few new things online...

January 25, 2010  |   In recent weeks President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela has devalued the currency, which in turn has spurred a rush on shopping for imported goods because retailers will inevitably raise prices. In response, the government has shut down or taken over...

January 22, 2010  |   <!-- _pap_embed_custom; //--><!]]> Seven hours and 38 minutes -- that's how long the average young person spends either online, watching TV or otherwise consuming media in a typical day, according to a study released this week from the Kaiser Familiy...

January 21, 2010  |   Tonight, NewsHour alumna Elizabeth Farnsworth will be honored with one of this year's prestigious Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards for her work as co-director/producer of "The Judge and the General" -- a documentary on the judge who indicted Augusto Pinochet....

January 20, 2010  |   <!-- _pap_embeddable; //--><!]]> As the GOP's Scott Brown prepares to head to Washington after his victory in the Massachusetts Senate race, Dante Chinni of the Patchwork Nation project stopped by the Rundown Wednesday to discuss the issues driving...

January 18, 2010  |   For an update on earthquake relief distribution and the security situation in Haiti, we checked back this afternoon with Bob Poff, an emergency relief coordinator with the Salvation Army in Port-au-Prince. "There's definitely a sense of anxiousness as there's unrest...

January 15, 2010  |   We caught up again Friday with freelance journalist Ansel Herz, a radio reporter who has been living in Haiti for the last four months. He addressed various reports of violence increasing in the streets of Haiti. "I've seen no weapons...

January 14, 2010  |   NPR correspondent Carrie Kahn called us late this afternoon from Haiti, where she has been covering treatment of quake victims and the frantic search for survivors in the hills around Port-au-Prince. She described American doctors' saying their patients there...

January 13, 2010  |   After speaking with us earlier today by phone, we were able to establish a Skype video connection with journalist Ansel Herz who has been covering the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti's capital of Port-au-Prince. "A lot of schools collapsed...

January 13, 2010  |   Haiti expert Robert Maguire of Trinity Washington University, who is also chairman of the U.S. Institute of Peace's Haiti Working Group, stopped by the Rundown this afternoon to discusses how the nation had been trying to recover from four hurricanes...

January 13, 2010  |   <!-- _pap_embed_custom; //--><!]]> In his latest visit to the Rundown, Patchwork Nation's Dante Chinni discussed how unemployment rates in some U.S. communities have fared over the last year, how income disparities break down across the country and how it all...

January 12, 2010  |   A major earthquake struck the country of Haiti on Tuesday, registering a preliminary magnitude of 7.0 and reportedly centered 14 miles west of the capital of Port-au-Prince, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Initial reports indicate a hospital collapsed and...

January 12, 2010  |   On tonight's NewsHour, we're examining the budget crisis in state capitals across the country, focusing on New York, Colorado, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Idaho and, of course, California. For an overview of the budget crisis facing many states, we spoke with Susan...

January 11, 2010  |   On tonight's NewsHour, Spencer Michels began our coverage of the federal trial over same-sex marriage in California that could have an impact across the country. Watch his extended interview with Stuart Gaffney and John Lewis, a gay couple wed in...

January 11, 2010  |   Sports fans are abuzz over former baseball superstar Mark McGwire's admission that he used performance-enhancing steroids today. You can now hear 22 minutes of the slugger's conversation with reporter Joe Strauss via the Associated Press: Earlier today, we spoke with...

January 8, 2010  |   In this edition of The Rundown with Mark and David, columnists Mark Shields and David Shields discuss C-SPAN's push to have Congress' final health reform bill negotiations be televised and the balance of power between lobbyists and congressional staffers. They...

January 8, 2010  |   After news today that the U.S. unemployment rate held steady around 10 percent in December, we spoke with New York Times columnist David Leonhardt of the Economix blog for more context on the numbers: <!-- _pap_embed_custom; //--><!]]>...

January 6, 2010  |   Seven and a half years ago, Francesco Clark survived a tragic swimming pool accident that severed his spinal cord and left him paralyzed. While it took him a long time to overcome a deep depression, he is getting stronger by...

January 6, 2010  |   Sen. Chris Dodd said outside his Connecticut home Wednesday that he won't seek a sixth Senate term, saying that his decision was partially based on him being in "the toughest political shape" of his career. The Senate Banking Committee chairman...

January 6, 2010  |   At the dawn of another election year, it's always helpful to take stock of where the political landscape stands and how it's changed. Twenty eight years ago, the campaign battlegrounds were located in very different places than they are now....

January 4, 2010  |   The world's tallest skyscraper officially opened Monday in Dubai to great fanfare, but also to questions about the emirate's crushing debt problems. Known until Monday as the Burj Dubai , the Middle Eastern monolith was given a new...

January 1, 2010  |   <!-- _pap_embed_custom; //--><!]]> 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. Recorded on New Year's Eve, so references to...

December 30, 2009  |   <!-- _pap_embed_custom; //--><!]]> Author, historian and frequent PBS NewsHour guest Michael Beschloss stops by the Rundown to frame the issues that shaped President Obama's first year. He also gives us a hint on his next major project....

December 29, 2009  |   Margaret Warner stops by the Rundown to share some of her reporting on how and where the security system seems to have broken down around the attempted attack on a Detroit-bound passenger jet on Christmas Day. <!-- _pap_embed_custom; //--><!]]>...

December 25, 2009  |   Capping off a week of reports on major changes happening over the past few years in Washington, D.C., schools, education correspondent John Merrow talked to the Rundown about the idea of tying teachers' pay to performance and the federal "Race...

December 22, 2009  |   Amy Walter of the Hotline visits the Rundown to talk about the back room deals that had to be made in order for health care legislation to move forward in the Senate, what the vote could mean for Democrats and...

December 18, 2009  |   After columnists Mark Shields and David Brooks dropped by The Rundown for the first time last week, many of you left great comments about our quest for a title for this feature. We decided to go with "The Rundown with...

December 18, 2009  |   NewsHour health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser returns to the Rundown for an update on the status of the Senate health care reform bill, including the timeline senate Majority Leader Harry Reid needs to stick to if he's going to meet...

December 18, 2009  |   Over the past two weeks, the PBS Newshour has had comprehensive coverage of the climate conference in Copenhagen, not only with our updates during the day in our Rundown blog from Ray Suarez and his team, but also the...

December 17, 2009  |   After Education Secretary Arne Duncan dropped by The Rundown earlier this week to discuss his department's $4.3 billion Race to the Top competitive grant program, we invited National Education Association President Dennis Van Roekel to provide the view of the...

December 16, 2009  |   The government's $3 billion "cash for clunkers" program encouraged consumers this summer to trade in their gas-guzzling vehicles for more fuel-efficient ones. A county-by-county breakdown of the government's "clunkers" spending reveals that residents of wealthier counties took more advantage of...

December 16, 2009  |   Ray Suarez reports from the Copenhagen climate talks on negotiators' trouble reaching a draft emissions agreement, the impending arrival of world leaders at the summit and the police crackdown on protesters. <!-- _pap_embed_custom; //--><!]]>...

December 15, 2009  |   The Rundown landed an interview with Education Secretary Arne Duncan this afternoon following his live Webcast with students from across the country. We spoke to him about the initiative on financial literacy that he and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner are...

December 14, 2009  |   Ray Suarez is all over the world tonight. While he is covering the climate conference in Copenhagen for the NewsHour, his special documentary on the H1N1 virus will be airing coast to coast tonight on PBS stations. Ray shares a...

December 11, 2009  |   Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and David Brooks of the New York Times stopped by after their NewsHour segment Friday to talk about surprises in Congress this week, the political landscape in 2010 and their plans for the weekend. <!-- _pap_embed_custom;...

December 11, 2009  |   NewsHour health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser checked in on the week's health care reform news, including Senate Democrats' tentative compromise that would all but eliminate the public option and a new analysis from the Department of Health and Human Services...

December 9, 2009  |   The Hotline's Amy Walter dropped by The Rundown Wednesday to discuss the Democratic primary for Massachusetts' open Senate seat and Senate health reform negotiations. <!-- _pap_embed_custom; //--><!]]> Tune in tonight for more of Walter's take on the health reform push...

December 8, 2009  |   It took about 10 minutes for the state of Ohio to put Kenneth Biros to death today using a single drug in a lethal injection, instead of the traditional cocktail of three drugs. He became the first human executed...

December 8, 2009  |   Our Patchwork Nation series continues Tuesday night with a look at Ann Arbor, Mich. After a Web-only video postcard the city, Patchwork Nation director Dante Chinni tells me more about the city's story. <!-- _pap_embed_custom; //--><!]]>...

December 7, 2009  |   This week's Patchwork Nation series will feature reports from around the country on issues facing American communities. After a Web-only video postcard from the first city the series will explore -- Philadelphia -- I talk to Patchwork Nation director Dante...

December 3, 2009  |   A video from the PBS NewsHour's new correspondent Hari Sreenivasan: <!-- _pap_embed_custom; //--><!]]>...