March 20, 2012  |   On Tuesday, Jeffrey Brown sat down with former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein to discuss a new report examining the connections between education and national security. He...

March 19, 2012  |   The importance of using social media to promote a news organization's journalism is pretty much a given in any newsroom these days, but as popular as Facebook and Twitter are, they do not seem to be driving as much traffic...

February 3, 2012  |   Even after the Susan G. Komen for the Cure charity reversed course Friday and said it would not halt grants to Planned Parenthood over a Republican-led congressional investigation, a number of observers wondered if Planned Parenthood might eventually be turned...

December 23, 2011  |   Violence in Iraq and Syria. New tensions between Iran and western nations. Unrest in Bahrain and Kazakhstan. As oil hovered around $100 a barrel Friday, those were some of the day's major international developments that were...

October 10, 2011  |   Can you declare a company dead if it never actually began doing business? It's a slightly existential question one might pose to those who would have run Qwikster, the DVD-by-mail business that Netflix said it was launching just three...

September 22, 2011  |   In record numbers, 20-somethings are delaying big moves like marriage and home ownership -- and opting instead to live at home with their parents. The depth of the recession and the weak recovery have left young adults facing the bleakest...

September 12, 2011  |   Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images. What if you could prevent or slow Alzheimer's disease just by giving patients nasal spray containing insulin, just once or twice a day after a meal? Researchers have been exploring that possibility for some...

September 9, 2011  |   Security at ground zero in New York. Photo by Tatyana Budanskaya/www.fiveWphoto.com If you've spent any time in recent days looking at the illustrations and photos of the 9/11 memorial opening at ground zero this weekend, you may have thought...

August 29, 2011  |   President Obama announces Alan Krueger as a nominee to lead the White House Council of Economic Advisers; Photo by Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images In light of President Obama's selection Monday of Princeton economist Alan Krueger as the new...

August 13, 2011  |   It may not be nearly as bad as the financial crisis of 2008, but this was undoubtedly the most frenzied week on the markets since then. And yet while we spent much of our week asking people to explain...

July 28, 2011  |   With six days left before the debt ceiling deadline arrives, there will be no shortage of reporters trying to glean intelligence from President Obama's closed-door meeting with Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner Thursday afternoon. But there's one thing the Obama...

July 21, 2011  |   President Barack Obama signs the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act on July 21, 2010; Getty Images file photo Depending on your opinion, the Dodd-Frank financial reform law which President Obama signed last year, has been characterized...

May 25, 2011  |   As Oprah wraps up her daily talk show Wednesday, it's tough to overstate the cultural force known as the Oprah Effect, permeating everything from the TV business to books and magazines to charity to outright promotion of commercial products....

May 19, 2011  |   Updated 11:30 a.m. ET | The first comprehensive investigative report on the disaster at Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia last year, which killed 29 miners, finds that the explosion could have been prevented and was the result of...

May 11, 2011  |   Former Chicago Bears safety Dave Duerson, number 22, hits a receiver during a game at Chicago's Soldier Field on Sept. 2, 1984. Just before he took his life this winter, former football great David Duerson sent a text message...

April 27, 2011  |   File photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images Updated 6:24 p.m. | OK, we did get answers to the questions our experts raised earlier, some more interesting than others. What was perhaps most compelling during this first news conference was the...

April 26, 2011  |   In the weeks after the magnitude of the Gulf oil spill became ever larger and clearer, most of the attention was focused on the growing environmental impact. But many people soon began asking another question: Would the disaster change...

April 7, 2011  |   Many school district superintendents -- and the mayors who appointed them -- are demanding teachers be held up to closer scrutiny and tougher accountability while facing possible replacement. In certain cases, even as some school leaders are moving on, parents...

April 1, 2011  |   For the first time in more than 15 years, Robert MacNeil is returning to the program he co-founded, with a major series of reports on Autism Now. The subject that drew him back is one that resonates deeply with his...

March 31, 2011  |   In the litany of books and hundreds of stories that have been written about the financial crisis, the Federal Reserve's pivotal role in calming markets and restoring liquidity in the fall and winter of 2008 is well-documented. But what...

March 21, 2011  |   It's safe to say that AT&T's big move to buy T-Mobile for $39 billion took much of the tech world by surprise Monday -- and that seems to include Sprint, who had been in talks with T-Mobile recently. But there...

March 17, 2011  |   Given the New York Times' size, reputation and blemished record on previous efforts to charge for online content, it only made sense that the newspaper's Thursday announcement of a new paywall system would be the subject of close scrutiny...

March 14, 2011  |   When it comes to his domestic agenda, President Obama frequently gets criticism from conservatives for what they see as overreaching on issues that he didn't define during his campaign. At the same time, he's often criticized from the left...

March 9, 2011  |   Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker; file photo In a swift and surprising move that caught Democrats and union leaders off-guard, Republicans in Wisconsin's state Senate approved a bill Wednesday night that would curtail collective bargaining rights for most public unions...

March 2, 2011  |   Two years after it was launched with far more ambitious goals, the Obama administration's main program to prevent foreclosures came under fire in Congress Wednesday while the Treasury Department received a final barrage of criticism from the departing inspector...

February 11, 2011  |   In a long-awaited report, the Obama Administration unveiled a series of proposals today calling for the eventual end of the troubled and often-criticized mortgage financing giants, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Treasury and housing officials proposed options for a new...

February 11, 2011  |   More than two years after the housing bubble collapsed and the financial crisis struck, one debate that looms large in Washington is about to be re-ignited Friday morning: What can and should be done about the housing giants Fannie...

February 4, 2011  |   In an age when it's ever harder for advertisers to get their message across to mass audiences, this weekend's Super Bowl still presents marketers with one of the best opportunities to connect with viewers. Even so, advertisers are getting ahead...

February 4, 2011  |   In the wake of a second ruling from a federal judge this week who found the insurance mandate in the health reform law to be unconstitutional, there's a growing amount of chatter in the health policy world about whether lawmakers...

January 27, 2011  |   If you listened to their respective press conferences Thursday and heard the sometimes bitter tones in their voices, you might have thought that the Republican and Democratic members of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission didn't agree at all on...

December 30, 2010  |   A full two years after the financial crisis hit , Americans are all too familiar with the gloom and disappointment that largely dominated the economic headlines this...

December 23, 2010  |   For years, educators, parents and experts have debated the merits of whether smaller schools truly provide a better opportunity and atmosphere where children can learn. But even as that debate continues, more and more large schools are being shut...

December 17, 2010  |   DetectFlashDecision_Blog; In what has turned out to be the largest civil forfeiture case in United States history, the widow of a wealthy investor and philanthropist, who was also a friend of Bernard Madoff, is returning $7.2 billion...

November 29, 2010  |   President Obama's call to freeze federal workers' pay for two years marks the biggest moment yet in an escalating debate over whether government employees are overpaid and often protected from the worst of economic conditions -- or whether they...

November 18, 2010  |   As soon as the stock market opened Thursday, there was plenty of excitement surrounding GM's initial public offering and its return to the open market, exceeding even the rising expectations of just a few days ago. But there's a big...

October 4, 2010  |   Since BP first announced it would establish a $20 billion fund to pay claims from the oil spill disaster along the Gulf Coast, one of the more vexing questions has been about what kind of role proximity to the disaster...

October 1, 2010  |   Payments for claims tied to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico are set to crack the $1 billion mark next week, but there are still at least 20,000 claims that have yet to be resolved and there...

September 23, 2010  |   Back in 2001, when then-Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan gave the Bush-era tax cuts his blessing, it was considered a pivotal moment that helped shape that debate. Nearly a decade later, Greenspan tells Jeffrey Brown that he now believes the...

September 21, 2010  |   It's official now: With the midterms fast approaching, President Obama's economic team is turning over. The latest departure: Larry Summers, the president's chief adviser on economic matters and director of the National Economic Council, who announced Tuesday afternoon that...

September 20, 2010  |   With an unemployment rate stuck well above 9 percent, it may not feel like an accurate diagnosis to many Americans, but economists say the longest recession since World War II finally ended in June 2009. At least that's the judgment...

September 3, 2010  |   Updated 3:00p.m.ET President Obama called Friday's jobs numbers evidence that the "economy is moving in a positive direction" but that more work was needed. Find a transcript and video here. Posted 9:30a.m.ET The unemployment report for August released Friday...

August 31, 2010  |   Despite the continuing efforts of the Obama administration to persuade a skeptical public to support the new health reform law, a poll released Tuesday shows that many voters do not like the changes and do not believe the law...

August 27, 2010  |   There is more evidence out Friday morning that the U.S. economy has slowed to nearly a crawl of late. The gross domestic product, or GDP, which is the value of all goods and services produced, was revised downward by the...

August 17, 2010  |   For generations of baseball fans, Bobby Thomson's dramatic 9th-inning home run off pitcher Ralph Branca in the deciding game of the 1951 National League playoffs remains one of the sport's most iconic moments. With the announcement that Thomson died Monday...

August 10, 2010  |   We started this day by saying markets, investors, economists and politicians were watching the Fed's actions Tuesday to see just how worried Chairman Ben Bernanke and his colleagues are about the state of a sluggish economy. The answer came this...

August 10, 2010  |   Updated 2:30 p.m. EST The Fed said Tuesday that it will buy some government debt in order to help push down long term rates on mortgages and spur recovery. The Fed says economic growth will be "more modest" than it...

August 6, 2010  |   Heading into Friday morning, no one was expecting much good news from the July jobs report. Unfortunately, the picture it provided of the jobs market is even worse than many expected. Payrolls shrank by more than projected. Roughly 130,000 jobs...

July 22, 2010  |   When President Obama signed the financial regulation overhaul into law Wednesday, he said he believed it would "rein in the abuse and excess that nearly brought down our financial system" and bring transparency to a sector that became too...

July 21, 2010  |   After nearly two years, tens of millions of dollars in lobbying, and fierce battles between Democrats, Wall Street and banks, President Barack Obama enacted a major overhaul Wednesday of regulations covering the financial sector. It's often been called the most...

July 8, 2010  |   Updated 8:00 a.m. EST Fans in Miami rejoiced. The longtime faithful in Cleveland mourned, with some going so far as to burn his famous jersey. And many of the rest of us were bemused, amused, or irritated by the...

June 29, 2010  |   After losing critical votes on financial reform legislation, Democrats scrambled late Tuesday to win over a handful of Republican votes by taking the unusual step of re-opening a conference committee meeting and changing how the costs of the bill will...

June 25, 2010  |   It took all night to do it -- not to mention the many months that have passed since the emergence of the financial crisis of 2008 -- but negotiators in the House and Senate approved a financial reform bill...

April 23, 2010  |   When scientists announced earlier this month they had discovered the fossils of what appears to be a new hominid species dating back almost 2 million years ago, it sparked new excitement -- and debate -- among researchers about our ever-growing...

March 26, 2010  |   Updated 11:00am ET The Treasury Department has posted this press release with more details on the mortagage aid plan. With estimates showing more than 3 million households may file for foreclosure by year's end, the Obama administration is set...

March 22, 2010  |   Many people have written to us in the past several weeks saying they can't stand to hear another word about the political sausage-making process behind health reform. What they ARE eager to learn more about is how the legislation...

March 20, 2010  |   With the hours ticking down before a pivotal vote on the fate of health reform, President Obama made a trip to Capitol Hill Saturday to rally the House Democratic caucus one final time in his push to persuade undecided Democrats...

January 22, 2010  |   Updated 5:46pm ET Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid issued a statement late Friday, signaling his endorsement of Ben Bernanke for a second term as Fed chairman. Here's part of what Reid had to say about the decision: I made...

January 14, 2010  |   UPDATE - 2:05 P.M.: In his remarks this morning announcing the proposed tax on the nation's biggest banks, President Obama said he wants to "recover every single dime the American people are owed." He went on: "We're already hearing a...

December 26, 2009  |   Update: Dec. 27, 2009, 9:30am ET Federal officials charged Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab on Saturday with trying to destroy a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day. The Washington Post reports more on Abdulmutallab's background, including that the incident comes just a month...

December 25, 2009  |   With the end of the health care battle finally in sight , there is plenty of talk here in Washington among reporters, lawmakers and lobbyists...

December 13, 2009  |   Update: You can read economics correspondent Paul Solman's reflections on Samuelson's life and work here on Making Sen$e. The world lost one of the giants in modern economics Sunday when Nobel laureate Paul Samuelson died at his home in Belmont,...

December 8, 2009  |   It's Day Two of the big climate change summit in Copenhagen and if some of today's headlines tell you nothing else, it should convey both the difficulty of getting something significant done in the next two weeks and the growing...

December 7, 2009  |   Today is the 68th anniversary of Pearl Harbor and our colleagues at the PBS science program, NOVA, have released some interesting news of their own about what may have happened on that day. In fact, they strongly suggest that a...

December 7, 2009  |   As leaders from nearly 200 countries open a two-week summit in Copenhagen to work on a climate change treaty, the Environmental Protection Agency announced this afternoon that greenhouse gases are dangerous to human health, taking the first step toward potential...