Video: What’s at Stake: Debt and entitlements
We may be in a financial hole now, but the situation is about to get a whole lot worse. Millions of baby boomers are turning 65, which, of course, makes them eligible for Medicare.
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Video: What’s at Stake: Foreign policy
The heated rhetoric doesn’t offer much of a guidepost on how either would navigate the challenges ahead.
Video: What’s at Stake: Jobs and taxes
From the beginning of the 2012 presidential campaign, probably no issues have received more attention than jobs and taxes. And perhaps no issues matter more to millions and millions of voters.
Video: Predicting Presidential effectiveness
How about an ex-one term congressman, a man of no prepossessing appearance, who’d lost his last two political campaigns. Not too impressive, is it…until you remember we’re talking about Abraham Lincoln, who led the country through its most severe threat to survival.
Video: What’s at Stake: Gwen Ifill on being the President
All you have to do is look at photographs of some recent presidents at the start of their terms – and then at the end – to appreciate the toll the job takes. The fact is, candidates are transformed by the presidency.
Video: What’s at Stake: Frontline’s The Choice
How much do you really know about either Mitt Romney or Barack Obama? Frontline’s “The Choice.”
Video: What’s at Stake: Off the radar issues
If there are openings in the coming four years, the next President – through his nominations – will have the chance to influence the direction of the Court for decades to come.
Hurricane Sandy: A disaster foretold?
So, yes, we knew. We knew well ahead of time that this could happen, and we knew global warming was already making it worse. We knew, but we did virtually nothing.
