Dec 13 On Monday’s NewsHour: Health Reform Challenge, Tax Cuts, Madoff Case HEALTH REFORM RULING | Betty Ann Bowser has the latest on a federal judge in Virginia ruling that a major provision of the health care reform law is unconstitutional, then Gwen Ifill speaks with Neera Tanden from the… Continue reading
Dec 13 What’s Causing U.S. Personal Spending to Drop: Job Losses, Fear or Both? By Paul Solman Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and site visitors on business and economic news most days on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Monday's query: Name: Michael Cassady Question: Paul, If the U.S. consumer market is the… Continue reading
Dec 13 Weekly Poem: ‘Disrupted Motion’ Karena Youtz is a poet who lives and writes in Boise, Idaho. She also writes lyrics for her husband Doug Martsch, lead singer for the Boise-based indie rock band Built to Spill. Early next year, a collection called "Transfer Tree"… Continue reading
Dec 13 Monday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, China cracks down on its political writers and artists. Continue reading
Dec 10 ‘Law & Disorder’ Killing: 3 New Orleans Officers Found Guilty, 2 Acquitted _pap_embeddable('news01s4624qff1',482,304,{ pap_usecache:true }); Three current or former New Orleans police officers now face sentencing in a 2005 killing and cover-up after Hurricane Katrina. The victim, Henry Glover, was shot outside a strip mall and was last seen alive… Continue reading
Dec 10 Watch Anthology Traces Rap’s Lyrical Journey, Poetic Roots Is rap music a form of lyric poetry? A new anthology, published by Yale University Press, makes the case. Jeffrey Brown reports. Continue watching
Dec 10 Friday’s NewsHour: Rap Reconsidered for New Scholarly Anthology A new work of scholarship, "The Anthology of Rap," recently published by Yale University Press, offers a look at the art form on its own terms: a collection of rap lyrics, offered up like lyric poetry, from the last twenty… Continue reading
Dec 10 Conversation: Andrew Jarecki, Director of ‘All Good Things’ By Molly Finnegan In his latest film director Andrew Jarecki, who says he has always been drawn to true stories, has picked to re-imagine an infamous unsolved mystery involving a wealthy and powerful New York family. Continue reading
Dec 10 Loan Modifications: A Question of Economic Injustice? By Paul Solman Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news most days on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Friday's query: Three questions today, one answer. Name: James Tracey Question: On a recent… Continue reading
Dec 10 Friday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Jim Morrison received a posthumous pardon from Florida's governor. Continue reading