Oct 04 What’s The Best ‘Spending Yourself Out Of Recession’ Argument? By Paul Solman Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news every day on his Making Sense page. Here's Monday's query: Question: You recently answered a question about why stimulus spending is the government's responsibility. I… Continue reading
Oct 04 Weekly Poem: ‘At the Counters Ball’ By Tom LeGro John Taggart is the author of 14 volumes of poetry. From 1969 to 2001, he taught in the English Department and directed the Interdisciplinary Arts Program at Shippensburg University. Taggart's new book of poems, "Is Music," will be published in… Continue reading
Oct 04 Monday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra goes on strike. Continue reading
Oct 01 Feinberg: Gulf Oil Spill Claims Paid More Quickly, but Tough Calls Ahead By Murrey Jacobson 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… Continue reading
Oct 01 U.S. Apologizes for ‘Reprehensible’ 1940s Syphilis Study in Guatemala U.S. officials apologized Friday for unethical medical experiments conducted in Guatemala more than 60 years ago, in which prison inmates were deliberately infected with syphilis. The experiments were conducted between 1946 and 1948 by Dr. John C. Cutler, a… Continue reading
Oct 01 Watch Student’s Death Sparks Questions on Privacy in the Digital Age Student's Suicide Raises Digital Privacy Questions… Continue watching
Oct 01 Status Update: Facebook-Inspired Film ‘The Social Network’ Opens Last week, the NewsHour looked at "The Social Network", a film -- opening across the country on Friday -- about Facebook and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg. EmbedVideo(3430, 482, 304); Much has been written about how… Continue reading
Oct 01 Watch Rutgers Student’s Suicide Prompts Privacy, Cyber-Bullying Debates Ray Suarez looks at the varied reactions to the suicide of a student at Rutgers University and the legal questions it raises. Continue watching
Oct 01 Conversation: Chad Troutwine, Producer of ‘Freakonomics’ By Tom LeGro First a bestselling book, then a popular blog and soon to be a public radio show, the phenomenon that is "Freakonomics" is the brain child of University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and journalist Stephen Dubner. Now, "Freakonomics" is a… Continue reading
Oct 01 Both Temps and e-Books Were Hot at the National Book Festival this Year The scorching 93 degree heat on Saturday was not enough to deter throngs of book lovers from coming out for the 10th Annual National Book Festival in Washington, D.C., hosted by the Library of Congress. Art Beat took to the… Continue reading