Politics Jun 12 Tech Giants Take Government Spying Feud to the Public An employee walks past servers in one of four server rooms at the Facebook Data Center in Forest City, N.C. Photo by Rainier Ehrhardt/Getty Images. Technology companies can be a powerful force in Washington. As domestic spying remains in the…
Politics Jun 07 Obama Administration Defends Surveillance Programs A look inside the NSA Threat Operations Center located at Fort Meade, Maryland. "They quite literally can watch your ideas form as you type." That's the memorable closing quote from an unnamed "career intelligence officer" who provided the Washington Post…
Politics Jun 06 Collection Of Phone Records Raises Fresh Questions About Domestic Spying Hours after President Barack Obama named Susan Rice to be his new national security adviser, another Washington "NSA" was thrust into the spotlight over reports it is secretly collecting phone records of millions of Americans. The revelations about the National…
Politics May 31 Shields and Brooks on Bachmann’s Retirement, Yankee Favoritism NewsHour Political Editor Christina Bellantoni guest-hosts the Doubleheader with Mark Shields and David Brooks Mark Shields and David Brooks made a triumphant return to the Doubleheader Friday and I filled the host chair as Hari Sreenivasan is…
Politics May 27 Romney Campaign Insider Says Benghazi Changed Everything // PBS NewsHour political editor Christina Bellantoni talks with Gabriel Schoenfeld about his new e-book, "A Bad Day on the Romney Campaign." Gabriel Schoenfeld says when he sat down to outline flaws that cost former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney…
Nation May 14 PBS NewsHour Team ‘No Commercials, No Mercy’ Sweats it Out for Charity Politics editor Christina Bellantoni and social media editor Colleen Shalby, who ran with the PBS NewsHour HatCam, pose before the start of the ACLI Capital Challenge race in Washington, D.C. Photo courtesy of Christina Bellantoni/Twitter. Fourteen PBS NewsHour road warriors…
Politics Apr 25 Bush Back in Spotlight as Presidents Honor Him at Library Dedication The George W. Bush Presidential Center will be dedicated Thursday. Photo by the George W. Bush Presidential Center. Legacies are tricky business. A new CNN poll released late Wednesday found support for former President George W. Bush on…
Politics Apr 19 With Manhunt Underway in Boston, Politics Pushed Aside Police in Watertown, Mass., search for one of the suspects in Monday's bombing at the Boston Marathon. Photo by Darren McCollester/Getty Images. With a massive manhunt in Boston underway, any semblance of politics is likely to go by the wayside…
Politics Apr 16 Boston Blasts Put Politics On Hold Unclaimed finish line bags remain at the scene of the blasts. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images. And sometimes, politics just takes a pause. With more questions than answers in the hours since two explosions rocked the scene at the finish…
Politics Apr 12 Shields and Brooks Debate McConnell’s ‘Watergate,’ Love and Politics // Mark Shields and David Brooks pondered political sex scandals in the Doubleheader Friday. If it's in the name of love, is it less offensive? As I filled in for Hari Sreenivasan, we started with the "sport of politics"…