Science Jun 22 Oceans Face Mass Extinctions, New Report Warns When 27 marine experts from a half-dozen countries met in England this April for a workshop on the state of the oceans, they knew the news would not be good. But seeing the data on overfishing, acidification, chemical pollution, temperature…
Politics May 20 Shields and Brooks on Goodwin Liu, Brooks the Meme and the Macho Man New York Times columnist David Brooks just flew back to D.C. from across the pond (London) in time to make his appearance on the Newshour and of course for a Doubleheader segment with syndicated columnist Mark Shields. In…
Politics Apr 29 The Doubleheader: Oil Subsidies, Town Halls, Drafts and Playoffs As many as "two billion" viewers may watch tonight's Doubleheader with syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times Columnist David Brooks. Though I do not have the finely tuned research apparatus of the British Cultural Affairs Minister to…
Politics Apr 22 Shields and Brooks on Debt Ceilings, Dodgers Takeover and NHL Playoffs In this week's Doubleheader with syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks, we discussed how the arguments over the U.S. debt ceiling don't seem to be disappearing. While Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has made…
Politics Apr 15 The Doubleheader: Shields and Brooks on Gamesmanship, Sportsmanship After a spring hiatus, Mark Shields and David Brooks are back under the same roof and swung by before Friday's program for a new Doubleheader. When talking about the sport of politics this week, we discussed the gamesmanship that both…
Politics Mar 18 Shields and Brooks on Afghan War, March Madness and Social Animals Our serious business this week had our wonder twins (aka syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks) discussing a proposal from Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan. For the first time,…
Politics Mar 04 The Doubleheader: Shields and Brooks on Money, Muslims and the NFL [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GWYVaVqBWI] Those topics are not at all related, but they got our attention this week at The Doubleheader. Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks spoke a bit about the billions being bandied about on…
Politics Mar 04 Watch Live: The Doubleheader with Shields and Brooks Watch live as Hari Sreenivasan talks to syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks about the week in politics and the politics of sport in their Doubleheader feature on the Rundown: Free live streaming…
Politics Feb 25 The Doubleheader: Walker’s Prank Call, Government Shutdown Prospects and Basketball’s Carmelo Anthony [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prRSN7io1hs] The Doubleheader is back this week, and Mark Shields and David Brooks tackle Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's phone call with a blogger who pretended to be billionaire and conservative financier David Koch. Mark and David were at…
Politics Feb 18 The Doubleheader: Medicaid Shortfalls, Public Unions and Spring Training [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BYD7FGIDL0] It's always a pleasure to have the boys of spring and summer -- syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks -- back in action together. In this week's Doubleheader, we discuss the massive…