Politics Oct 08 The Doubleheader: Bewitching Ads, Perfect Games, Political Hoop Dreams The sport of politics and the politics of sport is what we are all about in our Friday night check-ins with Mark Shields and David Brooks. On this webisode of The Doubleheader we start the conversation with the new advertisements…
Health Sep 23 Todd Park Envisions a More Open HHS According to the timeline at Healthcare.gov, at least a half dozen new health care laws go into effect Thursday. The fact that there is even such a transparent timeline on a website is one of the cornerstones…
Politics Sep 17 Shields and Brooks on ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ Michael Vick, the Shotgun Offense I might have finally figured out after nine or so months what makes this little segment of ours so unique: It is the only program I know of that tackles both what is at times the "sport of politics" and…
Science Sep 16 Bacteria Gobbling Natural Gas in the Gulf While attention on the Gulf has mostly focused on oil, the explosion and spill also released tremendous amounts of natural gas. David Valentine, a microbial geochemistry professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his research team…
Science Sep 15 Evan Williams Explains New Twitter Interface For the 1 percent of users who woke up to a different Twitter experience Wednesday morning, it was probably the biggest change they have ever seen to the real time information service. Twitter has approximately 160 million users and there…
Politics Sep 10 Shields and Brooks: Obama, Boehner, Qurans and College Football Not wanting to tread too heavily on what syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times Columnist David Brooks will discuss on the PBS NewsHour broadcast Friday, we focused in on the president's recent attacks on House Minority leader…
Health Sep 08 Gov 2.0 | Pillbox Hopes to Create Cure for Disparate Drug Data If you've ever found an unconscious loved one with nothing more but a nearby pill and a glass of water as clues, you would certainly want a service that could help you quickly and easily identify what drug might have…
Politics Sep 08 Carl Malamud: Internet Has Yet to Revolutionize Legal Industry Carl Malamud has been fighting for transparency issues since before most of us started using 28k modems, since before there was a movement and conferences devoted to Gov2.0 principles. His most recent focus is Law.gov, a project…
Politics Sep 03 Shields and Brooks Dissect Beck Rally, Brewer Brain Freeze, D.C. Sharks In their Friday stop at the Rundown, columnists Mark Shields and David Brooks answered some of your hard-hitting questions submitted via Facebook and Twitter, including ones about President Obama's handling of foreign affairs and the debate over whether to let…
Politics Aug 27 Shields and Brooks on Ken Mehlman’s Revelation, Strasburg’s Unifying Effect Earlier this week, my old colleague Marc Ambinder wrote an article stating that the former RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman has become more open about his homosexuality in recent weeks and months. It came as no shock…