Politics Aug 25 Law & Disorder: The Missteps of NOPD After Katrina We talked this week with A.C. Thompson, one of the reporters from ProPublica who has been investigating the New Orleans Police Department in the years since Hurricane Katrina. He has been exploring reports of specific acts of excessive force…
Politics Aug 23 Political Checklist: McCain’s Career on the Line, Florida Primary In the second officially named installment of the weekly Political Checklist, Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff talk about what's at stake in Tuesday's primaries, most notably in Florida and Arizona, where former GOP presidential nominee John McCain has orchestrated…
Politics Aug 20 Shields and Gerson Grade Obama’s Campaigning, News Corp. Donation Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and Washington Post opinion columnist Michael Gerson, sitting in for David Brooks, stopped by The Rundown before this week's broadcast appearance and disagreed whether President Obama's campaigning will resonate with voters ahead of…
Politics Aug 16 Margaret Warner Heads to Iraq to Report on Troop Drawdown As we near the end of official combat operations in Iraq at the end of August, the NewsHour's Margaret Warner is headed there for a reporting trip. We caught up with her on the Rundown for a pre-brief on…
Nation Jul 30 Poynter Editor on WikiLeaks’ Global Leverage, Playing by Its Own Rules On this edition of NewsHour Plus, we check in with Steve Myers, managing editor of Poynter Online, a training facility for journalists, who wrote this week about how WikiLeaks is changing the power structure in the news…
Arts Jul 28 What Makes WikiLeaks’ Founder Julian Assange Tick? While the enigmatic WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been in and out of the press in the past few days in the wake of his site's latest major publication, he is…
Politics Jul 23 Shields and Brooks on ‘Inception’ of Tea Party Caucus, Michael Steele, Movies In another color-coordinated edition of the “extra-extra, read-all-about-it” segment we do with Mark Shields and David Brooks on The Rundown, the columnists weigh in on what the new Tea Party Caucus could mean for Republicans. Our duo also…
Politics Jul 23 On Both Sides of Same-Sex Marriage Debate, Awaiting a Prop 8 Verdict It's been a long, slow summer for those waiting for a verdict in the legal dispute over Proposition 8. Californians went to the polls and voted Proposition 8 into law, overturning a state Supreme Court decision that said gays…
Economy Jul 22 Newshour Connect: Housing, Jobs Concerns Persist in Calif., Okla., Idaho In our continuing coverage of issues across the United States, this Newshour Connect focuses on the economy. We speak with Thanh Tan of Idaho Public Television, Lori Rasmussen from OETV in Oklahoma City and Erik Anderson from…
Politics Jul 16 Shields and Brooks on Jobs, Palin and Deeper Meaning of Old Spice Ads Even after the Senate's passage of a landmark financial reform bill, Mark Shields and David Brooks tell us about how difficult a sell Democrats and the administration face with voters as the midterm elections draw closer yet unemployment remains…