Health Mar 23 Politico Editor: Health Reform Push Will Reverberate in 2010 Elections As we start to look closer at the political fallout from health care reform, Politico White House Editor Craig Gordon spoke with us Tuesday about how the legislative battle over the bill in Congress will now shift to a…
Politics Mar 19 Shields and Brooks on Immigration Reform and NCAA Upsets While most of the political attention in Washington in focused squarely on the fate of the health reform bill, demonstrators are planning rallies in Washington this weekend to bring more attention to the seventh anniversary of the U.S.
Science Mar 18 Clean Water’s Ripple Effects in Other Lands Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro visited the Rundown to talk about the reporting he's recently done on water issues in Ethiopia -- including the steps one village is taking to address them in a country where perhaps three-quarters of…
Politics Mar 17 NPR’s Deborah Amos on Fallout of Iraq’s Middle Class Exodus Continuing our series of conversations about the Middle East, NPR foreign correspondent Deborah Amos joined us on the Rundown to talk about her new book, “Eclipse of the Sunnis,” which chronicles the reasons behind the exodus of…
Health Mar 16 Politico’s Gordon: White House Pulling Out All the Stops to Pass Health Reform Craig Gordon, White House editor for Politico, spoke with us about the possible final week for the health care reform debate as President Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rally Democrats to secure final passage of health care…
Politics Mar 15 Should U.S. Talk to Its Enemies in Middle East? Authors Offer 2 Views With Vice President Joe Biden visiting the Middle East recently in hopes of reviving the peace process, we decided to speak with a pair of authors whose latest books on the region made it onto our radar screen here…
Politics Mar 12 Shields and Brooks Tackle Biden’s Trip, Unifying Power of College Basketball Columnists Mark Shields and David Brooks stopped by The Rundown again to talk about the implications of Vice President Joe Biden’s trip to the Middle East and what it meant for hopes of restarting peace talks. The NewsHour regulars…
Economy Mar 10 Stimulus Funds Cluster in Cities, Bypass Latino Communities President Obama signed the $787 billion stimulus package a little more than a year ago to spur job creation during the economic downturn. Through the end of January, $283 billion had been allocated, according to a new analysis by…
Politics Mar 05 Shields and Gerson Evaluate Rahm Emanuel’s Role in White House With NewsHour regular David Brooks away this week, syndicated columnist Mark Shields goes toe-to-toe with Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson on The Rundown about press reports and other rumblings surrounding White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.
Arts Mar 05 Spending Big for an Oscar The Oscar race this year, like most years - recession or not, has a lot to do with money: big-budget films up against small independent releases, and deep-pocketed studios ready to spend big to win Oscars, hoping awards will give…