Politics Feb 01 2016 candidates make final push for Iowa turnout The 2016 presidential candidates made one last pitch to Iowa voters, imploring those already on their side to turn out to caucus. Judy Woodruff, reporting from Iowa, offers a campaign roundup going into the year’s first election contest.
Politics Feb 01 How good is Iowa at picking White House winners? How well do the Iowa caucuses predict success for a presidential candidate? Hari Sreenivasan and the NewsHour data team take a look at that state’s track record, what Iowans are posting on social media and how well these voters match…
Health Feb 01 News Wrap: WHO issues call to action on Zika virus In our news wrap Monday, the World Health Organization declared the Zika virus, a mosquito-borne disease linked to birth defects in the Americas, an international public health emergency. Also, a suicide bomber blew himself up at a police headquarters in…
Politics Feb 01 How Donald Trump brought unpredictability to Iowa From on the ground in Iowa, Judy Woodruff talks to Amy Walter of The Cook Political Report and NPR’s Tamara Keith about that state’s broad support for Donald Trump, Sen. Ted Cruz’s ground game and strategy with religious voters, Hillary…
Politics Feb 01 Fight over core principles exposes deep GOP divides Is the Republican party revolting against itself? As part of a collaboration between The Atlantic and the PBS NewsHour, Judy Woodruff leads a discussion with David Frum and others on the struggle between establishment and antiestablishment factions in the GOP,…
Politics Feb 01 Brooks and Cottle on Iowa caucus expectations New York Times columnist David Brooks and Michelle Cottle, contributing editor to The Atlantic, join Gwen Ifill for a preview of the Iowa caucuses, including how Donald Trump has changed American politics, the tight race between Hillary Clinton and Bernie…
Politics Feb 01 What to watch from the Iowa caucuses Political director Lisa Desjardins joins Gwen Ifill to break down a few things to watch for in tonight’s caucuses, including key areas for both parties, the kind of voters Democratic candidates are hoping for and an app that streamlines the…
Episode Jan 31 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode Jan. 31, 2016 Sunday on NewsHour Weekend: Candidates make a final push in Iowa on the eve of the first votes of the 2016 presidential race, and in our signature segment, how Oklahoma has become the nation's earthquake capital. Alison Stewart anchors from…
Politics Jan 31 How are the candidates likely to fare at the Iowa caucuses? Candidates made their final appeals to likely caucus voters in Iowa on Sunday, imploring their supporters to make it to the polls on Monday. NewsHour's Judy Woodruff joins Alison Stewart from Des Moines, Iowa, to discuss how the individual candidates…
Education Jan 31 Vast digitizing project will put Harvard’s colonial archives online Harvard University has launched a project to digitize almost half a million items from its 17th and 18th century archives – the largest digitizing effort the university has ever undertaken. The letters, journals, documents and drawings tell the story not…