Politics Sep 03 Places Everybody! We’re About to Begin Four years ago on his way to the White House, candidate Barack Obama carried three southern states: Virginia, North Carolina and Florida. Maybe America's political map is changing, the experts speculated. Maybe Democrats do have a shot in the South…
Politics Jan 30 Why the 2012 Hispanic Vote Doesn’t Matter … Yet When it comes to politics, I know a lot about The Decade of the Hispanic. I've been lucky enough to cover three of them. For as long as I've been a reporter, the Hispanic vote has been the next big…
Politics Nov 18 Gwen’s Take: a Little Q&A From the Road Not many people can boast of having traveled to Providence, R.I., Cleveland, Newark, Madison, Wis., St. Louis and Venice, Italy, within little more than a month. In every instance -- including the Italian trip, where I got to hang out…
Health Nov 03 Suarez: When Is a Democracy ‘Good Enough?’ Watch a preview of the NewsHour's two upcoming pieces from Nicaragua below, and read Ray Suarez's reflections on the political situation in the country. Friday on the NewsHour, Ray looks at what's at stake in the upcoming Nicaraguan elections, and…
Health Oct 26 Market Deal Brings Life-Saving Vaccine to Poor Countries A young child receives the new pneumococcal vaccine in Nicaragua. Any parent knows the scene very well: a practitioner tears open the packaging on a new syringe, pierces the top of a medicine bottle and draws just the right amount…
Health Jul 21 Life in the Post Food-Surplus World Women shelling mussels in Indonesia. Photo by Cat Wise. Hunger activists used to argue that the world produces more than enough food for all of its people -- it's the transportation, storage, and waste that cause the problem. Now, that…
Health Jun 29 Reporter’s Notebook: Indonesia’s Grand Goals, and Vulnerability Jakarta, Indonesia. Photo by Cat Wise. The NewsHour's global health team is in Indonesia shooting a series that will air in July. Indonesia now has one of the 20 largest economies in the world, yet nearly half its people…
World Jun 23 Reporter’s Notebook: Indonesia’s Mentally Ill, Caged and Bound Mentally ill man chained at the Yayasan Guluh facility in Bekasi, Indonesia. Photo by Cat Wise. It's hard to describe something sadder than the forlorn face of a man peering out at the world through the slats of a…
Nation Apr 26 30 Years Ago: A Very Different Britain, and a Very Different Wedding Prince and Princess of Wales on the balcony of Buckingham Palace on their wedding day, July, 29 1981. (Terry Fincher/Princess Diana Archive/Getty Images) I had been following the developments in the House of Windsor from faraway Rome, covering the young…
World Apr 07 7.1-Magnitude Quake Hits off Japan Coast Updated 12:10 p.m. ET | Japan's meteorological society has lifted its tsunami warning, an hour and a half after the quake hit at 11:30 p.m. local time, the Associated Press reports. Updated 12 p.m. ET | The U.S. Geological Society…