Oct 13 Robert Putnam to Answer Your Questions on 'American Grace' By Paul Solman UPDATE | Oct. 18, 2010 Robert Putnam has answered some of your questions here. On Monday's NewsHour, I interviewed public policy professor Robert Putnam of "Bowling Alone" fame about his massive new study of religion, six years in… Continue reading
Oct 13 Robert Putnam to Answer Your Questions UPDATE | Oct. 18, 2010 Robert Putnam has answered some of your questions here. On Monday’s NewsHour, I interviewed public policy professor Robert Putnam of ‘Bowling Alone’ fame about his… Continue reading
Oct 13 States Open Foreclosure Investigation; Court to Hear DNA Evidence Case Updated 1:00pm ET All 50 states have joined the joint investigation into the mortgage industry. Here's a statement from the National Association of Attorneys General. Posted 10:30 a.m. ET A group of 40 state attorneys general is set… Continue reading
Oct 12 More From Robert Putnam on 'American Grace' By Elizabeth Shell // On Monday's broadcast, correspondent Paul Solman interviewed Robert Putnam, a Harvard public policy professor and one of the co-authors of "American Grace," on religion in America. The full interview delved into many more topics than there was time… Continue reading
Oct 12 Ban Lifted on Deep Water Oil Drilling By Maureen Hoch The Obama administration said Tuesday that it is lifting a moratorium on deep water oil drilling imposed after the Deepwater Horizon spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. The administration has been under pressure from business leaders and others… Continue reading
Oct 12 This Year's Nobel Prize Winners in Economics: Skeptics and Supporters A few words about the Nobel Prize in economics and this year’s winners. First, the skeptics. They are eager to point out that the prize in economics is actually the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory… Continue reading
Oct 12 This Year's Nobel Prize Winners in Economics: Skeptics and Supporters By Paul Solman A few words about the Nobel Prize in economics and this year's winners. First, the skeptics. They are eager to point out that the prize in economics is actually the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences… Continue reading
Oct 11 When Economy Wanes, Politics in Europe Tend to Tilt Right Freedom Party leader Heinz-Christian Strache. Photo by Dieter Nagl/AFP/Getty Images A new maxim appears to be developing in politics from Central and Eastern Europe into Western Europe: the further down the economy goes, the further right go the politics. Continue reading
Oct 11 What Voters Talk About When They Talk About the Economy As Patchwork Nation often notes, the diversity of communities in the United States makes it difficult to identify a single economic story. National GDP and unemployment numbers are not encouraging, but no one in American experiences those U.S. averages… Continue reading
Oct 11 Monday: Chilean Miners Move Closer to Freedom; Trio Win Nobel in Economics A group of trapped miners in Chile inched closer to freedom over the weekend, as engineers worked to complete a nearly 2,050 foot-long shaft that will ultimately carry the 33 men to the surface. Officials expect to start plucking… Continue reading