Jan 15 Straight Talk From California’s Jerry Brown Spencer Michels interviews California Gov. Jerry Brown. Jerry Brown is riding high. The 74-year-old Democratic governor of California has achieved a kind of political miracle: He has balanced the state's budget for the first time in 15 years. Continue reading
Jan 15 The Wilderness After War: Living with PTSD EmbedVideo(5459, 482, 304); Photojournalist Lori Grinker profiled three former U.S. service members suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. The video, which features Hart Viges, Mark Wilkerson and Jessica Goodell telling their stories in their own words, was… Continue reading
Jan 15 On the PBS NewsHour Tonight By News Desk On Tuesday's NewsHour: The White House moves ahead with plans for reducing gun violence Plus, a newsmaker interview with National Rifle Association president David Keene California Gov. Jerry Brown's solutions to the state's deficit crisis And U.S. military suicides reach… Continue reading
Jan 15 Watch Service Members Grapple With PTSD In this Dart Society video, several former service members talk about having PTSD. Continue watching
Jan 15 Watch News Wrap: Lance Armstrong ‘Forthcoming’ on Doping in Oprah Interview In other news Tuesday, Lance Armstrong discussed doping in an interview with Oprah Winfrey months after the world famous cyclist was accused of using performance enhancement drugs to give himself an edge during competitions and stripped of his titles… Continue watching
Jan 14 Watch Internet Innovator and Activist Aaron Swartz, 26, Faced Legal Trouble Internet Innovator and Activist Aaron Swartz, 26, Faced Legal Trouble… Continue watching
Jan 14 On the PBS NewsHour Tonight By News Desk On Monday's NewsHour: President Obama's final news conference of his first term Fighting back the advance of Islamist militants in Mali Internet activist Aaron Swartz International travel restrictions eased for Cubans And, the money behind next week's… Continue reading
Jan 14 Watch News Wrap: Military Suicides Outnumbered Combat Deaths in Afghanistan in 2012 In other news Monday, the Associated Press reported U.S. military suicides hit a record in 2012, with 349 deaths. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta called the rash of military suicides an epidemic. Also, government officials in Beijing admitted for the first… Continue watching
Jan 11 Shields, Brooks on Trillion Dollar Coins, ‘Zero Dark Thirty,’ Hall of Fame Woes By Hari Sreenivasan In this installment of the Doubleheader, New York Times columnist David Brooks and I save the drubbing that syndicated columnist Mark Shields deserves -- for last week's wager that Notre Dame would win the BCS -- until… Continue reading
Jan 11 Watch After Talks With Afghan Leader, U.S. Military to Expedite Shift to Support Role After Talks With Afghan Leader, U.S. Military to Expedite Shift to Support Role… Continue watching