Mar 09 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Columnist David Broder Dies at 81 Updated 7:26 p.m. ET with comments from Margaret Warner | Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist David S. Broder died on Wednesday of complications from diabetes, his newspaper, The Washington Post, reported. He was 81 years old. Broder, a frequent guest on… Continue reading
Mar 07 Watch News Wrap: Bahraini Shiites Seek U.S. Help in Quest for More Political Freedom In other news Monday, protests continued in Bahrain and Yemen, and American Defense Secretary Robert Gates told Afghans that the U.S. is not interested in keeping bases there permanently. Continue watching
Mar 07 In Afghanistan, Gates Emphasizes Plan to End Combat Operations by 2014 Defense Secretary Robert Gates speaks during a joint news conference with Afghan President Hamid Karzai Monday at the Presidential Palace in Kabul. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images) Defense Secretary Robert Gates is in Kabul for talks with U.S. military commanders… Continue reading
Mar 07 Timeline: Guatemala’s Brutal Civil War The bloody civil war that raged through Guatemala for 36 years left a brutal legacy of violence behind it. Continue reading
Mar 04 The Doubleheader: Shields and Brooks on Money, Muslims and the NFL By Hari Sreenivasan [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GWYVaVqBWI] Those topics are not at all related, but they got our attention this week at The Doubleheader. Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks spoke a bit about the billions being bandied about on… Continue reading
Mar 04 Gap Widens Between Those Who Served and Those Who Have Not ROTC cadets in Princeton, N.J. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Harvard and its graduates have made a lot of history since the college's founding in 1642. On Friday, Harvard made a bit more, when it formally welcomed the return of military… Continue reading
Mar 04 Watch Libya’s Turmoil Rages: Should World Powers Intervene? As the U.S. and international community assess what their military and policy options are with Libya, Judy Woodruff discusses the possibilities with Omar Turbi, a Libyan-American human rights activist, and retired Lt. Gen. David Deptula, who commanded no-fly zones over… Continue watching
Mar 03 Feelin’ Lousy- Financially Groovy In Song By Elizabeth Shell EDITOR'S NOTE: Last month, we featured a week-long series of songs by our country crooning friend Merle Hazard about the Euro-debt crisis: Spain, Ireland, Italy and Germany, and an encore of the infamous Greek… Continue reading
Mar 02 Watch News Wrap: Gunman Kills 2 U.S. Airmen, Wounds 2 at German Airport In other news Wednesday, a gunman killed two U.S. Air Force troops and wounded two others traveling in a bus outside an airport in Frankfurt, Germany. The 21-year-old suspect was arrested as he fled the scene. Meanwhile, security forces fired… Continue watching
Mar 02 Supreme Court Rules 8-1 in Favor of Westboro Funeral Protesters By News Desk The Supreme Court has ruled 8-1 that the First Amendment protects groups that organize anti-gay protests outside military funerals. The Snyder v. Phelps case is a classic battle of First Amendment rights vs. individual privacy, sparked by an emotionally-charged… Continue reading