Dec 23 Watch Frustration, Resignation Apparent in Seoul Over Tensions With North Korea New tensions are rattling the Korean peninsula over South Korean military drills. Justin McCurry of GlobalPost samples public opinion in Seoul for some insight. Continue watching
Dec 23 Geeking Out on Words Just Got Easier ({ "base_state": {}, "video_url": "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBAvG6PZp5Y", video_config: { width: 480, height: 303} }) With the release of Google Books Ngram Viewer, diving through the rise and fall of a word's usage across 5.2 million books spanning several… Continue reading
Dec 22 With ‘Don’t Ask’ Repeal, Military Again Poised to Be a Change Agent Almost half of my youth was spent in the South, where the civil rights movement played out in ways both peaceful and violent. My father was stationed in the Army in Taiwan, so when our family moved to Georgia I… Continue reading
Dec 22 UConn Women Win Place in College Basketball History The University of Connecticut women's team broke the record Tuesday for the longest NCAA Division I basketball winning streak, surpassing the John Wooden led-UCLA men's teams of 1971-74 . In front of a sold-out home crowd, the Huskies… Continue reading
Dec 22 Video: Obama Signs ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Repeal Into Law President Obama signed a landmark repeal of the ban on gay men and women serving openly in the armed services Wednesday, fulfilling a key campaign promise. The law ends the 17-year-old "don't ask, don't tell" policy that forced gays to… Continue reading
Dec 22 Senate to Vote on START, Obama Signs DADT Repeal, Tensions in Ivory Coast Updated 5:00 p.m. ET The Senate gave final approval to the New START treaty on Wednesday by a vote of 71-26. Posted 9:45 a.m. ET The Senate appears poised to approve a nuclear arms pact with Russia,… Continue reading
Dec 21 On Tuesday’s NewsHour: START Treaty, Cuban Medicine, Census Results START TREATY HEADS TOWARD RATIFICATION | President Obama has apparently secured more than enough Senate votes to ratify the U.S.-Russia START nuclear arms treaty. Naftali Ben David of The Wall Street Journal looks at the shift in momentum as… Continue reading
Dec 21 Iraq Has a New Government … at Last By Robert Zeliger Iraqi Parliament members vote for the new Iraqi Cabinet (Photo by Iraqi Prime Minister Office via Getty Images) The Iraqi people cast their votes on March 7. More than nine months later, after months of political turmoil, deal-making, and… Continue reading
Dec 21 New START Arms Deal: The Basics By Larisa Epatko The Senate appears to be moving toward ratifying the New START nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia. Here's a fresh look at the basics of the pact. Continue reading
Dec 21 START Gaining GOP Support; Iraqi Lawmakers Approve Government Massachusetts GOP Sen. Scott Brown, left, shakes hands with Jason Meininger, special assistant to Sen. John Kerry D-Mass., after a closed session about New START on Monday. Brown announced that he will support the treaty and said that he… Continue reading