Oct 15 For Romney, Obama Camps, Ad Wars About Money -- And Buzz It's no surprise that ad buys by presidential candidates and their affiliated groups are costly -- some might even say astronomical -- reaching even greater numbers in swing states, where TV viewers have become intimate with every shape, size and… Continue reading
Oct 15 On the PBS NewsHour Tonight By News Desk On Monday's NewsHour: The money behind the ad war this election year Close congressional races, including the battle for a Senate seat in Massachusetts The Syrian war, amid reports that weapons are going to militants linked to Al-qaida And, the… Continue reading
Oct 12 Shields and Brooks on Campaigns, Copyright and Cheating Cyclists By Hari Sreenivasan It's another episode of the Doubleheader, where we talk about the politics of sport and the sport of politics with syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks. Continue reading
Oct 12 Google This 'Malarkey': 'How Old Is' Joe Biden, Paul Ryan By Meena Ganesan The top four search terms during the vice presidential debate. Graphic and data by Google. From real-time fact checkers to live blogs, tweets, gifs and games, the Internet brought in a trove of analysis, context and laughs Thursday… Continue reading
Oct 12 On the PBS NewsHour Tonight By News Desk On Friday's NewsHour: The candidates are in swing states after a spirited vice-presidential debate How women's issues are playing in the campaign Who best predicts election winners: pollsters or gamblers? Mark Shields and David Brooks And, the Nobel Peace Prize… Continue reading
Oct 11 Watch Turkey's Plane Incident Shows Crackdown on Assad Regime, Disapproval of Russia Turkey's Plane Incident Shows Crackdown on Assad Regime, Disapproval of Russia… Continue watching
Oct 11 On the PBS NewsHour Tonight By News Desk On Thursday's NewsHour: The vice-presidential contenders meet for their only debate Rising tensions between Turkey and Russia over Syria, as the Turks force a Russian plane to land How Medicare's playing in House races And a Chinese writer wins the… Continue reading
Oct 11 Judy's Notebook: Less Than 4 Weeks Till Election Day, Time for Questions Since the campaign has been going on for what feels like a few years, you'd think that every question under the sun had been asked and answered. Maybe every question has been asked, but straight answers aren't always easy… Continue reading
Oct 10 Watch Report by U.S. Anti-Doping Agency Depicts Lance Armstrong as Ring Leader Report by U.S. Doping Agency Depicts Lance Armstrong as Ring Leader… Continue watching
Oct 09 Watch Opposing Views on Congress' Claims Huawei Technologies Enables Chinese Spying Opposing Views on Congress' Claims Huawei Technologies Enables Chinese Spying… Continue watching