Jan 02 Column: 10 ways the tech industry and the media helped create President Trump By Damian Radcliffe, University of Oregon Three weeks after Donald Trump won a historic victory to become the 45th president of the United States, the media postmortems continue. In particular, the role played by the media and technology industries is coming under heavy scrutiny in the… Continue reading
Jan 02 What's on Obama's to-do list in the closing stretch of his presidency? By Josh Lederman, Associated Press Obama's final days in office will include a bid to protect his endangered health care law, a major farewell speech and the ongoing handover of power to Donald Trump. Continue reading
Jan 02 Trump still not sold on Russian link to hacking By Jill Colvin, Associated Press Trump has repeatedly cast aside allegations by U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia tried to influence the presidential election through hacking. Continue reading
Jan 01 Watch 5:54 Post-election, how should news outlets shift focus? By Christopher Booker, Connie Kargbo As 2016 comes to a close, journalists and media outlets are confronting the questions raised by this year's election and planning for what comes next. James Geary, the deputy editor of the Nieman Foundation's Nieman Reports Magazine, joins the NewsHour… Continue watching
Jan 01 Donald Trump says 'no computer is safe' when it comes to privacy By Jill Colvin, Associated Press President-elect Donald Trump said he plans to meet with intelligence officials next to week to learn more about allegations of Russian hacking. Continue reading
Dec 31 Trump tweets New Year's message castigating 'enemies' By Jill Colvin, Associated Press President-elect Donald Trump tweeted an unusual New Year's message to friends and foes before playing golf in Florida. Continue reading
Dec 31 How Donald Trump cast aside decades of Republican orthodoxy By Steve Peoples, Associated Press President-elect Donald Trump is remaking the Republican Party in his image with an opaque populist agenda that sometimes conflicts with traditional conservative beliefs. Continue reading
Dec 30 Watch 53:50 PBS NewsHour full episode Dec. 30, 2016 By PBS News Hour Friday on the NewsHour, Vladimir Putin slams U.S. expulsion of diplomats but says he will not follow suit. Also: A Syrian cease-fire is holding, the political analysis of David Brooks and David Corn, the year's best songs, looking back at… Continue watching
Dec 30 Watch 3:48 News Wrap: In Syria, fragile cease-fire appears to hold By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Friday, Russian president Vladimir Putin slammed U.S. sanctions and the expulsion of Russian diplomats over election-season hacking attacks, but said he would not answer in kind by expelling U.S. diplomats. Also, a fragile cease-fire appeared to… Continue watching
Dec 30 Watch 6:19 Why deterring Putin from foreign meddling is practically impossible By PBS News Hour On Friday, President Vladimir Putin slammed U.S. plans to retaliate for Russia’s election hacking but said he would not toss out U.S. diplomats in turn. Hari Sreenivasan sits down with Andrew Weiss of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to… Continue watching