Jun 04 How Is Student Debt Affecting Your Post-Graduate Life? "How do we make sure that our workers earn the skills and education they need to do [their] jobs?" That's the question President Obama posed during a press conference last Friday, where he stressed the importance of keeping student… Continue reading
Jun 04 Christie Faces Big Decision After Lautenberg's Death New Jersey GOP Gov. Chris Christie. Photo by Jeff Zelevansky/Getty Images. Sen. Frank Lautenberg's death Monday sets up a series of big decisions for New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie and potentially far reaching political consequences. Lautenberg had… Continue reading
Jun 03 Watch High Court Says Police Can Collect DNA From People Arrested for Serious Crimes High Court Says Police Can Collect DNA From People Arrested for Serious Crimes… Continue watching
Jun 03 From the Archives: Frank Lautenberg on Drinking Age, Secondhand Smoke EmbedVideo(6600, 482, 304); Frank R. Lautenberg, a New Jersey Democrat, five-term senator, and the last World War II veteran remaining in the Senate, died Monday morning. He was 89. He appeared on the The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour on… Continue reading
Jun 03 Supreme Court Rules Police Can Swab for DNA Upon Arrest By News Desk // Watch this discussion with Ray Suarez and National Law Journal's Marcia Coyle about the oral hearings on King v. Maryland at the U.S. Supreme Court. This piece first aired in February 2013. Read a full transcript of the… Continue reading
Jun 03 New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg Dies at Age 89 WASHINGTON -- U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, a multimillionaire New Jersey businessman and the last World War II veteran remaining in the Senate, has died at age 89. His office said Lautenberg died shortly after 4 a.m. EDT on Monday at… Continue reading
Jun 03 Will Government Probes Crowd Out Policy Debates? Tea party activists protest against the IRS last month in West Palm Beach, Fla. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images. Official Washington begins the month of June with a massive agenda set against a backdrop of scandal politics that… Continue reading
May 31 Shields and Brooks on Bachmann's Retirement, Yankee Favoritism By Christina Bellantoni NewsHour Political Editor Christina Bellantoni guest-hosts the Doubleheader with Mark Shields and David Brooks Mark Shields and David Brooks made a triumphant return to the Doubleheader Friday and I filled the host chair as Hari Sreenivasan is… Continue reading
May 31 Watch Shields and Brooks on Sending Arms to Syria, Impending Comey Nomination Shields and Brooks on Sending Arms to Syria, Obama Taps James Comey for FBI Head… Continue watching
May 31 Gwen's Take: The Perils of the Absolute I want to own a pair of glasses that will allow me to more accurately see shades of gray. That way, when bridges fall down, the urgency to find out why -- right away -- will fade. I will more… Continue reading