Nov 16 What's Your Election Report Card? Introducing The Pew/NewsHour Quiz By Christina Bellantoni Pew Research Center and the NewsHour have teamed up to establish the Election Report Card Quiz. Fifteen simple questions will assess your views of what happened on Nov. 6 when President Obama was re-elected to a second term. Continue reading
Nov 16 President Obama, Congressional Leadership Get Down to Business By Christina Bellantoni President Obama walks across the South Lawn of the White House on Thursday. Photo by Larry Downing/Reuters. President Obama, Vice President Biden, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, House Speaker John Boehner, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader… Continue reading
Nov 16 113th Congress Welcomes Benches Full of Women The women of the 89th Congress, via the U.S. National Archives. When Nancy Pelosi was a girl, she was fortunate enough to have dinner each night with her hero: her father, Baltimore Mayor Tommy D' Alesandro. D'Alesandro was, and… Continue reading
Nov 16 Watch Campaigns Get Lower Scores From Americans Grading 2012 Presidential Race Following the 2012 presidential campaign, the Pew Research Center surveyed 1,200 voters to grade the performance of the candidates and the media and to assess public opinion on the outcome. Hari Sreenivasan talks to Pew Research Center's Andy Kohut about… Continue watching
Nov 15 Watch BP to Pay Largest Fine in U.S. History, Admit Guilt in Gulf Oil Spill Settlement BP to Pay Largest Fine in U.S. History, Admit Guilt in Gulf Oil Spill Settlement… Continue watching
Nov 15 Attorney General Holder Announces Legal Resolution to BP Oil Spill EmbedVideo(4984, 482, 304); BP has agreed to plead guilty to 14 federal criminal counts related to the Deepwater Horizon explosion that killed 11 workers and the subsequent oil spill that fouled the Gulf of Mexico for months and… Continue reading
Nov 15 High Times? Pot Advocates Test Federal Resolve By Saskia de Melker Voters in Colorado and Washington state etched history last Tuesday by being the first in the nation to legalize marijuana for recreational use. Continue reading
Nov 15 How Latinos Are Transforming the Electoral Map Polling organization Latino Decisions estimates that Obama earned 75 percent of the Hispanic vote. Photo by Kevin Lamarque/Reuters Editor's note: PBS NewsHour senior correspondent Ray Suarez contributed this article to Foreign Affairs. You can read the full article on the… Continue reading
Nov 15 Women in Congress -- From 1917 to Now By Alex Bruns Since the first woman was elected to Congress in 1917, there have been over 275 women who have served in the legislative branch. Mothers and daughters. Wives and widows. Old and young. Here are some of the women who have… Continue reading
Nov 15 President Obama Suggests He Has Mandate From Middle Class President Obama talks to reporters Wednesday at the White House. Photo by Larry Downing/Reuters. "I'm more than familiar with all the literature about presidential overreach in second terms. We are very cautious about that," President Obama told reporters… Continue reading