Apr 23 Aging Population, Costs Worsen Medicare's Long-term Prognosis Photo by John Moore/Getty Images On the PBS NewsHour Monday night, Ray Suarez will examine the grim reports released Monday by the trustees of Social Security and Medicare. Joining him to discuss the outlook for the Social Security program… Continue reading
Apr 23 Economic Picture in Swing States Could Boost Obama By Terence Burlij President Obama speaks at a campaign event last week at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mich. Photo by Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images. Poll after poll has shown that no single issue outranks the economy in the minds of voters this… Continue reading
Apr 20 Political Planking: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Shad By Christina Bellantoni // In a quick political debrief, congressional correspondent Kwame Holman spoke with me about his trip to rural Virginia to cover the annual "shad planking" event. Kwame noted in his blog post this week that it's a longtime… Continue reading
Apr 20 Shields, Brooks on L.A. Times Soldier Photos, Jamie Moyer, Fenway at 100 By Hari Sreenivasan In this week's Doubleheader, syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks tackled whether the Los Angeles Times ought to have published the two-year-old photos of soldiers in Afghanistan posing with the bodies of a suicide… Continue reading
Apr 20 Watch Shields, Brooks on Soldier Photos, Jamie Moyer and Fenway Shields, Brooks on Soldier Photos, Jamie Moyer and Fenway… Continue watching
Apr 20 Watch Shields, Brooks on Voter Volatility, Obama vs. Romney Over 'Big Visions' Shields, Brooks on Voter Volatility, Obama vs. Romney Over 'Big Visions'… Continue watching
Apr 20 Watch More Secret Service Agents Out as Scandal Inquiry Expands Three more Secret Service agents resigned Friday amid an ongoing prostitution scandal that has now implicated a 12th employee as well. Ray Suarez and Julie Pace of The Associated Press discuss the state of the investigation into conduct by officers… Continue watching
Apr 20 Watch Political Planking: Everything You Wanted to Know About Shad Political Planking: Everything You Wanted to Know About Shad… Continue watching
Apr 20 The Curse of the Political Surrogate: When Silence Should Be Golden By Gwen Ifill It took the 2012 presidential campaign to throw Democrat Hilary Rosen and conservative Ted Nugent into the same sentence. Rosen made more of a splash last week than she ever did in 17 years at the powerful Recording Industry Association… Continue reading