Oct 17 Watch California Dream Act Offers Undocumented Students Path to Higher Education For more on this story, go to http://www.pbs.org/newshour/… Continue watching
Oct 17 Occupy Wall Street Movement Expands to International Cities By Saskia de Melker Following weeks of protests in New York and other cities in the United States, demonstrators took to the streets in locations around the world in similarly fashioned protests over the weekend, resulting in hundreds of arrests. Continue reading
Oct 17 Obama's Bus Tour Rolls On Despite Death of Jobs Bill By David Chalian President Obama is kicking off a bus tour Monday to try to sell his jobs plan. Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images. President Obama heads out on the road Monday to kick off his three-day "American Jobs Act" bus tour… Continue reading
Oct 14 Shields and Brooks on Herman Cain, Occupy Movement, Detroit, iPhone 4S By Hari Sreenivasan In this week's edition of The Doubleheader, syndicated columnist Mark Shields, New York Times columnist David Brooks and I chat about Herman Cain's surge in recent polls, the merits of his 9-9-9 plan (see the fact-check of… Continue reading
Oct 14 Watch The Doubleheader: Cain, Occupy, Detroit, 4S David Brooks, Mark Shields and Hari Sreenivasan discuss Herman Cain's 9-9-9 proposal… Continue watching
Oct 14 Watch Shields, Brooks on Cain's Poll Surge, 'Hunger for Something Else' in GOP Race Columnists Mark Shields and David Brooks weigh in on the week's top political news, including Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain's recent surge in the polls, how much religion is factoring into the GOP race for Mitt Romney and others, the… Continue watching
Oct 14 Watch Ohio Voters Weigh Repeal of Controversial Collective-Bargaining Law A controversial new Ohio law aimed at restricting the collective-bargaining rights of 360,000 unionized public employees has led to a major political fight and a voter referendum in this battleground state. Gwen Ifill reports on the issue that has both… Continue watching
Oct 14 Watch Jobs Dominate Political Agenda for Obama, Republican Rivals Jobs dominated the political agenda for President Obama and his Republican rivals on Friday, as everyone seemed to agree on the need to do something but there was little agreement on what to do. Ray Suarez reports. Continue watching
Oct 14 Gwen's Take: The Danger of the Sweeping Conclusion By Gwen Ifill Breaking news: Herman Cain has endorsed Mitt Romney. If that's news to you, it's because it happened four years ago. Thanks to Conor Friedersdorf at The Atlantic for the reminder that everything old is new again. Cain, who emerged… Continue reading
Oct 14 Rick Perry's Second Act File photo of Texas Gov. Rick Perry by Gage Skidmore via Flickr. Gov. Rick Perry, R-Texas, is set to begin his second act as a presidential contender Friday. After weeks of panned debate performances, plummeting poll numbers, and… Continue reading