Sep 05 Obama Rallies Support Ahead of Jobs Speech President Obama speaks during Labor Day celebrations on September 5, 2011 outside General Motor's world headquarters in Detroit, Mich. Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images. Days after the August jobs report showed zero growth -- and ahead of a prime-time… Continue reading
Sep 02 Shields and Brooks(es) on Rick Perry vs. Mitt Romney, NCAA Football Scandals By Quinn Bowman // Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks (plus his son) joined Hari Sreenivasan Friday for another edition of The Doubleheader, where the guys weigh in on the battle for the top spot in… Continue reading
Sep 02 Watch The Doubleheader: Rick Perry vs. Mitt Romney and College Football Scandal Mark Shields and David Brooks discuss the GOP primary and the new college football season. Continue watching
Sep 02 Watch Shields, Brooks on 'High Bar' for Obama's Jobs Speech, Funding Disaster Relief Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks weigh in on the week's top political news, including the bleak August jobs report, what President Obama needs to say in his prime-time speech on job creation and who… Continue watching
Sep 02 Obama's Donor Base for 2012: What We Know, What We Don't President Obama shakes hands with people after speaking about immigration reform in May in El Paso, Texas. Photo by Pete Souza/White House President Obama's public approval numbers may be down, but he still has a large number of… Continue reading
Sep 02 Obama Drops Proposed Clean Air Rules President Obama has reversed course on proposed smog standards, a victory for business interests that had decried the smog restrictions on the grounds that they should be postponed -- until at least 2013 -- due to the recession. The… Continue reading
Sep 02 Split-Screen: The Art of Watching 2 Things at Once Not long ago, I was at the army installation at Fort Bragg, N.C., reporting a story for the PBS NewsHour when my cellphone began to vibrate with news of a big earthquake back home in Washington, D.C. We'd felt nothing. Continue reading
Sep 01 Watch How Can Plans Emerge for a New Libya With Gadhafi Still at Large? How Can Plans Emerge for a New Libya With Gadhafi at Large?… Continue watching
Sep 01 Watch 'The Contenders' a Nod to Failed Candidates Who Still Changed History 'The Contenders' Nods to Failed Candidates Who Changed History… Continue watching
Sep 01 Watch Report Finds Fraud, Waste by War Contractors Costs Billions After a three-year investigation, a congressionally mandated commission found this week that between $31 billion and $60 billion has been misspent in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Margaret Warner discusses the findings with one of the commissioners, Dov Zakheim. Continue watching