May 01 Watch Should U.S. Pressure China More on Human Rights? Since the 1989 crackdown in Tiananmen Square, American presidents of both parties have struggled to balance criticism of Chinese abuses with other interests. Judy Woodruff discusses the Obama administration's dealings with China with the Brookings Institution's Kenneth Lieberthal and Human… Continue watching
May 01 Watch Obama's Afghanistan Pact: What it Does, What it Doesn't Do President Obama made a surprise visit Tuesday to Afghanistan to mark the first anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden. Gwen Ifill gets an update from the AP's Patrick Quinn in Kabul plus analysis of the agreement the president… Continue watching
May 01 Transparency or Bust: Riding a Hacker Bus to Change Brazil By Alex Bruns Photo of the Onibus Hacker by Bruno Fernandes. There's a buzz in the streets of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Actually, it's more of a rumbling sound coming from the turbocharged Mercedes diesel engine on the Onibus Hacker, a coach-turned-activist… Continue reading
May 01 Obama Ad Knocks Romney for Outsourcing Jobs, Swiss Bank Account By Christina Bellantoni President Obama speaks at the Building and Construction Trades Department Legislative Conference in Washington, D.C., on Monday. Photo by Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images. This May Day marks President Obama's first television attack ad aimed squarely at Mitt Romney. The ad first… Continue reading
Apr 30 Watch Wisconsin Recall Watched as Possible Prophesy for November After just 16 months in office, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker faces a June recall -- an effort born of protests last year as he pushed through a law limiting collective-bargaining rights for most public employees. Ray Suarez and Frederica Freyberg… Continue watching
Apr 30 Examining the Electoral Map, President Obama's Arguments for a Second Term By Christina Bellantoni // In this week's Political Checklist, Political Editor Christina Bellantoni chatted with senior correspondents Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff about President Obama's latest campaign video, which reminds voters he inherited a bad economy from President George W. Bush. Gwen… Continue reading
Apr 30 Watch Political Checklist: Electoral Map, President Obama's Video Examining the Electoral Map, President Obama's Arguments for a Second Term… Continue watching
Apr 30 This One Time at Transparency Camp, 'Hacktivists' Pushed Open Government More than 450 hackers, activists and journalists attended the Sunlight Foundation's weekend Transparency Camp. Photo by Meena Ganesan As members of the White House Correspondents' Association took a break this weekend for their annual gala, a new breed… Continue reading
Apr 30 Former President Clinton: Obama 'Deserves to Be Re-Elected' By Christina Bellantoni Former President Bill Clinton helped raise money for the Obama campaign over the weekend. 2011 photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images. Former President Bill Clinton summed up his arguments for the re-election of President Obama to high-dollar donors in Northern Virginia… Continue reading
Apr 27 Watch Shields, Brooks on 'Mutual Pandering' Over Student Loans, Immigration Law Shields, Brooks on 'Mutual Pandering' Over Student Loans, Immigration Law… Continue watching