Apr 23 Watch Social Security Slated to Run Dry in 2033, Trustees Warn Social Security will exhaust its trust fund in 2033 -- three years earlier than previous projections, the program's trustees announced Monday. Ray Suarez, Nancy Altman of Social Security Works and the Heritage Foundation's David John discuss its long-term health amid… Continue watching
Apr 23 Watch Will Social Conservatives Come Around to Romney? Will Pennsylvania Conservatives Come Around to Romney?… Continue watching
Apr 23 Watch John Edwards Trial Expected to Set Precedents for Campaign-Finance Law John Edwards Trial Expected to Set Precedents for Campaign-Finance Law… Continue watching
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