Feb 01 Players in Egypt's Opposition Movement By Talea Miller Tens of thousands of protesters are filling the streets in Cairo today, responding to the call for a one-million strong demonstration against President Hosni Mubarak. While the massive uprising over the last two weeks has occurred largely without strong, centralized… Continue reading
Feb 01 Judge's Health Care Ruling Sparks Political, Legal Debate A man protests the health care reform law at a rally in Washington, D.C., last year. Photo by Tom Williams/Roll Call/Getty Images. In the most sweeping denouncement of the law to date, a federal judge in Florida ruled… Continue reading
Jan 31 Florida Judge Strikes Down Obama Health Care Overhaul Updated 5:45 p.m. ET A federal judge in Florida became the first Monday to declare the new health care law - in its entirety - unconstitutional. It is the biggest challenge yet to the new law, with governors and… Continue reading
Jan 31 Political Checklist: Egypt Crisis Changes the Agenda at the White House By Quinn Bowman DetectFlashDecision_Blog('news01s47aeq101c', 'YrkW_QIcFSo', '29'); In this edition of the Political Checklist, Political Editor David Chalian and Senior Correspondent Judy Woodruff discuss how a foreign affairs crisis like the popular revolt in Egypt forces a White House to change its… Continue reading
Jan 31 Obama Administration Taking Cautious Approach to Unrest in Egypt In this White House photo taken Friday, President Obama talks on the phone with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak as Vice President Joe Biden and the national security team listen in the background. Photo by Pete Souza/White House via Getty… Continue reading
Jan 31 Protests Continue in Egypt, Investigation Into Afghan Bank Shows Massive Fraud A week after protesters first converged on downtown Cairo, tens of thousands continue to march and call on President Hosni Mubarak to step down after 30 years in office. Mubarak's televised announcement after midnight Saturday did little to… Continue reading
Jan 28 The Doubleheader With Shields and Brooks: Egypt, SOTU and Reddit By Hari Sreenivasan We're back. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmCgN00F_JY] It's 2011, and we're bringing our brand of political flavor to new audiences around the globe. Unfortunately tonight, many of our Doubleheader devotees in Egypt will not be seeing our work. President Obama called for Egypt… Continue reading
Jan 28 Watch Shields and Brooks on Obama 'Recalibrating' Stance on Egypt, State of the Union Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks speak with Jim Lehrer about the week's top developments, including the Obama administration "recalibrating" the U.S. stance on the growing political unrest in Egypt and the president's messages in… Continue watching
Jan 28 Health Reform Headlines: Administration Lays Groundwork for Health Care Fight President Obama said he's open to efforts to "tweak" the new health care law, but said he was "not willing to just refight the battles of the last two years." In a speech to Families USA, a consumer advocacy… Continue reading
Jan 28 Date Night: Or Why the Best Part of the State of the Union Address Wasn't the Speech Seldom have I watched the president's annual speech to the joint session of Congress with anticipation that had so little to do with the contents of the address itself. By now we surely know that - aside from the… Continue reading