Aug 12 Watch How Will Iowa Straw Poll Shape GOP Field? After Thursday night's Republican debate in Iowa, GOP presidential hopefuls headed to the State Fair to court voters ahead of Saturday's GOP straw poll. Judy Woodruff discusses how the debate played out and what's expected in the weekend poll with… Continue watching
Aug 12 Watch Many Post Offices Face Uncertain Fates as Cuts Loom Rural Post Offices on Shaky Ground… Continue watching
Aug 12 And They're Off: The GOP Campaign, in Full Effect By Gwen Ifill DES MOINES, Iowa | About halfway through my grilled pork chop on a stick at the State Fair, I was reminded why covering politics in Iowa is so different than anywhere else. Gwen Ifill and NewsHour Political Editor David Chalian… Continue reading
Aug 12 Rural Post Offices on Shaky Ground More than 3,500 post offices are being evaluated for potential closure. Photo by AFP/Getty. If you blink, you might miss it. That's how the Postmaster in Parshall, Colo., Grant Burger, described his town recently. In fact, photographer Brian Gill… Continue reading
Aug 12 Debate Shows Pawlenty, Bachmann Have Most at Stake in Straw Poll Tim Pawlenty and Michele Bachmann square off at the Iowa GOP/Fox News Debate. Photo by Charlie Neibergall/Pool-Getty Images. DES MOINES, Iowa | The Iowa GOP Straw Poll has a terrible track record at predicting the winner of the… Continue reading
Aug 12 Woodruff: America's Growing Disillusion with Washington If there was ever a time Americans would be justified in throwing their shoe -- or something a lot heavier -- at the TV set, radio or whatever device brings them the latest news from Washington (or the stock market,… Continue reading
Aug 12 Pawlenty, Bachmann Square Off in Debate Ahead of Iowa Straw Poll By David Chalian Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney, Michele Bachmann, Tim Pawlenty and Jon Huntsman take the stage for a debate Thursday in Ames, Iowa. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images AMES, Iowa | There were eight candidates on the debate stage Thursday night… Continue reading
Aug 11 Watch In Absentia, Perry Manages to Steal Some Thunder From GOP's Iowa Debate Following months of speculation, a spokesperson for Texas Gov. Rick Perry announced Thursday that he will join the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. Judy Woodruff and David Chalian discuss Perry's impact on the Republican field and preview Thursday… Continue watching
Aug 11 Watch Bipartisan Deficit Super Committee to Play by Different Rules Than Congress House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi named three Democrats to the 12-member Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction on Thursday. Margret Warner discusses the committee's members, its unique rules and its deficit-reduction goals with Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute… Continue watching
Aug 11 Berwick Recess Appointment Part of a 'Fundamentally Broken' System Photo by Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images Dr. Donald M. Berwick. It's a name as likely to incite a political brawl in Washington as it is to attract a blank stare almost anywhere else. But if most Americans haven't… Continue reading