Sep 20 President Obama Starts Week at Town Hall, Ends at United Nations The first family walks to St. John's Episcopal Church in Washington for Sunday service. Photo by Dennis Brack-Pool/Getty Images. President Obama kicks off his week with a live, one-hour town hall on CNBC focused on jobs and… Continue reading
Sep 17 Watch Shields and Brooks on Role of Values Voters, New Watchdog Agency Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks analyze the week's top news including what role "values voters" are playing in this year's midterm elections and what effect Elizabeth Warren's new consumer protection agency will have on… Continue watching
Sep 17 Shields and Brooks on 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' Michael Vick, the Shotgun Offense By Hari Sreenivasan I might have finally figured out after nine or so months what makes this little segment of ours so unique: It is the only program I know of that tackles both what is at times the "sport of politics" and… Continue reading
Sep 17 Citizens No Longer Need 'Marching Orders' To Get Involved With Washington stuck in a cycle of partisanship -- made worse by the prospect of mid-term elections a little more than six weeks away -- it's refreshing to hear a room full of people cheering on the role ordinary citizens… Continue reading
Sep 17 Watch Conservatives Weigh Social, Economic Concerns as Midterms Approach Kwame Holman reports from the Values Voter Summit on how social conservatives are trying to shape the Republican message for the fall campaign. Continue watching
Sep 17 Watch Israeli Settlements Key Issue in Latest Mideast Peace Talks The second round of the latest Middle East peace talks took place this week in Egypt and Jerusalem between Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas with Israeli settlements remaining a big diplomatic hurdle. Jeffrey Brown gets an… Continue watching
Sep 17 Education Leaders Square Off Over Charters at 'Superman' D.C. Premiere Geoffrey Canada, Arne Duncan and Randi Weingarten. Photo by Tchad J. Moore Three documentaries released this year focus on the troubled American education system. The highest-profile is "Waiting for Superman," directed by Davis Guggenheim, who also directed the… Continue reading
Sep 17 Sizing Up Wall Street Critic Elizabeth Warren as Your Consumer Advocate By Paul Solman Today, Elizabeth Warren was put into de facto control of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau she helped conceive. Opposition from America's banks was the widely reported reason she wasn't formally nominated to run it. One might wonder that the U.S. Continue reading
Sep 17 Mapping the Midterms: District Types Offer Data Behind the Races By Dante Chinni There are usually two ways of looking at midterm congressional races, neither of them wholly accurate. There is the tendency to see the 435 separate House races as completely individual events - an idea that all politics… Continue reading
Sep 17 Gwen's Take: Who Exactly Are the Bums? With a little more than six weeks left before Americans go to the polls and put us out of our midterm election madness/misery, this year's prevailing political story line got a fresh bump this week: voters want to throw… Continue reading