Sep 08 Blair Memoir Stands by Iraq Invasion When American politicians write their memoirs, the strongest emotion they normally evoke is a measure of sympathy for all the trees shredded to convey reams of turgid or evasive prose. Not so for their British counterparts, who settle scores,… Continue reading
Sep 08 President Obama Takes On Boehner President Obama and House minority leader John Boehner, R-Ohio. File photo/Getty images. It's not often that a House minority leader's schedule can dictate the president's schedule. But that's precisely what is happening Wednesday. White House press secretary Robert… Continue reading
Sep 07 Watch Obama to Unveil Business Tax Cut Plan In President Obama's latest attempt to boost the economy, he plans to propose allowing businesses to write off new capital investments through 2011. However, new polls paint a grim picture for him and congressional Democrats. Political editor David Chalian examines… Continue watching
Sep 07 Gov2.0: Challenge.Gov Aims to Make Government More User-Friendly By Chris Amico Two of the most consistent themes at this week's Gov2.0 Summit is that government is bad at making the things it needs and it spends far too much on bad technology. "Think about on a daily basis whether you're… Continue reading
Sep 07 Political Checklist: Polls Hold More Bad Midterm News for Democrats By Quinn Bowman In this week's edition of the Political Checklist, Judy Woodruff and Gwen Ifill spoke with political editor David Chalian about new polls that bring more bad news for Democrats ahead of the midterm elections, as well… Continue reading
Sep 07 At Gov 2.0 Summit, Democratizing Data Is the Watchword The Rundown is covering this week's Gov2.0 Summit in Washington, D.C., where a mix of technologists, activists and industry professionals have gathered to talk about methods to run governments in more open and useful manners. Gov2.0 is a catch-all… Continue reading
Sep 07 Australia Cobbles Together New Government It took more than two weeks of horse trading to win the votes of independent members of parliament, but Australia now has a government with the narrowest of majorities. And that is an accurate reflection of the election last… Continue reading
Sep 07 Tuesday: Petraeus Warns Against Quran Burning; Obama to Call for Tax Breaks Indonesian demonstrators rally outside the U.S. embassy in Jakarta to protest a Florida church's plans to burn copies of the Quran on the ninth anniversary of 9/11. Photo by Aldo Utama/AFP/Getty Images. Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. and… Continue reading
Sep 07 New Polls Show Democrats in Deep Hole President Obama walks to the Oval Office on Monday after returning from a trip to Milwaukee. Photo by Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images. The new Washington Post/ABC News and Wall Street Journal/NBC News polls released Tuesday provide a double whammy… Continue reading
Sep 07 Watch Craigslist Drops Adult Services Ads: What's the Real Impact? The world's largest classified ads website, Craigslist.org, shut down its profitable adult services section after accusations that it was being used for prostitution and human trafficking. Judy Woodruff gets two views on the larger legal impact. Continue watching