• DSCC stops running TV ads in Kentucky Senate race

    DSCC stops running TV ads in Kentucky Senate race

    Oct 14, 2014 08:55 PM EDT

    ... million immigrants living in the country illegally. Grimes was heavily recruited by Democrats to challenge McConnell, but her support eroded in recent polls under the weight of attacks by McConnell and his allies. While McConnell has been plagued by low approval ratings, he has sought to turn the election into ...

  • Protesters converge on Wall Street to call attention to climate change

    Protesters converge on Wall Street to call attention to climate change

    Sep 23, 2014 01:03 AM EDT

    ... and its human and natural resources. So we have to stop them. GWEN IFILL: A short distance away, Secretary of State John Kerry lent his weight to the cause, opening what organizers are calling climate week. He underlined findings that 2013 saw the largest single-year increase in carbon pollution ...

  • How scandals could change the business of football

    How scandals could change the business of football

    Sep 18, 2014 12:32 AM EDT

    ... Peterson. What you should really be embarrassed about a half-a-billion dollars of taxpayers' money that the governor of Minnesota gave to the Wilf brothers to build the stadium in which they will keep all of the profits. If people become more aware of those issues, if football becomes ...

  • The issue that could roil the midterms

    The issue that could roil the midterms

    Aug 28, 2014 01:03 PM EDT

    ... Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., has a book coming out early next month, and in it, she writes about male senators commenting on her weight. One colleague told her, “Don’t lose too much weight now. I like my girls chubby.” Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is suing the U ...

  • Louis XIV's accounting shenanigans and the threat they pose today

    Louis XIV's accounting shenanigans and the threat they pose today

    Jun 27, 2014 08:08 PM EDT

    ... and corporate institutions. Louis XIV, for example, stopped carrying golden notebooks of his expenditures and revenues, and his nation plunged into the red under the weight of multiple wars and opulent palaces. For a modern example of the importance of accounting, look no further than the collapse of Lehman Brothers ...

  • DC community tries new anti-poverty program

    DC community tries new anti-poverty program

    May 24, 2014 07:00 PM EDT

    Modeled after the Harlem Children's Zone in New York, "promised neighborhoods" are being planned or underway in at least 20 states.

  • From machines to manicures, what goes into the GDP these days?

    From machines to manicures, what goes into the GDP these days?

    Apr 29, 2014 08:23 PM EDT

    ... opinion of some of these alternate measures? The subjectivity is the Achilles heel of it. Maryland’s GPI has 20-some indicators, for example. What weight do I put on each? How much do I subtract for the commuting time? And if I enjoy my commute, maybe it’s one ...

  • New play depicts drama of Mideast peacemaking at ‘Camp David’

    New play depicts drama of Mideast peacemaking at ‘Camp David’

    Apr 04, 2014 01:00 AM EDT

    ... you just saw, but you have watched the Middle East. How important were the Camp David accords and are they still? MARGARET WARNER: As Lawrence Wright and Jerry Rafshoon just said, really essential, because you took the two most powerful armies and the -- and sworn enemies, and they cut a ...

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    Does Emotion Ever Have a Role in Foreign Policy?

    Jun 01, 2012 03:05 PM EDT

    Seeing the pictures from Syria this week of the bodies of women and children murdered - many at close range - reminds us again of the inhumanity of war. As hard as we try to put horrible images like these out of our minds, when they show up on television and in Internet video, they...

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    The Silent, Deadly Epidemic of Non-Communicable Disease

    Sep 08, 2011 05:00 PM EDT

    CT scanners can be used to detect cancerous tumors. Photo by Flickr user Topsy Quret. In 10 days, the United Nations will convene a high-level meeting on non-communicable diseases. The world's global health news has been so dominated by infectious culprits -- HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, influenza -- that it's easy to forget just how big...