• News Wrap: White House struggles to shift gears amid Russia questions

    News Wrap: White House struggles to shift gears amid Russia questions

    Mar 27, 2017 11:26 PM EST

    ... JUDY WOODRUFF: Friday's failure to get a House vote on replacing Obamacare is still reverberating tonight. But the president and his team are finding it difficult trying to shift to new topics. John Yang has our report. SEAN SPICER, White House Press Secretary: We're not saying its ...

  • In West Virginia, LGBTQ advocates see a shift toward support

    In West Virginia, LGBTQ advocates see a shift toward support

    Mar 26, 2017 08:01 PM EST

    Samuel Leizear, field education director at the West Virginia University School of Social Work, also conducts trainings on transgender issues for businesses and organizations that request them. When he began offering them about a decade ago, he received two to three requests per year. Now, he receives that number every ...

  • Block grants are the heart of GOP’s Medicaid plans. Here's how they work

    Block grants are the heart of GOP’s Medicaid plans. Here's how they work

    Jan 25, 2017 03:16 PM EST

    ... break down how this policy could play out, and its implications — both for government spending and for accessing care. Q: How would a block grant work? So far, Trump hasn’t released details on his particular plan. But the basic idea is that states would get fixed federal grants that ...

  • Post-election, how should news outlets shift focus?

    Post-election, how should news outlets shift focus?

    Jan 01, 2017 07:39 PM EST

    ... having more journalists of color in the newsroom and that's absolutely vital and that's nowhere near where it needs to be. And that work needs to continue. But I think we also need to understand diversity more broadly. That diversity is also socio and economic diversity. Most newsrooms ...

  • A poet's ode to the meaning of work

    A poet's ode to the meaning of work

    Sep 05, 2016 06:15 PM EST

    ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-XxgwM0Yvk What Work Is We stand in the rain in a long line waiting at Ford Highland Park. For work. You know what work is—if you’re old enough to read this you know what work is, although you may not do it ...

  • Shields and Rubin on Trump's staff shift and Clinton's 'self-inflicted' damage

    Shields and Rubin on Trump's staff shift and Clinton's 'self-inflicted' damage

    Aug 19, 2016 11:37 PM EST

    ... Trump campaign, phases one and two. We have a new -- Mark, a new campaign manager. We have Paul Manafort out after some stories about his work in Ukraine. We know that one of the new folks coming in is from Breitbart News, Stephen Bannon. What do we make of all ...

  • Hispanics see shift in Trump's immigration rhetoric

    Hispanics see shift in Trump's immigration rhetoric

    Jul 31, 2016 01:20 PM EST

    ... Trump will consider. "He realizes that there are a lot of good people that are in the shadows. He wants some proposals on how to work on that," said Ohio-based televangelist Frank Amedia, who is helping to lead the effort. A record 27.3 million Latinos will be eligible ...

  • Presidential campaigns likely to shift focus to small business owners

    Presidential campaigns likely to shift focus to small business owners

    Jul 20, 2016 04:56 PM EST

    ... is also concerned about issues like regulation - a topic the candidate's son, Donald Trump Jr., mentioned briefly in his speech Tuesday. "Why should we work our butts off as small business people when we're going to have tons of regulations dumped on us? It wears on us after ...

  • Surgeons’ late-night work doesn’t cause patients harm, study says

    Surgeons’ late-night work doesn’t cause patients harm, study says

    Aug 27, 2015 01:39 PM EST

    Patients receiving common operations in the daytime fared no worse in the short-term if their attending physician worked a hospital graveyard shift the night before than patients whose doctor did not, according to a new study examining the effects of sleep deprivation on surgeons.

  • Is right-to-work the kiss of death for labor unions?

    Is right-to-work the kiss of death for labor unions?

    Mar 09, 2015 09:53 PM EST

    Wisconsin labor unions took another hit today as Governor Scott Walker signed a bill known as the “right to work” into law Monday morning. In 2011, Governor Walker won a bitter fight to restrict collective bargaining for public sector workers. Now, after surviving a recall election and potentially looking towards a White House run, Mr....