• Federal officials reconsider giving military equipment to police

    Federal officials reconsider giving military equipment to police

    Aug 16, 2014 03:31 PM EST

    WASHINGTON -- After a decade of sending military equipment to civilian police departments across the country, federal officials are reconsidering the idea in light of the violence in Ferguson, Missouri. The public has absorbed images of heavily armed police, snipers trained on protesters and tear gas plumes. Against that backdrop, Attorney ...

  • From Michael Brown to the Central Park Five, race changes how victims are portrayed

    From Michael Brown to the Central Park Five, race changes how victims are portrayed

    Aug 14, 2014 08:30 PM EST

    The photos of military vehicles dispatched in the streets could have come from a war zone, but it’s Ferguson, Missouri. Community members are in a tense stand-off with law enforcement days after an unarmed African-American 18-year-old named Michael Brown was shot and killed by a ...

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    Health Care Law goes live Tuesday, despite glitches and critics

    Sep 30, 2013 04:56 PM EST

    ... start shopping right away for subsidized private coverage. Or they can wait to sign up as late as Dec. 15 and still get coverage by Jan. 1. Many will probably want to see how it goes for the first wave of applicants before they jump in. Glitches are likely to ...

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    Will Government Probes Crowd Out Policy Debates?

    Jun 03, 2013 01:45 PM EST

    Tea party activists protest against the IRS last month in West Palm Beach, Fla. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images. Official Washington begins the month of June with a massive agenda set against a backdrop of scandal politics that have kept the White House on the defensive and won't ...

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    Economic Woes Raise Questions on Bernanke

    Jan 22, 2010 05:00 AM EST

    ... few months ago, when they were trying to decide whether to reappoint Mr. Bernanke to a second four-year term, there were names floating around, Janet Yellen, a former Clinton adviser, a former Fed governor, who is now the president of the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank, Roger Ferguson, the ...

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    Bernanke: U.S. Economy Poised for Recovery

    Aug 21, 2009 04:00 AM EST

    ... echoing proposals the Obama administration have put forward in recent months as part of its regulatory reform plan. Bernanke's term as Fed chairman expires Jan. 31, and discussion of whether President Obama will reappoint him to a second term is the topic of much private discussion among the who ...

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    Brown v. Board of Education

    May 12, 2004 04:00 AM EST

    ... Bledsoe paid $15 to formally file the complaint, a three-judge panel was designated to hear the case. They scheduled the trial to commence on June 25, 1951. RONALD GRIFFIN, Washington University School of Law: On the front end, they wanted to determine whether separate and equal, which is the ...

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    Advertising Angst

    Aug 05, 2002 04:00 AM EST

    ... want to do online... most want to do a combination of both today, and that's something that we can provide them. TERENCE SMITH: Matt Ferguson, CareerBuilder's chief operating officer, says that print advertising has to find its place in the new media world. MATT FERGUSON: It's sort ...

  • Why I founded #CharlestonSyllabus after the Charleston shooting

    Why I founded #CharlestonSyllabus after the Charleston shooting

    Jul 09, 2015 03:26 PM EST

    ... detached from the present. Personal feelings must be kept at bay, lest they affect my “objectivity” and fair judgement. But in the aftermath of the June 17 massacre of nine black men and women by a white supremacist in Charleston, South Carolina’s historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, my ...

  • What’s next for the city of Ferguson?

    What’s next for the city of Ferguson?

    Nov 26, 2014 12:35 AM EST

    Just a day after the grand jury announced not to indict police officer Darren Wilson, the city of Ferguson remains tense. Gwen Ifill speaks with Christina Swarns, Litigation Director for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and Susan McGraw of St. Louis University, on the grand jury’s role in the legal system and what’s...