• What would it take for a third-party candidate to make it to the White House?

    What would it take for a third-party candidate to make it to the White House?

    Sep 25, 2016 04:20 PM EDT

    ... I think 80 percent of the people didn’t even know I was running.” Nader cited a study in a book by the academics Stephen Farnsworth and S. Robert Lichter that found he received just three minutes of speaking time on the evening news shows of the three major broadcast ...

  • GOP candidates jockey for delegate ‘free agents’ in Virginia

    GOP candidates jockey for delegate ‘free agents’ in Virginia

    Apr 30, 2016 12:03 AM EDT

    ... whether its the second, third, fourth, fifth ballot, to keep him in mind. JOHN YANG: But there is a floor fight in Cleveland, political analyst Farnsworth warns this won't be your grandfather's convention. STEPHEN FARNSWORTH: This is completely new. I sometimes think that this is a process of ...

  • Are the best days of the U.S. economy over?

    Are the best days of the U.S. economy over?

    Jan 29, 2016 01:54 AM EDT

    ... central heating and air conditioning. We have the telephone invented in 1876. We have the television set, partly invented here in San Francisco by Philosophy Farnsworth, and then look what we have hidden down here, a refrigerator, which eliminated the contamination of food. And here we have the Golden Gate ...

  • Lawrence Ferlinghetti recounts more than six decades of life in San Francisco

    Lawrence Ferlinghetti recounts more than six decades of life in San Francisco

    Mar 25, 2015 03:16 PM EDT

    Video by Adam Grossberg, KQED The first time I met Lawrence Ferlinghetti was unforgettable: It was early on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, and Elizabeth Farnsworth and I were working on a story about him for the PBS NewsHour. As surreal news trickled in of planes crashing in New ...

  • The Pulitzer Poet

    The Pulitzer Poet

    Dec 01, 2014 05:35 PM EDT

    ... it, and yet, to be able to see it, to have -- well, it's almost a paradox to say this -- a more compassionate distance. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: And when you write, Mr. Strand, do you write in longhand? MARK STRAND: I do. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Why? MARK STRAND: Well, I think, when ...

  • Dave Brat avoids the press for days after defeating Majority Leader Cantor

    Dave Brat avoids the press for days after defeating Majority Leader Cantor

    Jun 13, 2014 08:59 PM EDT

    ... day miracle, there really is no other way to describe it," Brat said shortly after trouncing Cantor by more than 11 percentage points. Stephen J. Farnsworth, a political science professor at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Va., said as a virtual unknown Brat doesn't have the luxury ...

  • Charles Wright named U.S. Poet Laureate

    Charles Wright named U.S. Poet Laureate

    Jun 12, 2014 04:00 AM EDT

    Charles Wright, a master of capturing landscape and meditation in verse, has been named the next Poet Laureate of the United States by the Library of Congress. It is the latest in a long list of honors and awards for Wright, who is considered one of the greatest American poets of his generation.

  • Seasons serve as backdrop to Charles Wright's Pulitzer Prize-winning collection

    Seasons serve as backdrop to Charles Wright's Pulitzer Prize-winning collection

    Jun 11, 2014 07:52 PM EDT

    Charles Wright, professor of English at the University of Virginia, discusses his Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of poetry, "Black Zodiac."

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    Young voters in Va. overwhelmingly support McAuliffe, but will they vote?

    Nov 04, 2013 11:18 PM EDT

    Virginia Tech students who support Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe attend an event in Blacksburg, Va., on Oct. 28. Photo by Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images With polls showing a clear gender gap in the Virginia governor's race, they also reveal a divide among another part of the state's electorate: young voters. According...

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    New poll gives McAuliffe big lead in Virginia

    Oct 29, 2013 01:10 PM EDT

    Virginia Tech students attend a Monday event in Blacksburg, Va. for gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe. Photo by Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images With one week to go until Election Day in Virginia, Democrat Terry McAuliffe has expanded his lead over Republican Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, turning what was expected to be the most...