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    Brinksmanship Continues in Wisconsin

    Feb 22, 2011 01:22 PM EDT

    ... collective bargaining restrictions Gov. Walker seeks, but provides a portrait of a hero standing in solidarity with his labor brethren. The Washington Post's Greg Sargent has all the details: LINK What remains unclear is how the national labor movement will respond if Gov. Walker emerges victorious in the state ...

  • Boston exhibit reveals John Singer Sargent's methods and why his work remains relevant

    Boston exhibit reveals John Singer Sargent's methods and why his work remains relevant

    Nov 29, 2023 11:20 PM EDT

    ... Sargent did in 1884, when this portrait of the American-born Madame Pierre Gautreau was exhibited at the prestigious Paris Salon. She did not commission Sargent. Rather, he chased her. Erica Hirshler: Everybody in Paris wanted to make an image of Madame Gautreau. One other American artist described her as ...

  • Exhibition showcases Frank Costantino's hand-drawn designs that bring buildings to life

    Exhibition showcases Frank Costantino's hand-drawn designs that bring buildings to life

    Apr 17, 2025 10:20 PM EDT

    ... with life and light and movement. Lauren Graves: He absolutely approaches each building as a person and uses little and big tools to kind of make that personality shine, signs of seasons, signs of time, such as shadow, so all of these kind of additional characteristics that surround the building ...

  • Texas coastal residents warned of floods and power outages as Beryl approaches landfall

    Texas coastal residents warned of floods and power outages as Beryl approaches landfall

    Jul 07, 2024 10:37 PM EDT

    Farther down the coast in Freeport, Mark Richardson, a 64-year-old retiree, said homeowners were busy “trying to tie everything down” and worried that Beryl had people unsure about where along the Texas coast it would make landfall. He spent Sunday morning on the beach and said ocean swells ...

  • Mark Shields, a voice of political civility across decades, dies at 85

    Mark Shields, a voice of political civility across decades, dies at 85

    Jun 21, 2022 09:52 PM EDT

    ... lifetime of Washington experience to the conversation, drawing upon his work on countless political campaigns supporting candidates from Robert F. Kennedy to Moe Udall to Sargent Shriver. Sitting opposite a conservative counterpart -- David Gergen, William Safire, Paul Gigot, Michael Gerson, David Brooks – Mark helped the PBS NewsHour establish its reputation ...

  • This poet's guide dog helped him discover a new world

    This poet's guide dog helped him discover a new world

    Apr 20, 2018 10:10 PM EDT

    ... wanted his blindness hidden. Stephen Kuusisto: My job was to really just live without the kinds of assistance and accommodations that I needed and to make it seem OK. Jeffrey Brown: But the way you write, it at least came off as a little worse than that, as in, she ...

  • This poet imagines black victims of police violence 'alive someplace better'

    This poet imagines black victims of police violence 'alive someplace better'

    Feb 26, 2018 09:52 PM EDT

    ... those things at the same time in America, or in the world, is just some difficult stuff,” they said. “It's beautiful, but other people make it suck.” An award-winning spoken word artist, Smith’s “Dear White America,” was a biting, cascade of a poem that tackles endemic violence ...

  • How American artists captured the Great War up close

    How American artists captured the Great War up close

    Mar 03, 2017 01:21 AM EDT

    ... big as it was? ROBERT COZZOLINO: You have these artists who are thinking, basically, here's this huge global conflict going on. How do I make sense of it? And how do I also bring it down to a human level and express either dissent, an urgency for America to ...

  • A Defense Department dictionary helped this poet write in the language of war

    A Defense Department dictionary helped this poet write in the language of war

    Sep 19, 2016 07:53 PM EDT

    ... create a tapestry of victims in Iraq, prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, soldiers at war, veterans who have returned home and grieving spouses. “I tried to make the border between my family’s narrative and the narratives that are currently happening in Iraq, Afghanistan and this country as permeable as possible ...

  • EPA says pesticide harms bees in some cases

    EPA says pesticide harms bees in some cases

    Jan 06, 2016 03:39 PM EDT

    WASHINGTON — A major pesticide harms honeybees when used on cotton and citrus but not on other big crops like corn, berries and tobacco, the Environmental Protection Agency found.