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Political activist, author, and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader can now add museum founder to his biography. The American Museum of Tort Law, which recently opened in his hometown of Winsted, Connecticut, features exhibits on groundbreaking civil cases including auto safety, tobacco and asbestos. PBS NewsHour's Phil Hirschkorn visited ...
... his 2016 rivals belong to a long tradition of presidential candidates who have stretched the limits of truthiness on the campaign trail. On Monday's PBS NewsHour, Amy Walter of The Cook Political Report and Tamara Keith of NPR join NewsHour's Gwen Ifill to tackle the question of lies ...
... Editor's note: A version of this story aired on the PBS Program "Religion and Ethics Weekly." Fred de Sam Lazaro's reporting is a partnership with the Undertold Stories Project at St. Mary's University in Minnesota. JUDY WOODRUFF: But, first, the Dalai Lama was supposed to arrive ...
... position in the first place? LISA DESJARDINS: For now, all eyes remain on the quiet office of Paul Ryan, even though a spokesman says the Wisconsin congressman is still not running for speaker. Boehner says he will stay on as speaker until a successor is finally elected. For the PBS ...
... the policy "provides important safeguards for elections, helps to increase voter participation and makes sure that every eligible voter has an opportunity to participate.” In Wisconsin, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett said the policy is "one of the major reasons that Wisconsin has among the highest democratic participation in the nation ...
... HARI SREENIVASAN, PBS ANCHOR: A new Wall Street Journal analysis finds ticket prices at the nation's ten busiest airports-- including Atlanta, Dallas, and Denver-- have been stable, increasing around 1 percent on average from 2007 to 2014 -- while airlines reduced the number of passenger seats available by 1 ...
... who writes about financial planning to pay for college for Forbes, Sara Goldrick-Rab (@saragoldrickrab), a professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Daniel Porterfield (@DanPorterfield) President of Franklin and Marshall College, Jamey Rorison (@IHEPTweets) Senior Research Analyst at the Institute for Higher Education Policy and ...
... Energy. The Canadian company operates the largest crude oil and liquids pipeline system in the world. Line 5 is 645 miles long. It stretches from Wisconsin across Michigan's upper and lower Peninsulas and terminates in Ontario, Canada. The 30-inch pipeline splits into two 20-inch lines when it ...
... Obama proposed raising the overtime salary threshold to $50,400 in an op-ed for the Huffington Post. And yesterday, Obama headed to La Crosse, Wisconsin to lay out his proposal. "Now, this is an issue of basic fairness,” Obama told a crowd, "If you work longer, you work harder ...
WASHINGTON — Hispanic leaders are warning of harm to Republican White House hopes unless the party's presidential contenders do more to condemn Donald Trump, a businessman turned presidential candidate who's refusing to apologize for calling Mexican immigrants rapists and drug dealers.
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