• Mac and Cheese won’t be served at the White House this Thanksgiving

    Mac and Cheese won’t be served at the White House this Thanksgiving

    Nov 27, 2014 01:22 AM EDT

    ... is the eighth I have had the privilege to meet and set free in the Rose Garden. DOMENICO MONTANARO: In 2000, Jerry the turkey from Wisconsin sported a White House pass around his neck. Four years later, the Bush administration also had some with fun with the event. That year ...

  • Breaking down the 2014 Republican wave

    Breaking down the 2014 Republican wave

    Nov 05, 2014 02:23 PM EDT

    ... North Carolina -- and lost very narrowly in Virginia; it won governors’ races in Florida, Illinois (the president’s home state), Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan and Wisconsin; and, in the House, they made inroads in the Northeast, where they had zero House members before last night, winning races in New Hampshire ...

  • Students' excitement to run for office tempered by politics

    Students' excitement to run for office tempered by politics

    Nov 04, 2014 06:05 PM EDT

    In West Virginia, an 18-year-old is running for state delegate and would become one of the youngest lawmakers in the country. College freshman Saira Blair has already defeated an incumbent three times her age last month in the primary. PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs asked teens across the ...

  • Teens weigh in on future of American political system

    Teens weigh in on future of American political system

    Nov 04, 2014 04:12 PM EDT

    ... YBM6xSWkBq — Black River Falls HS (@BRFHighSchool) November 3, 2014 Produced by Alyssa Phillips, a student at Black River Falls High School in Black River Falls, Wisconsin. Are young people in tuned with politics? Check out this infographic to learn more @reportinglabs @PBS pic.twitter.com/0m088jxRsZ — CPBN Media Lab (@CPBNMediaLab ...

  • Join an election live chat and viewing with NewsHour's politics team

    Join an election live chat and viewing with NewsHour's politics team

    Oct 29, 2014 10:50 PM EDT

    Throughout the 2014 campaign season, PBS NewsHour has been reporting on some of the most exciting races directly from the field. With a week left until Election Day, revisit some of our favorite segments alongside the producers and reporters who made them happen and experts who will tell us more ...

  • How to watch the 2014 midterm debates

    How to watch the 2014 midterm debates

    Oct 14, 2014 02:00 PM EDT

    PBS NewsHour will live stream some of the debates, including the Kansas gubernatorial debate on Oct. 21, in the player above. We will also provide links to watch some of the other closely contested races. See the schedule below and click the link to find a live stream of the ...

  • Morning Line’s October Top 10

    Morning Line’s October Top 10

    Oct 03, 2014 01:19 PM EDT

    hey will hear more cases for the upcoming 2014-2015 term Thursday, including a housing discrimination case in Texas, a campaign contribution case in Florida and a congressional redistricting case out of Arizona. PBS NewsHour’s Judy Woodruff spoke with National Law Journal’s Marcia Coyle about the newly taken ...

  • Obama to defend economic legacy

    Obama to defend economic legacy

    Oct 02, 2014 01:02 PM EDT

    ... female millennial voters care a whole lot about wedding dresses. GOP strategists in the House and Senate are split over how to advance tax reform. PBS NewsHour’s Judy Woodruff spoke with one of the players in that tax debate, Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan about his new book “The Way ...

  • People in Ferguson talk about Michael Brown's shooting and the aftermath

    People in Ferguson talk about Michael Brown's shooting and the aftermath

    Aug 20, 2014 07:20 AM EDT

    ... I-can-do-what-I-want-and-get-away-with-it badge. That's not it." For more voices from the people in Ferguson, watch PBS NewsHour's Wednesday broadcast. Photos by Mike Fritz/PBS NewsHour Correction: An earlier version of this post misspelled the name of Ferguson resident Yale ...

  • Troubled teens find a 'new light' with nature photography

    Troubled teens find a 'new light' with nature photography

    Aug 05, 2014 03:36 PM EDT

    Photographer and counselor Ben Thwaits takes young people from the Northwest Passage treatment center into the wild armed with cameras, as part of a program called In a New Light. Wisconsin Public Television spoke to Thwaits for its Wisconsin Life series to learn more about helping teens gain confidence through ...