• Working long hours adds hurdle for undocumented students who dream of college

    Working long hours adds hurdle for undocumented students who dream of college

    Dec 14, 2017 08:40 PM EDT

    ... as I do, it puts me behind, it stresses me out constantly,” he said. “Which I know holds me back from being a high performer.” The Houston teen is part of a group of students who must leap huge hurdles to get into college and, eventually, build better lives. About ...

  • Is a GOP win more important than tax plan unpopularity?

    Is a GOP win more important than tax plan unpopularity?

    Nov 27, 2017 11:25 PM EDT

    ... good deal out of this. Specifically, what we're looking for is DACA, the so-called dreamers. They want to have protections for those individuals in a government funding bill, or maybe some Obamacare fixes. The president, of course, still wants to get that wall built, and Republicans saying, we ...

  • What to watch for during Trump’s swing through Asia

    What to watch for during Trump’s swing through Asia

    Nov 03, 2017 07:06 PM EDT

    ... A lot of people are disappointed in the Justice Department, including me.” Will Trump tone down his tweets? When asked if Trump will be less inflammatory on Twitter during the trip, McMaster said, “What’s inflammatory is the North Korean regime and what they’re doing to threaten the world.”

  • Storm-proofing New York is slow going five years since Superstorm Sandy

    Storm-proofing New York is slow going five years since Superstorm Sandy

    Nov 01, 2017 10:30 PM EDT

    ... barrier, modeled after the huge project that protects Netherlands from the North Sea. It would take decades and cost tens of billions of dollars. Mayor Bill de Blasio: I'm very interested in it. If there's a way to do it, it might be one of the better solutions ...

  • Is the 'creative class' saving our cities, or making them impossible to live in?

    Is the 'creative class' saving our cities, or making them impossible to live in?

    Jun 01, 2017 07:59 PM EDT

    ... holds back innovation by limiting clustering. For this reason, I prefer to call it the New Urban Luddism. It’s equivalent to the Luddites, who in the old factories in England smashed the machines, because they were scared their jobs would be eliminated. We have these ballot measures now in ...

  • Can the left's grassroots activists curb Trump's influence?

    Can the left's grassroots activists curb Trump's influence?

    May 03, 2017 11:27 PM EDT

    ... political group dedicated to opposing Trump’s policies. Now, Shields is leading the chapter in a burst of local activism aimed at stymieing Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress. READ MORE: What have we learned from President Trump's first 100 days? In the first 100 days of Trump’s ...

  • Scorning media, Trump denies reports of chaos during wide-ranging news conference

    Scorning media, Trump denies reports of chaos during wide-ranging news conference

    Feb 17, 2017 01:31 AM EDT

    During a more than hour-long news conference, President Trump rejected charges of ties between his campaign and Russia, blasted the intelligence community for leaks and repeatedly attacked the news media. Judy Woodruff, Hari Sreenivasan and Lisa Desjardins offer a look at and fact-check of the president’s remarks.

  • Why trust is essential between the president and intelligence community

    Why trust is essential between the president and intelligence community

    Jan 05, 2017 12:20 AM EDT

    President-elect Donald Trump has routinely taken a skeptical stance toward the U.S. intelligence community. As the release nears of a report on alleged Russian hacking in the U.S. election, Judy Woodruff gets views from James Woolsey, senior advisor to the Trump Transition and a former CIA director, and Jeffrey Smith, former general counsel to the...

  • The visa program leaving hopeful immigrants empty-handed

    The visa program leaving hopeful immigrants empty-handed

    Nov 18, 2016 12:10 AM EDT

    After leaving their home in Pakistan and living in Dubai, Noreen and Shehryar Iqbal aspired to move to the U.S. through the EB-5 Visa program, which grants green cards and eventually U.S. citizenship for large, job-creating investments. Now their life savings are gone and there are no green cards in sight. What happened? Economics correspondent...

  • Maureen Dowd on why politics in 2016 sounds like a ‘primal scream and death rattle’

    Maureen Dowd on why politics in 2016 sounds like a ‘primal scream and death rattle’

    Sep 28, 2016 11:37 PM EDT

    Why does the presidential political landscape look like it’s been ripped from the ‘90s? And will Donald Trump inspire more celebrities to run for the highest office? New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd sits down with Gwen Ifill to discuss her new book, "The Year of Voting Dangerously," and what she thinks of politics today.