• My Baltimore eighth-graders' response to the question, 'What now?' left me speechless

    My Baltimore eighth-graders' response to the question, 'What now?' left me speechless

    May 01, 2015 02:53 PM EDT

    ... past curfew or you might get hurt.” “We need more leadership from the older people since the government doesn’t care about us.” I was speechless. Was I really talking to a group of eighth-graders? The only question I could ask them next was, “Do you feel safe?” “Yes ...

  • Justices hear free speech dispute over Confederate flag license plate

    Justices hear free speech dispute over Confederate flag license plate

    Mar 23, 2015 03:22 PM EDT

    ... and so what appears on them is not private individuals' speech but the government's. The First Amendment applies when governments try to regulate the speech of others, but not when governments are doing the talking. Even if the court disagrees that license plates are government speech, the state said ...

  • Finding hope and reality in Obama's speech at Selma

    Finding hope and reality in Obama's speech at Selma

    Mar 09, 2015 11:58 PM EDT

    ... the next couple of days. Everyone is waiting to hear what she's said. We have seen over these last couple of days at every speech, everyone's been waiting to see if she was finally going to address it. She hasn't. Bill Clinton has said a couple of ...

  • LBJ linked Latinos, civil rights in 'Selma' speech

    LBJ linked Latinos, civil rights in 'Selma' speech

    Mar 05, 2015 01:54 PM EDT

    ... memories of historic events in which the "real hero," as Johnson said, was "the American Negro," little is said about Johnson's call in that speech to include Mexican-Americans in the struggle for equality. "It was a defining moment for Johnson and Mexican-Americans," Julie Leininger Pycior, a Manhattan ...

  • President Obama says Netanyahu speech offered no 'viable alternatives' with Iran

    President Obama says Netanyahu speech offered no 'viable alternatives' with Iran

    Mar 03, 2015 07:06 PM EDT

    ... t offer any "viable alternatives" to the nuclear negotiations with Iran during his speech to Congress. Obama says he read a transcript of Netanyahu's speech Tuesday. He says "there was nothing new" in the speech. Obama says Netanyahu made almost the same speech when he warned against the interim ...

  • How Jewish Americans view Netanyahu’s speech

    How Jewish Americans view Netanyahu’s speech

    Mar 03, 2015 12:24 AM EDT

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tried to play down divisions over his scheduled address to the U.S. Congress. How are Jewish Americans reacting to Netanyahu’s highly anticipated and controversial speech at the U.S. Capitol Tuesday? Gwen Ifill gets two views from David Harris of American Jewish Committee and Jeremy Ben-Ami of J Street.

  • Is Netanyahu playing politics with speech to Congress?

    Is Netanyahu playing politics with speech to Congress?

    Feb 28, 2015 01:10 AM EDT

    ... opposite sides weighed in. So the Republican Jewish Coalition essentially is threatening to spend money to undercut members who don't show up for the speech. The liberal J Street group has come out to raise money to protect those. Abe Foxman, the head of the Anti-Defamation League, called ...

  • Shields and Brooks on House GOP vs. Homeland Security, Netanyahu speech rift

    Shields and Brooks on House GOP vs. Homeland Security, Netanyahu speech rift

    Feb 28, 2015 12:12 AM EDT

    Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week’s news, including the biggest talking points at this year’s CPAC, an assessment of the Republicans’ fight over funding Homeland Security and the politics behind Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s upcoming speech to Congress.

  • U.S.-Israel tensions continue to rise ahead of Netanyahu speech

    U.S.-Israel tensions continue to rise ahead of Netanyahu speech

    Feb 25, 2015 10:31 PM EDT

    ... an already strained relationship between the close allies ahead of Netanyahu's address to Congress next Tuesday. More Democratic lawmakers announced they would skip the speech, which was orchestrated by GOP leaders without the Obama administration's knowledge. Netanyahu hopes his speech will strengthen opposition to a potential nuclear deal ...

  • Democrats to Boehner: Postpone Netanyahu speech

    Democrats to Boehner: Postpone Netanyahu speech

    Feb 19, 2015 05:59 PM EDT

    ... appears that you are using a foreign leader as a political tool against the President," the lawmakers wrote in a letter to Boehner. Netanyahu's speech is controversial because it comes as the Obama administration is negotiating with Iran over that country's nuclear program — negotiations that Netanyahu says could ...