Dec 31 It’s So Easy to Say Goodbye to These Six Political Ad Archetypes of 2012 EmbedVideo(5343, 482, 304); "The Welder"—or specifically the welder in political ads—is one character we're happy to say goodbye to in 2013. All images and sounds were pulled from 2012 campaign ads. You can hear ads from Rick Santorum, Newt… Continue reading
Dec 28 Shields and Brooks: Best Political Gaffes of 2012, NFL Playoff Predictions By Christina Bellantoni Mark Shields and David Brooks agreed on one thing in our year-end Doubleheader Friday: that the gaffes that defined 2012 were primarily from Republicans. I was filling in for Hari Sreenivasan, who is enjoying a break for… Continue reading
Dec 28 Some of the Best and Oddest Photos of 2012 From runways to rooftops, refugee camps to campaign stumps, this slide show offers a smattering of images that caught our eye in the last 12 months. Some of the photos were of familiar scenes, such as presidential candidates stumping… Continue reading
Dec 28 Some of the Best (and Oddest) Photos of 2012 By Production DA Like any sizable news outfit, we here at the NewsHour sift through an enormous amount of photographs over the course of a year. It’s just part of the job, and, as many of us can attest, not a bad one… Continue reading
Dec 27 Miles O’Brien: Crawling in Sewage, Sleeping With Dolphins in 2012 EmbedVideo(5319, 482, 304); Over the past year, Miles O'Brien has jogged, drank and slept on the job. He's suited up, strapped in and goofed off. He swam with dolphins to study sleep, played ball with chimps, tracked radiation… Continue reading
Dec 27 What Have We Learned From the Dropout Crisis? In Clark County, Nevada, Chaparral High School's turnaround program had administrators going door-to-door to bring dropouts back to the classroom. Photo by Mike Fritz/PBS NewsHour. Here's a statistic we've reported on all year: One in four students drops out… Continue reading
Dec 26 In Photos: Comparing Washington, D.C. in 1913 and Today A hundred years ago, the streets of Washington, D.C., were packed with women demanding the right to vote. The women -- some of them farmers, doctors, actresses and students -- traveled far distances in some cases to march… Continue reading
Dec 26 Commentary: A Tech To-Do List for Washington in 2013 Rob Pegoraro tries to make sense of computers, consumer electronics, telecom services, the Internet, software and other things that beep or blink through reporting, reviewing and analysis -- from 1999 to 2011 as the Washington Post's tech columnist, now… Continue reading
Dec 25 2012 Year in Review: The Year of You It used to be that major institutions were the only arbiters of Year in Reviews. Whether it was broadcast networks or international newspapers of record, a small group of people assembled what they thought were the most momentous occasions of… Continue reading
Dec 24 From Sunken Ship to Olympic Victory, View Top World Moments of 2012 By Larisa Epatko The year 2012 in international news held moments of terror when a cruise ship capsized off the coast of Italy and moments of joy in London's Olympic Games. The year saw changes in leadership by those exasperated by belt-tightening measures,… Continue reading