Jan 05 Watch How the U.S. Auto Industry Picked Up Speed in 2011 With nearly 13 million cars sold, 2011 turned out to be the strongest year for Detroit's major automakers since the financial crisis hit in 2008. Margaret Warner discusses just how that 10 percent increase came to be with David Shepardson,… Continue watching
Dec 06 Watch With Detroit on Brink of Financial Disaster, State Steps In As Detroit Budget Crisis Deepens, Is State Takeover Nearing?… Continue watching
Dec 01 ‘Harry Callahan at 100’ at the National Gallery of Art By Tom LeGro Harry Callahan was one of the most innovative and influential photographers of the 20th century. On the centennial of his birth, an exhibition of his work at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., explores his work. Continue reading
Nov 25 Watch Detroit Tackles Dropout Crisis By Engaging Students, Parents Education Secretary Arne Duncan has called Detroit, where four out of 10 children don't graduate from high school, "arguably, the worst school district in the country." Hari Sreenivasan and Detroit Public Television report on how the city's public schools are… Continue watching
Oct 14 Shields and Brooks on Herman Cain, Occupy Movement, Detroit, iPhone 4S By Hari Sreenivasan In this week's edition of The Doubleheader, syndicated columnist Mark Shields, New York Times columnist David Brooks and I chat about Herman Cain's surge in recent polls, the merits of his 9-9-9 plan (see the fact-check of… Continue reading
Oct 12 Watch News Wrap: Secretary Clinton Condemns Iran Over Terror Plot in U.S. In other news Wednesday, the U.S. stepped up a diplomatic assault on Iran over an alleged plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to Washington. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemned Iran in unusually strong terms. Also in Detroit, a Nigerian… Continue watching
Sep 05 Watch Obama Rallies Support for Jobs Speech as GOP Contenders Woo Voters in S.C. President Obama used a Labor Day event in Detroit to preview the jobs speech he'll give Thursday evening as Republican presidential contenders targeted the president, and each other, at a forum in South Carolina. Judy Woodruff and David Chalian assess… Continue watching
Jul 27 Watch Stakes High at Start of UAW-Big 3 Talks, But ‘Both Sides Want This to Go Well’ Detroit's Big 3 Carmakers, UAW Start Labor Talks… Continue watching
Apr 11 Watch Detroit Orchestra Back for Encore After Labor, Budget Discord The Detroit Symphony Orchestra returned to the stage this weekend for two free concerts. Continue watching
Mar 30 Making Sen$e: Are American Workers Overpaid? By Paul Solman Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news most days on his Making Sen$e page. Here's Wednesday's query: Name: Alex Question: Maybe it's my background as a college instructor (and… Continue reading