Jun 07 Why Three Syrians Fled to Lebanon By Saskia de Melker Boys stand outside a camp settlement of 35 Syrian families in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. Photos by Saskia de Melker. BEIRUT -- The odds that you'll see a Syrian refugee in Lebanon are high. Nearly 500,000 Syrian refugees reside in this… Continue reading
Jun 06 From the Archives: NSA Surveillance Seven Years Earlier EmbedVideo(6633, 482, 304); Watch a debate over the NSA's phone call surveillance program, which aired on the May 12, 2006 NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Under a top-secret court order issued using a provision of the Patriot Act, the… Continue reading
Jun 06 Watch ‘Bad to the Very End’: Author Reflects on the Long, Deadly Road to WWII Victory 'Bad to the Very End': Author Reflects on the Long, Deadly Road to WWII Victory… Continue watching
Jun 05 How Do You See Immigration Reform Affecting the Economy? Inside Immigration Reform is a PBS NewsHour ongoing series. This week on the PBS NewsHour, we look at the economic costs and benefits of the immigration reform bill currently under consideration in the United States Senate. The… Continue reading
Jun 05 Christie Under Fire From Both Parties After Special Election Announcement New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie outlines plans for a special election to be held to fill the vacant U.S. Senate seat of the late Democratic Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg. By calling for a special election to fill the… Continue reading
Jun 05 Dispatch: Neighbor Against Neighbor in Northern Lebanon By Saskia de Melker View slideshow of the two Lebanese neighborhoods in Tripoli. TRIPOLI, Lebanon -- Walk the streets of the adjacent neighborhoods of Bab al-Tabbaneh and Jabal Mohsen in the Lebanese city of Tripoli and you will find some similarities. Many businesses are… Continue reading
Jun 04 Watch Storms, Science and Risk: Challenges Facing Extreme Weather Researchers Storms, Science and Risk: Challenges Facing Extreme Weather Researchers… Continue watching
Jun 04 Live Chat With Jeffrey Brown Forty years ago, Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer reporting on the Watergate scandal laid the groundwork for what would become the MacNeil/Lehrer Report, known today as the PBS NewsHour. Jeffrey Brown interviews ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro. Over the next… Continue reading
Jun 03 Will Government Probes Crowd Out Policy Debates? Tea party activists protest against the IRS last month in West Palm Beach, Fla. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images. Official Washington begins the month of June with a massive agenda set against a backdrop of scandal politics that… Continue reading
May 31 Shields and Brooks on Bachmann’s Retirement, Yankee Favoritism By Christina Bellantoni NewsHour Political Editor Christina Bellantoni guest-hosts the Doubleheader with Mark Shields and David Brooks Mark Shields and David Brooks made a triumphant return to the Doubleheader Friday and I filled the host chair as Hari Sreenivasan is… Continue reading