Jan 08 Examining Michelle Rhee's Legacy in Education Reform Editor's Note: This post was edited on January 10th to include Thursday's live chat with John Merrow. EmbedVideo(5414, 482, 304); Tuesday's Frontline examines one of the most controversial figures in education reform in recent memory: Michelle… Continue reading
Jan 08 The Tuesday Cutline...a Contest By Tom LeGro If dogs could talk, we're pretty sure they'd constantly profess their undying love and loyalty to us while also constantly lose their attent -- hey what that's smell?… Continue reading
Jan 08 How To Get Interviews Without Cold Calling By Paul Solman An unemployed banker peddles on the street for a job. Photo by Spencer Platt via Getty Images. Nick Corcodilos is an expert on how to get a job. We ran into him while doing a story on the relative… Continue reading
Jan 08 Hagel Nomination to Face GOP Challenge President Obama and former Sen. Chuck Hagel at the White House on Monday. Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images. Time and again Monday, President Obama praised Chuck Hagel's military service in announcing the former Republican senator from Nebraska and… Continue reading
Jan 07 Watch Texas Sen. Ted Cruz on the Deficit, Gun Rights, Legal Immigration Texas Sen. Ted Cruz on the Deficit, Gun Rights, Legal Immigration… Continue watching
Jan 07 Watch Health Care Spending Increases but Rate Slows With Recession and Economy Health Care Spending Increases but Rate Slows With Recession and Economy… Continue watching
Jan 07 Watch Major Banks to Pay $8.5 Billion in Settlement Over Housing Foreclosure Abuses Major Banks to Pay $8.5 Billion in Settlement Over Housing Foreclosure Abuses… Continue watching
Jan 07 Watch Lawmakers Promise Tough Questions for Defense, CIA Nominees Judy Woodruff reports on President Obama's nominations of Chuck Hagel for defense secretary and John Brennan for CIA director. Gwen Ifill talks to Jessica Tuchman Mathews of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Reuel Marc Gerecht of Foundation for Defense… Continue watching
Jan 07 Weekly Poem: 'Distracted by an Ergonomic Bicycle' By Tom LeGro James Arthur is the author of "Charms Against Lightning," a debut poetry collection published by Copper Canyon Press in October. He has received the Amy Lowell Travelling Poetry Scholarship, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry, a residency at the Amy… Continue reading
Jan 07 Beyond Suburbia: The Other Side of Vultures A black vulture chews on a rubber seal from a vehicle in Everglades National Park, Florida. Photo by Curtis Morgan/Miami Herald/MCT via Getty Images. On Friday, I wrote about a colony of vultures that has occupied a suburban… Continue reading