Dec 21 Test Your 2012 Slang Skills While the Oxford English Dictionary may be the "last word on words for over a century," the definitive record for slang and vernacular is the popular online lexicon, UrbanDictionary.com. The website began 13 years ago, and has continued… Continue reading
Dec 21 U.S. Gun Policy: Global Comparisons Screen shot of automatic weapons. By Jonathan Masters, online writer/editor for the Council on Foreign Relations Introduction The debate over gun control in the United States has waxed and waned over the years, stirred by a series of incidents… Continue reading
Dec 21 2012 Year in Review: Very Best of the Shields and Brooks Doubleheader By Hari Sreenivasan For loyal fans of the Doubleheader, this is the big enchilada. Each week this year we've talked to NewsHour regulars Mark Shields and David Brooks about the sport of politics and the politics of sports. We've conducted these chats far… Continue reading
Dec 21 2012’s Wild Weather Passes 2011 Billion-Dollar Disaster Record By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy Aerial view of the damage from Superstorm Sandy over the Atlantic Coast in Seaside Heights, New Jersey October 31. Sandy was one of 11 billion-dollar disasters to hit the U.S. this year. Pool Photo by Doug Mills via Reuters. Frankenstorm… Continue reading
Dec 21 Kerry as Secretary of State: Two Takes By News Desk Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., greets U.S. troops in Baghdad, Iraq, in 2005. Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images. President Obama on Friday nominated Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., as secretary of state to replace outgoing Secretary Hillary Clinton. Kerry's long career… Continue reading
Dec 21 Analysts: South Korean Election May Trigger North Korean Provocation By David Chalian The North Korean military band celebrates the North's rocket launch on Dec. 12 in Pyongyang. Photo by KCNA via Reuters. Following a presidential election in South Korea this week, a number of analysts are saying North Korea is likely to… Continue reading
Dec 21 James Livingston: Corporations Don’t Need Our Savings By Paul Solman James Livingston loves consumption, is skeptical of private investment. Paul Solman pushes him further on positions Livingston raised in a story on the NewsHour Thursday. James Livingston makes three economic arguments in favor of consumption over private investment/greater production. Continue reading
Dec 21 Will America Go Broke, Yes or No? By Paul Solman Photo by Marc Grimberg via Getty Images. Paul Solman answers questions from the NewsHour audience on business and economic news here on his Making Sen$e page. Here is Wednesday's query: Ashok Rao -- Chennai, India: I recently came across… Continue reading
Dec 21 Boehner’s ‘Plan B’ Implodes, Placing Him on Shaky Standing House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images. Perhaps the Mayans were talking about "Plan B." In the face of unyielding opposition from conservative members of the House GOP conference, Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, was forced… Continue reading
Dec 21 Gwen’s Take: Sandy Hook and the Politics of Pain I think it's fair to say we have all been crying for a week. Watching the faces of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting scroll by, in silence, at the end of the PBS NewsHour on… Continue reading