Dec 14 Gwen’s Take: If Women Ruled the World Maine Republican Susan Collins and 18 other members of the United States Senate gathered for a kind of celebratory interview the other day. Their inquisitor was ABC's Diane Sawyer, who invited the sitting and incoming members of the vaunted… Continue reading
Dec 13 Watch Scientists Say Bottoms Up to Find the Connection Between Genes and Addiction Scientists Say Bottoms Up to Find the Connection Between Genes and Addiction… Continue watching
Dec 13 Watch Lawmakers Consider Raising Medicare Age of Eligibility as Budget Compromise Lawmakers Consider Raising Medicare Age of Eligibility as Budget Compromise… Continue watching
Dec 13 Watch Poll Shows Among Public President Obama Has Strong Hand for Budget Negotiations Poll Shows Among Public President Obama Has Strong Hand for Budget Negotiations… Continue watching
Dec 13 Watch Russian Diplomat Urges Political Deal in Syria to Avoid Unending Civil Conflict Russian Diplomat Urges Political Deal in Syria to Avoid Unending Civil Conflict… Continue watching
Dec 13 What’s the Best Way to Control Medicare Costs? By Kaiser Health News The NewsHour's partner, Kaiser Health News, asked a range of health policy experts the following question: If you could make only one change to Medicare to control costs, what would it be and why? Edited excerpts of their answers… Continue reading
Dec 13 Commentary: Paying Down Credit Card Wars Photo of U.S. soldiers by AFP/Getty Images. In the months I have been plying the international think tank beat for the PBS NewsHour, I have attended scores of conferences and talks, many of them informative and stimulating, especially when… Continue reading
Dec 13 Avoiding Addiction When It’s in Your DNA To understand more about the link between addiction and genes, science correspondent Miles O'Brien drinks a mixture of 30 grams of pure ethanol and Diet Coke, the equivalent of three stiff drinks, and undergoes a series of tests. Continue reading
Dec 13 Tallying the Unemployed: Where in the World is U-7? By Paul Solman Job seekers wait in line to meet with recruiters during a job fair in South San Francisco, California. Photo by Justin Sullivan via Getty Images. Paul Solman answers questions from the NewsHour audience on business and economic news here on… Continue reading
Dec 13 The Last Days of Mes Aynak By Tom LeGro When documentary filmmaker Brent Huffman first visited the Buddhist archaeological site of Mes Aynak in eastern Afghanistan in June 2011, he was awed by the 2,600-year-old city, how it stretches for 100 acres, encompassing artifacts, monasteries and more than 200… Continue reading