Nov 05 Watch On Eve of Election, Making Campaign Assessments and Early Predictions On Eve of Election, Making Campaign Assessments and Early Predictions… Continue watching
Nov 05 Watch Volunteers Hit the Pavement to Sway Last Undecided Voters in Ohio Volunteers Hit the Pavement to Sway Last Undecided Voters in Ohio… Continue watching
Nov 05 Red Hook’s Resilience Tested by Sandy Red Hook is a remarkably close-knit and neighborly community. Sandy tested that social infrastructure but did not damage it, even though half the neighborhood lacks power and hundreds of residents have lost piles of personal possessions and family memorabilia. Continue reading
Nov 05 If Ann Romney Is Next First Lady, What Would that Mean for M.S.? For Ann Romney, it started as it has for millions of Americans. Numbness. Dizziness. "Foggy brain." Simple things that, when combined, added up to a startling diagnosis: Multiple sclerosis. After a year of aggressive intravenous steroid treatment in… Continue reading
Nov 05 ‘The President Is Ill’: How Health Has Impacted the U.S. Presidency For Ann Romney, it started as it has for millions of Americans. Numbness. Dizziness. "Foggy brain." Simple things that, when combined, added up to a startling diagnosis: Multiple sclerosis. After a year of aggressive intravenous steroid treatment in… Continue reading
Nov 05 Never Aired 1976 Gerald Ford Ad Too Emotionally Charged for Its Time EmbedVideo(4883, 482, 304); Film is courtesy of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library While thinking about how last minute events like Hurricane Sandy, speeches and political commercials might influence the outcome of the 2012 election, I recalled hearing about… Continue reading
Nov 05 Ask Larry: When Do I Get Back What I Paid to SS? Blank Social Security checks are run through a printer at the U.S. Treasury printing facility. Photo by William Thomas Cain via Getty Images. Larry Kotlikoff's Social Security original 34 "secrets", his additional secrets, his Social Security… Continue reading
Nov 05 Weekly Poem: ‘Never Seen’ Hoa Nguyen studied poetics at New College of California in San Francisco. The author of eight books and chapbooks, she teaches poetics in a private workshop and at Ryerson University. Wave Books published her third full-length collection of poems, "As… Continue reading
Nov 05 The Daily Frame A woman walks her dogs over one of three giant painted poppies next to the M8 motorway in Livingston, Scotland. The poppies mark the 90th anniversary of the Scottish Poppy Appeal, which is being celebrated this month. Continue reading
Nov 05 Candidates Barnstorm Battleground States in Last Full Day of Campaigning By Christina Bellantoni President Obama arrives for a campaign rally Sunday in Concord, N.H. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. In a game that's all about numbers, President Obama and Mitt Romney are looking at 83. Those are the combined Electoral College votes up… Continue reading