Oct 12 Watch How Are Women Responding to Candidates’ Debate Policy, Tone and Body Language? How Are Women Responding to Candidates' Debate Policy, Tone and Body Language?… Continue watching
Oct 12 Summer Weather Disasters Change Americans’ View of Climate Change By Rebecca Jacobson, Inside Energy A corn plant struggles to survive in a drought-stricken field in Illinois. The sweeping drought in Midwest this summer killed crops. Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images, July 2012. After a summer of heat waves, droughts and severe storms, the… Continue reading
Oct 12 Dodge Poetry Festival Gets Underway The 2012 Dodge Poetry Festival is underway, billed as the largest poetry gathering in North America. This will be the third time it's being held in Newark, after many years in the woods in a much more rural New Jersey… Continue reading
Oct 12 How Will the Health Law Impact Coverage for Immigrants? By Julie Appleby Student Joanna Cambria takes the pulse of a woman inside of a garage at a flower nursery serving as a health care clinic for migrant farm workers in Cheshire, Conn. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images. The U.S. is home… Continue reading
Oct 12 Vice Presidential Debate Is a Thriller By Christina Bellantoni Vice President Biden and Rep. Paul Ryan shakes hands as debate moderator Martha Raddatz looks on. Photo by Michael Reynolds/Pool-Getty Images. Joe was indeed Joe. The vice presidential faceoff Thursday night delivered what many were expecting -- a feisty exchange… Continue reading
Oct 12 Gwen’s Take: Why Is Anybody Still Undecided? By Gwen Ifill Watching FRONTLINE'S "The Choice 2012" this week, I was reminded how drastically different the 2012 candidates for president are. One is the well-heeled scion of a prosperous and deeply religious family. The other is the son of a fleetingly… Continue reading
Oct 12 Watch News Wrap: Hackers in Iran Likely Responsible for Cyber Attacks in Persian Gulf In other news Friday, U.S. authorities have new evidence suggesting hackers based in Iran carried out cyber attack that crippled 30,000 computers at major oil and gas companies in Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Also, Pakistani police arrested suspects connected to… Continue watching
Oct 11 2012 Vice Presidential Debate Live Blog Vice President Joe Biden and Rep. Paul Ryan met Thursday night for the only vice presidential debate of the 2012 campaign. We began coverage on our live blog in the afternoon, continued through the debate and even stayed a bit… Continue reading
Oct 11 Two Takes: Showdown in Little Danville We solicited two takes on the vice presidential debate -- one from the right and one from the left of the political spectrum. Photo by Jonathan Palmer/The Lexington Herald-Leader Last week we asked our NewsHour friends Rick Davis and Mo… Continue reading
Oct 11 Watch Poet Sharon Olds’ New Collection Mourns and Heals the End of a Marriage Poet Sharon Olds' New Collection Mourns and Heals the End of a Marriage… Continue watching