Feb 16 Watch Egypt Protests' Death Tally at Least 360; Labor Strikes Continue Labor strikes continued across Egypt as the country's Health Ministry said at least 360 people were killed during the 18 days of unrest that resulted in the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak. Jeffrey Brown reports. Continue watching
Feb 15 Watch Egypt-Inspired Protests Echo in Middle East as Obama Urges Nonviolence Inspired by the demonstrations that ousted Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak, protesters in Bahrain, Iraq, Iran and Yemen took to the streets Tuesday demanding political reforms and greater freedoms. Jonathan Rugman of Independent Television News reports on unrest in Bahrain. Continue watching
Feb 15 Watch As Unrest Shakes Middle East, Will Iran's Opposition Movement Gain Traction? As President Obama urged leaders not to use violence on protesters, hard-line Iranian Parliament members called for anti-government demonstration leaders to be executed. Jeffrey Brown discusses whether protests there will lead to reforms with the New America Foundation's Afshin Molavi… Continue watching
Feb 15 Live Chat | Teaching Egypt: Lessons in Democracy, Culture, Technology By News Desk As PBS NewsHour continues to cover the latest events in Egypt and beyond, our site for students and teachers, PBS NewsHour Extra, partnered with Independent Television Service (ITVS) to pull together some unique perspectives on the situation… Continue reading
Feb 15 Early Takes on Egypt's Revolution By Michael D. Mosettig It used to take decades for academics to sort out revolutions. For instance, Crane Brinton's still-revered (if not always correctly read) "Anatomy of a Revolution" was first published 20 years after the Russian Revolution and centuries after the French and… Continue reading
Feb 14 Watch News Wrap: China Passes Japan to Become World's No. 2 Economy In other news Monday, China passed Japan to become the world's second-largest economy after Japan's economy shrunk the final quarter of 2010. Japan has placed behind the U.S. for much of the past 40 years. In Iran, protests inspired by… Continue watching
Feb 14 Q&A: Following Upheaval in Egypt, Are Other Countries Next? By Larisa Epatko After government-toppling protests in Tunisia and Egypt, other "people power" protests are popping up around the region. Continue reading
Feb 14 Egypt's Military Leaders Dissolve Parliament, Suspend Constitution, New Strikes Begin Updated 1:30 p.m. ET Egypt's army has called on protesters to clear Tahrir Square in the face of growing labor strikes. The military was considering a ban on such activities as Cairo struggles to return to normalcy following 18… Continue reading
Feb 14 Watch Social Media and Satellite TV: A One-Two Punch Against Mubarak As unrest ripples through the Middle East, Jeffrey Brown talks with Washington State University's Lawrence Pintak, Al Jazeera's Abderrahim Foukara, Georgetown University's Adel Iskander and correspondent Margaret Warner, who just returned from Egypt, about how traditional media and social media… Continue watching
Feb 11 Gwen's Take: When Sending Signals Matters, When It Doesn't By Gwen Ifill House Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor strolled out onto the White House lawn after lunch with the president this week to deliver an upbeat and focused message to the reporters gathered there. "I thought it was… Continue reading