Apr 21 Budget Showdown: What’s In the Obama and Ryan Plans? By Paul Solman Editor's Note: This week President Obama has been crisscrossing the country, selling his budget plan to the American people. Meanwhile, Republican Representative Paul Ryan has been pitching his budget proposal to constituents in Wisconsin. We wanted… Continue reading
Apr 21 Budget Showdown: What’s In the Obama and Ryan Plans? By Elizabeth Shell Editor's Note: This week President Obama has been crisscrossing the country selling his budget plan to the American people. Meanwhile, Republican Representative Paul Ryan has been pitching his budget proposal to constituents in Wisconsin. We wanted to take… Continue reading
Apr 20 What Happens to Us Codgers if the Debt Limit Isn’t Raised? By Elizabeth Shell We reported last week on the fear and trembling of bond vigilantism, real or imagined -- that the bond market would punish the country for profligacy by raising the interest it demanded to lend us money, thus making everything… Continue reading
Apr 20 What Happens to Us Codgers if the Debt Limit Isn’t Raised? By Paul Solman We reported last week on the fear and trembling of bond vigilantism, real or imagined -- that the bond market would punish the country for profligacy by raising the interest it demanded to lend us money, thus making everything… Continue reading
Apr 19 Watch 9:02 2 Reporters Win Pulitzer for Exposing ‘Corruption on Steroids’ in California Margaret Warner discusses the story with the two lead reporters. Continue watching
Apr 19 S&P’s Dire Warning: Of Any Significance At All? Call me a contrarian -- or just your garden-variety journalist/skeptic -- but when I read the much-ballyhooed Standard & Poor's announcement yesterday, I shook my shiny head. "Because the U.S. has, relative to its AAA peers, what we consider… Continue reading
Apr 12 Watch Budget Deal Cuts Target EPA, Homeland Security, But Education Spared Budget Deal Cuts Target EPA and Homeland Security, Spares Education… Continue watching
Apr 11 Watch Government Stays Open, But Parties Ready for More Budget Brawling New Spending Battles to Dwarf Deal That Averted Shutdown… Continue watching
Apr 08 Watch Brooks, Marcus on ‘Absurdity’ of Shutdown Debates, Paul Ryan’s Budget Plan New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus discuss the battles over the short- and long-term government budgets, including deadlocked negotiations over funding for this fiscal year and GOP Rep. Paul Ryan's budget proposal for fiscal… Continue watching
Apr 08 Watch As Protests Grow, Will Syrians See Reforms or More Bloodshed? Protesters seeking political reforms gathered across Syria, but government forces opened fire on demonstrators with tear gas, rubber bullets and live rounds. Judy Woodruff discusses the unrest with the New America Foundation's Flynt Leverett and Andrew Tabler of the Washington… Continue watching