Feb 19 On the PBS NewsHour Tonight By News Desk On Tuesday's NewsHour: Is the Chinese military behind cyber-attacks on U.S. agencies and companies? At the Supreme Court, a farmer's will against agribusiness After Newtown: The impact of violent video games And, the Oscar Pistorius case While the… Continue reading
Feb 19 White House Reporters Frustrated With Obama Administration President Obama speaks to reporters last summer. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. Is it bad for democracy when a president answers impromptu questions from the press 107 times after a photo opportunity, compared with his predecessor's 355? Or… Continue reading
Feb 18 On the PBS NewsHour Tonight By News Desk On Monday's NewsHour: We kick off a week-long PBS focus on guns called After Newtown, looking at the debate nationwide The Keystone pipeline controversy Hugo Chavez's return to Venezuela And the Oscar-nominated documentary "The Invisible War" While the above… Continue reading
Feb 18 Watch "One Nation Under God?" Students Explore Pledge Options Students explore how faculty members and their peers feel about the Pledge of Allegiance. Continue watching
Feb 15 Arm Teachers or Ban Video Games? Students Debate in Google Hangout By Leah Clapman, Hari Sreenivasan The shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., has made many schools rethink their safety procedures. It has also sparked emotional debates about the roots of violence. To find out how the tragedy has affected young people, we… Continue reading
Feb 15 Watch Double Jeopardy and the Constitution Students investigate the Double Jeopardy clause in the Fifth Amendment. Continue watching
Feb 15 Video Games: Violent, Yes. But Do They Make Us Violent? EmbedVideo(5745, 482, 304); Psychologist Brad Bushman and public health expert Cheryl Olson weigh in on the impact of violent video games on behavior. Watch the full report on PBS NewsHour Tuesday. I remember some years back when I… Continue reading
Feb 15 Watch Calories and the Constitution Students investigate the connection between the U.S. Constitution and school lunches. Continue watching
Feb 15 On the PBS NewsHour Tonight By News Desk On Friday's NewsHour: A meteor rains havoc on a city in Russia, while a huge asteroid rockets past our planet The president campaigns to reduce gun violence We ask Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano about threats… Continue reading
Feb 14 When Searching for Love, Is Online Dating the Place to Look? EmbedVideo(5720, 482, 304); For a special Valentine's Day segment, NewsHour Political Editor Christina Bellantoni talked with Daily-Download.com's Lauren Ashburn and Howard Kurtz about sites like Match.com, eHarmony and OK Cupid, and what we can learn about online dating and… Continue reading