Sep 17 Citizens No Longer Need ‘Marching Orders’ To Get Involved With Washington stuck in a cycle of partisanship -- made worse by the prospect of mid-term elections a little more than six weeks away -- it's refreshing to hear a room full of people cheering on the role ordinary citizens… Continue reading
Sep 17 Education Leaders Square Off Over Charters at ‘Superman’ D.C. Premiere Geoffrey Canada, Arne Duncan and Randi Weingarten. Photo by Tchad J. Moore Three documentaries released this year focus on the troubled American education system. The highest-profile is "Waiting for Superman," directed by Davis Guggenheim, who also directed the… Continue reading
Sep 15 Evan Williams Explains New Twitter Interface By Hari Sreenivasan For the 1 percent of users who woke up to a different Twitter experience Wednesday morning, it was probably the biggest change they have ever seen to the real time information service. Twitter has approximately 160 million users and there… Continue reading
Sep 15 Watch Civil Rights Photographer May Have Led Double Life as FBI Informant Ernest Withers, a famed Civil Rights photographer during the 50's and 60's, may have been pulling double duty for the FBI as a paid informant. Margaret Warner talks to veteran journalist Earl Caldwell for more. Continue watching
Sep 09 The Morning Line: President Obama Condemns Pastor’s Plans to Burn Quran By Quinn Bowman President Obama, file photo, Getty Images President Obama denounced a Florida pastor's plan to burn the Quran on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks this Saturday. Mr. Obama called the proposed burning "a recruitment bonanza for al-Qaeda" in an interview… Continue reading
Sep 07 Chile Dispatch: Trapped Miners Sent Small Luxuries, but Pine for More COPIAPO, Chile | On Tuesday afternoon, a city of Copiapo truck dumped a fresh load of firewood next to a small cluster of tents where several trapped miners' families have spent the last month camping on the rocky ground. Continue reading
Sep 07 For Iraqi Refugees, Survival Can Come at a High Price By Haider Hamza I am among the estimated 2 million Iraqi refugees still living far from home more than seven years after the U.S.-led coalition took over Baghdad. This is one story among hundreds of thousands. _pap_embed_custom('news01s431dqf59',482,304,""); In August, I visited my… Continue reading
Sep 07 Watch Craigslist Drops Adult Services Ads: What’s the Real Impact? The world's largest classified ads website, Craigslist.org, shut down its profitable adult services section after accusations that it was being used for prostitution and human trafficking. Judy Woodruff gets two views on the larger legal impact. Continue watching
Sep 02 Lehrer Honored With Marine Corps Parade Jim Lehrer was honored in late August at a parade in Washington hosted by Gen. James Conway, commandant of the Marine Corps. Lehrer, whose father was a Marine, served with his brother in the Third Marine Division in the Far… Continue reading
Aug 27 Tweeting in the Golden Years: Older Americans Using Social Media More Diane Singleton of Houston, Texas, admits she's 50-something but not much more. On her Facebook page, however, you can find out where she went to high school and which local businesses she "likes." Singleton is part of a growing number… Continue reading