Sep 22 Former Presidents and the Press There is no set pattern to the lives led by former presidents, but there is arguably a pattern to the way they relate to the press. It goes roughly like this: either 1) they avoid reporters, and are happy to… Continue reading
Sep 22 Book Details White House Split Over Afghanistan; Egg Recall Hearing Ahead President Obama "urgently looked for a way out of the war in Afghanistan last year, repeatedly pressing his top military advisers for an exit plan that they never gave him," according to a new book by Washington Post… Continue reading
Sep 20 Watch Mexico's Drug War Putting Reporters, Journalism in the Crosshairs A young photographer for Juarez's El Diario newspaper was gunned down as he walked to lunch, prompting his newspaper to ask of Mexico's drug cartels on the front page what they expect of journalists. Ray Suarez speaks with Angela Kocherga… Continue watching
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