Feb 11 Have You Given Up On Facebook? Updated, Feb. 12 7:33 a.m. Monday's Daily Download segment explored what it means to "like" something on Facebook, and the trend of people who choose to ditch using Facebook altogether. Howard Kurtz and Lauren Ashburn of Daily Download joined… Continue reading
Feb 08 White House Report: Maneuvers Ahead of Sequester Deadline President Obama urged Congress to take action to avoid sequester cuts with a short term budget fix at the White House on February 5, 2013. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images. The next set of automatic budget cuts in the… Continue reading
Jan 29 Two Takes: Reaction to Immigration Reform Proposals With immigration reform in the spotlight this week, the NewsHour wanted to hear from people who have worked in the trenches on the issue over the last few years. We hosted an advocate who leans liberal and one who leans… Continue reading
Jan 28 Can Your Employer Fire You Over a Facebook Posting? Weigh In Here Updated, 7:50 a.m. Monday's Daily Download segment explored how employers are being forced to rewrite social media rules. Howard Kurtz and Lauren Ashburn of Daily Download joined me for a discussion about how the rapidly evolving digital world… Continue reading
Jan 18 Why Raising the Social Security Retirement Age Makes No Sense Photo of an artisan blacksmith by John Burke via Getty Images. Paul Solman: We write a lot about Social Security on this page. Recently, our resident expert "Ask Larry" Kotlikoff and I got into a tiff about ways… Continue reading
Jan 16 President Obama’s Gun Violence Executive Actions On Wednesday, President Obama signed a series of 23 executive actions aimed at stopping what he called, "the epidemic of gun violence in this country." Mr. Obama and Vice President Biden announced the specifics of the proposals at a… Continue reading
Jan 15 Talking Tech Trends With Harper Reed, Obama Campaign’s Former CTO EmbedVideo(5462, 482, 304); Harper Reed's unorthodox vibe has been well-documented. His role in orchestrating the digital strategy for the re-election of President Obama as the campaign's Chief Technology Officer cemented his place in political history. So… Continue reading
Jan 15 Straight Talk From California’s Jerry Brown Spencer Michels interviews California Gov. Jerry Brown. Jerry Brown is riding high. The 74-year-old Democratic governor of California has achieved a kind of political miracle: He has balanced the state's budget for the first time in 15 years. Continue reading
Jan 08 From the NewsHour Archives: Storied Journalist Richard Ben Cramer EmbedVideo(5416, 482, 304); On Aug. 14, 1996, David Gergen spoke with Richard Ben Cramer as part of his Dialogue series for The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer. "What It Takes: The Way To The White House." It's been called… Continue reading
Jan 08 Catching Cheaters on Open Online Courses EmbedVideo(5283, 482, 304); Several hundred college level courses taught by top professors are now available online for free, and several million students around the globe are signing up to take advantage of the new phenomenon. The classes are… Continue reading