Aug 17 Watch 12:35 Trump’s new campaign manager challenges Clinton on policy By PBS News Hour For the second time this summer, Donald Trump has made major changes to senior campaign staff, hiring Stephen Bannon as CEO and promoting Kellyanne Conway to manager. Judy Woodruff speaks with Robert Costa of The Washington Post about what the… Continue watching
Aug 13 Watch 6:06 Understanding the two sides of Reagan: polarizing political icon and pragmatic president By PBS News Hour How did Ronald Reagan, a seemingly ordinary man in many ways, become a president who dominated American politics and ideology in the second half of the 20th century? H.W. Brands offers his take on the politician and pragmatist in “Reagan:… Continue watching
Mar 02 Watch 5:16 Supreme Court weighs process, not politics, of who draws voting maps By PBS News Hour In 2000, Arizona voters changed who has the authority to draw district voting lines. Instead of the state legislature, an independent commission was created in an attempt to reduce partisanship. The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing a clause in the… Continue watching
Dec 29 Watch 7:31 Outgoing Sen. Chambliss talks debt, immigration reform and hard-headed partisanship By PBS News Hour With a week to go until the new Congress arrives in Washington, we ask departing members to take stock of their legislative careers. Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Georgia joins Judy Woodruff to discuss saying goodbye, how to make a… Continue watching
Aug 12 Watch States stretch the limits of geography for politically uniform districts By PBS News Hour It’s no accident that 90 percent of Congress is re-elected every time; districts can be carefully drawn to protect incumbents. In Florida, a federal judge ruled that the design of two districts illegally favor sitting politicians, and ordered new maps… Continue watching
Jul 18 Watch In politically divided Wisconsin, little incentive to seek middle ground By PBS News Hour The residents of metropolitan Milwaukee, Wisconsin are increasingly split by race, political party and geography. A major fight over Gov. Scott Walker in 2012 helped widen the divide. Gwen Ifill talks to residents and local politicians about the fractured political… Continue watching
Jul 02 Watch How the Civil Rights Act changed America By PBS News Hour Wednesday marks 50 years since President Lyndon Johnson signed the landmark Civil Rights Act, outlawing discrimination based on race, ethnicity and sex. Gwen Ifill is joined by Todd Purdum to discuss his new book, "An Idea Whose Time Has Come,"… Continue watching
Jun 12 Watch Pew study finds more polarized Americans increasingly resistant to political compromise By PBS News Hour A major study by the Pew Research Center finds the increasing polarization in the U.S. is not just in our politics. American adults are less likely to compromise and often decide where to live, who to marry and who their… Continue watching
Jan 28 Watch Congress nears compromise on farm bill By PBS News Hour After two years of work and battle, Congress seems close to a farm bill deal. Gwen Ifill talks to Bloomberg News' Alan Bjerga about what's in the bipartisan compromise -- including changes to farm subsidies and $8 billion in cuts… Continue watching
Jan 02 Watch Examining Obama’s options to push his agenda in 2014 President Obama emerged from 2013 with near all-time low job approval ratings after the botched rollout of the health care law. Susan Page of USA Today and Jerry Seib of The Wall Street Journal join Judy Woodruff to discuss what… Continue watching