Jun 24 Reporter’s Notebook: Moscow’s Skyline and People Transform By Margaret Warner After returning to Moscow for the first time in 18 years, NewsHour senior correspondent Margaret Warner has been observing the "overwhelming" changes in the city from a key vantage point at the Kremlin. Continue reading
May 18 Month-long Elections End With Congress Party Victory in India By Dan Sagalyn After month-long elections ended in India this past weekend, the Congress Party learned that it would remain in power. Marshall Bouton, the president of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, discusses what the results mean for India and its relationship… Continue reading
Mar 17 North Korea’s Rhetoric Rises Over Planned Rocket Launch By Dan Sagalyn North Korea has said it plans to launch a satellite in April, which some believe is a guise to test launch a long-range missile. NewsHour deputy senior producer for foreign affairs and defense Dan Sagalyn reports on what is motivating… Continue reading
Mar 16 Leftist Wins Presidency in El Salvador By Heather Berkman Former television anchor Mauricio Funes, a leftist from the former rebel group Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, won presidential elections in El Salvador on Sunday, ending two decades of conservative rule. Heather Berkman of the Eurasia Group describes Funes, his… Continue reading
Mar 10 Tibet’s Uprising 50 Years Later By Robert Barnett A failed Tibetan uprising on March 10, 1959, in the capital Lhasa led to the expulsion of the religious leader the Dalai Lama and continues to reverberate throughout China's efforts to become a major world power. Robert Barnett, an adjunct… Continue reading
Dec 12 Opinions Differ on Cause of Mumbai Attacks By Dan Sagalyn Analysts disagree on whether the decades' old conflict over control of the Kashmir region between India and Pakistan inspired the attacks in late November in Mumbai, India, or whether the objectives of the fighters go beyond the disputed region. Dan… Continue reading
Oct 22 Reporter’s Notebook: Ray Suarez Discusses Series on Troubled U.S. Infrastructure By Steve Goldbloom As the NewsHour airs a series of reports on the country's ailing infrastructure, produced in collaboration with WNET New York, senior NewsHour correspondent Ray Suarez spoke with Steve Goldbloom about his experiences examining the issue. "We're getting wakeup calls from… Continue reading
Oct 17 Economic Crisis Bruises Iceland’s National Pride By Jonas Moody The impact of the global economic crisis has been particularly evident in Iceland with the nation itself left on the verge of bankruptcy. To minimize losses of investments in Icelandic banks, the British government took action to freeze assets of… Continue reading
Sep 24 Author Describes Israel’s View on Threat From Iran By Robert Zeliger Taking a shot at Israel's intelligence agencies, author Ronen Bergman argues that Israel and the West have underestimated the threat from Iran for decades. Bergman, a journalist and author of "The Secret War with Iran: The 30-Year Clandestine Struggle Against… Continue reading
Aug 18 Black Communities Struggle with Soaring Energy Costs By Jori Lewis Energy and food prices are skyrocketing. Some people are forgoing necessities, simply because they costs too much. Some black communities have been hit particularly hard because residents pay a larger percentage of their incomes on energy costs. Jori Lewis looks… Continue reading