Dec 01 Watch Lame-Duck Congress: Legislative Logjam or Bipartisan Turnaround? Capitol Hill lawmakers spent Wednesday behind various closed doors, working on the fate of key issues in the lame-duck session such as tax cuts, jobless benefits and the New START treaty. Gwen Ifill gets insight about what can be accomplished… Continue watching
Nov 30 Watch Graduation Report ‘Encouraging,’ But Many Schools Risk ‘Dropout Factory’ Status New nationwide statistics show a rise in high school graduation rates, but there is still significant disparity between school districts in different parts of the country. Margaret Warner talks to the report's co-author, John Bridgeland, about what the findings mean. Continue watching
Nov 29 Watch How Will New WikiLeaks Revelations Affect Diplomatic Candor? Judy Woodruff speaks to former national security advisers Zbigniew Brzezinski and Stephen Hadley about the impact of the release of confidential diplomatic documents by WikiLeaks. Continue watching
Nov 15 GOP Midterm Victory Seen as Ordinary Tidal Change By Dante Chinni Two weeks after the 2010 midterms, the results are receding into the past, and the new reality is settling in. But before we go too far down the road of analyzing the shift in the American voting public - the… Continue reading
Nov 09 Watch In Pakistan, Volunteer Doctors Try to Fill Health Care Void After Floods Special correspondent Saima Mohsin traveled with a team from the humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders as it worked to treat Pakistan's flood victims, many of whom have had little access to health care months after the waters first rose. Continue watching
Nov 08 Political Checklist: How Is Obama Reacting to the Midterm GOP Wave? DetectFlashDecision_Blog('news01s451cqfc4','fcTNSmWhQTI','29'); What message were voters trying to send to the political establishment in last week's midterms elections? And how will President Obama respond to his party's losses? Political Editor David Chalian and Senior Correspondent Judy Woodruff discuss… Continue reading
Nov 08 Democratic Dustbowl: The End of the Prairie Progressives? "Tea Party tidal wave," "historic election," "political realignment": there have been a lot of overblown claims about the scope of this midterm election but as Nov. 2 recedes a bit, some clearer and still potentially troubling realities appear to… Continue reading
Nov 05 Watch Brooks: Obama’s Reelection Hopes Face Danger in Midwest Columnist Mark Shields and David Brooks analyze this week's top news with Jim Lehrer, including whether outgoing Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's decision to run for minority leader makes her a political liability for the Democrats, what John Boehner's… Continue watching
Nov 05 Why Did So Many Democrats Lose? Some Districts Were Never a Good Fit As the Democrats sort through the wreckage of Tuesday night, the question "what just happened?" is undoubtedly running through their minds. Was it Tea Party enthusiasm that buried them or anger at the economy or a loss of faith… Continue reading
Nov 05 Pelosi Plans Run for House Democratic Minority Leader Outgoing Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced Friday that despite the drubbing that Democrats suffered in House races Tuesday, she intends to run for her party's minority leader. Around 1 p.m. Friday, she tweeted: Driven by the… Continue reading