Oct 29 Watch Will Small Step for Robots Lead to Giant Leap for Robotkind? How close are we to being replaced by robots? NewsHour Science Correspondent Miles O'Brien reports on efforts to engineer robots that are eerily similar to humans and animals. Continue watching
Oct 29 5 Questions for Election Night At just about this point in every election cycle, we begin to overuse the same words, phrases and arguments. Everything is a tossup, or a dead heat, or a last-minute dash to Election Day. The other guy is always… Continue reading
Oct 28 Watch Fiorina Returns to Campaign Trail in Bid to Unseat Boxer After a brief stay in the hospital, Republican candidate Carly Fiorina is back in campaign mode in the close California Senate race against Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer. Judy Woodruff talked to both of them during a visit to the Golden… Continue watching
Oct 28 Watch Esperanza Spalding Takes on Dual Role in Jazz Jeffrey Brown profiles Esperanza Spalding, the young jazz phenomenon who pulls double duty on stage by playing the bass and singing. The classically trained bassist has appeared at the White House and is currently on a world-wide tour. Continue watching
Oct 28 Patchwork Nation: Mapping Voter Anger, Foreclosure Rates By District If much of the electorate is driven by anger, much of that anger is driven by foreclosures. As Patchwork Nation has measured the number of tea party "meetups" in the last four months, one type of congressional… Continue reading
Oct 27 California’s Fiorina Asserts Accountability to Voters, Not GOP Quick: Which Republican running for the U.S. Senate is telling anyone who'll listen: "I don't owe the Republican Party a thing ... I will be accountable to the voters ... because they are the ones that will send me to… Continue reading
Oct 27 Watch History Lessons: Midterms as Political Referendum Jim Lehrer gets historical perspective on the 2010 midterms from Professor Beverly Gage of Yale University and Richard Norton Smith, a scholar-in-residence at George Mason University. Continue watching
Oct 27 Ad Buys Show Mainly Republicans, Not Democrats, are Running on Reform With less than a week left to go before Election Day, a new round of ads is hitting TV screens targeting health care reform and the politicians who voted for it. The ads are the latest salvo in… Continue reading
Oct 27 How Does 2010 Political Climate Compare to 1994 GOP Midterm Wave? _pap_embeddable('news01s44caqf90',482,304,{ pap_usecache:true }); In 2010, all the polls and predictors indicate it will be a good year for the Republican Party: they have a good chance to regain control of the House of Representatives and stand to gain… Continue reading
Oct 27 Brown, Whitman Challenged to Pull Negative Ads in California Governor Race By David Chalian Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger speaks as gubernatorial candidates Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown, right, look on during a discussion moderated by "Today" show host Matt Lauer. Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images. The cheers that welcomed Meg Whitman at an event Tuesday… Continue reading