Mar 23 What You Should Know About Health Care Reform: Two Views President Obama signed health care reform into law in a White House ceremony Tuesday. Two players in the debate over reform offer their views on what Americans need to know about the bill. Continue reading
Mar 23 Watch Google’s China Exit Elicits Mixed Reactions Google announced Monday that it will move its search portal from the Chinese mainland to Hong Kong because of dissatisfaction with censorship and Internet security. Gwen Ifill reports. Continue watching
Mar 18 Watch In Ethiopia, a Daily Struggle for Clean Water In the first in a series of collaborative reports about water problems around the world, Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on the shortage of potable water in Ethiopia and how the effort required to maintain existing watering points affects millions… Continue watching
Mar 17 Watch Democrats Pressure Holdouts as Health Reform Vote Looms At least one formerly opposed Democrat, Ohio's Rep. Dennis Kucinich, has said he will vote in favor of the health care reform bill when it comes up for a vote, possibly this week. Judy Woodruff talks to a New York… Continue watching
Mar 15 Watch Deaths of Americans Raise New Concerns Over Mexico’s Drug War U.S. and Mexican authorities are investigating the possible drug cartel violence that left two Americans and a Mexican with ties to the U.S. consulate in Juarez dead over the weekend. Gwen Ifill talks to a journalist about the escalating violence… Continue watching
Mar 11 Watch JFK Condolence Letters Reveal How a Nation Grieved For the first time, some of the condolence letters sent to First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy after President John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963 have been published. Gwen Ifill talks to historian Ellen Fitzpatrick about the letters and her book. Continue watching
Mar 10 Watch ‘Jihad Jane’ Suspect Suggests Changing Face of Terrorism American Colleen LaRose, the self-proclaimed "Jihad Jane," faces terror charges for trying to murder a Swedish artist for his depiction of the prophet Muhammad. Gwen Ifill talks to a reporter about the threat of domestic terrorism. Continue watching
Mar 09 America’s Populist Turn: Who Will It Favor in 2010 Elections? By Dante Chinni In recent months, political populism has been defined by the Tea Party movement and framed by ire aimed at debt and government spending. But populism is a phrase that defies easy ideological pigeonholing, and another view of populism was on… Continue reading
Mar 09 Watch Gen. Odierno: ‘People of Iraq Have Embraced Democracy’ As Iraq counts the ballots from Sunday's parliamentary election, Jim Lehrer talks to Gen. Ray Odierno, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, about how a new government may impact the security situation and the drawdown of U.S. troops. Continue watching
Mar 09 Watch Biden Condemns Planned Israeli Expansion in East Jerusalem Vice President Joe Biden is in the Middle East, meeting with Israeli officials about resuming peace talks after more than a year or deadlock in the region. He pledged commitment to Israel's security, but condemned plans to expand settlements eastward. Continue watching