Apr 12 Shields and Brooks Debate McConnell’s ‘Watergate,’ Love and Politics By Christina Bellantoni // Mark Shields and David Brooks pondered political sex scandals in the Doubleheader Friday. If it's in the name of love, is it less offensive? As I filled in for Hari Sreenivasan, we started with the "sport of politics"… Continue reading
Apr 12 Watch Comic Legend Jonathan Winters Dies at 87 Pioneering comic Jonathan Winters brought his own brand of wild, improvisational stand-up to television in the 1950s, and continued to perform for nearly five decades. Winters died Thursday at the age of 87. Jeffrey Brown remembers the comedian with a… Continue watching
Apr 12 Watch Shields and Brooks on Obama’s Budget, Senate Gun Fight, Margaret Thatcher Shields and Brooks on Obama's Budget, Senate Gun Fight, Margaret Thatcher… Continue watching
Apr 12 Watch Online Streaming Television Service Aereo Tests Traditional Broadcast Networks Online Streaming Television Service Aereo Tests Traditional Broadcast Networks… Continue watching
Apr 12 Watch In Simplifying Tax Code, How Do We Get Back to Fundamental Values? In Simplifying Tax Code, How Do We Get Back to Fundamental Values?… Continue watching
Apr 12 Watch As Elections Approach in Venezuela, Political Opponents Share Fear of Violence As Elections Approach in Venezuela, Political Opponents Share Fear of Violence… Continue watching
Apr 12 Watch Outlining Prospects, Implications of Hostile Action From North Korea Outlining Prospects, Implications of Hostile Action From North Korea… Continue watching
Apr 12 Vicious Sea Creature Sees in Dazzling Color A mantis shrimp peers from its burrow in the Bismarck Sea in Papua New Guinea. Photo by David Doubilet/ National Geographic/ Getty Images. We're a little late to the party here, but if you haven't yet read this comic… Continue reading
Apr 12 Social Security Advocate: Obama’s Budget Is ‘Bad Policy. Bad Politics.’ The National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare rallied at the White House on April 9, 2013, to protest a provision of the president's budget proposal. Max Richtman stood in the bright sunshine steps from the… Continue reading
Apr 12 The Day Polio Began Losing Its Grip on America By Dr. Howard Markel Elvis Presley receives the Salk polio vaccine in 1956. Awareness about the vaccine led to the end of polio in the U.S. Most babies today still receive the injection. Photo courtesy of March of Dimes. April 12, 1955, was… Continue reading