Jan 25 Background Checks Don’t Threaten Second Amendment, Biden Says A gun store employee in Los Angeles inspects a semi-automatic rifle. An Obama administration plan to reduce gun violence includes restricting sales of assault weapons. Photo by Reuters/ Lucy Nicholson. Vice President Joe Biden said that a proposal to… Continue reading
Jan 25 This Week on the Hill Speaker of the House John Boehner addresses the 113th Congress in the Capitol. Photo by Reuters/Kevin Lamarque. It was a busy week on Capitol Hill. Barack Obama was sworn in twice for his second term as president (once ceremonially… Continue reading
Jan 25 Cloned Cave Baby Lost in Translation Reconstruction of a Neanderthal at Mettmann, Germany's Neanderthal Museum. Photo by Stefan Scheer, Courtesy Wikimedia. Who doesn't love a good story about a cloned Neanderthal baby? As they flickered across the web this week, I read them… Continue reading
Jan 25 Senate Approves Bipartisan Filibuster Reform, but Changes Are Modest The U.S. Capitol Building. Photo by Mallory Benedict for PBS NewsHour. The filibuster, with almost all of its procedural warts and bumps, survives. Democratic senators failed Wednesday to end the power of their minority party colleagues to halt… Continue reading
Jan 25 Gwen’s Take | Eight Rows Back: The GOP’s Murky Path Forward Monday morning in Washington was a chilly place to be if you were a man who imagined you might have been the one facing a Supreme Court justice with your right hand raised. GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan,… Continue reading
Jan 24 Notes From Davos, Day Two: UK Reconsiders Relationship With EU A view of the city of Davos, Switzerland, venue of the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Jan. 21, 2013. Photo by Pascal Lauener/REUTERS. I've just come in off the hushed streets, a light snow is falling in the crisp… Continue reading
Jan 24 Watch Confirmation Hearings Begin for Secretary of State Nominee Sen. John Kerry Confirmation Hearings Begin for Secretary of State Nominee Sen. John Kerry… Continue watching
Jan 24 Watch ‘Everyone Is Entitled to a Chance’: Panetta Lifts Ban on Women in Combat 'Everyone Is Entitled to a Chance': Panetta Lifts Ban on Women in Combat… Continue watching
Jan 24 What Is Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)? A group of armed Islamists make the rounds in Gao, the biggest city in northern Mali, in September. Photo by Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty Images. By Jonathan Masters, online writer/editor for the Council on Foreign Relations Introduction Al-Qaida in the Islamic… Continue reading
Jan 24 Live Chat: Gwen Ifill Answers Your Questions Join correspondent Gwen Ifill for a live chat, hosted by PBS' Washington Week Thursday at 12 p.m. ET. On the table: all things politics. Chat with Gwen Ifill of Washington Week and the PBS NewsHour… Continue reading