Dec 21 Watch The Remaking of Obama Foreign Policy Team: Sen. John Kerry Up for Sec. of State The Remaking of Obama Foreign Policy Team: Sen. John Kerry Up for Sec. of State… Continue watching
Dec 21 Education Secretary Arne Duncan on Newtown, Gun Violence EmbedVideo(5266, 482, 304); Earlier this week, correspondent Gwen Ifill sat down with Secretary of Education Arne Duncan for the PBS special report "After Newtown," which airs 8 p.m. ET Friday, one week after the mass shooting at… Continue reading
Dec 21 Test Your 2012 Slang Skills While the Oxford English Dictionary may be the "last word on words for over a century," the definitive record for slang and vernacular is the popular online lexicon, UrbanDictionary.com. The website began 13 years ago, and has continued… Continue reading
Dec 21 U.S. Gun Policy: Global Comparisons Screen shot of automatic weapons. By Jonathan Masters, online writer/editor for the Council on Foreign Relations Introduction The debate over gun control in the United States has waxed and waned over the years, stirred by a series of incidents… Continue reading
Dec 21 Kerry as Secretary of State: Two Takes By News Desk Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., greets U.S. troops in Baghdad, Iraq, in 2005. Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images. President Obama on Friday nominated Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., as secretary of state to replace outgoing Secretary Hillary Clinton. Kerry's long career… Continue reading
Dec 21 Analysts: South Korean Election May Trigger North Korean Provocation By David Chalian The North Korean military band celebrates the North's rocket launch on Dec. 12 in Pyongyang. Photo by KCNA via Reuters. Following a presidential election in South Korea this week, a number of analysts are saying North Korea is likely to… Continue reading
Dec 21 Boehner’s ‘Plan B’ Implodes, Placing Him on Shaky Standing House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images. Perhaps the Mayans were talking about "Plan B." In the face of unyielding opposition from conservative members of the House GOP conference, Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, was forced… Continue reading
Dec 21 Gwen’s Take: Sandy Hook and the Politics of Pain I think it's fair to say we have all been crying for a week. Watching the faces of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting scroll by, in silence, at the end of the PBS NewsHour on… Continue reading
Dec 21 Watch 3:30 ‘My Mom Grabbed Me and Held Me as Tight as She Could:’ Kids React to Newtown By PBS News Hour As young people across the country began to mourn and process the mass shooting in Newtown, Conn., the NewsHour asked students from the 45 schools participating in its Student Reporting Labs to talk with their classmates about their initial reactions. Continue watching
Dec 20 Watch North Dakota’s Sen.-Elect Heidi Heitkamp on Gun Control, Keystone Pipeline North Dakota's Sen.-Elect Heidi Heitkamp on Gun Control, Keystone Pipeline… Continue watching