Dec 10 Is a Fiscal Cliff Deal on the Way? President Obama speaks after the lighting of the National Christmas Tree last week. Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images. The negotiations are starting to get serious. President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner huddled privately Sunday to outline their… Continue reading
Dec 10 Watch Dangerous Conditions Remain in Bangladesh After Workers Died in Factory Fire The families of 112 garment workers in Bangladesh mourned the loss of their loved ones from a fire in November at a fashion apparel factory outside the capital of Dhaka. Hari Sreenivasan reports on the protests sparked by locked emergency… Continue watching
Dec 07 Watch Supreme Court Agrees to Review Laws Banning Same-Sex Marriage Supreme Court Agrees to Review Laws Banning Same-Sex Marriage… Continue watching
Dec 07 One If By Land, Two If By Tweet Paul Revere may have spread the news differently if were he alive today. Art courtesy the collection of the Paul Revere Memorial Association. John Quincy Adams is reading sermons. George Washington is monitoring intelligence on the war. Paul Revere… Continue reading
Dec 07 Milestones Mark Fight for Same-Sex Marriage on Way to Supreme Court By Katelyn Polantz A gay pride and an American flag hang from a shoulder bag during a demonstration in San Francisco June 13, 2011. On Friday, the Supreme Court announced it will review the constitutionality of both the federal Defense of Marriage Act… Continue reading
Dec 07 Farewell, Little Space Spider Nefertiti, the Johnson jumping spider hunting for flies inside her space flight habitat on board the International Space Station. Photo by NASA. Nefertiti, the courageous space spider who soared into low-Earth orbit on a Japanese HTV spacecraft, spent three… Continue reading
Dec 07 Great Jobs Numbers? U-7 Says It Ain’t Necessarily So Applicants meet potential employers at the Diversity Job Fair on December 6, 2012 in Manhattan, New York City. Hundreds of minorities turned out to seek jobs, a day ahead of the release of monthly national unemployment figures in Washington… Continue reading
Dec 07 It Takes a Village: City Year’s Role in Dropout Prevention Watch: City Year corps member Sara Ross describes what her team does at Broadmoor Middle School and how they make a difference in students' lives. Editor's note: The latest installment of our American Graduate series takes us to Broadmoor… Continue reading
Dec 06 Gwen’s Take: What You Didn’t Know About Election 2012 I consider myself a voracious consumer of information. This was true during the 2012 presidential campaign, and it remains true today. This week, one month after the end of a close election, we learned that, in Ohio, President Obama beat… Continue reading
Dec 06 Watch Battleground Dispatches: Norfolk Readies for Future Storms, Sea Level Rise Battleground Dispatches: Norfolk Readies for Future Storms, Sea Level Rise… Continue watching