Dec 04 Watch Long After Earthquake, Haiti Still Feels Devastating Effects of Cholera Epidemic Long After Earthquake, Haiti Still Feels Devastating Effects of Cholera Epidemic… Continue watching
Dec 04 In His Final Days, LBJ Agonized Over His Legacy Lyndon Johnson, shown in this August 1972 photo from the LBJ Presidential Library. It is 4:46 p.m. on Jan. 2, 1973, and Lyndon Johnson speaks to Richard Nixon for the last time ever. Nixon calls LBJ at the Ranch to… Continue reading
Dec 04 White House Dismisses GOP Plan on Fiscal Cliff President Obama. File photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images. Four days after having its initial offer to avert the year-end fiscal cliff rejected by House Republicans, the Obama administration got to return the favor Monday when GOP lawmakers put… Continue reading
Dec 04 Watch New Indications Regime Ally Russia May Change Position on Syrian Conflict Reports indicate that Russia, once allied to the Syrian government, may be shifting toward persuading President Assad to step down. Judy Woodruff talks to Dimitri Simes of the Center for the National Interest and U.S. Institute of Peace's Steven Heydemann… Continue watching
Dec 04 Watch Fearing Syria’s Chemical Weapons, NATO Sends Anti-Missile Systems to Turkey In Brussels, NATO members approved Turkey's request for anti-missile systems to defend against Syrian shelling and rocket fire landing on the Turkish side of the countries' shared border. Meanwhile, NATO repeated U.S. concerns over a rise in the Syrian government's… Continue watching
Dec 03 Watch In Chicago, Public Schools and Teachers Work Towards a ‘Common Core’ In Chicago, Public Schools and Teachers Work Towards a 'Common Core'… Continue watching
Dec 03 Watch How West Bank Construction Hampers Progress for a Two-State Solution How West Bank Construction Hampers Progress for a Two-State Solution… Continue watching
Dec 03 Watch Israel’s West Bank Settlement Expansion Prompts Diplomatic Frustration Israel's West Bank Settlement Expansion Prompts Diplomatic Frustration… Continue watching
Dec 03 Tiny Flying ‘Bengal Tigers’ invade Brooklyn Common green darner dragonfly. Photo By Encyclopaedia Britannica/UIG Via Getty Images. Once a week, I arrive home to find the New Yorker magazine on the floor, partly shredded by my dog, who devotes part of her lunch… Continue reading
Dec 03 Boehner: ‘We’re Nowhere’ on Fiscal Cliff House Speaker John Boehner. File photo by Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images. With House Speaker John Boehner and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner both digging in their heels on the Sunday talk shows, there was no sign of give in the… Continue reading