Nov 08 Watch On the Eve of Political Transition in China, Assessing Hurdles and Global Role On the Eve of Political Transition in China, Assessing Hurdles and Global Role… Continue watching
Nov 08 Watch To Encourage Kids’ Health, Pediatricians Add Reading to Essential Check-Up List To Encourage Kids' Health, Pediatricians Add Reading to Essential Check-Up List… Continue watching
Nov 08 Watch Will the Republican Party Learn to Adapt and Appeal to a Changing Electorate? Will the Republican Party Learn to Adapt and Appeal to a Changing Electorate?… Continue watching
Nov 08 Watch With Election Over and Time Running Out, Washington Shifts Focus to Fiscal Cliff With Election Over and Time Running Out, Washington Shifts Focus to Fiscal Cliff… Continue watching
Nov 08 Schumer: Voters Want Compromise Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., at the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images. Sen. Chuck Schumer predicts more cooperation in the next session of Congress than the partisan atmosphere that defined Capitol Hill… Continue reading
Nov 08 The Greek Crisis: Why Super Mario Draghi Can’t Save Europe Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank (ECB), speaks at a conference in Berlin, Germany. Photo by Sean Gallup via Getty Images. While readers of Making Sen$e and the Rundown know Larry Kotlikoff as our resident… Continue reading
Nov 08 In ‘Algiers,’ Calexico Wanders Close to Southwestern Roots Geography has always played an important role in Calexico's music. You hear it in lyrics about drifters and border crossings and in the instrumentals that straddle traditions from Latin and North America. It's even apparent in the band's name --… Continue reading
Nov 08 Satellites, Supercomputers and the Challenge of Forecasting Storms EmbedVideo(4936, 482, 304); Louis Uccellini, head of environmental prediction for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, explains the unique challenges of tracking Hurricane Sandy. Update: 6:15 p.m. ET | As Superstorm Sandy barreled its way west from… Continue reading
Nov 08 The Daily Frame People walk in the Toledo metro station in Naples, Italy, designed by architect Oscar Tusquets Blanca as part of the "Art Station Line 1" project, which has turned stations into works of art. Continue reading
Nov 08 Watch China’s Communist Party Congress Faces Political Transition, Corruption Issues Over 2,000 delegates met for the first day of China's 18th Communist Party Congress in order to commence its once-in-a-decade process of choosing new national leadership. Meanwhile outgoing President Hu Jintao discouraged corruption among the party leadership. Lindsey Hilsum of… Continue watching