Oct 26 Watch The Good, the Bad and the Politics Behind the Latest Government Economic Report The Good, the Bad and the Politics Behind the Latest Government Economic Report… Continue watching
Oct 26 'Electoral Dysfunction' Highlights Peculiarities in American Voting System EmbedVideo(4827, 514, 320); Video produced by Cassie M. Chew. In a new PBS documentary set to air on stations across the country this fall, television personality Mo Rocca and a group of newly naturalized citizens take a magnifying glass… Continue reading
Oct 26 An Expert on 'Extreme Productivity': Boost Results, Reduce Hours Work-life balance illustration by Bjorn Rune Lie in Ikon Images via Getty Images. Bob Pozen has been the vice chairman of Fidelity Investments, chairman of MFS Investment Management, a professor at Georgetown University, New York University and Harvard Law… Continue reading
Oct 26 Battleground Dispatches: Q&A with Ohio's Karen Kasler A woman fills out a provisional ballot at a polling location Nov. 4, 2008, in Columbus, Ohio. Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images. Of all the attention being given to the battleground states in the final push to Election Day, Ohio… Continue reading
Oct 26 Are Public Pensioners Safe? Pensions for teachers and government employees had the highest funding level among all Arizona public retirement plans. Photo by John Elk via Getty Images. Paul Solman frequently answers questions from the NewsHour audience on business and economic news on… Continue reading
Oct 25 Watch Digital Technology Helps Researchers Hear Earliest Recordings Better Digital Technology Helps Researchers Hear Earliest Recordings Better… Continue watching
Oct 25 Watch Syrian Civil War Threatens Destruction, Looting of Ancient Aleppo Heritage Syrian Civil War Threatens Destruction, Looting of Ancient Aleppo Heritage… Continue watching
Oct 25 David Wessel on Virginia, Germany and Interest on the U.S. Debt Photo of David Wessel and Paul Solman by Diane Lincoln Estes. The Wall Street Journal's David Wessel recently took us on a D.C. "budget tour" for a NewsHour story on his new book "Red Ink." One stop on… Continue reading
Oct 25 Should Hospitals Eliminate Waiting Rooms? To hear Dr. Robert Mecklenburg tell it, the conversation was the first time in his career as a physician that he'd felt ashamed. It happened over 10 years ago when he and a group of his fellow doctors took… Continue reading
Oct 25 How Grandmothers Gave Us Longer Lives Photo by Susan Smith via Flickr. Humans may have developed our long life spans as a result of nature's first babysitters: grandmothers. A new study published in the Proceedings of Royal Society B on Wednesday uses a… Continue reading