With former lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who is already serving five and a half years, expected to be sentenced on other charges next month, Bill Moyers takes viewers back to the scene of the crime in this update of “Capitol Crimes,” an acclaimed documentary investigating the Abramoff lobbying scandal. Watch now.
David Brancaccio talks to John Edwards about his ambitious plan to cut poverty in half within 10 years. Watch the conversation, originally aired 7/25/2008.
Former Senator Ernest “Fritz” Hollings talks about what’s right and wrong with Washington and his book Making Government Work. Watch online(originally aired: July 25, 2008).
In order to help with the nation’s conversion from analog signals to digital TV signals, a government program offering more than 33.3 million coupons for a free digital converter box …
Reporter Rick Karr presents a special online report on the news that the government will be infiltrating popular online role-playing communities such as Second Life and World of Warcraft. Watch the video below (if you don’t need a primer on what an MMORPG is, then skip to 1:25 min. in, where the real info starts).
This particularly good Bill Moyers Essay examines why so many of our public servants in the highest levels of the Bush Administration have resigned or been forced to resign in the last few years. Watch the entire segment or read the transcript here….
A grim new statistic: One in every hundred Americans is now locked behind bars. But in this explosion of inmates, some private companies are seeing opportunity.
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Yesterday, in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, the area hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Senator John McCain called the response to Katrina “a perfect storm” of …
Last night’s (Earth Day 2008) Frontline examined the politics behind the government’s failure to act on the biggest environmental problem of our time. The full episode is available to view …
Presidential hopefuls Sens. Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain are not the only ones assessing the progress of the Iraq War. The New York Times reported that Frontline’s documentary, “Bush’s War,” received more than 1.5 million views online. The two-part report tells the epic story of how the Iraq war began and how it has been fought, both on the ground and deep inside the government. Find out more about the war of words on NewsHour.
