RICK KARR: Portland, Ore., is at the vanguard of the war to reduce gasoline consumption. You can find evidence all over its downtown area … and at its car dealerships. EARL BLUMENAUER: We’re looking at hybrids, plug-in hybrids, electric cars. There…
RICK KARR: Portland, Ore., is at the vanguard of the war to reduce gasoline consumption. You can find evidence all over its downtown area … and at its car dealerships. EARL BLUMENAUER: We’re looking at hybrids, plug-in hybrids, electric cars. There…
JUDY WOODRUFF: Thanksgiving week is naturally a time when closer attention is paid to the role of food in our daily lives, including concerns over how we get it, the cost, the nutritional value, and why some don’t have enough to eat. We will be looking…
By: News Desk The holidays are a time for charitable giving, but non-profit organizations remind us that there is need all throughout the year. File photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images As the holiday season gets into full swing this week, many Americans…
GWEN IFILL: J.P. Morgan’s $13 billion settlement brings months of delicate, high-stakes negotiations to an end. Under the terms of the deal, $4 billion will go to struggling homeowners in the form of reduced mortgage payments, lower loan rates and other…
HARI SREENIVASAN: So how different is the U.S. system versus the Dutch system? JUSTIN FOX: Well, the U.S. system started out after World War II a bit like the Dutch system — it was corporations providing pensions for people. And that kind of fell…
WILLIAM BRANGHAM: It’s early morning in a suburb outside Amsterdam and Josephine Lightart is getting ready for work. She’s a police officer, and after decades of work, she’s just a few years away from hanging up her gun and retiring. JOSEPHINE…
By: News Desk People salvage what they can from homes destroyed by Typhoon Haiyan. Photo by Save the Children Editor’s note: Updated at 10:40 p.m. EST, Tuesday, to reflect the number dead and additional ways to help. More than 10,000 people are feared…
JUDY WOODRUFF: It’s not just in sci-fi movies. Asteroids really are moving closer to Earth more frequently and chunks of them are hitting too. The one that caught everyone’s attention struck last February, when a meteor hit near the Russian city of…
ANNOUNCER: Environmentalists and oil and gas companies are used to finding themselves on opposite sides of debates about fossil fuel consumption, pollution, and global climate change. But in Pennsylvania, some environmental advocacy groups have formed…
GWEN IFILL: High unemployment has been one of the nation’s most vexing problems since the recession. But, increasingly, there are also mounting concerns about what constitutes a good job and a fair wage in an era of rising inequality. It’s a story that…
By: Larisa Epatko Sahrawis, a group of different tribes from the western part of the African Sahara desert, set up refugee camps in western Algeria in the mid-1970s. There, they have established schools, hospitals, even a government as they wait for…
MEGAN THOMPSON: The Hawaiian island of Kauai is known as the garden isle, luring hundreds of thousands of tourists to its lush northern shores. But fewer make it down to the drier southwest side, home to many native Hawaiians, who’ve lived here for…