Memoir, Nat Geo Sitdown Highlight the Early Diverging Paths of Bush and Cheney
On September 11th, 2001, all eyes were on George W. Bush while Dick Cheney remained active behind the scenes. With the release of Cheney's autobiography ten years later, that dynamic appears to have...
View ArticleAmerica's Lost Decade
When America entered the new millennium, the Clinton Administration reported a budget surplus of around $559 billion and the world was in a state of relative peace. With dot-coms booming, real estate...
View ArticleThe Man Who Told Bush, 'America Is Under Attack'
ListenOf the many stunning images taken on September 11, 2001 that have become permanently seared into the American psyche, the image of President George W. Bush being told the nation was under attack...
View Article9/11 Politicos: Where Are They Now?
Ten years after the towers fell, where are the leaders and policymakers who shaped our response to the tragedy?President George W. BushThe former president has kept a relatively low profile since...
View ArticleWhy We're Withdrawing From Iraq
Welcome to Politics Bites, where every afternoon at It's A Free Country, we bring you the unmissable quotes from the morning's political conversations on WNYC. Today on The Brian Lehrer Show, Fred...
View ArticleParty Undisciplined: Where are the GOP's Elders?
As presidential contest narratives go, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush’s endorsement of Mitt Romney on Wednesday is designed to be a moment. After Romney’s solid victory in Illinois, it's should be a...
View ArticleDan Rather and Why Bush's "Lost Year" Still Matters
Eight years ago, Dan Rather broadcast an explosive report on the Air National Guard service of President George W. Bush. It was supposed to be the legendary newsman’s finest hour. Instead, it blew up...
View ArticleOpinion: George H.W. Bush Doc Puts Family, Not Politics, at the Fore for 41
Last night HBO aired a documentary on the 41st President of the United States, George H.W. Bush. Whether you agree with his politics or not, two things immediately come to mind while watching – he has...
View ArticleThat's My Issue: Ending Voter Apathy
In 2003, America entered a war of choice against a country that hadn't attacked us. It felt like a dystopian version of the nation I thought I'd lived in: one of laws, justice and reason. Anti-war...
View ArticleBush and Cheney in the White House
Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times, discusses the eight years of the Bush Administration, the most consequential presidency in modern times, and the elusive and...
View ArticleSeven (New) Things We Learned from Robert Gates
Robert Gates, who served as U.S. Secretary of Defense from 2006 to 2011 and is also the former Director of Central Intelligence, talks about his new book,Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary At War, and his...
View ArticleInside the War Room
Robert Gates, former secretary of defense and the author of (now in paperback) Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War (Knopf, 2014), talks about his admiration for soldiers and his experience with both...
View ArticleThe Truth Behind "Truth"
The film "Truth," starring Cate Blanchett and Robert Redford, revisits the infamously bungled CBS report that aimed to expose President George W. Bush's military records and ended up bringing down the...
View ArticleMary Mapes on The Truth Behind 'Truth'
Click on the audio player above to hear this interview.For 15 years, Mary Mapes was a celebrated producer at CBS News working with Dan Rather. She broke the story of the prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib,...
View ArticleGeorge H.W. Bush and the Contradictions of Public Office
Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jon Meacham talked to us about his new presidential biography Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush. George H.W. Bush's father was a...
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Obama, lawmakers see centennial as chance to spruce up parks
U.S. President Barack Obama takes a walking tour of the Anhinga Trail at Everglades National Park, Florida, on April 22, 2015. The Obama administration and Republican lawmakers have vastly different...
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Obama’s final State of the Union address drew his smallest audience
U.S. President Barack Obama delivers his final State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 12, 2016. Photo by Evan Vucci/Pool/ReutersPASADENA, Calif. — The...
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Here’s how the Iowa caucus works
A cow stands in front of barn painted with a U.S. flag in Homestead, Iowa, March 7, 2015. Iowa, the American heartland. Endless farm fields and quiet towns. 56,273 square miles that is the focus of the...
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George W. Bush jumps back into presidential politics
Former President George W. Bush hugs a woman with former first lady Laura Bush at his side as they campaign for the first time in the 2016 campaign in support of his brother, Republican presidential...
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Nation says goodbye to iconic first lady in California ceremony
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioHARI SREENIVASAN: There were recollections and prayers today for first lady Nancy Reagan at her funeral service held in the hill country northwest of Los...
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The Elites Versus the Trump Voters; Jokes About Doctors' Handwriting Soon to...
Coming up on today's show:The "Stop Trump" train is getting ready to leave the station. Hear about how top Republican elites are uniting against Donald Trump's campaign.Jim Sleeper, author and lecturer...
View ArticleThe Failures of US Counterterrorism and How it Led to ISIL
David Kilcullen, Senior Future of War Fellow at the New America Foundation, a former Australian professional soldier and chief counterterrorism strategist at the US state department and the author of...
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Obama shortens prison sentences for 61 drug offenders
President Barack Obama speaks during his visit to the El Reno Federal Correctional Institution outside Oklahoma City. Photo by Kevin Lamarque /ReutersWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama commuted the...
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The artist who eviscerates both Reagan and Obama
Left: Page 5 from “The Skull Globe,” 1985. Right: “No Title (The Invisible Man’s …),” 2010. Images courtesy of David Zwirner BooksIn 1998, the Art Institute of Chicago received a rare angry letter. The...
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Obama allies use Trump to press GOP on Supreme Court nominee
Supreme Court nominee Judge Merrick Garland walks after a breakfast with Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) in Washington, D.C. last month. Photo by Yuri Gripas/ReutersDES...
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Donald Trump unveils list of his top picks for Supreme Court
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to supporters in Charleston, West Virginia. Photo by Chris Tilley/ReutersWASHINGTON — Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for...
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U.S. declassifies File 17, offering clues into secret pages of 9/11 report
Former Sen. Bob Graham (D-FL) displays 28 pages that are still classified, and blacked out, of a U.S. government report on who financed the 9/11 attacks on the United States, in June 2015. The...
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Police violence protests intensify as Dallas mourns officers
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioGWEN IFILL: The nation is still grappling tonight with a series of tragedies, recent police killings of black men, and the sniper attack in Dallas. It follows a long...
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‘The shock of this evil has still not faded’: Dallas mourns attack on police
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Dallas mourned its dead today, the police officers cut down by a sniper. The occasion was an interfaith memorial service, where President Obama offered...
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Donald Trump’s coronation week as GOP standard-bearer begins
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: It’s been an action-packed day already here in Cleveland. We’re excited about our first ever joint “PBS NewsHour”-NPR coverage of the 2016...
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Shields and Brooks on immigration and whether Clinton should lay low
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioHARI SREENIVASAN: We turn to the week in politics, which included, yes, a surprise campaign detour to Mexico.And that means we turn to the analysis of Shields and...
View ArticleDid George W. Bush Make the Worst Foreign Policy Decisions in U.S. History?
In Bush, presidential biographer Jean Edward Smith looks at what drove the decisions of President George W. Bush, including his decision to invade Iraq in 2003. Smith offers a thoroughly researched and...
View ArticleThe Lasting Effects of George W. Bush's Decisions, A Son's Search for Spock
Jean Edward Smith's biography, Bush, is a detailed, critical look at the 43rd president's decisions and their repercussions. Adam Nimoy on his new documentary about his late father, called, "For the...
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Shields and Brooks on the danger of our ideological divide
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: But, first, for the second time this week, we get the analysis of Shields and Brooks. That is syndicated columnist Mark Shields, and New York Times...
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Here are the four times Election Day ended with no clear winner
President-elect George W. Bush, left, reaches to shake hands with Vice President Al Gore after arriving at Gore’s residence for a meeting, December 19, 2000. Photo by ReutersFour presidential elections...
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Pence’s transition job could signal key role in White House
File photo of Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence by Mike Segar/ReutersNEW YORK — President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to empower his running mate Mike Pence to steer the presidential...
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Can a task force of foreign policy experts spark change in the Middle East?
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Now we’re joined by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who served in the Clinton administration, and Stephen Hadley. He was a national...
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Wisconsin’s election recount of nearly 3 million votes begins
Tabulators work on recounting presidential ballots in Dane County on in Madison, Wisconsin. Green Party candidate Jill Stein has requested Wisconsin and other states to recount the U.S. presidential...
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Trump raises prospect of America more willing to act alone on global stage
President Barack Obama (C) holds a multilateral meeting with Italy’s Prime Minister Matteo Renzi (L-R), Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel, Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron and France’s Foreign...
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Are we witnessing a pre-inauguration power struggle?
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioHARI SREENIVASAN: Now for more on the state of the Trump transition and the last weeks of the Obama administration, we turn to presidential historian and “NewsHour”...
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Hillary Clinton, George W. Bush to attend inauguration
Hillary Clinton addresses her staff and supporters about the results of the U.S. election at a hotel in the Manhattan borough of New York, in November. Photo by Brian Snyder/ReutersWASHINGTON — Bill...
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Is Trump’s plan for his company enough to avoid conflicts of interest?
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioSTEVE INSKEEP: Now, during his press conference, the president-elect said something that no president-elect may have said before. He said he had just turned down a...
View ArticleWhy I'm Leaving: A Federal Employee Resigns Under Trump
Donald Trump's arrival in the White House brought the usual turnover of federal employees, along with a few resignations.But Ned Price surprised himself by handing in his resignation letter at the end...
View ArticleHow to (really) steal an election
With the presidential race in the homestretch, it seems like we hear talk about rigged elections and threats of cyberattacks just about every week. So, how safe are our votes? Is it possible to steal...
View ArticleAl Letson Reveals: Vicente Fox on Trump’s wall
Many people have strong feelings about President Donald Trump’s plan to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Former Mexican President Vicente Fox is among the most outspoken. In this podcast...
View ArticleShould You Be Nice to Everyone?
Vox staff writer Constance Grady joins us to discuss the controversy surrounding Ellen DeGeneres and President George W. Bush, and her piece, "Ellen DeGeneres, George W. Bush, and the death of...
View ArticleJack Goldsmith on Jimmy Hoffa (and Also William Barr)
Jack Goldsmith is a Harvard law professor who was a key lawyer in the George W. Bush Administration. He is the co-author of a tome on international law, and he has written on government control of the...
View ArticlePost-Presidency Politics
As we observe Washington's birthday, Jonathan Horn, former White House presidential speechwriter (George W. Bush) and the author of Washington's End: The Final Years and Forgotten Struggle (Scribner,...
View ArticleDid Americans Die In Vain In Afghanistan?
The last of the U.S. military left Afghanistan last night. After 20 years of war and occupation, we look at the cost of the mission, and what it means for those personally invested in it.On Today's...
View ArticleObama on Irene Invites Bush, Katrina Comparisons
“All indications point to this being a historic hurricane,” President Obama said in remarks about Hurricane Irene on Friday morning from his Martha’s Vineyard vacation.He emphasized that coordination...
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