<p><img alt="Photo of Stephanie Dhue" src="http://www.pbs.org/nbr/blog/nbr_images/s_dhue.jpg" width="93" height="119"/>Reducing budget deficits will be in vogue again, but it will take a while. Cutting government spending and/or increasing taxes will be politically difficult until we begin to recover from this financial disaster. How long that will take is anyone’s guess....

With the election less than three weeks off, senior correspondent Judy Woodruff previews the stakes for the final debate between Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain and to reflect on politics in the Land of Enchantment.

I&#8217;ve always had a certain fondness for British conceptual artists Gilbert &#38; George, now the objects of a show at the Brooklyn Museum; concurrently, Creative Time will screen two of their early films (1970&#8217;s A Portrait of the Artists As Young Men and 1972&#8217;s The Nature of Our Looking) on...

Josiah McElheny opened this week at White Cube’s Hoxton Square space. Island Universe is an installation consisting of five sculptural elements made of chrome-plated aluminum, each composed of a central sphere from which radiate rods of varying lengths ending with either a unique cluster of objects or a single...

Yesterday, one day before its current mandate expired, the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti was extended for another year, by unanimous vote of the UN Security Council. The UN “Stabilization Mission,” also known as MINUSTAH, was deployed in June 2004 to restore order following the bloody ouster of former president...

<p><img alt="Photo of Scott Gurvey" src="http://www.pbs.org/nbr/blog/nbr_images/GURVEY_web.jpg" width="95" height="119"/>The <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Deer in Headlights">Urban Dictionary</a> defines “Deer in the Headlights Syndrome” as, “A mental state of high arousal caused by anxiety, fear, panic, surprise and/or confusion, or substance abuse. A person experiencing the ‘deer in the headlights’ syndrome often shows behavioral signs...

<p><img alt="Photo of Susie Gharib." src="http://www.pbs.org/nbr/blog/nbr_images/gharibnew.jpg" width="95" height="119"/>Who's to blame? Who got us into this financial mess? That's a question I've been asked a lot lately. </p> <p>We won't have the answer for years on how the U-S economy got tangled in the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression....

To understand politics in New Mexico is to understand how the state's voters are deeply connected to their history and generational roots. As the NewsHour examines the political battleground of New Mexico this week, New Mexico State Historian Estevan Rael-Galvez offered his insights on the factors that have shaped the...

Iraqi Christians are lining up at checkpoints as thousands flee their neighborhoods for safety, following a series of attacks targeted at Christians in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. On Sunday, Farques Batool, a Christian who owned a music store, was gunned down and killed in his shop. His teenage...

What it's like to vote everywhere around the country? Each election year, we hear reports about problems and success stories at polling places from small towns to big cities.

Boots Contemporary Art Space White Flag Projects For my third post about the arts scene in St. Louis, I wanted to get the perspective of two newer arts spaces in town - White Flag Projects and Boots Contemporary Art Space. Both opened about two years ago, and have filled a void...

Freelance writer Amanda Hirsch, former editorial director of PBS Interactive, will be writing a biweekly column, Outside the Frame, for the P.O.V. Blog about documentaries and the Web. Outside the Frame will be published every other Wednesday. As a long-time P.O.V. fan, I'm thrilled to join the ranks of P.O.V. bloggers....

Inside Thirteen blogger: Mohammed Al-Kassim, Associate Producer for Worldfocus Earlier this month, an Egyptian court sentenced an independent newspaper editor to prison for two months. The editor, Ibrahim Eissa, of Al Dustour, a newspaper critical of Egypt president Hosni Mubarak’s government, published an article in August 2007, in it Mr. Eissa...

Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain enters tonight's third and final face-off with Democratic opponent Sen. Barack Obama trailing in the polls and looking for a performance that could change the dynamics of the race, analysts said Wednesday.

Extending above the Arctic Circle in the far north of Canada, Ellesmere Island is one of largest untouched wildernesses on the planet.  Here, the animals have only three short months to raise offspring and prepare for the winter.  To succeed, their timing must be just right.  White Falcon, White Wolf...