Todd Zwillich appears in the following:
Helping Muslims Give to Charity
Friday, June 05, 2009
One of the five pillars of Islam, “zakat,” is the giving of a small percentage of one’s income to a Muslim charity. President Obama, in his Cairo speech, said that he is "committed to...
Deepening Trouble for Prime Minister Gordon Brown
Friday, June 05, 2009
The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will meet with President Obama on the beaches of Normandy, France, tomorrow in commemoration of the 65th anniversary of D-Day. This happens whi...
Obama's Speech: Reaction in the Arab Press
Friday, June 05, 2009
President Obama received a standing ovation after his speech yesterday in Cairo calling for a “new beginning” between the U.S. and the Muslim world. But was the response around the Mu...
Obama in Germany: Debating the Future of Guantanamo
Friday, June 05, 2009
President Obama spoke this morning in a joint appearance with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. He talked about some of the same themes as in his major speech yesterday in Cairo. Obama...
[Web Special] Not Ready to Make Nice? Sotomayor and the Senate
Friday, June 05, 2009
The morning started out so nicely.
Judge Sonya Sotomayor visited Wednesday morning with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.). With television cameras rolling and microphones open...
Sotomayor, Visiting the (Capitol) Hill
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Judge Sonya Sotomayor started her courtesy calls to Capitol Hill as a Supreme Court nominee. Sotomayor met with key senators, while harsh criticism continued on cable TV about her pas...
This Week's Agenda With Todd Zwillich
Monday, May 25, 2009
It's Monday, which means it is time to pull out our road map for the week. Our guide this week is our own Washington correspondent Todd Zwillich. On the agenda? A California court is ...
Attention! How To Lead A Focus-Driven Life
Friday, May 22, 2009
Although there is no calculator that can compute our national attention deficit, it is clear there are too many stimuli competing for our precious brain time. In a world where the temptations to twitter and text are 24/7, is there hope for our multi-tasked minds? Writer Winifred Gallagher says yes. In her new book, Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life
The Curious Incident of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Friday, May 22, 2009
Today is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the British writer who created the detective Sherlock Holmes. Holmes and his sidekick Dr. Watson are two of the ...
Why Employment-Based Health Insurance Is Ailing
Friday, May 22, 2009
Princeton University Professor Uwe Reinhardt is an expert on health care policy and an adviser to President Obama. In today’s Economix blog in the New York Times, he makes the case fo...
The Real Fakes in Hanoi's Museums
Friday, May 22, 2009
During the Vietnam War, the directors of the museum in Hanoi decided to hide their nation's valuable art work to keep it safe from the war. But they wanted to maintain their cultural ...
Political Geometry: Obama's Art of Triangulation
Friday, May 22, 2009
President Obama delivered a strong speech on national security yesterday. And then, so did former Vice President Dick Cheney, who harshly critcized the current commander in chief. Mea...
How New York City Cops Keep Tabs on Terrorists
Friday, May 22, 2009
The four men accused of planning a terror attack on two synagogues in the Bronx and on military planes on a nearby air force base were arraigned in Federal Court in upstate New York y...
Thriller in London: Michael Jackson's 'This Is It' Tour
Friday, May 22, 2009
The King of Pop says "This is It." That's what Michael Jackson is calling a 50-consecutive-night comeback he's planning for London this summer. It's been more than a decade since Jack...
Biden in Beirut: America's Stake in the Lebanese Election
Friday, May 22, 2009
Vice President Joe Biden travels to Lebanon today to meet with Lebanese President Michel Suleiman in Beirut. The meeting is a show of U.S. support for a leader facing tough elections ...
Stormy Weather? Predictions for the Hurricane Season
Friday, May 22, 2009
The Atlantic hurricane season starts June 1st, with forecasters predicting a near-normal hurricane season. Statistically speaking, "normal" translates into a 70 percent chance of four...
Cheney On Cheney: Why The Angler Won't Stop Talking
Friday, May 22, 2009
While most presidents, and certainly most vice-presidents retire from the spotlight when their terms of office end, former Vice President Dick Cheney has been everywhere lately. He sp...
Ending the War On Drugs
Friday, May 15, 2009
President Nixon coined the term "war on drugs" in 1969, and began fighting the problem of drug use with arrests and prison time. Since then every administration has more or less done ...
Trying to Help Pakistani Refugees
Friday, May 15, 2009
Thousands of people are fleeing the SWAT valley in northwest Pakistan today. The government temporarily lifted a curfew to allow the civilians to flee the intense fighting between gov...
Is Horse Racing Inhumane?
Friday, May 15, 2009
When we covered the Kentucky Derby earlier this month, a listener criticized us for not addressing charges that breeding practices, drug use, and harmful track surfaces are costing ma...
