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Telephone lines were open for viewer comments on the question, “What is your pick for news story of the year?”

Hedrick Smith listed his picks for the top news stories of 2013. He cited income inequality as his top underreported story, which is the subject of his book, Who Stole the American Dream?, …

Telephone lines were open for viewer comments on the question, “What is your pick for news story of the year?”

Telephone lines were open for viewer comments on a Washington Post interview with former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. Mr. Snowden said he had “already won” and that hi…

Steven Toporoff talked about ways that consumers can protect themselves from identify theft. He discussed the types of identity theft, the role of the Federal Trade Commission, and the first…

Barry Lynn and Richard Land talked about the role that faith and religion play in contemporary politics, public life, and civics. Topics included the separation of church and state, the conc…

Telephone lines were open for viewer comments on a Washington Post interview with former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. Mr. Snowden said he had “already won” and that hi…

Randi Weingarten talked about key issues in education. Her American Federation of Teachers organization is one of the nation’s largest teachers unions. Topics included the common core standa…

Telephone lines were open for viewer comments on news of the day.

Congressional scholars Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein talked about the year 2013 on Capitol Hill and assessed the 113th Congress. They spoke about approval ratings and trust ratings that pu…

James Andrew Lewis talked about U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon’s ruling that the National Security Agency (NSA) phone record data collection program was unconstitutional. Judge Leon …

Bloomberg News correspondent Joshua Zumbrun was interviewed by phone about a meeting of the Federal Reserve Board’s Federal Open Market Committee.

Telephone lines were open for viewer comments on the question, “Do your representatives and senators in Congress reflect your views?” Bloomberg News correspondent Joshua Zumbrun also spok…

House Appropriations Committee Chair Harold Rogers (R-KY) talked about the impact of the bi-partisan budget deal developed by Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) and Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) …

John Arensmeyer talked about the impact of the Affordable Care Act on small businesses and the work of his Small Business Majority group. He focused on the benefits of the law, such as its e…

Representative Sean Duffy (R-WI) talked about the agreement reached between the co-chairs of the Budget Conference Committee and the possible House vote on the bill later in the day. He also…

Representative Kurt Schrader (D-OR) talked about the two-year budget deal reached earlier in the week by the chairs of the Budget Conference Committee and that was scheduled for a vote on th…

Ginger Gibson gave an update by phone on the latest news concerning the agreement reached by the chairs of the Budget Conference Committee. She also talked about the bill’s timing for passag…

Telephone lines were open for viewer comments on House Speaker John Boehner’s response to a reporter’s question about opposition to the agreement reached by the chairs of the Budget Conferen…

Mark Follman talked about his Mother Jones Magazine article on the number of children who have been killed by guns since the December 2013 mass shooting at a Newtown, Connecticut, elementary…