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California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom and Sebastian Thrun, the founder and CEO of Udacity, a for-profit educational organization offering massive open online courses (MOOCs), talked ab…

The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the nomination of David Barron for U.S. Circuit Court judge. David Barron was at the time a Harvard Law School Professor. He worked in the…

Members of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) testified on upcoming legislation to reorganize their agency.

Journalist Glenn Greenwald testified before a European Parliamentary Committee about U.S. National Security Agency surveillance practices, civil liberties of European citizens, and privacy c…

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew delivered an annual report on the status of the international financial system.

BBC Parliament TV looked back at the major events in the British Parliament since September 2013.

Chris Edelson talked about his book his new book, Emergency Presidential Power. In the book he examines how U.S. presidents have tested and pushed the limits of their emergency powers, from …

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew delivered an annual report on the status of the international financial system. He told committee members that negotiators were protecting U.S. financial regulati…

Health care policy experts testified about the effects of the Affordable Care Act on the health care and health insurance markets. This hearing was titled “ObamaCare’s Impact on Premium…

The House met in a pro forma session to begin the second session of the 113th Congress.

Senate wmet in a pro forma session for the first meeting of the second session of the 113th Congress.

Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) and Representative Sander Levin (D-MI) held a conference call with members of the press to talk about the expiration of the extended unemployment insurance. …

The House of Representatives convened in a pro forma session to end the first session of the 113th Congress.

Medical doctors testified on how the Affordable Care Act was adversely affecting their patients. Their concerns included limited access to care and drug costs for those with chronic conditio…

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

Telephone lines were open for viewer comments on the question, “Should the U.S. offer clemency to Edward Snowden?”

Connecticut College professor David Canton talked about the lives of African Americans in the 1920s. His lecture focused on the leaders, publications, and events that made up a turbulent era…

Indiana University professor James Madison talked about the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) of the 1920s, which was made up of white Protestants from different social economic levels that were drawn toge…

Jagdish Bhagwati talked about his book, Why Growth Matters: How Economic Growth in India Reduced Poverty and the Lessons for Other Developing Countries, in which he argues that market-driven…

Nina Munk talked about her book, The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty, in which she chronicles the promise and eventual failure of Jeffrey Sachs' Millennium Village Proje…