Search results for

NPR's John Nielsen reports on the gimmicks and props used by any politicians during the campaign season.

An audio postcard from Charlie Mayer. Some students at Swarthmore College have taken their drumming class (Rhythmic Analysis) to the forest behind the school, to welcome the new season with sound. (2:00) (IN S

Even after the extensive coverage of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans journalist Jason Berry say there's much to be learned from new books on the storm: about global warming, how cities live or die, the science of levees and stunning human dramas.

The internet has affected how we communicate, work, shop and, in this election year, how we run for office.By Wally BockWilmington NC – [Click the Listen…

Linda talks with Whit Ayres (WIT A-urz) of Q.W Ayres and Associates, and Peter Hart of Peter D. Hart Research Associates about whether or not the accepted ideas about what voters want...from tax cuts to a reduced deficit...are really holding true in this election season.

This past week, members of the U.S. Senate did something unusual: They debated the war in Iraq and the next steps for American forces there. Host Liane Hansen talks with Republican consultant Whit Ayres and Democratic consultant Donna Brazile about how the war and other issues might influence this fall's Congressional elections.

In the latest Politically Speaking column, Senior Washington Editor Ron Elving says that with fresh terror warnings and political pressure over the Sept. 11 report, official Washington is staying at work this August.

about 40 citizens of Sanford, Maine participated in a forum to discuss what they want this year's campaign to be about. The citizens will be interviewed throughout the course of the political season on various issues.

about the announcement that Bill Parcells will serve as a consultant to the New York Jets, starting next season, and that his assistant at New England, Bill Belichick, also will leave the Patriots and become acting head coach at the Jets. The move appears to be a way around the ruling by NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue that Parcells could not break his contract with New England, in order to take the head coaching job with the Jets.

and the future of the National Basketball Association...tonight the league begins its 50th season. He says the sport fits America's appetite for speed and our television habits, just like baseball meshed with radio and the slower pace of life in the past.