by Lindsay Holst | Mar 24, 2016 | Monitor
This morning, Vice President Joe Biden sent the following message to the White House email list, asking Americans to tune in at 12:30 p.m. ET, when he'll speak from Georgetown University Law Center about the very real implications the Supreme Court has...
by Lindsay Holst | Oct 27, 2015 | Monitor
Thirty years ago, there were 500,000 people behind bars in America. Today, there are 2.2 million. The United States is home to 5 percent of the world’s population, but 25 percent of the world’s prisoners. Every year, we spend $80 billion to keep people locked up....
by Lindsay Holst | Oct 20, 2015 | Monitor
It's an important day in American history (or, at least, in American cinematic history): It's the date to which Marty McFly traveled into the “future” in Back to the Future Part II. We've come a long way in the 30 years that have passed...
by Lindsay Holst | Jul 31, 2015 | Monitor
Here's something not enough people know about: Every week, a team of White House videographers puts together a short episode encapsulating what the President did that week — who he met with, where he traveled, and all sort of other fun moments in between....