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Ben Bernanke backs the creation of another stimulus package (episode)
Congress is batting around a stimulus package with the presidential election two weeks away. Yesterday on Capitol Hill, Federal Reserve Board chair Ben Bernanke endorsed the idea of another stimulus package.
They're swing counties in swing states — and they may be the spots where this election is decided. In the seventh of a series on "counties that count," The Takeaway's Political Direct...
If the NSA is listening to your phone calls and reading your emails, would you want to know about it?
This year, the blog FiveThirtyEight.com has become a political force. By analyzing daily polls, the blog is projecting that the Obama campaign's push in crucial swing states and red s...
The Takeaway talks to the top economic advisers for the presidential candidates about how each envisions coping with the most difficult economic conditions in memory. View The Takeaw...
Closing arguments come this morning in the four-week-long corruption trial of Alaska Republican Senator Ted Stevens. Stevens is charged with the felony offense of lying on his financ...
This presidential election, no matter who wins, will be historic. Either Americans will elect the nation's first African-American leader or the first female vice president. We also kn...