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A baseball tournament with so few games is vulnerable to upsets that leave behind the best teams, but not in this World Baseball Classic: Korea and Japan will play tonight for the cha... (article)
If the 2006 World Baseball Classic was baseball commissioner Bud Selig’s newborn baby, with everybody cooing, talking up the novelty of it and predicting a bright future as Japan beat... (article)
The Takeaway for Monday, March 23, 2009 (Final Edition) (article)
In a blast sending ash 50,000 feet into the air, Alaska's Mount Redoubt is erupting for the first time in 20 years. After showing intense activity in the last few days, the volcano ha... (article)
Headlines; This week's political agenda (article)
The week's agenda: Moneypalooza (episode)
Every Monday morning The Takeaway takes a look at the nation's agenda —what will drive the headlines for the week ahead? This week: The government tries to figure out how to deal with...
Last Friday, President Barack Obama addressed the people of Iran in a video message on Nowruz, the Persian New Year. In his appeal, Obama paid tribute to Iranian history and culture a...
It's the day after World Water Day, a day highlighting the issues facing countries with scarce water resources. The issue of clean water is clearly important, but Rose George, autho...
California’s parole system has long been criticized for returning parolees to overcrowded prisons for minor offenses. Reform has been in the works for years. This weekend, though, a p...
The United States holds at least 25,000 prisoners in long-term solitary confinement prisons across the country. They're called "Supermax" prisons, where prisoners are confined without...
He’s the first sitting president to appear on a late-night talk show. He’s been on the cover of GQ and Vanity Fair. His weekly “radio” address airs on YouTube and his emails are still...
We've got the latest on March Madness from Gonzaga's game-winning layup to Missouri's freshman free-throw phenom. The Takeaway is joined by Will Leitch, Contributing Editor and Column...
It is well known that taking antidepressants can dampen your sex drive, but could they be hindering our ability to fall in love? That’s what Rutgers University anthropologist Helen Fi...
The Takeaway has been following the spillover of Mexico's drug war where the national army is battling powerful cartels from tense border towns in west Texas and Arizona to the violen...
When we use the metaphor of things moving at a glacial pace, our intention is to describe something progressing very slowly. Well if you were familiar with James Balog and his natur...