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Why Some Americans' Health Insurance Policies Are Being Cancelled Under the ACA| NSA program taps Yahoo, Google data centers | Burn Pits Leave Lasting Mark on Soldiers | Obama Nominee... (episode)
The latest issue in the ACA's rocky debut: more and more individuals are receiving letters from their insurers warning that their policy will be cancelled at the end of this year, des...
The latest revelations from NSA leaker Edwards Snowden about the agency's surveillance practices involve a program called MUSCULAR. By tapping into the data centers that connect Yahoo...
For some time now, doctors have seen an alarming number of veterans return from the front lines with respiratory diseases and rare forms of cancer-- and it may have to do with the way...
<p>From living in haunted houses to inexplicably finding human teeth on the floor, listeners share their scariest moments with us in honor of Halloween. </p>
President Barack Obama plans to nominate Patricia Ann Millett, a Washington lawyer with bipartisan credentials, for a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Co...
Around the country, schools are considering whether it's their responsibility - or if it’s even their right - to keep track of kids when they’re online, but off campus. Two educators ...
Everyone has a story that as a kid, made the hairs on their neck stand up -- and often, those stories live with us throughout adulthood. Author of scary fiction for children, R.L. Sti...
Rep. Alan Grayson: Congress Does Not Trust the NSA | After Shutdown Fiasco, What's Next for the G.O.P.?| GOP Struggles in Big City Politics | 26 Palestinian Prisoners Released by Isra... (episode)
President Obama wasn't aware of many of the NSA's surveillance activities, like the one that monitored German Chancellor Angela Merkel, according to the The Washington Post. Rep. Alan...
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is on Capitol Hill today answering questions about the Affordable Care Act (ACA). “I apologize. I am accountable to you for fixin...
In a speech delivered at the Heritage Foundation yesterday, Senator Mike Lee, R-Utah, addressed the question: "What's next for Conservatives?" It's a pertinent question, as GOP poll n...
Mayoral races are heating up across the country, but for the GOP in big cities, the future isn't as bright. On a list of the U.S.’s largest cities, you have to go down to number 13, I...
Takeaway listeners share scary Halloween stories from their childhood, and R.L. Stine, the author of several scary series for children, including "Goosebumps," describes one particu...
Author Lawrence Hill's new book, “Blood: The Stuff of Life," examines the bodily fluid through its social and scientific history highlighting the power we ascribe to blood and our evo...
Today 26 Palestinian prisoners received a heroes welcome in the West Bank and Gaza after being released by Israel. In total, 104 prisoners are due to be released as part of a deal bro...
<p><strong>Joshua Greene</strong>, author of “Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap between Us and Them,” joins The Takeaway to discuss how our collective groupings affect the moral decisions we make.</p>
A Look at The Federal Response to Sandy | In the Face of Disaster, Would You Stay? | Britain Seeks to Prevent The Publishing of Snowden's Leaks | As U.S. Changes Foreign Policy Priori... (episode)
One year ago this week, Sandy devastated the Eastern Seaboard, leaving at least 117 dead, thousands homeless and an estimated $65 billion in damage. President Barack Obama appointed S...
It’s been one year since Hurricane Sandy struck the fragile coasts of the New York and New Jersey, but it sometimes seems that the anniversary of one disaster is never far from anothe...
British Prime Minister David Cameron appears ready to crack down on The Guardian, the news organization at the center of the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden's leaks. Louise Mensc...
In Texas, a restrictive new abortion law will go into effect today—but not without some last minute changes. Yesterday, just hours before the new law was set to go into effect, a fede...
In a speech to the United Nations General Assembly last month, President Barack Obama laid down a new set of foreign policy priorities. The Arab-Israeli conflict made the cut, as did ...
Mohammed Mubarak, a 27-year-old architect who recently completed his military service in the Egyptian military, and Mohga Morsy, a 23-year-old lawyer, are both visiting the U.S. as Sh...
While the science behind climate change may still be controversial in some circles, it's come increasingly difficult to deny that the planet is growing warmer. And though scientists a...
Syria Moves Closer to Destroying Chemical Weapons Stockpile | Velvet Underground's Moe Tucker Remembers Rock Legend Lou Reed | Security Lags Behind Biotech Advancements | When Big Tec... (episode)
Three days ahead of its deadline, the Syrian regime submitted a formal declaration of its chemical weapons arsenal and its plans for destroying that stockpile. Is this a sign that cha...
Legendary singer, songwriter and guitarist Lou Reed died Sunday at the age of 71. As founder of the Velvet Underground, Reed is known as one of rock history's great pioneers. Neil Por...
For years, scientists have been warning that while technologies are progressing rapidly, control over our biological creations is nearly nonexistent. To explain this disconnect betwee...
Bre Pettis has been on the forefront of 3-D printing technology, and he has made efforts to get the technology into the hands of regular people. Pettis is the founder and CEO of Maker...
This week, as we mark a year after Hurricane Sandy hit the Eastern Seaboard, our friends at the documentary team Retro Report are looking back at another major storm, and the lessons ...
It was a year ago this week that Super Storm Sandy hit the beaches of New York and New Jersey. Each neighborhood hit by Hurricane Sandy has a story. As our Senior Producer Jen Poyant ...
The outrage continues over revelations that the NSA has spied on some of America’s closest allies. Members of European Parliament will travel to Washington today—they are likely to pr...
This week, Kristen and Rafer talk thrillers, French films, and films with barely any dialogue: "The Counselor," starring Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz, a... (article)
Fallout Continues from NSA Revelations in Europe | Mikhail Khodorkovsky: The Case that Defines Russian Justice | The Lasting Emotional Damage in Hurricane Sandy's Hardest Hit Communit... (episode)
More than three weeks after the launch of the federally facilitated and state-based health-care exchanges, things are clearly not going as well as some had planned. Three health repor...
KnowTheChain.org is an online resource that lists which businesses have a policy against human rights abuses in their supply chains. Lori Bishop, director of investments at Humanity U...
This week in movies: mayhem on land at sea. Our Movie Date team, Rafer Guzman and Kristen Meinzer, weigh in on Cormac McCarthy's debut screenplay, 'The Counselor,' Robert Redford in '...
European Governments remain outraged over allegations that the U.S. has eavesdropped on phone conversations in their countries. The political and diplomatic fallout has intensified, w...
Yesterday marked 10 years since former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky's arrest, in October 2003. Khodorkovsky maintains that his subsequent trial and sentencing were politically moti...
As we approach the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, we check in with Jim O’Grady, a reporter for The Takeaway's partner WNYC, who has been covering stories of emotional trauma...
Attention New Yorkers! On October 27, for the first time ever, The Takeaway's Movie Date podcast is hosting a very special (and spooky) night of bar trivia. In honor of Halloween, qu... (article)
President Obama Apologizes to French and German Leaders Over Surveillance Concerns | White House to Delay ACA Insurance Enrollment Requirement by Six Weeks | Problems With ACA Exchang... (episode)
After German Chancellor Angela Merkel received intelligence from her government that her phone was under surveillance, President Obama called Chancellor Merkel and reassured her that ...
Because of technical issues with HealthCare.gov, consumers will now have a little more time to enroll in an insurance program. The White House announced last night that people have an...
The Obama administration says it is bringing in the big guns to resolve the issues with HealthCare.gov: Silicon Valley. Clay Johnson, a Presidential Innovation Fellow who now heads a ...
NASA's latest effort to explore new frontiers and technologies is starting by looking to the past. In a partnership with tech start-up Marblar, NASA is sharing 40 patents in an effor...
A group of scientists, gamers, and of course, folks from Google may have found a way to make the popular world-building game, Minecraft, into a tool for teaching quantum physics. Join...
For years Pakistani officials have denounced the U.S. drone program in Pakistan. But the Washington Post obtained diplomatic memos demonstrating that Pakistani officials secretly endo...
The Tea Party and its allies may have propelled the Republicans to victory in the 2010 midterm elections, but John G. Taft, great-grandson of 27th President William Howard Taft, is wo...
Federal Health Care Policy: Past, Present and Future | Diplomatic Rift Grows Between Saudi Arabia and U.S. | Iran: A Look at a Century | St. Louis Vs. Boston: A Tale of Two Cities | C... (episode)
Since 1965, the federal government has redesigned its health policy several times with varying degrees of success. Helen Levy, research associate professor of economics at the Ford Sc...
The easing of tensions with Iran, and a perceived lack of leadership on Syria, has some of America’s most important allies feeling alienated—namely Saudi Arabia. Caryle Murphy, a Puli...
U.S.- Iran relations might be on the brink of something big when it comes to matters of diplomacy, but a recent easing of tensions between Iran and the West doesn't undo a century of ...
When it comes to the 2013 World Series, it is really a tale of two cities—St. Louis and Boston. These team stories you may already know if you are a baseball fan, but as St. Louis and...
Fourteen Caribbean nations are asking the former colonial powers of Britain, France and the Netherlands to pay for the damage they inflicted through years of slavery and racism. Jo...
In the world of civil rights, 1967 was a historic year. Though slightly more modest, the college football field also made civil rights history in 1967. Samuel Freedman is the author o...
Family, Allies Speak Out For Kenneth Bae's Release From North Korea | How the Federal Government Got into the Economic Data Business | A New Career for Jeopardy Supercomputer Watson |... (episode)
The lack of a real diplomatic dialogue between the U.S. and North Korea is one of the reasons why American citizen Kenneth Bae remains in a North Korean prison. The Takeaway speaks wi...
The September jobs report finally arrived today, delayed nearly three weeks because of the government shutdown. Despite the shutdown, the economy kept bumping along without the federa...
What's Watson been up to since becoming a champion on “Jeopardy!” back in 2011? It turns out that IBM's supercomputer has been busy helping cancer patients, and medical students to be...
History is visual: You can see a photo from a century ago, visit a room filled with artifacts, and even gaze at paintings in an ancient cave where humans stood 30,000 ago. But what wo...
The newest documentary by Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., “The African Americans,” examines five centuries of African American history—from the first black conquistador to arrive in what's...