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The Misogyny & Entitlement of Nerd Culture | Inside The Frat Past of Snapchat's CEO | The New Movie Releases of The Week | Jesse Eisenberg's New Role: An Angry Environmental Terrorist... (episode)
<p>"Our veterans deserve the best — they've earned it," President Obama said today at a press conference. "General Shinseki offered me his resignation, and with considerable regret, I accepted.”</p>
<p>Eleven-time <em>Jeopardy!</em> champ Arthur Chu is a nerd champion, but he says the prevalent aspirational narrative of "geek gets girl as prize" is hugely problematic.</p> <div></div>
Leaked emails from Evan Spiegel's undergraduate days show a culture of drinking, sex, and drugs. His comments about female co-eds are unflattering at best, misogynistic at worst. Is S...
<p>The actor talks about the challenge of his role in "Night Moves," opening this weekend. It also stars Dakota Fanning and Peter Sarsgaard.</p>
<p>Over the weekend in Cairo, Egyptian prosecutors will make their closing remarks in the case against three Al Jazeera journalists accused of helping a terrorist organization.</p>
Lawmakers and environmentalists in the real world are waiting anxiously ahead of President Obama's Monday announcement on how the administration will plan to reduce carbon emissions. ...
Are you a newsie? Do you know what's happening from Washington to Hollywood to Pyongyang? Be smarter than your pals. Prep your dinner party factoids. Gauge your knowledge about what h...
What makes a hero and hero and a villain a villain? And are the two really so different? Rafer and Kristen mull over these questions as they look at this week's big releases: "Malefic... (article)
Glenn Greenwald on Snowden's Latest Revelations | How Farmers Skirt Water Laws in CA | VA Investigation Reveals Delayed Care Is Rampant | The Curious Tradition of the West Point Goat ... (episode)
<p>The journalist who helped Edward Snowden reveal the NSA's secrets says Snowden sleeps fine at night. And he says John Kerry is sounding like Dick Cheney these days.</p>
<p>New revelations uncovered by the Center for Investigative Reporting show that farmers who take most of the precious water in California do not want the government looking over their shoulders.</p>
A new report on the VA by the Office of The Inspector General confirms that VA administrators manipulated medical waiting lists at one and possibly more hospitals. The report shows th...
All eyes were on President Obama at the West Point graduation ceremony Wednesday, drawing attention away from the graduating cadets. But one cadet was still singled out for a big chee...
New Tech City Host Manoush Zomorodi and Takeaway Host John Hockenberry compare notes on what they learned and accomplished—or failed to accomplish—while tracking and trying to improve...
<p>Economist John Maynard Keynes once predicted that technological innovation would make the U.S. fantastically wealthy and everyone would enjoy far more leisure time. He was right about one part.</p>
Poet Maya Angelou died today at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She was 86-years-old. The Takeaway spoke to poet Nikki Giovanni about her 40-plus-year friendship with Maya ... (article)
Remembering the Legendary Maya Angelou | Why America's Relationship With Pakistan Hangs in the Balance | Here's Your 2014 World Cup Primer | Detroit Gets Hit With New Billion Dollar P... (episode)
<p>After announcing that some troops will stay in Afghanistan, President Obama delivers a major speech at West Point Wednesday. But there's little time left in his presidency for a foreign policy reboot.</p>
Angelou, the renowned and beloved poet and activist, died Wednesday at the age of 86. Her friend Nikki Giovanni, a poet, commentator and activist, and Kwame Dawes, a poet and a profes...
As the U.S. prepares to leave Afghanistan, the American relationship with Pakistan hangs in the balance. Christine Fair, a professor at Georgetown University, examines how the region ...
We're less than three weeks out from the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Ahead of the world's most watch tournament, The Takeaway explains which teams to watch, who the stars will be, and whethe...
Tonight, 281 champion spellers from around the country will gather at a convention center just outside Washington, D.C. for the start of the 2014 Scripps National Spelling Bee. One fo...
D-Day was the largest military operation of its kind. As the 70th anniversary of this epic battle approaches, The Takeaway considers the extraordinary technology and engineering that ...
<p>The actor and the physicist weigh in on ways to humanize scientific insights and groundbreaking discoveries, as they participate in the 2014 World Science Festival in New York.</p>
An Inside Look at the Battle for Ukraine | Are Kids Getting Enough Playtime? | Democrats Push Forward on Immigration Reform | Nigerian Government Located Kidnapped Girls | Apple Takes... (episode)
<p>Bloody clashes erupted just moments after the election of new president Petro Poroshenko. The billionaire confectioner now must manage Ukrainian nationalists and pro-Russian separatists in the East.</p>
<p>The average American school kid gets 27 minutes for recess — and that number is falling. Other countries put a much higher premium on unregulated play. Are they onto something?</p>
<p dir="ltr">Sorting noise from music, street soundtrack from din is an old argument. 'Noise' can be cancelled with fancy new headphones. But is the canceling of noise also the erasing of culture?</p>
Highlights From Today's Show: Democrats push for immigration reform ahead of mid-term elections ... Nigerian government says it has located kidnapped girls ... Apple launches new tech...
Veterans Reflect on VA Controversy | How the World Cup is Transforming Brazil | Who Took All the Fun Out of Youth Sports? | Takeaway Book Club Preview: 'To Rise Again at a Decent Hour' (episode)
<p>Veterans respond to President Obama’s remarks on the growing Veterans Administration scandal. What would it take to truly reform the VA?</p>
<p>The ultra-competitive world of youth sports can lead to fatigue, burnout, and sometimes injury, for young athletes.</p> <p> </p>
Dave Zirin's new book "Brazil's Dance with the Devil: The World Cup, the Olympics, and the Fight for Democracy" examines how the World Cup has transformed Rio de Janiero.
<p>Takeaway producer and book critic <strong>Mythili Rao</strong> previews the first book on The Takeaway Book Club's summer reading list: "To Rise Again at a Decent Hour" by Joshua Ferris.</p>
Have we been here before? Because Rafer and Kristen are feeling some serious deja vu. It's all due to the release of the third Sandler-Barrymore romantic comedy ("Blended") and the se... (article)
FBI, DEA Now Required to Videotape Interrogations | Rolling Back The Clock on Capital Punishment | Why Native American Reservations Could be Next to Legalize Marijuana | In Colorado, ... (episode)
Starting on July 11, 2014, agents from the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Marshals Service will be required ...
<p>Tennessee's governor has signed a bill into law allowing the state to bring back the electric chair. With lethal injection becoming increasingly problematic, other states may go the same way.</p>
The dire need for a boost to the economy is why the Oglala Lakota Tribal Council's economic committee started looking into legalizing marijuana on the reservation this year. Many say ...
<p><span><span>The Colorado Symphony, and the state's new marijuana industry, are kicking off a musical series, "Classically Cannabis."</span></span></p>
He left his cultural mark on the decade with "Miami Vice." Now he's on the big screen in the new film "Cold in July," an '80s Texas crime story.
<p>The author of “Give War and Peace a Chance: Tolstoyan Wisdom for Trouble Times” explains why now more than ever, Vladimir Putin should be reading Russia’s most famous literary masterpiece.</p>
Are you a newsie? Do you know what's happening from Washington to Hollywood to Pyongyang? Be smarter than your pals. Prep your dinner party factoids. Gauge your knowledge about what h...