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Analysis: Barack Obama's 2008 DNC speech (episode)
Last week, The Takeaway spoke with New York Times columnist David Leonhardt about Barack Obama’s unorthodox fixes for economic woes. Leonhardt joins us today to talk about John McCain...
When Katrina ripped through New Orleans, only a handful of restaurants survived the initial blow. Today 955 restaurants are up and thriving -- that's according to food critic and radi...
Democrats nominate Barack Obama and Joseph Biden (episode)
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is holding talks today with his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao in Tajikistan. Medvedev says China and four Central Asian republics have expressed unde...
This week in Riverside, California a civilian jury is being asked to decide whether a former US Marine committed a criminal act during the course of his military service. The verdict...
After Hurricane Katrina, colleges in the area, such as Tulane University, were not able to provide higher education, forcing students to look elsewhere for their education for the fal...
Takeaway convention correspondent Faith Salie sets out to find the truth behind some myths, whispers and rumors surrounding the DNC in Denver.
While more than 4,000 delegates and fifteen thousand journalists attended the Democratic National Convention, there are also an untold number of celebrities, lobbyists, politicians an...
“Nickel and Dimed,” author Barbara Ehrenreich takes to the Takeaway stage against the backdrop of the Presidential convention and new economic figures that bear bad news for American ...
Last week Barack Obama taunted the media with the promise of finally letting us know who he had chosen to complete his ticket. But this week it’s John McCain’s term to tease us. The...
Terence Blanchard is a prolific composer and musician. He’s written film scores for over thirty movies including, “Malcolm X”, “When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts”, “Insid...
Read Senior Editor Femi Oke's notes on the series below. It's been three years since Hurricane Katrina tore through the Gulf Coast and changed the lives hundreds of thousands of Am... (article)
DENVER — Senator Hillary Clinton gave a rousing speech tonight, though her requests for her supporters to vote for Senator Obama fell on at least a few determin... (article)
Hillary Clinton calls for party unity in Denver (episode)
Three years after leaving his home in New Orleans, Vincent Wilson wants to go back. The destruction of Hurricane Katrina had left his house in ruins and Wilson does not have the means to rebuild.
With only months left in the term, the Bush Administration is taking a hard look at the legacy they are about to leave. But President Bush’s place in history entirely depends on who ...
There’s been a lot of talk about the “threatened culture” of post-Katrina New Orleans…But what does that really mean? Brass bands helped drive the city’s musical and street cultures, ...
Takeaway contributor and Essence magazine editor Patrik Henry Bass and Takeaway convention correspondent Faith Salie take a look at the nightlife and parties in Denver during the Democratic National Convention.
Britain's Foreign Minister is headed to Ukraine attempting to build a coalition against what he's called Russian aggression, referring to the Russian military incursion into in anothe...
Forget Red State - Blue State politics. But don't forget that all politics is local. The Christian Science Monitor's Patchwork Nation project is redefining political geography based...
Yesterday Russia further stoked the fire of the Georgia conflict by announcing that is was recognizing the regions of South Ossettia and Abkhazia as independent states. Next, on Th...
US consumers have been paying 5.2 percent more for their food over the past year. So the BBC world service embarked upon a little global experiment to see how much consumers were be...
It’s day three of the DNC and we check in with they doyenne of the Democratic Party, Madeleine Albright. She’s been attending convention and we turn to her for her analysis of the eve...
Michelle Obama and Ted Kennedy take center stage on convention’s opening night (episode)
It was an historic night at the Democratic National Convention. Michelle Obama, wife of the soon to be anointed democratic presidential nominee and the country's first potential Afri...
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, then FEMA director Michael Brown took a beating for his lack of formal emergency management experience. It’s been three years since Brown steppe...
Hillary Clinton has told her supporters that they have much more in common with Barack Obama than John McCain. But in Denver, many lifelong democrats are still thinking about crossing the aisle.
Three years after Hurricane Katrina slammed into the gulf coast; thousands of folks remain in trailers or are still homeless. The barriers to recovery are complex but the struggles ...
In the world of fashion, you get what you pay for, and that’s exactly the point Britain’s House of Lords has taken issue with. Clothing chains like H and M, or Forever 21 epitomize t...
Function MRI, or fMRI, promises to map and discover new patterns of brain activity that were previously inaccessible. But are scientists so caught up in the possibilities of modern ne...
Are you still ambivalent about the presidential candidates? A new study says that, subconsciously, you’re much less torn than you think you are. Test your ambivalence with the U.S. El...
I drove from Minneapolis to Minot, North Dakota, this year as a late spring snowstorm was brewing. Interstate 94, near the state line, closed down and the two lane highways and farm r... (article)
Two’s company: How Obama will fare with Biden (episode)
The missing piece of the Democratic convention is now revealed with Joe Biden as Obama’s running mate. Biden’s choice helps Obama roll out the narrative of his life to a population th...
There is talk outgoing Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf could leave his country for good. We take a look at where he might go, why a country might want to take him in, and where ...
Times Picayune reporter Lolis Eric Elie says that Hurricane Katrina has lessons for the nation. From a frail infrastructure, to a flawed emergency response system, to a society divide...
At most political conventions, the delegates usually line up behind the one candidate. But half the delegates Takeaway Political Director Andrea Bernstein spoke to say still they’re f...
A growing number of women are opting to have double mastectomies in order to combat a breast cancer. We’ll talk about why.
Now that Obama has finally picked his running mate, the Democrats start day one of their convention in Denver with big news. But the man at the top of the ticket still has a big job o...
China spent some 43 billion dollars on the Olympics. But what did they get for that investment? We’ll explore whether world opinion about China has changed, and if the increased att...
When Hurricane Katrina pounded New Orleans, the restaurant scene took a beating. Three years later, even though much of New Orleans is still hurting, many of the city’s famous restau...
Rising gas prices are forcing school districts to cut back on school bussing of students. For many it means longer rides and longer walks. Still, in the world of heavy traffic, wor...
Not all Democrats have been wooed by Obama—or, for that matter, Biden. On occasion of Barack Obama’s selection of running mate Joe Biden, we check in with two Hillary Clinton supporte...
A focal point at tonight’s Democratic National Convention will be the delegation from the Illinois Democratic Party, a delegation that is infamous for its inability to cooperate. What...
Michael Hearst is a professional musician and composer whose latest side project is creating short ditties pulled straight from the 24-hour news cycle. Hearst calls himself the “ancho...
Democrats anxious to see Obama settle down with a nice running mate (episode)
Every day this week at The Takeaway, we’ve been asking the same question: Is today the day Barack Obama announces his running mate? Obama’s campaign has said the presumptive pair will...
Soaring oil prices, coupled with climate change, is making commercial aviation not only unpopular but maybe impossible. Is the mile-high club about to end for good?
Takeaway political director Andrea Bernstein and producer Adam Hirsch are taking the long way to the Democratic National Convention in Denver. They're stopping in some key states to ...
PBS is rolling back broadcasts of the children's television series "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," which stopped airing in 2001. But for some cardigan-wearing fans young and old, this ...
Next week’s Democratic convention gives Barack Obama a big platform to tell his story. It’s in Colorado, but Obama is bringing a piece of Illinois with him, using his record as a sta...
The New York Times’ David Leonhardt recently talked with presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama. In the conversation, the senator laid out some unorthodox fixes for ...
With energy prices soaring, the economy slumping and global warming fears taking center stage, there is no end of innovative responses to this new world order. But today, hybrid cars,...
A new study says professional sports stadiums aren’t so discerning when it comes to serving underage-looking or already-intoxicated fans.
Texas born country singer John Rich has written a theme song for John McCain, and the singer will be one of the performers at the GOP convention. On the other side of the aisle, singe...
The conflict in Georgia sends shudders through former Russian satellite states (episode)
Are you a brand-loyal consumer? Are you a cookie-eater? If so, you may have noticed a void at the supermarket these past five years. The crème-filled Hydrox cookie disappeared from sh...
It turns out that in many parts of the United States, corporal punishment is still standard operating procedure. A joint Human Rights Watch and ACLU report finds that nearly a quarter...