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House members criticize one another, reject a Wall Street bailout plan 228-205 (episode)
Today, facing the sound defeat of his Wall Street bailout plan and a historic single-day drop in the markets, President Bush and his advisors will have to go back to the drawing board...
Yesterday, the stock market was tumbling even before the House failed to pass $700 billion dollar bailout legislation for the country's financial institutions. The failure to pass the...
Ten northeastern states have formed a coalition to check global warming. David Biello, an associate editor at Scientific American, explains the cap-and-trade greenhouse gas reduction program.
On Sunday, the White House and Congressional leaders agreed to the fine print of a $700 billion government bailout. They even posted the bill online not long before it was voted on. Does this qualify as transparency?
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson came into office two years ago (after tenure as CEO of Goldman Sachs) with an ambitious plan to remake the U.S. economy and tackle thorny problems lik...
Yesterday, the Dow Jones industrial average dropped 778 points after a federal bailout package failed in the House of Representatives. As market futures waver this next morning and Co...
Republicans have long been successful at courting evangelical voters. Lisa Sharon Harper, evangelical leader and author, explains how politicians use language to appeal to evangelical...
When Hurricane Ike tore through the Texas Gulf coast, the region’s 160,000 Vietnamese Americans knew where to turn for information. For four days, Radio Saigon Houston struggled to st...
Chinese state media report that police arrested 22 people accused of involvement in a network that produced, sold and added the industrial chemical melamine to milk. BBC Correspondent...
After a weekend of negotiating in Congress, a bailout bill heads for a vote (episode)
The Takeaway talks with two reporters and an economist on the details of a $700-billion Wall Street bailout bill.
Jury selection begins today in the trial of five men accused of plotting a terrorist attack on the army base in Fort Dix, New Jersey. The Muslim men, all in their 20s, were taken into...
Politicians are masters at spinning their words to boost their appeal. Which candidate in this year’s presidential election uses the most spin? The Takeaway talks to David Skillicorn,...
This year's baseball season is coming to a close, and the drama spans the Mets’ last game at Shea Stadium, Tampa Bay’s surprising season, and the potential Cubs-White Sox face-off.
The $700 billion Wall Street bailout bill heads to the House for a vote today. We talk to Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., about the bailout and how it developed over the weekend.
When Wall Street imploded, the Chicago Board Options Exchange had its best day ever. For a look at how one city has benefited from Wall Street’s woes, The Takeaway turns to Adriene Hi...
You might think that voting day is November 4th, but, for many, Americans voting day is tomorrow. And the day after. And the day after. It’s estimated that up to a third of voters thi...
Buried in last week’s economic and political news were reports that Pakistani and U.S. forces traded gunfire along the Afghan border. So why are we fighting with a supposed ally? Form...
It sounds like a fantastic tale — pirates, ransoms and hijacked tanks — but today, a Ukrainian ship with 33 tanks and other military hardware on board was hijacked by Somali pirates. ...
Drama on Capitol Hill over bailout plan as McCain, Obama talk at White House (episode)
Presidential nominees (and Senators) John McCain and Barack Obama were at the White House last night for talks on a financial system bailout.
Wondering if the proposed Wall Street bailout is a good idea? You're in good company. On Tuesday, more than 100 academic economists sent a letter sent to Congress protesting the bai...
In our ongoing look at the economy, we turn to our friend Dante Chinni of the Christian Science Monitor's Patchwork Nation project. The project uses demographic information to look at...
Today in Pakistan, authorities say a bomb blast derailed a train, killing three people and injuring at least 15. The attack comes just days after another bomb destroyed a Marriott ho...
The first televised presidential debates happened in 1960, in the Golden Age of Television.
Tonight, presidential hopefuls John McCain, R-Ariz., and Barack Obama, D-Ill., are scheduled to kick off the first debate of the general election. Earlier this week, it looked like Ob...
A $700 billion bailout. Banks going under. Just last night, in the largest bank collapse to date, the government seized Washington Mutual and J.P. Morgan bought it.
They're swing counties in swing states — and they may be the spots where this election is decided. In the third of a series on counties that count, The Takeaway's Political Director A...
Today, George Gershwin would have turned 110. We listen to the music of the legend who changed jazz.
This Sunday, pastors across the country will stand before God and break the law. The crime? Delivering a sermon that either endorses or opposes a political candidate by name. Churches...
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Bailout plans and speeches on Capitol Hill (episode)
President Bush addressed the nation last night. It was his first prime-time speech devoted exclusively to the economy. It's just one of many political firsts in Washington this Septem...
They're swing counties in swing states — and they may be the spots where this election is decided. In the second of a series on "counties that count," The Takeaway's Political Directo...
McCain is Optima. Obama is Gotham. We know what the candidates’ slogans say about their campaigns but what do their <i>fonts</i> mean? From POW to GQ, there may be more to design and typefaces than you’d think.
NASA monitors Greenland's Jakobshavn glacier via satellite and is interested in the enhanced mass loss. In August, a team of scientists set out to investigate if water that pools on ...
For a look at how the turmoil on Wall Street is hitting Main Street, The Takeaway talks to Jim Svets, whose small coffee house franchise "Muddy Cup" has several shops on Main Streets ...
Tucker Bounds is one of Republican presidential nominee John McCain’s top campaign representatives. The Takeaway speaks with Bounds about the suspension of the Senator's campaign, th...
North Korea has removed International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) surveillance equipment to prepare for reactivating the Yongbyon nuclear plant. This action comes nearly two years af...
Down in the Galapagos, a long extinct sea turtle may be resurrected from the dead. An international team of researchers has found that a living breed of tortoise carries some of the s...
Listeners and Web site partipants respond to Senator McCain's announcement that he'll temporarily suspend his campaign and his participation in the first presidential debate scheduled for Friday night.
Wall Street Bailout: Legitimate rescue, creeping socialism, or both? (episode)
Cries of financial socialism and criticism of the Treasury’s planned bailout were heard loudly from Capitol Hill, yesterday. James Politi of the Financial Times joins The Takeaway to assess the comments and the epithets.
President George W. Bush made the final speech of his presidential term to the United Nations General Assembly amidst the chaos of the financial meltdown on Wall Street.
We're in the full swing of the 2008 election cycle. But, in a groundbreaking year for race in politics, Patrik Henry Bass has noticed one influential group that's been quiet: black pr...
Year in and year out families gather to commemorate holidays and special events with iconic foods: at the Lunar New Year, dumplings; at Thanksgiving, turkey; and Rosh Hashana brings b...
Over the weekend, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson released his proposal for a $700-billion bailout package. Meanwhile, Democrats were hammering out a counterproposal to salvage the n...
In this week's New York Times Magazine ("When Judges Make Foreign Policy"), Harvard Law professor and author Noah Feldman breaks down what liberals and conservatives understand about ...
In the Amazon, some native tribes are burying their babies alive if they are born with birth defects — defects that can often be treated with modern medicine. Evangelical Christian mi...
The credit crisis has hit big business hard, but the blow to consumer confidence will probably mean bad news for small businesses as well. The Takeaway speaks with Dan Gross about th...
President Bush made the final speech of his presidency to the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday amidst the chaos of a financial meltdown on Wall Street. Neil MacFarquhar of the...
As the campaign season progresses, a new type of attack is emerging. Ads targeting Barack Obama have been produced by political action committees that are not connected to John McCai...
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World markets are down as Congress deliberates over Wall Street bailout plan (episode)
The figure is astonishing: $700 billion for a proposed bailout of financial firms. How could this affect you, American taxpayer? Will it affect you at all?
About two and a half million men and women serve in the U.S. military. These days, it's a job that almost certainly involves serving in a war zone, as American soldiers continue to f...
Fall is the planning and giving season for individuals and corporations to the non-profit and foundations worlds. How much will the Wall Street meltdown erode donations and the social safety net?
Making environmentally friendly dining decisions can be a challenging and cumbersome proposition. When it comes to responsibly choosing fish, it just got easier with the development ...
Economy troubles are reverberating across the globe and the United Kingdom is no exception. The political pressure there is being directed towards Prime Minister Gordon Brown as his L...
India has become the first country to convict a person of a crime based on a brain scan. This past summer, a woman was given a life sentence for murder after prosecutors strapped her ...
It's one small step for — no, scratch that. It's one giant step for the Mars rover Opportunity, which is about to set out on a two-year, seven-mile mission to the largest Martian crat...
Last week, the U.S. government loaned insurance giant AIG $85 billion, which has had unforeseen consequences for American taxpayers. Now that American taxpayers effectively own AIG, w...
The Bush administration and leading lawmakers have agreed to include mortgage aid and strong congressional oversight in a plan to provide unprecedented help for failing financial inst...
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has asked Americans for $700 billion to bailout financial institutions. This morning The Takeaway asked listeners and readers how they would...
How the Wall Street rescue plan will play out on the Hill (episode)
On Saturday, a truck bomb blew up the entrance to the Marriott hotel in Islamabad. At least 50 people were killed, 250 were injured. Though analysts suspect that that this attack was ...
Drug-related violence in Mexico has killed more that 3,000 people this year, and a new BBC survey says nearly half of the country is cowering in fear from warring drug cartels.
The 63rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly is underway, and more than 130 world leaders are gathering in New York City this week. With the Wall Street debacle, Russian-Ge...
After its big debut two weeks ago, the atom-smashing Large Hadron Collider is offline and physics' Great Experiment is on hold.
This afternoon in New York City, Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai and former Vice President Al Gore will answer questions about deforestation and rainforest preservation at a private ro...
Rep. Barney Frank answered your questions. UPDATE (9/24): We expect Rep. Barney Frank to join us Wednesday morning at about 7 a.m. Eastern. Listen live at thetakeaway.org. UPDA... (article)
As financial woes widen, it may be Congress coming to the rescue (episode)
The administration is heeding calls from Congress to cooperate on legislation to solve the widening financial crisis.
In the last two weeks Wall Street has taken a serious beating. Not only is the economy up for grabs, but jobs are too, especially for anyone working in the financial sector. For tho...
Shops and supermarkets across China have been withdrawing dairy products after the revelation that powdered baby milk, and now liquid milk, has been contaminated. A government watchd...
Teams, not solo stars, from the United States and Europe go head to head in Louisville, Kentucky, to play for golf's Ryder Cup. The Tiger-less Americans, heavy underdogs with six roo...
This week we’ve been hearing a lot about giants of the American economy getting saved by the government. But the bailout isn’t just the preserve of Wall Street. In fact, musicians hav...
They're swing counties in swing states — and they may be the spots where this election is decided. In the first of a series on "counties that count," The Takeaway's Political Director...
With the embrace of Sarah Palin, rising popularity of Katie Couric, and the success of Rachel Maddow, all things female are en vogue. But, this seems to be something that happens ever...
As of Friday morning, global stock markets had been staging major rallies after news of a possible government plan to rescue banks from bad mortgage debt. But there have been troubles...
Forty-four years ago, Maine Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith was the first woman nominated by either of the major parties for president. A lot has changed since 1964 (the year ...
New numbers show that, while everyone else is in the red, spending on breakfast foods has actually increased. What does the nation eat when times are tight?