The Takeaway from WNYC and PRI
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The Takeaway is a national morning news program that invites listeners to be part of the American conversation. Hosts John Hockenberry and Celeste Headlee, along with partners The New York Times, BBC World Service, WNYC, Public Radio International and WGBH Boston, deliver news and analysis and help you prepare for the day ahead.
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The Secret World of Espionage Comes to New York | John Hockenberry visits the new spying exhibit at the Discovery Center in Times Square. He peruses hundreds of artifacts from the CIA, FBI, and National Reconnaissance Office with Tim Weiner, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former New York Times reporter who wrote the definitive history of the CIA. | 5/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Skee-Ball Stars Vie for Championship | While athletes from around the world gear up for the summer Olympics, competitors of another sort have been polishing their moves for the national Skee-Ball championship. This weekend in Brooklyn, 64 of the country’s best skee-ball rollers face off at the Brewskee-Ball National Championship, a weekend-long festival of beer, bands, foods and skeeball. Eric Pavony, Skee-E-O and founder of Brewskee-Ball, the first ever national Skee-Ball League, explains what the competition will entail. | 5/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Man Arrested In Death of Etan Patz | An arrest has been made in the 1979 disappearance of six year-old Etan Patz, who went missing on his way to school 33 years ago today. The arrest may bring the cold case that first got America talking about missing children to a close. New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly announced yesterday that Pedro Hernandez, a former Manhattan store clerk who once lived in the same New York neighborhood as Etan, was under arrest in connection with the boy’s murder. Today is the 33rd anniversary of the day Etan disappeared. In 1983, President Ronald Reagan declared May 25 National Missing Children’s Day. The arrest may bring the 33-year-old cold case that first got America talking about missing children to a close. Lisa Cohen, journalist and author of “After Etan: The Missing Child Case that Held America Captive”, joins the show. | 5/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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New Movie Releases: 'Men in Black 3' and 'Moonrise Kingdom' | This week’s biggest release is “Men In Black 3” starring Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, and Josh Brolin as a young Tommy Lee Jones. We also have “Moonrise Kingdom,” the newest film from Wes Anderson. Rafer Guzman and Kristen Meinzer are The Takeaway's Movie Date team. In addition to hosting the podcast, Rafer is film critic for Newsday and Kristen is culture producer for the Takeaway. | 5/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Spain Crosses its Fingers During Eurovision Contest | It's the most wonderful time of the year in Europe. It's a time that Europe collectively gathers around the TV to watch and vote in a competition called "The Eurovision Song Contest". Young and old, good and bad take to the stage. But this year there's real concern over who might win. Tradition dictates that the winner gets to host the event the following year, but due to its high cost many in Spain are are hoping their entry does not win. Paddy O'Connell of the BBC reports from the competition in Baku, Azerbaijan. | 5/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How Do Banking Regulations Get Written? | Earlier this month, JPMorgan disclosed that it lost at least $3 billion in trading as a result of sheer mismanagement. "We ended up with a strategy that was flawed, complex, poorly conceived, poorly vetted and poorly executed," JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon told investors. "This should've never have happened." The news ignited a fresh debate on financial regulation – specifically on the Volcker rule, a measure Dimon had vocally opposed. Yet it's not certain the final Volcker rule would prohibit the kind of trades that led to JP Morgan's losses. What's more, four years after the financial crisis, it's not clear that the country possesses the regulatory tools to prevent fiascos like JPMorgan's in the future. How are banking regulations written in the first place? Paul Schultz, Professor of Finance at the Center for the Study of Financial Regulation at Notre Dame, explains. | 5/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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C-Sections May Lead to Childhood Obesity | When it comes to childhood obesity, there are a lot of factors that have been blamed: processed food, portion sizes, and poverty, to name just a few. But what if childhood obesity isn’t simply about how kids live, but the manner in which they are born? A new study suggests that children delivered via C-section are twice as likely to be obese by their third birthdays than those delivered vaginally. Dr. Matthew Gillman is the senior author if the new study and director of the Obesity Prevention Program at Harvard Medical School. Rachael Larimore believes that studies like Dr. Gillman’s should be taken with a grain of salt. Rachael is managing editor at Slate.com and she’s had three Cesarean sections. | 5/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Companies Don't Have to Go Public, So Why Do They? | By going public, Facebook joined a diverse group of companies. Some, like Apple and Amazon, have had huge success selling pieces of their company to the public. Others, like Enron and Tyco, couldn't take the public scrutiny and failed as a result. Since taking a company public requires jumping through a lot of hoops, fewer companies are doing it. So why go public at all? Adrian Wooldridge is the Schumpeter columnist and management editor at The Economist. | 5/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Should the Olympics Champion Gay Rights? | The Olympic Games are intended to be a celebration of athletics with politics set aside. In fact, the Olympic Charter expressly opposes the clash and politics and sport. But over the years, the Olympics have served as a political forum as much as they’ve served as an athletic arena. This year, at least one person is calling on the London Games to continue in this tradition and go political. Mark Stephens is a British lawyer. He recently published a piece in The Guardian calling for the London Games to serve as a forum for the promotion of LGBT rights. | 5/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Follow Friday: Facebook, JPMorgan, Layoffs, Attack Ads, and Fair Punishment | Our panel of social, political and pop-cultural experts to tell us about the stories you may have missed this week. Ron Christie is a Takeaway contributor and Republican political strategist, and Louise Story is an investigative reporter for our partner The New York Times. | 5/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Look Ahead to the NBA Playoffs | The Spurs and the Clippers have staked out their places in the NBA Western Conference Finals. The Eastern Conference is still up in the air, though, with four teams embroiled in close battles for only two spots in their conference finals. Takeaway sports contributor Ibrahim Abdul-Matin lays out what to expect for the rest of the playoffs. | 5/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Defense of Private Equity, and of Romney's Years at Bain | As the race for the presidency heats up, President Obama's reelection team continues to attack Mitt Romney's career at Bain Capital, while questioning private equity's role in the American economy. In a speech at Keene State College yesterday, Vice President Joe Biden said that Romney's work at Bain "no more qualifies him to be President than being a plumber." Earlier in the week, at the NATO Summit in Chicago, President Obama told reporters, "When you’re President – as opposed to the head of a private equity firm – then your job is not simply to maximize profits. Your job is to figure out how everybody in the country has a fair shot." Edward Conard, former managing director at Bain Capital and author of "Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You've Been Told about the Economy is Wrong," worked with Mitt Romney throughout the Republican candidate's years in private equity. Conard explains why he believes Romney's experience in private equity will prove essential should the Republican candidate take the White House this fall. | 5/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Facebook and Morgan Stanley's New Legal Issues: What's at Stake? | Since Facebook's underwhelming IPO debut last week, at least three separate shareholder lawsuits have been leveled against the company and its IPO’s lead underwriter, Morgan Stanley. They allege that the company has provided misleading assessments and left significant omissions in their IPO registration statement. On the same day, Massachusetts Secretary of Commonwealth William Galvin issued a subpoena to Morgan Stanley in response to allegations that the underwriter offered information about the IPO to only several of its institutional investors, not all — information that may have convinced the investors to hold off on picking up Facebook shares. Peter J. Henning is a professor at Wayne State University Law School who specializes in white collar crime, corporate and securities law and legal ethics, co-wrote an article about this for the New York Times' DealBook. | 5/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Women Trafficked from Mexico to Queens | Every year, thousands of women, many between the ages of 11 to 14, are lured are smuggled from Mexico into the United States and forced to become sex workers. For a majority of the women, they have no idea what they are getting into. They are seduced by traffickers who promise them a better life, big houses and cars, a coverup for the life of sexual exploitation they will soon endure. Many of these women end up in Queens, New York where they work live and work in brothels and answer only to their pimps. Others are advertised on "chica cards," which includes a phone number customers can call to request sexual services from the women. The BBC's Laura Trevelyan followed the sex trafficking route from Tenancingo, Mexico to Queens, New York and spoke with female victims, pimps and law enforcement officials along the way. | 5/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Death On Everest: A Mountaineer Explains The Psychology of Peril | This past Saturday, three people died and two others disappeared while descending from the summit of Mount Everest. But it wasn’t an avalanche or a snow-storm or a deadly fall that led to the tragedy. Instead, they had simply started climbing too late in the day, due to a traffic jam of climbers trying to get to the summit during a short window of good weather. As a result, they ran out of supplemental oxygen before they could safely return to base camp. They died of altitude sickness and exhaustion, mere hours after standing at the top of the world. Ed Viesturs has climbed Mount Everest seven times, including one summer in 1996, when 11 fellow climbers perished on the mountain. He is also the author of "No Shortcut to the Top: Climbing The World’s 14 Highest Peaks," and he lays out the combination of factors – both physical and psychological – that all too often lead to tragedy. | 5/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Do Kids Need Homework? | All this week, we've been talking about how students are learning both in and out of the classroom. Our conversations have looked at cell phones as educational tools and at whether college students are studying less now than they did 40 years ago. Today, we take a closer look at the study habits of primary and middle school students. In the past several years, a growing number of parents, teachers, and researchers have argued that kids are being assigned too much homework. After eight hours in school, they wonder if studying for hours at home afterward is really necessary. Diane Lowrie is one of those parents. When her son was in second grade, she felt he was receiving too much homework and relocated him to another school. He’s now in fifth grade, and doing a lot less homework than he used to. Jessica Lahey is also a parent, as well as a middle school Latin and English teacher. But unlike Diane, she thinks the backlash against homework is misinformed. | 5/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Pakistani Who Helped CIA Hunt Bin Laden Sentenced For Treason | A hero to some, a traitor to others. Pakistani doctor Shakil Afridi, who helped the CIA hunt down Osama Bin Laden, was convicted of treason yesterday by a tribal court in northwestern Pakistan. He has been sentenced to 33 years in prison. Dr. Afridi ran a vaccination program for the CIA in Abbottabad in an effort to verify the Al Qaeda leader’s presence at the compound he was killed in last May. U.S. officials and lawmakers have roundly criticized Dr. Afridi’s detention and have lobbied with the Pakistani government to gain his release. The sentencing is sure to add new strains to an already troubled U.S.-Pakistan relationship. Hassan Abbas, a Bernard Schwartz Fellow at the Asia Society, joins us to discuss. Hassan is a former Pakistani government official, serving in the administrations of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and President Pervez Musharraf. Former Department of State spokesperson P.J. Crowley also joins. He is currently the Omar Bradley Chair in Strategic Leadership at the Penn State Dickinson School of Law and School of International Affairs. Former Department of State spokesperson PJ Crowley also joins us. He is currently the Omar Bradley Chair in Strategic Leadership at Penn State's Dickinson School of Law. Former Department of State spokesperson PJ Crowley also joins us. He is currently the Omar Bradley Chair in Strategic Leadership at Penn State's Dickinson School of Law. | 5/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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State Department Targets Al Qaeda Website in Yemen | Last night in Florida, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said U.S. specialists hacked into websites run by Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen. The hackers were able to change online ads that boasted about killing Americans into advertisements that underscored the deaths of Muslim civilians in Al Qaeda terror attacks. We're joined by Jamie Doran, a producer for Frontline who worked on the new documentary "Al Qaeda in Yemen." "Al Qaeda in Yemen" is produced by our partner WGBH, and airs on PBS Tuesday, May 29. | 5/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Euro Crisis Intensifies: Questions on Greece and the Debt | Greece spent a decade working to become a full member of the European Union. Now it appears it's doing its best to get thrown out. At a summit meeting in Brussels last night, Euro leaders stepped up contingency planning for a possible Greek exit from the euro zone. Meanwhile, Europe's leaders are struggling to overcome their differences on how to resolve the EU's debt crisis. Joining us is Matthew Price, Brussels Correspondent for our partner the BBC. | 5/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Secret Service Director Testifies Before Senate Committee On Prostitution Scandal | Secret Service director Mark Sullivan appeared before Congress yesterday for the first time since his agency’s Colombian prostitution scandal came to light. Sullivan was testifying before the Senate Homeland Security Committee and insisted time and time again that the incident was an isolated event and that it was not indicative of larger problems within the Secret Service. Sullivan… who was testifying before the Senate Homeland Security Committee… insisted time and time again that the incident was an isolated event and that it was not indicative of larger problems within the Secret Service Takeaway Washington Correspondent Todd Zwillich sat in on the hearing and joins to discuss. | 5/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Black Mormons on This Year's Presidential Election | Whether you love or hate politics, it’s hard to deny that when it comes to identity and culture, this year’s presidential election is truly historic. The incumbent is, of course, half black and thus, a racial minority. The challenger is Mormon, and thus, a religious minority. And if you’re black or if you’re Mormon, these minority candidates provide a chance to vote for someone who looks or worships like you, perhaps for the first time. But what if you’re one of the one million Americans who is both black and Mormon? Does identity factor in at all? Two African-American Mormons join us today to share their thoughts. Hunter Stott is a young black Mormon husband and father. He was raised in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from the time he was a child. Darius Gray is a black Mormon speaker and writer who joined the LDS in the mid-1960s. | 5/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Was Facebook's IPO Mishandled? | Just days after Facebook’s initial public offering … serious allegations are surfacing about whether the IPO was dramatically mishandled by Morgan Stanley. Henry Blodget, editor-in-chief of Business Insider, joins us for the latest on Facebook, next. | 5/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Egypt's Youth and Today's Historic Presidential Election | History will be made in Egypt today, and the country’s political future will be determined. Egyptians are heading to the polls to elect a new president after an extraordinary 15 months that saw revolution, violence, and upheaval. Noel King, a freelance journalist in Egypt, joins to talk about the country's youth vote. | 5/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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College Students Either Studying as Hard as Ever, or Not Hard Enough | College is a time for academic inquiry, personal growth, and, of course, studying. But three studies published in the past three years suggest there might be less studying happening on college campuses than there used to be. According to one of them, by economists from the University of California, Santa Barbara, college students today spend about 40 percent less time studying outside of class than they did in 1961. Is this a sign that college today is too easy? Or is there more to it? Peter N. Stearns is Provost and Professor of History at George Mason University. He’s taught for over 40 years and believes his students are working as hard as ever. Richard Vedder is a researcher at Ohio University who studies the economics of higher education. Like Stearns, he has also taught in the classroom for over 40 years. But unlike Stearns, he believes college has become a place where students relax rather than challenge themselves. | 5/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What Today's Election Will Mean to Egyptians | Egyptians go to the polls today to vote for a president, marking the first time the country's citizens will freely elect a president since coming under military dictatorship 60 years ago. A lot has changed in the country since President Hosni Mubarak was ousted in February of 2011 – so much so that it's not even clear what the new president's powers will be. Joining us from Cairo is Hugh Sykes, correspondent for our partner the BBC. | 5/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Is the Private Era in Space Officially Upon Us? | The United States, Russia, Japan, the European Union, and SpaceX: what do they all have in common? If all goes smoothly over the next few days, each entity will have successfully, and at some point historically brought a vessel to the International Space Station. Yesterday, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and its unmanned Dragon capsule lifted off en route to the ISS, marking the first ever flight for a commercial spacecraft bound for the space station. The flight could open up a new, private, entrepreneurial era in space. But what, exactly, is the business of space? And what does the business model look like? Michael Lopez-Alegria is a former NASA astronaut and International Space Station commander. He is currently the president of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, a commercial space advocacy group. Miles O’Brien is a science correspondent for PBS NewsHour. He's covered space issues for more than 20 years. | 5/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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One-Third of US Homeless Population is Obese, According to New Study | New research by Oxford University and Harvard Medical School, soon to be published in the Journal of Urban Health, suggests that 32.3 percent of the homeless population in the United States is obese — just slightly below the national average. The findings underscore what is referred to as "the hunger-obesity paradox," which refers to the phenomenon of people who suffer from hunger but — for reasons attributed to the high cost and relative inaccessibility of nutritious food and the low cost and relative ease of finding poor-quality food — are also obese. Barbara DiPietro, the policy director of the National Health Care for the Homeless Council, finds the results of this research largely unsurprising. Andrea De Mink, the founder and executive of the Indianapolis-based homelessness organization The PourHouse, deals on a daily basis with the most pressing concerns of homeless people, striving to offer her patrons with food that is as healthy as possible. | 5/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Why Increased Immigration is the Solution for America's Ailing Economy | We spend a lot of time in America debating immigration reform. We talk about how to make our borders more secure. We deconstruct the DREAM Act. We ask whether immigrants are stealing jobs from quote “real Americans.” The Partnership for a New American Economy, a bipartisan group of mayors and business leaders from across the country, thinks we need to look at things differently. They released a new report yesterday that suggests our economic prosperity depends on increasing opportunities for immigrants to enter the American workforce. The group includes leaders from businesses like Microsoft, Alcoa, and Walt Disney, and from the mayoral offices of cities like New York, Phoenix and Los Angeles. Among them is John Feinblatt, New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg's chief policy advisor. Claudio Carnino is an Italian technology entrepreneur who settled in Chile when the United States made it too difficult for him to immigrate here. His start-up, Challengein, makes customized cell phone games that can be used in advertising campaigns. | 5/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Archer Records Keeps Vinyl and Detroit's Techno Scene Alive | Archer Record Press in Detroit is one of the few companies in the world that still presses vinyl records. The 47-year-old company is kept alive by techno artists. DJs from all over the world send their tracks to Archer Records to be pressed to vinyl. In the process, these artists keep the almost-defunct manufacturing of vinyl alive. WDET reporter Martina Guzman visited Archer Records and spoke with 75-year-old owner Joe Archer, and his son, Mike Archer, about their thriving business. | 5/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Why Texting in Class Might Actually Be a Good Thing | If you’re a parent, teacher, or student, you probably won’t be surprised by these statistics: In schools that permit cell phones, 71 percent of students text during class. In schools that ban cell phones entirely, the percentage is nearly as high: 58 percent. And whether they’re in school or not, half of teens send over 50 text messages per day. While we frequently hear teachers and parents complaining about these statistics, not all adults see these numbers as a bad thing. In fact, a small but growing number of educators are exploring how cell phones might be used to help students learn more and learn better. Kevin Thomas taught high school english for 15 years and is currently a professor at the Bellarmine School of Education. He regularly uses cell phones as a teaching tool. Marc Prensky is an education and technology expert and the author of “Teaching Digital Natives” and the forthcoming book “Brain Gain: Technology and the Quest for Digital Wisdom.” | 5/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Future of Yemen | At least 96 people were killed in the capital city of Yemen yesterday, after a suicide bomber disguised as a Yemeni soldier blew himself up during a military parade rehearsal near the presidential palace in Sanaa. The bombing was the country's most devastating terrorism attack in years, and the Al Qaeda affiliate that operates within the state has claimed responsibility for the mass killings. The latest attack follows a series of bloody battles in recent weeks between the Yemeni military and the Al Qaeda militant group. It also highlights the fact that there’s more to the conversation on Yemen than simply American interests in the country and international security; there is a country on the brink, and with every passing day comes new internal challenges and fears. Charles Schmitz joins us to discuss Yemen’s future. He is a professor of geography at Towson University and is president of the American Institute for Yemeni Studies. | 5/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Recovering in Joplin, One Year After Deadly Tornado | One year ago today, a devastating tornado hit the town of Joplin, Missouri. It left 161 people dead, and hundreds more injured. Thousands of buildings were destroyed, including the town's high school, middle school and elementary school. President Obama marked the anniversary as he spoke at Joplin High School’s commencement yesterday evening. Most of the city’s students have been attending class in malls and warehouses. That will soon change. Construction crews plan to break ground on three new schools this morning. Susan Moore plans to attend the groundbreaking ceremony. Susan is a kindergarten teacher at Irving Elementary, one of the schools destroyed by the Joplin tornado. | 5/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Catching Up on the Campaign with Todd Zwillich | President Obama has come out swinging on Mitt Romney’s record at Bain Capital. As the NATO Summit came to a close on Monday, President Obama defined the presidential election in terms of his economic vision for the country compared to Mitt Romney’s. Washington correspondent Todd Zwillich joins us to answer: Where does the campaign go from here? | 5/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Why It’s So Hard to End Poverty in America | Poverty is one of the most pressing and divisive issues of our day, and Democrats and Republicans have staked out largely different approaches to the increasing divide between the poorest members of the United States and the richest. With the economy central to the November elections, the wealth gap will likely only become even more talked about in the months to come. Peter Edelman is one of the most outspoken antipoverty advocates in the country. Edelman became a household name in 1996 after resigning from his post at the Department of Health and Human Services in protest of President Clinton's signing of the welfare reform bill. In his new book, "So Rich, So Poor: Why It’s So Hard to End Poverty in America," he examines the current state of poverty in the country, and elaborates upon what can be done — and what hasn't. To read the conclusion of "So Rich, So Poor," click here. | 5/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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In Light of Loss, Is Facebook an Unwise Investment? | To many Facebook shareholders, yesterday was likely another dispiriting day. Shares only dropped further below its $38 IPO price, leaving many to wonder about its early valuation and the tact of Morgan Stanley's aggressive push, and many others wondering if they made an unwise investment. Henry Blodget, the CEO and editor-in-chief of Business Insider, was on The Takeaway before Facebook's NASDAQ debut, and he returns to assess his speculations, and what this means for the company and its investors. | 5/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Over Fifty and Unemployed | In study after study, we’re told that the economic recovery is real. Unemployment is dropping. Spending is up. But tell that to unemployed Americans over 55. More than half of jobless seniors, about 1.1 million people, have been unemployed for more than six months, up from 23 percent four years ago, according to a government report released last week. But these aren’t just numbers — they’re people all over the country. David Kurtzer is 56-years-old and has been out of work for about two months after over a decade in technology marketing. He would love another senior level technology marketing position. Susan Price is 52-years-old, and was unemployed for all of 2009 and again from September 2010 to May 2011. She has since landed a job as a project manager in the pharmaceutical industry. | 5/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Bush Era Surveillance Program Headed to Supreme Court | In the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks, the Bush Administration authorized the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on American citizens and others without a warrant. The secret program first came to light in an expose by our partner The New York Times in December 2005. President Bush insisted that the warrantless wiretapping was essential for Americans’ safety, as he explained to CBS News in July 2006. "I made the decision to listen to phone calls of al Qaeda or suspected al Qaeda, from outside the country going in or inside the country going out," he explained, "because the people who are operators told me that this was one of the best ways to protect the American people." Congress legalized this once-secret program with the passage of the 2008 amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, but civil libertarians claim that warrantless wiretapping is unconstitutional. The Supreme Court has just agreed to hear a case on this very issue. Adam Liptak, Supreme Court correspondent for our partner The New York Times, explains what's at stake. | 5/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Chinese Conglomerate to Become Largest Movie Theater Operator in America | A Chinese conglomerate is set to become the largest movie theater operator in the United States. The Wanda Group, a Chinese company with extensive interests in the entertainment business, has agreed to acquire AMC Entertainment and its 5,000 movie screens across North America. The deal is valued at $2.6 billion and marks the largest investment to date by a Chinese company in the American film industry. Phil Levy explains China's influence on American business. He teaches international economics at the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs. | 5/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Revisiting Hate Crime Laws Following Sentencing of Dharun Ravi | Former Rutgers University student Dharun Ravi was sentenced Monday to 30 days in jail for spying on his roommate, Tyler Clementi, during an intimate encounter with a man. Ravi was found guilty of bias intimidation, invasion of privacy, and hate crimes. Ravi could have faced a much harsher sentence of up to 10 years in prison. Richard Kim is executive editor of The Nation magazine. He thinks the sentence was fair, but says New Jersey's hate crime statue may need to be revised. | 5/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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NATO and Occupy Protests Rock Chicago | Apart from Washington, D.C., Chicago is the first American city to host the NATO Summit. As world leaders arrived for the Summit yesterday, they were greeted by thousands of protesters and just as many police officers. Chicago Police have arrested five protestors who allegedly planned to throw Molotov cocktails at President Obama’s campaign headquarters and Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s home. The protesters ran the gamut, from the Occupy Wall Street movement, to military veterans. Pfc. Vincent Emanuele told the Associated Press: "I’m out here because I’m standing in support of my brothers and sisters, specifically those who have served in Afghanistan and who are speaking out about the occupation of Afghanistan and who are standing in solidarity with the people of Afghanistan." Jim Warren is a national correspondent for The Atlantic. | 5/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Walking the Brooklyn Bridge with David McCullough | Historian David McCullough is known for his biographies of monumental American figures: John Adams, Theodore Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman. But McCullough second book, published in 1972, explored American history not through the eyes of a Founding Father or a President, but through one of the most important public works projects of all time: the Brooklyn Bridge. McCullough published The Great Bridge 40 years ago. In honor of this anniversary, Anna Sale, reporter for It's A Free Country, walked the Brooklyn Bridge with McCullough and discussed design, the Gilded Age, and whether the bridge could have been built today. | 5/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Facebook Gets Off to a Poor Start as a Public Company | After a shaky debut, Facebook is getting off to a bad start on its first week of trading as a publicly held company. Facebook's stock is sinking nearly seven percent, falling below the $38 IPO price, in the social network's second day of trading as a public company Monday. Joining us is reporter for our partner the New York Times Michael de la Merced. | 5/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Chen Guangcheng's Impact from Abroad | Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng arrived in New York to a throng of cheering supporters on Saturday. He will soon begin a fellowship at New York University Law School's U.S.-Asia Law Institute, and he spoke to the crowd at NYU about his plight: "After much turbulence, I have come out of Shandong," he said, through an interpreter. "This is thanks to the assistance of many friends." After seven years under house arrest, Chen is no doubt enjoying his freedom. But how much of an impact will the Chinese dissident have from abroad? How will his influence in China change, now that he's in the United States? What do the Chinese public know about this story — and will they be able to follow Chen's progress under China's strict media censorship? Bob Fu is a Chinese human rights activist and pastor, living in the United States. He was instrumental in publicizing Chen Guangcheng's case and helped negotiate his release. | 5/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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100 Days to the Paralympic Games | Organizers are starting to talk about something that's never happened before - a sellout for the Paralympic Games. With 100 days to go before the start of the Paralympics in London, the public has a chance to see more than 4,000 elite athletes when the last remaining tickets go on sale today. Eleven-time gold medalist Dame Tanni Grey Thompson has broken over 30 wheelchair world records in track and field. Now retired, she's looking forward to the Paralympics which she insists will leap over a high bar. | 5/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Yemen Suicide Bombing Death Toll Climbing | The fight between al-Qaeda and the Yemeni government continues this morning. At least 38 people were killed today when a suicide bomber attacked rehearsal for a military parade. There is also word that a member of the U.S. military was wounded today in what is being called an attack by Al Qaeda. Joining us from Sanaa is Reuters Correspondent Tom Finn. In the second hour, we're joined by Gregory Johnsen, Yemen expert at Princeton. | 5/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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NATO Summit Searches for Path Out of Afghanistan | The annual NATO summit opened yesterday afternoon in Chicago, bringing leaders from around the world to President Obama’s former home to confront questions surrounding the future of Afghanistan. In his opening remarks, President Obama spoke of NATO's plans to chart and carry out the next phase of "transition" in Afghanistan. As the two-day summit continues today, Western leaders will try to further define their path out of Afghanistan. Hassina Sherjan is the founder and country director of Aid Afghanistan for Education. David Sanger is the chief Washington correspondent for our partner, The New York Times. | 5/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Can Bereavement Be a Mental Illness? | From an early age we’re taught that death is an important part of life. But that knowledge can be little solace when it comes to coping with the loss of a loved one. Grief can be overwhelming, both emotionally and physically, and the grieving process can sometimes take years to work through. In cases of extreme grief, the American Psychiatric Association is putting forth a recommendation that would, for the first time, give guidelines for a diagnosis of bereavement-related depression. The change would appear in the DSM-5 — the APA’s diagnostic manual — which is set to come out in 2013. Journalist Jerry Adler wrote about this subject in connection with the death of his son for New York Magazine. Jerome C. Wakefield, is a professor in the School of Social Work at New York University. | 5/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Will Dharun Ravi's Sentence Fit the Crime? | The case of Tyler Clementi became national news when the Rutgers University freshman jumped off the George Washington Bridge in September, 2010. Clementi had recently told his family he was gay. Last March, a New Jersey jury convicted Clementi’s roommate, Dharun Ravi, of bias intimidation and invasion of privacy, after Ravi spied on Tyler kissing another man. Today, New Jersey Superior Court Judge Glenn Berman will announce Ravi's sentence, and many are concerned that he might face a punishment that doesn’t fit the crime. Marc Pourier, law professor at Seton Hall University, is particularly concerned that Ravi will face an unfair sentence. Ravi reflected that sentiment in an interview with ABC News last March, stating "I wasn't the one who caused him to jump." He told ABC, "I feel like I was being used by everybody. I felt that, it’s unfortunate that they’re taking advantage of me; even though what they think happened isn’t what happened." | 5/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lockerbie Bomber Dies at 60 | Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the only person convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people, including 189 Americans, died yesterday in Libya, at the age of 60. His death comes nearly three years after Scotland released him from prison on humanitarian grounds, and 11 years after his conviction for planting a bomb on Pan Am Flight 103 in December 1988. John Ashton is Megrahi’s biographer and the author of "Megrahi: You Are My Jury." Eileen Monetti's 20-year-old son Rick was returning from an academic semester abroad on Pan Am 103. Her response to Megrahi's death? "You know, it’s similar to the reaction I had when Gadhaffi was killed," she explained. "And that simply is that it rids the world of one person who we believe has done evil but at the same token, it doesn’t bring my son back." | 5/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lunch with Chef Seamus Mullen | Chef Seamus Mullen, owner of the Spanish restaurant Tertulia and the author of the new cookbook, "Hero Food," first visited Spain at the age of 16. "It opened me up to a world of flavors that now may not seem that exotic to a lot of people; chorizo and everybody's heard of paella," he explained to Takeaway co-host John Hockenberry. "But, going back 20 years, for a farm boy from Vermont, that was completely new territory." John paid a lunchtime visit to Chef Mullen and spoke with him about the flavors of Spain, the pace of eating in Europe versus the United States, and how Seamus strategically uses food to cope with his once-debilitating rheumatoid arthritis. When Chef Mullen was first diagnosed, he "didn't realize that it was an autoimmune disease, and that everything that I put into my body, and how I treat my body, would dramatically impact how the disease behaved." At the age of 35, a severe arthritic attack landed him in a wheelchair. His diet has played a major role in coping with the effects of the disease. | 5/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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