Is it Sexist to Look at Politics Through a Gender Lens?
Earlier this week, we annoyed many of our listeners when the writer Gail Sheehy called the Republican women running for election right now as "mean girls." Sheehy said candidates like Meg Whitman and...
View ArticleWhat Changes When You Find Out a Life Trait is Genetic?
Tomorrow we'll talk to two guests who look at some of the science behind why people are gay or straight. It's not just gay people who react when they hear that a trait is determined by genes or...
View ArticleThe Pictures and Sounds of Your Commute
Download the new Takeaway iPhone app and help us with an easy assignment: Send us a photo, video or audio that sums up your morning commute.We're posting the highlights here and playing the audio on...
View ArticleYour Walkman Memories
You may not have caught this breaking news over the weekend, but on Friday Sony announced it was discontinuing the portable cassette player known to the world as the Walkman. In July 1979, the first...
View ArticleThe Year of the Multi-Million Dollar Agenda
According to the Center for Responsive Politics, outside interest groups have poured almost $260 million into political campaigns this election season. That's nearly four times the amount spent by...
View ArticleWhat Could Still Persuade You?
This week's polls are giving analysts a better idea of which party will end up controlling Congress after the midterm elections. But one survey puts some of those predictions in doubt. The Associated...
View ArticleThe Sights and Sounds of Your Commute
You've been sending photos and audio from your morning commute with the new Takeaway iPhone app. Hear some of the voices behind the pictures. Check out the slideshow and add your own image.
View ArticleReport from Your Polling Place
After months of debate and millions spent in campaign cash, your moment of decision is finally coming. Help us capture the mood on election day: Cast your vote, then answer this one simple question:...
View ArticleLive with Todd Zwillich on Election Night
After months of debate and campaigning, the moment of decision is almost here. Join Takeaway Washington correspondent Todd Zwillich, for live analysis of the returns, interviews with his reporters in...
View ArticleCan Democrats and Republicans Get Along?
President Obama said today that he wants to build consensus with the Republicans who swept Tuesday's midterm elections. Now that he has a divided Congress to reckon with, the president said that...
View ArticleWhat's Your Worst Nightmare?
People are passing out in movie theaters after seeing Danny Boyle's new film, "127 Hours," and it's not even out yet. James Franco stars as the man forced to sever his own arm after he gets trapped...
View ArticleWhat Would You Pick as the New Gold Standard?
The head of the World Bank is calling for a new version of the gold standard. But what would you pick instead of gold? Robert Zoellick laid out a proposal for reform of world currencies that included...
View ArticleWhat Would You Give Up for the Deficit?
One of the hardest things for a politician to do is to ask people to give up benefits or pay more in taxes. Which is why President Obama appointed a bipartisan commission last February to come up with...
View ArticleAssignment: The Way You Say Things
Every Monday, we give you an assignment to record audio or video, or take a picture on our iPhone app. Every Friday, we put together the best submissions and talk about them on the air.This week, the...
View ArticleWhat Says 'Home' to You?
Home is where you hang your hat. There's no place like it, or so we're told. But what exactly is home? Is it a place? A state of mind? A smell, sound or look? Or the presence of a person we love?During...
View Article'App-signment' - What Says Home to You?
Just in time for the holidays, we're asking, What says home to you? Identify the scenes, the sounds and the events of what makes a place a home: Snap a photo, record audio or video and upload it via...
View ArticleAre the New Airport Scanners Making You Rethink Holiday Plans?
The backlash against new airport screening procedures is growing. Last month, the Transportation Security Administration started rolling out full body scanners that allow screeners to check for weapons...
View ArticleThe Sights and Sounds of Home
The notion of home means something different for everyone. As part of our Thanksgiving series on the home, you've been sending in the images and sounds of the things the invoke home to you.For some of...
View ArticleMovie Date: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Pt 1
Rafer and Kristen, possibly the only two people in the world who aren't enthralled with Harry Potter, talk with Takeaway Digital Editor (and Potter aficionado) Jim Colgan about the latest in the Harry...
View ArticleTop of the Hour: Great Migration Stories, Morning Headlines
We preview our interview with Isabel Wilkerson, author of an oral history of the Great Migration of black Americans from the South to the North. Takeaway digital editor Jim Colgan runs through some of...
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