October 27, 2008
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Is VP nominee Sarah Palin going "rogue?"
By
Adaora Udoji,
John Hockenberry,
Nadia Zonis
Guest:
Ben Smith
Monday, October 27 2008
In the final, intense sprint to the finish of the election, is there a Sarah Palin insurgency? Politico blogger Ben Smith sees increasing signs of tension in the McCain-Palin camp as lousy poll numbers and damaging revelations — like Palin's $150,000 makeover — are leading to finger-pointing and skirmishes within the campaign.
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A look ahead to this week in the economic crisis
By
Adaora Udoji,
John Hockenberry,
Jen Poyant
Guest:
Alvin Hall
Monday, October 27 2008
The latest economic news is a forecast for another rough week for Americans. American companies in the goods and services sector continue to cut jobs while analysts are looking to new home sales remaining flat and a continued devaluing of the housing market.
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Future U.S. troop involvement unclear as Iraqi fighters wait for paychecks
By
Adaora Udoji,
John Hockenberry,
Jen Poyant,
David Wall Rice
Guest:
Quil Lawrence
Monday, October 27 2008
By this week, the U.S. military in Iraq should have largely transferred responsibility for paying members of "the Sons of Iraq," Sunni Arab groups fighting al-Qaida to the Iraqi government. And, senior Iraqi politicians are warning that, after eight months of talks, a major deal between Baghdad and Washington that directs the presence of American troops in Iraq is doomed.
2008 World Series: Worst World Series ever
By
Adaora Udoji,
John Hockenberry,
Jen Poyant
Guest:
Jeff Beresford-Howe
Monday, October 27 2008
The Philadelphia Phillies are now up three games to one over the Tampa Bay Rays in the 2008 World Series, but writer Jeff Beresford-Howe was hoping to see something he hasn't during the series: baseball.
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The international journalists' perspectives on the U.S. election
By
Adaora Udoji,
John Hockenberry,
Christina M. Russo
Guests:
Claire Prentice,
Abderrahim Foukara
Monday, October 27 2008
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An endangered species: The undecided voter
By
Adaora Udoji,
John Hockenberry,
Christina M. Russo
Guest:
Andrew Kupka
Monday, October 27 2008
With records being set every day by scores of early voters rushing to cast their vote, it's hard to believe there's such a thing as an undecided voter.
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An interactive glossary of the economic crisis
Monday, October 27 2008
Subprime Mortgages? Mortgage-Backed Securities? Credit Default Swaps? What!? Explore a cloud of the concepts, people, government institutions and companies behind this economic crisis.
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Eight days to Election Day: What to look for as campaign season wraps up
By
Adaora Udoji,
John Hockenberry,
Jen Poyant,
David Wall Rice
Guest:
Marcus Mabry
Monday, October 27 2008
Eight days before the election, New York Times editor Marcus Mabry talks with The Takeaway about how far we've come since the primaries, and what to expect in the last week of campaigning.
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On the Ballot: Abortion
By
Adaora Udoji,
John Hockenberry,
Melissa Locker Benavidez
Guests:
Johanna Sailor,
Megan Verlee
Monday, October 27 2008
The Takeaway is looking at the choices going before voters on Election Day. Today, The Takeaway speaks with a reporter from South Dakota where a comprehensive abortion ban is on the ballot for the second time in two years, and a reporter in Colorado where some voters are trying to define human life as starting at fertilization.
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Just words: How language triumphed on the campaign trail
By
Adaora Udoji,
John Hockenberry,
Chelsea Merz
Guests:
Steve Almond,
Marcus Mabry
Monday, October 27 2008
During the primaries, Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Hillary Clinton criticized another Democratic presidential hopeful, Senator Barack Obama, for offering "just words." But now it seems the simplicity of his words, and the calm with which he delivers them, could explain why he's ahead in the polls. Has the economic crisis rendered slogans and sound bites obsolete? Writer Steve Almond discusses the power of language on the campaign trail.
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Damascus protests U.S. helicopter raid across Iraqi-Syrian border
By
Adaora Udoji,
John Hockenberry
Guest:
Borzou Daragahi
Monday, October 27 2008
Syrian officials are protesting an American helicopter raid inside the Syrian border that they say killed at least eight civilians.
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The man behind the kosher meatpacking company, site of a May immigration raid
By
Adaora Udoji,
John Hockenberry,
Nadia Zonis
Guest:
David Levine
Monday, October 27 2008
Hasidic Rabbi Aaron Rubashkin expanded his family's Brooklyn butcher shop into the largest kosher meat plant in the nation. The underside of his success was revealed this spring after an immigration raid at his Iowa plant, including violations of child labor laws.
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Jeff Beresford-Howe: Bad umpiring and bad play makes for the Worst. World Series. Ever.
By
Jeff Beresford-Howe
Monday, October 27 2008
With Sunday night's Game Four 10-2 rout of the Tampa Bay Rays by the Philadelphia Phillies, this year's World Series nears a probable end Monday night as the Phillies throw their ace, the always good and recently unhittable Cole Hamels, at the Rays. If Hamels pulls it off for the Phils, it'll be the fifth straight lopsided and forgettable World Series.
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