Listen Add to Playlist

Even Barack Obama conceded it would be tough to win West Virginia.. And last night, he was more than right. Hillary Clinton took the state with a more than 40 percent lead. Clinton's near-constant presence throughout the state stood in contrast to Obama’s quick-hit, half-day Monday visit. Emily Corio is a reporter for West Virginia Public Broadcasting. She was with the Clinton campaign last night
Listen Add to Playlist

President Bush is going to Israel, Saudi Arabia and Egypt for meetings with Middle Eastern leaders this week. Few are optimistic for major diplomatic results despite a schedule filled with world leaders.
Listen Add to Playlist

KHIN MAUNG WIN/AFP/Getty Images

Early this morning, the first U.S. plane carrying aid landed in Yangon. It's a rare move for the ruling junta, which has resisted offers for military aid, to allow the plane to land. It carries supplies like blankets and drinking water... but no aid workers. Peter Popham, roving foreign correspondent for The Independent, has been tracking the latest.
Listen Add to Playlist

Polls suggest voters in West Virginia are leaning toward Hillary Clinton. In the run-up to the state's May 13 primary, Clinton made a return trip to the state, and Obama is scheduled to visit soon too. Anna Sale updates The Takeaway. She's been reporting on the primary for West Virginia Public Broadcasting.
Listen Add to Playlist

At least 28 states and the District of Columbia are expected to face budget shortfalls next year. What would you tax to fix your state’s budget crisis? Gas guzzlers? Beer? MP3s? Porn? Leave your comment by clicking "get in the mix", by emailing mytake@thetakeaway.org, or by calling our SpinVox line at 1-877-8-MY-TAKE. Tune in Monday morning to hear what others had to say.

Chart: State deficits, 2008-2009

Splitting from your guy or gal is hard enough. So how do you break up with the entire electorate? "Breakup Girl" Lynn Harris tells The Takeaway how Senator Hillary Clinton could exit gracefully from the race for the Democratic nomination.
Listen Add to Playlist

The Takeaway takes suggestions for new campaign slogans from ad copywriter Josh Comers.
Listen Add to Playlist

What's on voters' minds in the run-up to the May 13th primary in West Virginia? Journalist Anna Sale has been tracking election-year issues in the state. Sale says personality politics may be driving voters' decisions.
Listen Add to Playlist

The candidates have spoken. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton spoke late Tuesday after receiving preliminary results from the Indiana and North Carolina primaries. The Takeaway examines what the Democratic candidates had to say.
Listen Add to Playlist

Voters in North Carolina and Indiana have spoken. Reporters Micah Schweizer in Indiana and Laura Leslie in North Carolina join us to discuss results from yesterday's Democratic primary contests.
Listen Add to Playlist

Listen Add to Playlist

Listen Add to Playlist

Listen Add to Playlist

Under new president Raúl Castro, Cuba is changing in small but ideologically-significant ways.
Listen Add to Playlist

On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that Indiana can require government-issued photo identification when voting. It's a win for Republicans in an election year.

Justice John Paul Stevens wrote that states such as Indiana have an obligation to prevent fraud in close races, and that heading to the Bureau of Motor Vehicles to get the free photo IDs is no burden for voters.

Which leads us to our Takeaway question: Tell us one thing that would improve the election process for you, the voter.

Well, now that we’ve finally moved on from the Pennsylvania primary, and all of the media attention paid to the white working class, the most important bloc of voters, like, ever, to Pennsylvania, we’re moving on to North Carolina. And I can’t wait to have the same lavish, dare I say, slavish attention paid to me, the black voter.

The Takeaway

John Hockenberry of The Takeaway takes the political pulse of the gun-toting electorate at a Cabela's in Hamburg, Pa.

Steve Mellon/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Pennsylvania democrats headed to the polls Tuesday. Will this be Clinton's last stand? Voter turnout is expected to shatter previous records.
Listen Add to Playlist

The Takeaway asked students from Mrs. Jan Kunkel's fifth-grade class in Boiling Springs, Pa., to lobby their parents in the lead-up to the Pennsylvania primary.
Listen Add to Playlist

The Takeaway

Barack Obama called voters "bitter," but will voters be bitter to him? Columbia law professor Nate Persily talks with us about how comments like this affect a presidential race that has become increasingly contentious in tone.
Listen Add to Playlist

The Takeaway

Thirteen countries in the world ban HIV-positive visitors from entry, including Saudi Arabia, Russia, Sudan, Moldova... and the United States. We take a look at the ban and ask why that law has stayed on the books.
Listen Add to Playlist

National Archives

Has our vision of Dr. King's message been sanitized by the passing of time? We've all heard, "I have a dream." In a less-well known speech, King said, "There comes a time when a man must take the position that it is neither safe nor politic nor popular — but he must take it because it is right..."
Listen Add to Playlist

The Takeaway

The Takeaway asked students from Jan Kunkel's 5th-grade class in Boiling Springs, Pa., to lobby their parents in the lead-up to the Pennsylvania primary.

Test Description

Gerald L. Nino/Department of Homeland Security

The United States has spent millions per mile to build a border fence to keep unauthorized migrants out of the country, and recently, there has been a substantial drop in migrants arrested at the border. Professor Josiah Heyman says it's not solely because of the wall. There are other deterrents, such as the struggling U.S. economy and the downturn in the housing and construction markets.
Listen Add to Playlist