The Takeaway: Story of the Day

Click on the audio player above to hear this interview. We all know Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech—it’s remembered nearly every January, when we celebrate the federal...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/300576-martin-luther-king-jrs-original-i-have-dream-speech/

HBO 's "The Sopranos " changed television, it changed the entertainment industry and actor James Gandolfini himself changed the character of the Italian-American made guy. News broke late Wedne...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/300501-actor-james-gandolfini-dead-51/

In the small Mexican town of Malinalco Takeaway host John Hockenberry met HERMELINDA MEDINA MILLAN. In April, 1997 when she and her husband first decided to migrate north, cross the border, and e...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/297107-immigrant-families-torn-apart-deportation/

Was the I.R.S. correct to flag certain organizations applying for tax-exempt status for additional review? New analysis from The New York Times finds that in many cases groups singled out by th...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/295721-was-irs-correct-flag-certain-organizations-additional-review/

Yet again the mayor of Oklahoma City has been tested and challenged by tragic circumstances. The latest giant tornado to strike the Oklahoma City area and its suburbs on Monday destroyed entire n...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/294567-mayor-oklahoma-city-how-his-city-coping/

We’ve all found ourselves in bad situations, and chosen not to get out. On a personal level, those situations might be a bad jobs or unfulfilling relationships. On a bigger level, they might be...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/293938-why-we-stay-when-we-know-we-should-leave/

They vowed to go where no one has gone before. But can the crew of the Enterprise really go new places without paying tribute to the old? And what are those old places that brought us to where we...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/293766-star-trek-past-present-and-future/

A recent Pentagon report demonstrates the severity of the problem: based on anonymous surveys, the Defense Department estimates that 26,000 members of the military were sexually assaulted in fis...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/293415-sexual-assault-military-sen-kirsten-gillibrands-proposals-change/

The implementation of the Affordable Care Act is the responsibility of the Department of Health and Human Services, which largely writes the regulations; oversees notifying hospitals and provider...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/292932-selling-affordable-care-act/

This Sunday marks a year since last Mother’s Day, and while many of us say thanks in the form of a card, a text or a bunch of flowers, celebrated actress, model and environmental activist ISABE...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/291930-isabella-rossellinis-mammas/

Marijuana regulation has changed radically over the last few years. Voters in Washington State and Colorado legalized marijuana in the 2012 election, and, with a prescription, almost any Californ...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/292207-how-marijuana-culture-changing-country/

All this week we're talking to women and mothers who have harnessed smarts, spirit, and self-awareness to break into male-dominated careers and rise to the top. JUDY WOODRUFF has covered news a...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/291767-judy-woodruff/

This week a large team of “medical reinforcements” including Navy nurses, corpsmen, and specialists, were deployed to Guantanamo Bay as a response to the ongoing inmate hunger strike. With ...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/290442-medical-ethics-force-feeding-guantanamo-hunger-strikers/

A lot of people are talking about NBA player Jason Collins right now. Yesterday, he came out, becoming the first openly gay player in major American team sports. There have been those who’ve ...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/290186-gay-athletes-and-out-closet/

A new study from the Urban Institute offers strong evidence that the recession has exposed the United States as an economy without equality of opportunity.  The study shows a growing disparity i...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/290069-growing-wealth-gap/

The notions of terror and terrorism have occupied the headlines recently, in many ways, terror has been a large part of the American conversation since September 11, 2001. But one side of the c...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/289394-mira-nair-reluctant-fundamentalist/

After the bombings at the Boston Marathon last week, residents in the city have come together in a sign of resilience. On The Takeaway this week, we're talking about the importance of residents ...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/289077-knowing-your-neighbors-boston-bombers-lived-200-yards-away/

America has a love-hate relationship with marijuana. Millions of people use the drug but it remains mostly illegal. A journalist and self-professed marijuana enthusiast explores the country's dys...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/288021-americas-relationship-marijuana/

When the bombs went off at the Boston Marathon, social media networks lit up with cell phone pictures and videos. Investigators requested that anyone with footage of the attacks share them with a...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/287462-how-security-video-helped-authorities-identify-boston-marathon-bombing-suspect/

The tragic bombing of Boston's marathons leaves many unanswered questions. Who orchestrated it, and for what purposes?  Marathons are always equipped with security forces, but in this case, th...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/283573-counterterrorism-and-boston-marathon/

Today the Supreme Court hears arguments in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc. , a case that will determine whether companies have the right to patent human genes.  Th...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/282190-can-companies-patent-human-genes/

We’re in Portland this week, and there’s a lot to love in this town when it comes to food: food trucks, farmers markets, artisanal cheese, artisanal everything. It's hard to know where to b...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/281994-navigating-portlands-food-culture-nine-year-old-food-bloggers-soren-and-leo-westray/

The president went off to Newtown, Connecticut yesterday to try and get some momentum for some new gun legislation. Here's what he had to say: > "Newtown, we want you to know that we're...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/281374-gun-control-and-immigration-reform-snake-through-congress/

According to her spokesman, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died of a stroke this morning at 87. She served at the head of the Conservative party from 1979 to 1990. She was the fi...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/281114-former-british-prime-minister-margaret-thatcher-dead-87/

For hundreds of years, the Catholic Church’s policy has been to ordain men — and never women — as priests. Some call it tradition, but as FATHER ROY BOURGEOIS sees it, it’s plain and simp...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/280227-priest-takes-stand-sexism-and-expelled-church/

Dark matter makes up more than 80 percent of the matter in the universe. But up until now, it’s eluded scientists. Yesterday, however, NASA announced a possible breakthrough. A particle detec...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/280218-have-scientists-finally-found-dark-matter/

In the wake of the the devastating Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre three months ago, the Connecticut legislature announced an agreement on a package of what they consider to be the nation'...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/280134-even-those-closest-newtown-are-unsure-about-gun-control/

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman recently wrote a piece highlighting the spirit of innovation that future generations will need to "find" jobs. In fact, finding jobs, he says, will be obs...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/279642-applying-jobs-try-inventing-job-instead/

Last week, Congress and the president managed to avoid a government shutdown with a continuing resolution that funds the federal government for the next six months.  Unbeknownst to most lawmak...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/279207-how-anonymous-rider-changed-world-genetically-modified-food/

Reporting on the ongoing conflict in Syria has been a challenge for traditional journalists for a number of reasons, including the difficulty of getting into the country and the safety concerns o...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/278685-how-blogger-came-expose-covert-operation-arm-syrian-rebels/

As the North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Un continues to exercise his power, South Korea is pushing forward on another, business-related front. The country is home to the world's largest smartphone m...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/278615-samsung-electronics/

There was a moment last week when the scientific community was on the edge of its seat after news that NASA's Voyager 1 had left the solar system. Voyager 1 is one of two spacecraft sent into the...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/278351-has-voyager-1-left-solar-system/

Today the Supreme Court hears the first of two cases on the constitutionality of gay marriage. The first case is Hollingsworth v. Perry , a challenge to California’s Proposition 8, the voter...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/278150-same-sex-marriage-goes-supreme-court/

This week, the Supreme Court will hear two cases on same-sex marriage: Hollingsworth v. Perry, the case will determine the constitutionality of California's Proposition 8, and United States v. Wi...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/277677-growing-gay-parents/

Due in large part to the release of Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg's new book "Lean In ," for the first time in a long time there is a robust discussion about how to recruit and...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/277274-when-fathers-anchor-home-they-dont-have-it-all-either/

Over the past week or so, we’ve been talking about the changing world of work in America — from older Americans who are working beyond traditional retirement age — to childcare workers who ...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/277141-choices-and-challenges-feminist-stay-home-moms/

The blogger/journalist Yoani Sanchez , a leading dissident voice in Cuba and one of the most influential people in the world, according to Time Magazine , is on her first worldwide tour. Sanche...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/276884-cuban-dissident-yoani-sanchez-hopes-post-castro-era/

What goes into the average work day? A walk to lunch, a walk to the bathroom, a few clicks through your favorite blog, a conversation by the coffee maker. These behaviors are natural aspects of o...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/274323-tracking-employees-boost-productivity/

The use of the nuclear bomb in World War II fundamentally altered the nature of modern warfare. For the United States, it forever changed the role of the presidency, giving the executive branch t...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/275826-drones-constitution-modern-warfare/

This month marks the 10th anniversary of the U.S-led invasion of Iraq. ABDULRAZZAQ AL-SAIEDI, who covered the war as a correspondent for The New York Times, has mixed feelings about the consequ...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/275640-iraqi-human-rights-researcher-war-forever-changed-his-homeland/

On Monday, North Korea declared the 1953 Korean War armistice nullified. On Tuesday, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper emphasized the danger posed by North Korea’s nuclear weapons...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/275350-escalating-rhetoric-north-korea/

Author TAIYE SELASI  describes herself as an "Afropolitan," a member of a distinctly 21st century generation of African origin. The characters in her new novel, "Ghana Must Go ," reflect this se...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/275151-impact-history-through-lens-family-taiye-selasis-ghana-must-go/

As America and the people of Iraq are challenged to make sense of the decade that followed the U.S. invasion of Iraq, tens of thousands of people who witnessed the violence and the cauldron of ch...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/274988-carrying-iraq-us-story-one-iraqi-translator-who-gave-his-life-us-effort/

It may not surprise you to learn that American students dread math.  Or that that they feel that dread physically through stomachaches, headaches, fluttering heartbeats and sweaty palms. Many ...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/274234-can-math-museum-remedy-math-anxiety/

Now here's something the United States, Russia, and Iran can all agree on: Wrestling should stay in the Olympics. After the International Olympic Committee announced last month that the sport wil...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/273535-fighting-wrestling-stay-olympics/

WENDELL PIERCE is best-known for his role as Bunk in the HBO series "The Wire," and he currently plays a struggling trombonist in the series "Treme." But he's taking on a much different job thes...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/273465-wendell-pierce-wire-and-treme-hopes-groceries-can-revitalize-new-orleans/

Even if you're relatively secure about your health and waistline, it'd be impossible to completely miss the buzz around the major diet trends of recent years. We want to know what to eat and when...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/272804-diet-advice-abounds-are-we-getting-healthier/

The budget wars seem never ending in Washington D.C., with the sequester just one day away and no agreement between the White House and Republican leadership in sight. After sequestration goes in...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/272517-does-sequester-represent-dysfunctional-budget-process/

Today the Supreme Court hears arguments in Shelby County v. Holder, the case that will determine the constitutionality of Section 5  of the Voting Rights Act. Signed by President Lyndon Johnso...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/272069-history-behind-voting-rights-act/

One year ago on the evening of February 26, 2012, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin walked out of a 7-Eleven in Sanford, Florida. A resident named George Zimmerman was sitting in his car at the time, an...

http://www.wnycstudios.org/story/272014-year-later-community-awaits-justice-travyon-martin-shooting/