The Takeaway

Nov. 30, 2016:

1. The Rise of the Global Far-Right (11 min)

2. Trump Picks Goldman Sachs Alum for Treasury Secretary (5 min)

3. Bismarck on the Dakota Access Pipeline (4 min)

4. Immigrant Due Process Reaches the Supreme Court (4 min)

5. What Trump Could Mean for the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (7 min)

6. Why Obama Should Pardon Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning (8 min)

November 29, 2016:

1. Trump's Infrastructure Plan: Just a Tax Cut for the Rich? (6 min)

2. With HHS Pick, The GOP Mobilizes to End Obamacare (4 min)

3. Supreme Court to Re-Examine Intellectual Disability and Execution (6 min)

4. Jill Stein's Recount: What's Next (4 min)

5. Critics Stand Firm in Wake of Castro's Death (8 min)

6. Dylann Roof Jury Selection Underway (7 min)

7. Millennials Usher in New Era at World Chess Championship (4 min)

November 28, 2016:

1. The Wisconsin Recount: What You Need to Know (4 min)

2. The Global Scale of Donald Trump's Conflicts of Interests (8 min)

3. The Future of Cuba Without Fidel Castro (7 min)

4. Trump's America Yields Fear for Undocumented Student (5 min)

5. In Judicial Elections, Outside Spending Hits Record High (3 min)

6. How a Fight to Save the Amazon Rainforest Sparked a Global Movement (4 min)

7. Maya Angelou: A Life Spent Pushing Boundaries (8 min)

(Rebroadcast) Many Americans have lost trust in U.S. institutions, politicians, and the media. In this special podcast, The Takeaway explores what it means to trust after the 2016 election.

Before the start of World War II, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt laid out his vision for what that world should look like in his famous "Four Freedoms" speech. How does FDR's vision hold up in 2016? Explore that question in this special podcast.

November 23, 2016:

1. Over the past few days, President-elect Trump has defied all norms of the presidential relationship with the media including canceling and rescheduling a meeting with The New York Times. Former Executive editor of the New York Times Bill Keller talks about the precedent he is setting for this administration’s relationship with the media. (5 min)

2. After promising during the campaign that he would separate himself from the Trump Organization, Donald Trump tweeted on Monday that “it was well known that I have interests in properties all over the world.” Kenneth A. Gross, a partner at an international law firm who advises corporations and elected officials on ethics laws, examines the complexity of business ethics in the White House. (5 min)

3. New Jersey Senator Cory Booker, who is being tapped as a future leader of the party, talks about the future of the Democratic Party after the stunning defeat of Hillary Clinton. (7 min)

4. It has been a trying week for protesters at the Dakota Access pipeline, with conflicting reports of violence and police firing on protesters with water cannons in freezing weather. Tara Houska, a Brown professor and national campaigns director for Honor the Earth, shares her experience on the ground. (6 min)

5. South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley has been nominated for Ambassador to the United Nations. Nancy Soderberg, who held the same job under Bill Clinton, explains the position and this new development. (3 min)

6. As part of our ongoing partnership with News Deeply, we hear from Fatima Askira, executive director of the Borno Women Development Initiative, who is working to rehabilitate women held by Boko Haram in Nigeria and helping them reintegrate into civilian society. (4 min)

7. Almost 10 million children between the ages of 10 and 17 in this country are food insecure, meaning they don't have reliable access to enough nutritious food. Two teenagers from Portland, Oregon talk about their involvement in Home Forward, a service organization in the state. (7 min)

November 22, 2016:

1. The last functioning hospitals in the rebel-held side of Aleppo have been destroyed by government strikes. What is the future of those who remain trapped in the besieged city?  Dr. Rola Hallam is a British-Syrian doctor and CEO and Founder of Can-Do, a new start up providing medical and humanitarian aid to the people of Syria. 

2. President-elect Donald Trump has made energy production a focus of his platform, and has specifically pledged to bring back jobs in the coal industry. Stephanie Joyce, an energy reporter for Inside Energy, discusses Trump's energy plan.

3. Republicans picked up five state House chambers and two state Senate chambers in the election.  David Daley, former editor in chief of Salon, explores how Republicans have been so successful at the state level and what the long term future for Democrats in the states looks like.

4. The North Carolina governorship still hasn't been called, with Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper’s lead growing to about 6,600 votes. If the margin remains below 10,000 votes, McCrory can call for a recount. Jeff Tiberii, Capitol Bureau Chief for North Carolina Public Radio, reports.

5. As South Koreans call for the impeachment of President Park, gender has surfaced as a crucial factor in her presidency. Women’s groups fear her scandal will make sexism worse in a country with deeply entrenched gender inequality.  Contributing editor for The New Republic Suki Kim weighs in.

6. On the Native American reservations of northern Minnesota, cycles drug abuse and gang violence can be hard to break out of. Native American filmmaker and Executive Producer Chris Eyre teams up with Director Jack Riccobono to share the story of a gang leader and his protege in the new documentary, "The Seventh Fire."

7. The Black Lives Matter movement was born under an Obama presidency, but its supporters argue that it's more important now than ever before.  Opal Tometi, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, discusses what the next four years of the Black Lives Matter movement will look like in America.

November 21, 2016:

1. Rabbi David Fox Sandmel, the Anti-Defamation League’s director of interreligious engagement and Mehnaz Afridi, Director of the Religious Studies, Holocaust, Genocide & Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan College, discuss the effect of Trump's rhetoric on Jews and Muslims. (13 min)

2. Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Secretary of the Department of Health & Human Services, says that the loss of the Affordable Care Act would not only have a significant impact on the healthcare of Americans who rely on it but on the institution that helps enhance and protect the health and well-being of all Americans. (7 min)

3. President-Elect Donald Trump met with Indian business partners last week, another example in a recent series of events suggesting that the incoming president has yet to separate his business interests from governing. (4 min)

4. When Donald Trump was elected president, social media sites associated with ISIS and al-Qaeda celebrated Trump's victory. Rukmini Callimachi, a correspondent for The New York Times who reports on al-Qaeda and ISIS, explains the terror groups' reaction to the election. (4 min)

5. General Michael Hayden, former Director of the NSA between 1999 and 2005, and the CIA between 2006-2009, discusses how the intelligence community is responding to Russian meddling and preparing for a Trump presidency. (7 min)

6. A new film from executive producer Leonardo DiCaprio called "The Ivory Game" goes undercover in Africa and China to find intelligence operatives, undercover activists, and front line rangers. Directors Kief Davidson and Richard Ladkani discuss the purpose of making their film: to serve as a riveting wake up call for the deep corruption at the center of the global ivory trafficking dilemma. (7 min)

November 18, 2016:

1. Vikram Amar, dean of the University of Illinois College of Law, explains what the Electoral College system is designed to do and what the framers intended.

2. Dr. Gary Gregg, the chair in leadership at the University of Louisville and director of the McConnell Center, says the Electoral College is here to stay, and that's a good thing.

3. How do YOU feel about the U.S. Electoral College? Should we get rid of it, or keep it? If we chose presidents based on just the popular vote, would that change how you vote? Takeaway listeners from around the United States share their thoughts today. 

4. There is a way to get around the Electoral College system as we traditionally understand it without needing a Constitutional amendment. It's something called the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. New York State Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz has the details. 

5. The process of redistricting affects nearly every aspect of how we pick our elected officials, from local representatives to the president. We examine how the process actually works, and how changing maps will affect America's political future with Rebecca Tippett, Director of Carolina Demography at the Carolina Population Center at UNC-Chapel Hill.

6. Washington State Senator Mike Padden is one of the only living "faithless electors" in the U.S. There have been 157 in American history — these individuals vote against the Electoral College and with the popular vote or their conscience. Here, he discusses what being an elector actually means, and what he thinks about calls for more faithless electors.

November 17, 2016:

1. With a Climate Denier Leading Transition, Will the EPA Survive Under Trump? (10 min)

2. European Officials Question Trump's Commitment to NATO (7 min)

3. Embattled Yemen Hopes for Cease-Fire (3 min)

4. Why One Man Didn't Vote for President: 'Nothing Really Changes' (5 min)

5. Native Americans Unite to Fight Dakota Access Pipeline (6 min)

6. The Power and Politics of Fiction Writing (8 min)