The Takeaway

Chef and media darling Carla Hall joins us to talk about all of her favorite foods and things for Thanksgiving.

Also, The Takeaway has you covered with recommendations from some top chefs who talk about their favorite Thanksgiving foods and share some of their go-to recipes.

We’ll hear from Chefs Samin Nosrat, author of the James Beard Award-winning book Salt, Fat Acid Heat; Pati Jinich, host of the 3x James Beard Award-winning PBS series, Pati’s Mexican Table; and the 2018 James Beard Best Chef of the Southeast, pitmaster Rodney Scott.

Butterball Talk-Line Supervisor Bill Nolan talks with us about all things Turkey from tips on cooking to avoiding common Thanksgiving Day cooking problems. 

Thanksgiving is a time of gratitude, but in the chaos of day-to-day life, it can sometimes be difficult to find something to be thankful for during challenging times.

So, we talk to Reverend Dr. Jacqui Lewis, author of Fierce Love: A Bold Path to Ferocious Courage and Rule-Breaking Kindness That Can Heal the World, host of the “Love.Period.” podcast, and senior minister of New York City's Middle Collegiate Church in the East Village to find out what she's giving thanks for this holiday season. 

Recently, Russia has been ramping up its attack on Ukrainian civilians and civilian infrastructures using airstrikes to target power plants, water works, and natural gas facilities. With a cold, Ukrainian winter looming, these are all attempts to make ordinary Ukrainians suffer and break their resolve.  This week, the World Health Organization estimated that 10 million Ukrainians—about one fourth of the country—is without electricity. And they warn that the winter will be life threatening for many Ukranians.  

We speak with Nataliya Gumenyuk, Ukrainian journalist and founder of the Public Interest Journalism Lab, about ordinary Ukrainian’s are experiencing and bracing for, now and in the coming months.

Then, we revisit a conversation with Edward Reese, a non-binary queer Ukrainian activist and project manager for Kyiv Pride, who became a Ukrainian refugee in April and was seeking gender affirming surgery.

The experiences of Black womanhood in America are often bound up with a hyper-awareness of how one's natural hair could be perceived — and all the simultaneous trauma and joy that comes with it. A new docuseries, The Hair Tales, uses the complex world of Black hair as a portal to explore Black women’s cultural contributions, unique identities, and dynamic humanity. The six-part series is now available on-demand on OWN and streaming on Hulu.

We're joined by the show's creator and co-executive producer, and esteemed fashion writer and editor: Michaela angela Davis.

On Saturday night, a gunman entered Club Q in Colorado Springs and opened fire. Before he was subdued by patrons, he managed to kill 5 people and injured more than two dozen. That gunman is now charged with 5 counts of murder and 5 counts of bias motivated crime causing bodily injury.

Dr. Jonathan Metzl, professor of Sociology and Psychiatry and the Director of the Center for Medicine, Health and Society joins us to talk about the aftermath of the 601st mass shooting in the United States this year.

Since taking over Twitter on October 27, Elon Musk has fired top executives, reinstated former president Donald Trump's account, laid off over half of Twitter's 7500 employees, and set guidelines for a new cut-throat work culture. 

The Takeaway was joined by tech journalist Alex Kantrowitz, Host of the Big Technology podcast and a contributor to CNBC, to discuss an update on Elon Musk’s twitter takeover, employee layoffs, and the future viability of the social media app. 

A new report from The Intercept looks at the story of Ajay Kumar, an asylum-seeker from India, who was detained in an ICE Detention center. When Kumar went on hunger strike to demand his release, a judge allowed the U.S. Government to force-feed him – and this is the first time a video of a detainee being force-fed in federal custody has been released to the public.

This is a practice that is widely condemned by medical professionals and the United Nations has said that force feeding inside ICE Detention centers could be violating the U.N. Convention Against Torture, but this is a standard practice for detainees on hunger strike in U.S. Federal facilities, and often gets little attention.

We speak to the lead journalists of the investigation: Travis Mannon, Investigative video journalist for The Intercept, and José Olivares, lead producer for The Intercept.

Farai Chideya, creator and host of the syndicated public radio show/podcast Our Body Politic, joins us to discuss the aftermath of the 2022 Midterm elections including: wins by her fellow Baltimorean Governor-elect Wes Moore as the first Black Governor of Maryland, and Florida’s Maxwell Alejandro Frost who is just 25-years-old.

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A Reuters/Ipsos poll on the Monday before the Midterms, had President Biden’s approval rating at just 39-percent. And that unpopularity had Democrats bracing for a red wave.  The red wave never came though. In fact, Democrats had the best midterm performance by a President’s party in decades.

We speak with Julian Zelizer, professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University, and explore what  President Biden's newfound momentum can mean for his agenda in the lame duck session, and into the 118th Congress.  Plus, we hear how the Midterms affect his reelection prospects in 2024.