President Obama travels to Mexico City
President Obama touches down in Mexico City this afternoon for talks with his Mexican counterpart Felipe Calderon. This is his first trip to Latin America since being inaugurated. Details of the trip...
View ArticleThe Agenda: What's In Store for the Week Ahead
The Takeaway talks to Marcus Mabry, International Business Editor for The New York Times, and BBC Arab Affairs Analyst Magdi Abdel Hadi about what's in the headlines for the week ahead. Topics include...
View ArticleThis week's Agenda with Marcus Mabry and Jonathan Marcus
It's a week full of foreign news: disarray continuing in Iran following the country's hotly contested presidential election; the world reacts to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Mideast...
View ArticleThis Week's Agenda with Marcus Mabry and Jonathan Marcus
Iran again tops this week's agenda and our guides Marcus Mabry, international business editor for the New York Times and Jonathan Marcus, diplomatic correspondent for the BBC, will take a look at the...
View ArticleHillary Clinton: One Foot in India, One in Pakistan
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in India today. Joining The Takeaway to talk about Clinton's trip and Washington's challenges in the subcontinent are Linda Blake, Wall Street Journal contributor...
View ArticleRussian Spies?
Scott Shane, national security reporter with the New York Times in Washington, talks about the alleged Russian espionage ring and the eleven people accused and arrested in the last several days. Plus,...
View ArticleObama and South Korea
New York Times reporter Sewell Chan and Roben Farzad, senior writer for Bloomberg Businessweek, join us to discuss the trade deal the U.S. is trying to strike with South Korea.
View ArticleSlideshow: What To Make Of Wikileaks
Images and notable quotes from a recent symposium on Wikileaks and Internet Freedom, sponsored by the Personal Democracy Forum in New York City.
View ArticleThe US and China: Neither Friends Nor Rivals
As Washington prepares for a visit from Chinese President Hu Jintao this week, we take a look at what lies ahead in the shifting relationship between superpowers. Should we fear the "waking dragon"?...
View Article'Conflict Kitchen' Promotes Diplomacy at the Dining Table
With the United States engaged in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and facing diplomatic standoffs with nations like Cuba and Venezuela, Americans can tend to feel culturally isolated from some countries....
View ArticleThe U.S. and China
Chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times, David Sanger, discusses the U.S. stance toward China and what the announcement that there will be a permanent U.S. Marine base in Australia has to...
View ArticleDavid Sanger on Iran, North Korea
David Sanger, chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times and a contributor to WNYC, discusses the latest in US nuclear diplomacy, from Iran to North Korea.
View ArticleWalter White of NAACP Asserts America's 'Race Problem' Undermines Overseas...
Walter White, head of the NAACP, ponders race and foreign relations at the Great Hall of Cooper Union, in New York City, in this 1949 recording.Just back from a round-the-world tour undertaken to...
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