Farai Chideya

Get ready to start hearing about Rule IV. An arcane regulation among the rules of the Senate Judiciary Committee has emerged as the best, and probably only, hope for the GOP to block ...

Takeaway correspondent Andrea Bernstein is in Charlotte, North Carolina, looking at how the stimulus is affecting people's lives. She spoke with the mayor, employees of the big banks ...

It's a bad week for the biggest names in baseball. A-Rod returns to the struggling Yankees -- and while they could use his help on the field, they probably don't welcome all the contr...

Tens of thousands of Pakistanis are fleeing clashes between Taliban militants and the army, adding a humanitarian crisis to the list of daunting challenges facing the nation. While th...

As part of The Takeaway's ShovelWatch project, Correspondent Andrea Bernstein is in banking capitol, Charlotte, North Carolina. Despite Wachovia's announcement that is was laying off ...

The Federal Reserve yesterday released the long-awaited results of the “stress tests”. The report gave nine of the nation's largest banks a clean bill of health, and told ten others t...

There's a discussion that’s happening around a lot of watercoolers in America today: Elizabeth Edwards is finally going public about her husband's infidelity. In advance of her new bo...

Criminal justice systems in a number of countries are expanding advanced DNA databases to keep track not only of convicted criminals, but also of people only accused of crimes. But Br...

Polling stations are open today in India's marathon five-phase election where millions of voters in 85 constituencies across seven states and in Delhi are expected to cast their ballo...

Geek alert! The new Star Trek film opens this weekend. So we're wondering: are we even close to developing the technology we see in films like Star Trek? Are we ever going to be able ...

Yesterday, Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari met with President Barack Obama and Afghani President Hamid Karzai at the White House, determined to convey his commitment to fighting...

Report cards on the nation's 19 biggest banks will be released later today, but not all of the banks will be getting gold stars. While the results of the government-ordered stress tes...

The Pakistani government began a large air and ground assault yesterday, launching attacks against close to 7,000 Taliban militants in the Swat Valley. The fighting came just hours ah...

Elizabeth Warren, Chairwoman of the Congressional Oversight Panel on TARP and professor at Harvard Law School, continues her conversation with The Takeaway. Before she was monitoring ...

Try to imagine tracking $700 billion dollars as it moves out the doors of the United States Treasury Department and into the coffers of America's biggest banks. That's essentially the...

Just yesterday, Detroit voters elected David Bing to be their new mayor. The former basketball star, now turned auto parts businessman, will serve the final eight months of former May...

One of the ongoing mysteries of the H1N1 influenza outbreak is why it killed 26 people in Mexico, but only two people right across the border in the U.S. Is it simply that the virus i...

The U.K. has sent more than 8,000 soldiers to Afghanistan, but the account of one soldier, Michael Saunders, has become a local link to the war for residents of Worcester, England. Mi...

Detroit voters went to the polls yesterday to elect an interim mayor to finish out disgraced, ousted, and convicted Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's term. The winner? David Bing -- former st...

In a move that has aggravated global tensions, NATO begins a month of exercises in Georgia today, despite the fact that Georgia is not a member of NATO. The war games will involve mor...