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Clarence Page, syndicated columnist for the Chicago Tribune, reviews last night's speeches.

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Barack Obama's Senior Foreign Policy Advisor, Susan Rice, discusses Senator Obama's approach to the war on terror.

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Meet the Delegates: Tennessee's Sydney Chism

Find out what Sen. Barack Obama can learn from Colorado’s Democratic governor, Bill Ritter, who’s presiding over a left-leaning political transformation of his state. Ryan Lizza has written an article in the Sept. 1 issue of the New Yorker called "The Code of the West."

As Democrats in Denver prepare for Barack Obama’s acceptance speech tonight and the end of the convention, journalist/columnist David Sirota discusses where the Democratic Party is heading. We find out how Obama and the Democratic Party have become competitive in states that have been solidly Republican in recent ...

Guest: Patrik Henry Bass, senior editor for ESSENCE magazine

Last week Barack Obama taunted the media with the promise of finally letting us know who he had chosen to complete his ticket. But this week it’s John McCain’s term to tease us. The political blogs have been spinning out prospects from months now. To brief us on the candidates who have been short listed is Elisabeth Bumiller, reporter for the New York Times.

“Nickel and Dimed,” author Barbara Ehrenreich takes to the Takeaway stage against the backdrop of the Presidential convention and new economic figures that bear bad news for American workers. Ehrenreich has blazed a trail as the “voice” of the declining middle class and the growing underclass.

While more than 4,000 delegates and fifteen thousand journalists attended the Democratic National Convention, there are also an untold number of celebrities, lobbyists, politicians and lawyers schmoozing at nearly 300 parties this week. So where do the new congressional ethics laws fit in? Takeaway contributor and senior editor for ESSENCE Magazine Patrik Henry Bass follows the glitz, the glamor and the money trail in Denver.

Takeaway convention correspondent Faith Salie sets out to find the truth behind some myths, whispers and rumors surrounding the DNC in Denver.

This week in Riverside, California a civilian jury is being asked to decide whether a former US Marine committed a criminal act during the course of his military service. The verdict aside, this case is a first for US courts. The case establishes a precedent by allowing military contractors and ex-military to be prosecuted for crimes committed overseas. The Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act, was passed in 2002, but this is the first time it’s been tried in US courts. The Takeaway talks to Steven Cuevas, a reporter from KPCC who has been following the trial from California

Guest: Andrea Bernstein, Takeaway Political Director

Local Democrats aren't the only ones following the Convention in Denver. Several New York State delegates to next week's Republican Convention say they're tuning in -- to see what the competitions up to, and get a sense of what they can expect next week in the Twin Cities.

Manhattan attorney Richard ...

It's been a raucous, event-filled week at the Democratic National Convention as thousands of delegates and other convention goers essentially have taken over downtown Denver. WNYC's Elaine Rivera joins me to talk about the conversations she's been having with delegates, from what parties to attend to more serious questions of ...

Read Senior Editor Femi Oke's notes on the series below.

It's been three years since Hurricane Katrina tore through the Gulf Coast and changed the lives hundreds of thousands of Americans. This week, The Takeaway is talking to some of those people and looking back at the events that followed the storm.

As Democrats prepare to hear the acceptance speech of their historic presidential nominee, Barack Obama, Gov. David Paterson reflected at a meeting with delegates on how far African Americans have come in his lifetime. Karen DeWitt reports.

Holding signs saying "We love our Gov," Gov. David Paterson was given a standing ...

Susan Faludi, author of The Terror Dream: Myth and Misogyny in an Insecure America, talks about why she thinks Barack Obama versus John McCain has the makings of an epic American gender showdown.

Read Susan Faludi's New York Times op-ed piece, Second-Place Citizens.

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WNYC Political Director, Andrea Bernstein, and Professor Sheryll Cashin of Georgetown University, author of The Agitator's Daughter, react to last night’s speeches, including one by Senator Hillary Clinton.

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New York Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy (D-4) on her experience at the convention ...

It’s day three of the DNC and we check in with they doyenne of the Democratic Party, Madeleine Albright. She’s been attending convention and we turn to her for her analysis of the events thus far and what a democratic presidency could mean for U.S. foreign policy.

Forget Red State - Blue State politics. But don't forget that all politics is local. The Christian Science Monitor's Patchwork Nation project is redefining political geography based on social and economic data, and in the process is clarifying the issues that will matter to Americans come November.