Andrea Bernstein

While the President is making headlines with his call for a renewed relationship between the U.S. and the Muslim world, there are other things going on in the world today. New jobless...

The State of California is in a bind. The economic downturn has hit the state hard, but when the governor asked the voters to approve a tax increase to help cover the shortfall, the v...

We've been discussing President Obama's address to the Muslim world from Cairo University. The president touched on a wide range of issues. To hear more global perspectives on his eff...

In his message to the Muslim world, President Obama made special mention of Iran's history of hostage-taking and violence against Americans as well as America's own history of meddlin...

President Obama called for a new beginning for the relationship between the U.S. and the Muslim world. How is the Arab world reacting: what did they want to hear about Afghanistan, Ir...

The New Deal brought us the CCC, the TVA, and the WPA. All thanks to FDR. And today’s stimulus comes along with its own bumper crop of acronyms, like SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition ...

There are more than seven million Muslims in the United States, and they overwhelming supported President Obama in the election. To learn about what they anticipated, and what they he...

In President Obama's speech at Cairo University, he made it clear that U.S. and Israel have an "unbreakable" bond. He explained how the Holocaust continues to shape Israeli reactions ...

Speaking at Cairo University, President Obama touched on issues including Iraq, women's rights, economic development, and religious tolerance. For more analysis on relations between A...

Game on! The NBA Finals start tonight, with the Lakers facing off against the Orlando Magic in what should be a great NBA series. The Takeaway’s sports contributor Ibrahim Abdul-Matin...

As the president prepares to address the Muslim world from Cairo University in Egypt, The Takeaway previews his speech with two experts on the Middle East: Professor Peter Awn, direct...

A memorial service is being held at the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris for the passengers of Air France Flight 447, which vanished off the coast of Brazil on its way to France. The BBC...

"Disappointed" was the word that Mary Schapiro, Chairperson of the Securities and Exchange Commission, used to describe the performance of the SEC. Schapiro promised to do better at ...

The issue of immigration reform has been pushed aside recently by the economic crisis, but now it's back on center stage. This week a coalition of reform advocacy groups is beginning...

Not many parents would publicly admit that they thought about throwing their sleep-deprivation-inducing newborn off a balcony. But writer Michael Lewis decided that it was important t...

Judge Sonya Sotomayor started her courtesy calls to Capitol Hill as a Supreme Court nominee. Sotomayor met with key senators, while harsh criticism continued on cable TV about her pas...

This is the 20th anniversary of the crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square. But the date isn't being marked in China, where the Communist party has banned discussion ...

Glamorized in the movies, the 1920s were a gala time of flappers, jazz, and the eighteenth amendment. The so-called Noble Experiment of Prohibition created a culture of subterranean...

Iranians are less interested in President Obama than in their own election contest between the conservative incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the relatively liberal contender Mir Hoss...

In 2002, Saudi King Abdullah proposed a peace plan for Israel and the Palestinian territories. In exchange for peace with the Arab world, Israel would withdraw from the occupied terri...