Ibrahim Abdul-Matin

Washington: Jay Newton-Small, of Time Magazine, discusses the week's health care reform negotiations in the Senate a day after President Obama huddled his party for a "pep talk." S...

Money Takeout: Louise Story, of The New York Times,tells us about the unexpectedly good news about TARP bailout money: almost all of it will be paid back! So the next question is, w...

Business Takeout: Yesterday, Comcast announced a deal to buy a majority stake in NBC from General Electric. TIME media and TV critic James Poniewozik discusses how this new media co...

Business Takeout: Louise Story tells us about a controversial new procedure at the Dallas Morning News and several other papers owned by the A.H. Belo Corporation, which asks some j...

Auto Takeout: We check in with Paul Eisenstein of The Detroit Bureau, who's out at the LA Auto Show. He's got the latest news on GM's new products (small is, apparently, once again ...

Business Takeout: Louise Story tells us how Harvard is trying to cut costs in a program bringing lawyers into public service, and why it might mean fewer law grads will help the nee...

Washington Takeout: Todd Zwillich says now that President Obama has laid out his strategy for the war in Afghanistan, another war is beginning: the fight over how we're going to pay...

Washington Takeout: Todd Zwillich tells us that for the first time in history, a disclosure on the amount of money that Congress spends on itself is available online. Todd took a lo...

Business Takeout: The Federal Reserve says it will get out of the mortgage business. New York Times reporter Louise Story explains the Fed's plan, and how it may impact the stock ma...

Congress Takeout: From Washington, Todd Zwillich looks ahead to the continuing tussle over health care reform in the Senate. Sports Takeout: Ibrahim Abdul-Matin discusses half-time...

A quarter of all marriage proposals happen in the six weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year's, and most of those involve a diamond ring. Diamond sales finance civil wars around the ...

Sports Takeout: Ibrahim Abdul-Matin joins us for a look back at Thanksgiving's football games and those coming up over the weekend. Business Takeout: The New York Times' finance r...

Sports Takeout: Ibrahim Abdul-Matin looks ahead to the day's football schedule and looks back at some memorable Thanksgiving football games. Turkey Takeout: New York Times food wr...

Washington Takeout: Washington Correspondent Todd Zwillich has the story of a presidential pardon taking place on the Hill.  (psst... it's just the annual White House turkey.) Spor...

Business Takeout: Forget Mac vs PC; the newest fight in tech is NewsCorp v. Google. Louise Story of The New York Times tells us about media giant NewsCorp's move towards Microsoft's...

Money Takeout: A new Harvard study proves what most of us could have guessed: the executives of Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns are still rich, even though they lost $900 million i...

Finance Takeout: New York Times finance reporter Louise Story joins us this morning to talk about private companies buying at-risk mortgages at a discount, sharing the profit with t...

Media Takeout: Oprah Winfrey's production company announced an end date for her talk show: September 9, 2011, Winfrey will reportedly start her own cable channel. Brian Stelter, who...

Business Takeout: The House Financial Services Committee passed a measure yesterday that would let the government break up large banks, even if they're healthy. New York Times repor...

Business Takeout: We have figures on how many Americans have been hiding money in offshore bank accounts, and Louise Story, finance reporter for The New York Times, tells us about t...