Jen Poyant appears in the following:
Why Working Less Leads to Getting More Done
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
More than a third of American workers regularly eat lunch at their desks, and more than half plan on doing work while they're on vacation. But Tony Schwartz, author of "Be Excellent a...
The Postal Service Used to Make Multiple Deliveries Per Day
Thursday, February 07, 2013
The Post Master General says that he has no choice but to cut Saturday mail delivery given the billions of dollars of debt in which the organization finds itself. Once upon a time the...
How a Planned City Could Protect Its Citizens from a Drone Attacks
Wednesday, February 06, 2013
What if protecting civilians from drone attacks was approached as a design challenge, rather than a legal one? Asher J. Kohn, a law student at Washington University at Saint Louis, re...
North Korea Makes New, More Explicit Threat
Friday, January 25, 2013
While North Korea has repeatedly threatened to strike the United States, a threat made yesterday to target the United States was significantly more explicit. A statement from the Nort...
Women Granted the Right to Serve in Combat
Thursday, January 24, 2013
In a landmark decision that overturns a 1994 ruling, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta has lifted the military’s ban on women in combat. The move will make hundreds of thousands of fr...
Report Claiming Iran Employs 30,000 Spies Called into Question
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Coming up, an update on a story we brought you earlier in the month about the size of Iran's intelligence agency. Justin Elliot, a reporter for Pro Publica, analyzes the number and its original source.
President Lyndon Johnson's Legacy Ahead of Barack Obama's Second Inaugural
Friday, January 18, 2013
As we think about the formality of the upcoming inaugeration on Monday we remember a time in American history, fifty years ago, when a momentous transfer of power occurred without any...
Unpacking the History of the French-Algerian Conflict
Friday, January 18, 2013
The violent flashpoint between militant Islamic extremists in North Africa and western-backed governments struggling to contain them has been unfolding over the past few days in Alger...
Inaugural Poetry and The Takeaway's #PrezPoem Challenge
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Robert Frost marked the beginning a new tradition when he read "The Gift Outright" at President John F. Kennedy's 1961 Inaugural. In both of his inauguration ceremonies, President Bar...
Rape Kits Mishandled at NYC Lab
Friday, January 11, 2013
The New York City Medical Examiner has announced that the office is reviewing more than 800 rape kits, cases were handled by a former lab technician who made a series of incorrect rep...
40 Years On: The Battle Over Roe v. Wade
Friday, January 04, 2013
This month marks the 40th anniversary of the landmark Roe v. Wade decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. In her cover story for Time Magazine, staff writer Kate Pickert explains why she ...
Ten: The Magic Number Behind Budget Planning Cycles
Friday, December 28, 2012
The notion of the ten year budget and fiscal cycle is actually a rather common one -- but why? It takes ten years, apparently, to shoot for big overhauls in the budget. Tax structu...
Getting Back to Business in a Post-Sandy 2013
Thursday, December 27, 2012
For many in the New York and New Jersey area, this week's winter storm comes as their recovery from super storm Sandy is still underway. That slow path to recovery for Sandy victims...
Celebrity Stories of Gift Giving
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Recent guests, including actors Ed Burns and Brian Cox and singers Olivia Newton John and Darryl McDaniels, tell us about the gifts that have meant the most to them.
Deconstructing the Christmas Gift
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
The question over how and why we give gifts is central to the holiday season. What do we really value about gift giving and receiving? Nicholas Epley, a professor of behavioral scienc...
Remembering Newtown on Christmas
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
This Christmas, less than two weeks after the tragedy at the Sandy Hook Elementary School, we look at what it means to grieve during the holiday season with Rev. Mark Bozzuti-Jones, p...
A Christmas Miracle: Donations from Strangers Save a Child
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
As The Takeaway explores stories of gift giving and gift receiving all this hour, a rare act of generosity changed Beth Gonzalez’s perspective on the notion of presents. Beth tells th...
Playing Ebenezer Scrooge in a Modern Age of Income Inequality
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Actor Brian Cox says today's conversations surrounding debt and fiscal policy help him get into character for his portrayal of the Dickensian Scrooge. Cox will be playing Ebenezer Scr...
'Right-to-Work' Passes in Michigan
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Labor activists in Michigan could face a historic defeat this week against a "right-to-work" bill that lawmakers have reconvened over today, and which Michigan Governor Rick Snyder ha...
When a College Degree Doesn't Matter in the Job Creation Equation
Friday, December 07, 2012
The US Labor Department releases its monthly employment numbers this morning. With every job lost or gained, there’s at least one economist wagging his or her finger about how the val...
