Jesse Baker

View the Obama administration job questionnaire » "It's like 'Give us the rope to hang you.'" -- Jackie Calmes, talking about a particularly probing question on the application...

A homeowner bailout now looks more likely than ever. Both presidential candidates, John McCain and Barack Obama, are floating plans to help homeowners stuck with bad mortgages and the...

With the case of Senator Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, is going to the jury, and a verdict expected any day now, Capitol News Connection's Todd Zwillich looks into the history of other senat...

The trial of U.S. Senator Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, continues. Sen. Stevens takes the stand in Washington D.C. — an extraordinary step for a sitting senator, let alone one running for re...

Guests: John Yearwood, world editor at the Miami Herald, and Nancy Barnes, editor and senior vice president at the Star Tribune.

After passing the bailout bill, the U.S. Treasury has infused cash into the banks across the country in hopes to convince them to resume lending money. But does it give them the righ...

As the nation remains focused on the Wall Street bailout plan, The Takeaway checks in with New York Times political reporters Jeff Zeleny and Elisabeth Bumiller to talk about what we'...

As the White House and Congressional leaders maneuver to drum up support for a $700 billion economic bailout package, several Republican and Democratic lawmakers have said they're pre...

Just ahead of the vice presidential nominees' debate this evening, new polls indicate a rise in Democratic Senator Barack Obama's popularity. Adam Nagourney of the New York Times asse...

Dan Ariely believes one reason people oppose the government's Wall Street bailout plan is that they want revenge on the companies that helped lead the nation into this economic turmoil.

With Wall Street in disarray, New York Times Columnist David Leonhardt compares 2008's economic climate to America circa the Great Depression and discusses the loss of trust in the banks.

Senate leaders say tonight’s the night for the bailout bill. They are expected to put it to a vote. They've tried to sweeten the deal for skeptical lawmakers.

Presidential nominees (and Senators) John McCain and Barack Obama were at the White House last night for talks on a financial system bailout.

NASA monitors Greenland's Jakobshavn glacier via satellite and is interested in the enhanced mass loss. In August, a team of scientists set out to investigate if water that pools on ...

In this week's New York Times Magazine ("When Judges Make Foreign Policy"), Harvard Law professor and author Noah Feldman breaks down what liberals and conservatives understand about ...

The Bush administration and leading lawmakers have agreed to include mortgage aid and strong congressional oversight in a plan to provide unprecedented help for failing financial inst...