T.J. Raphael

Over the weekend, a terrorism threat prompted the United States to close dozens of American diplomatic posts in the Middle East, North Africa and elsewhere. In addition to closing emb...

You and your television set may be caught in a standoff between the Time Warner Cable and CBS Television. Time Warner's current contract with CBS expired this weekend, blocking out CB...

In this first installment in The Takeaway's series on post-traumatic stress disorder—commonly referred to as PTSD—we look at the disorder through multiple lenses. Former Marine and au...

Christine Montross, assistant professor of psychiatry at Brown University, is a practicing psychiatrist who focuses on the most severe cases. Her patients ingest knives, nails and lig...

Lindsay Lohan, Pornstars, Denzel and Marky Mark. That's your Movie Date lineup for this weekend. The new films "The Canyons"and "Guns 2" are all out this weekend. Bringing us the revi...

A New York State law has caused a fair share of controversy because it forces some severely mentally ill to undergo treatment. On today's show, we hear from Dr. Paul Appelbaum, direct...

"Fabulous Fab" Fabrice Tourre has been cast into the spotlight once again. Yesterday, he was found liable of civil securities fraud. New York Times DealBook reporter Michael de La Mer...

NSA leaker Ed Snowden has finally found freedom for the next year. Russia granted the leaker asylum yesterday, souring relations with the U.S. The Vice President for Studies at the Ca...

Congress has stuck by its promise not to bail out Detroit in the wake of its bankruptcy filing. It’s a position that has Dan Kildee, a Democratic Congressman from Flint, Michigan, inf...

A new state law in Georgia called the “Lethal Injection Secrecy Act” keeps the names of pharmacies that manufacture the chemicals used in lethal injections secret from the public. Pro...

The 113th Congress begins its summer recess tomorrow. It has a lot of unfinished business that it probably won’t manage to address before the recess starts. Congress can at least mark...

Is stability finally coming to the nation of Iraq? That all depends on who you talk to. Things are considerably better for the government, but it's a time a different story on the str...

Last week, at the urging of the White House, the House of Representatives defeated a bill to curb the NSA’s powers. But lawmakers are facing mounting pressure to limit government surv...

All week this week, The Takeaway journeys into the complex realities faced by refugees from around the world. Amer Sadoon Almaliki, a field officer for the United Nations High Commiss...

For humans and many mammals, having a single, lifelong mate is extremely rare, except for some higher order primates. What was the evolutionary pathway to monogamy? Two studies publis...

Car manufacturers are increasingly offering more and more ways for drivers to stay connected online even while driving. But could cars with cutting edge voice-activated hands-free sys...

Army Private Bradley Manning was acquitted on charges of aiding the enemy by a military judge at Fort Meade, Maryland on Tuesday. Former New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller ex...

Yesterday, a military judge found Pvt. Bradley Manning not guilty of “aiding the enemy” for releasing hundreds of thousands of classified military documents to WikiLeaks. Amidst the m...

The United States' Gross Domestic Product will grow 3 percent today—but not because of increased productivity. Government statisticians will be applying new GDP rules retroactively, f...

Despite receiving death threats, being beaten by insurgents, and even being arrested, Mustafa Haji Abdinur remains on the ground in Mogadishu to report on the continuing crisis and vi...