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U.S. Terror Threats, Mexico's Missing, Trotsky in New York


Coming up on today's show:
<ul><li>Authorities are investigating a number of possible terrorist attacks on American soil, from New York City to St. Cloud, Minnesota. <a href="https://twitter.com/fred_burton">Fred Burton</a>, chief security officer for <a href="https://www.stratfor.com/">Stratfor</a>, a global intelligence company, explains what we know so far.</li>
</ul><ul><li>U.S. airstrikes mistakenly hit Syrian forces while targeting ISIS over the weekend. The U.S. was quick to come out and admit it was an accident, but Russian leaders seized on the opportunity to suggest that the U.S. was working in the interest of ISIS. <a href="https://twitter.com/KimberlyMarten">Kimberly Marten</a>, a Russia expert and a professor of political science at Barnard College, weighs in. </li>
</ul><ul><li>This election season has been dominated by rhetoric about undocumented immigrants and border control. Something that is less talked about is the U.S.-Mexico drug war, which continues unabated. According to official numbers, some 27,000 people have "disappeared" in Mexico since 2007 because of the drug war. It’s those victims and their families that are front and center in a new documentary airing on PBS. <a href="https://twitter.com/bernardoruizcom">Bernardo Ruiz</a>, director of "<a href="http://www.pbs.org/pov/kingdomofshadows/">Kingdom of Shadows</a>," joins The Takeaway to discuss his new film.</li>
</ul><ul><li>Last week, U.S. officials said that Bolivia is among three nations that have "failed demonstrably" to combat the drug trade. But others say the country’s strategy, which includes eradicating unauthorized crops, is working. Kathryn Ledebur, director of the <a href="http://ain-bolivia.org/">Andean Information Network</a>, has the details. </li>
</ul><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/scottmichels1">Scott Michel</a>, a producer with the Retro Report documentary team, looks back at <a href="https://www.retroreport.org/video/where-does-the-american-dream-live/">the turbulent history of public housing</a>, and the legacy of segregation and inequality that they leave behind.</li>
</ul><ul><li>The <a href="http://refugeesmigrants.un.org/summit">U.N. Summit for Refugees and Migrants</a> begins in New York City today as part of the ongoing U.N. General Assembly meetings. <a href="https://twitter.com/aaleinikoff">Alex Aleinikoff</a>, former U.N. deputy high commissioner for refugees from 2010 to 2015, and <a href="https://twitter.com/tefere_gebre">Tefere Gebre</a>, a former political refugee from Ethiopia and AFL-CIO's current executive vice president, discuss the continued plight of migrants and refugees.</li>
</ul><ul><li>Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky spent three months in New York City before heading off to Russia to bring socialism to the nation. Despite his short time in New York, he had a lasting impact on the American left. <a href="https://twitter.com/viralhistory">Kenneth Ackerman</a>, author of "<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01I8S7EX6/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&amp;btkr=1">Trotsky in New York 1917: A Radical On The Eve of Revolution</a>," explains.</li>
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The Takeaway

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Spooky Scary Studio 360: She Sees Your Every Move


In anticipation of Halloween, Studio 360 is sharing some of our favorite spooky segments from our archive. 
Photographer Michele Iversen captures strangers in private spaces — without their permission. At night she sits in her car and watches the glowing windows of strangers' homes, waiting for the perfect shot. Iversen’s story always elicits strong reactions from our listeners — often of horror.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/AshaCastleberry?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">Asha Castleberry</a> and Daniel Cortez are two veterans from very different backgrounds with very different military pasts. On Veteran's Day, they discuss Trump, ISIS, and the veteran experience.
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</ul><ul><li><a href="http://iava.org/people/admiral-michael-mullen/">Admiral Mike Mullen</a>, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, spoke yesterday about the military under new leadership. That conversation continues today, as Mullen talks about unemployment, post traumatic stress, and a broken Department of Veterans Affairs that is slow on providing care to those who need it.</li>
</ul><ul><li><a href="http://www.wnyc.org/story/vindication-alt-right/">Yesterday's segment</a> with the Alt-Right blogger <a href="https://twitter.com/ramzpaul?lang=en">Paul Ramsey</a> drew a lot of feedback. Some were glad to hear that perspective, others not so much. Listeners call in to comment.</li>
</ul><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NotMyPresident?src=hash&amp;lang=en">#NotMyPresident</a> is trending on social media as thousands across the country marched through the streets in several cities to disavow President-elect Donald Trump. Listeners share their thoughts about the #NotMyPresident movement today on The Takeaway. </li>
</ul><ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/RaferGuzman?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">Rafer Guzman</a>, a film critic for Newsday, talks about <a href="https://twitter.com/arrivalmovie?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">Arrival</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/AlmostChristmas?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">Almost Christmas</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/hacksawridge?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">Hacksaw Ridge</a> for this week's movie segment.</li>
</ul><ul><li>Deep in the post-Civil War South, Wilmington, North Carolina was considered to be a "black mecca." But the African American community found themselves the targets of the only successful coup d'etat in American history: The Wilmington Race Riots of November 1898. <a href="https://twitter.com/ceverett82">Christopher Everett </a>discusses his new documentary out this week, <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/09/19/a-buried-coup-detat-in-the-united-states">"Wilmington on Fire."</a></li>
</ul><ul><li><a href="http://www.peteryarrow.net/">Peter Yarrow</a>, folk singer and songwriter and founding member of Peter, Paul, and Mary, his daughter <a href="https://twitter.com/bethanyandrufus">Bethany Yarrow</a>, and her boyfriend renowned cellist <a href="http://www.bethanyandrufus.com/rufus-capaddocia">Rufus Cappadocia</a> recently recorded a song called "Lift Us Up," which they perform performed in-studio. It's as much as call to action as it is a call to better understand each other, an appeal towards basic empathy.</li>
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Veterans Under Trump, #NotMyPresident, Wilmington's Whitelash


<ul><li>Hate crimes against Muslims spiked last year to their highest level in more than a decade, while recent cabinet appointment Steve Bannon has said on tape that he doesn't want his kids to going to school with Jews. Rabbi <a href="http://www.ctu.edu/academics/rabbi-david-fox-sandmel">David Fox Sandmel</a>, the <a href="http://www.adl.org/">Anti-Defamation League’s</a> director of interreligious engagement and <a href="https://manhattan.edu/campus-directory/mehnaz.afridi">Mehnaz Afridi</a>, Director of the Religious Studies, Holocaust, Genocide &amp; Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan College, discuss the effect of Trump's rhetoric on Jews and Muslims. </li>
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President-elect Trump, who vowed to repeal Obamacare, has since said he would leave some elements intact. More than 100,000 people signed up for Obamacare the day after the election and nrollment will remain open until the end of January. <a href="https://twitter.com/SecBurwell">Sylvia Mathews Burwell</a>, Secretary of the <a href="http://www.hhs.gov/">Department of Health &amp; Human Services</a>, says that the loss of the Affordable Care Act would not only have a significant impact on the healthcare of Americans who rely on it but on the institution that helps enhance and protect the health and well-being of all Americans.  
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<li>While President-Elect Donald Trump was <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/799974635274194947" target="_blank">rage-tweeting</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/800329364986626048" target="_blank">S.N.L</a> and the cast of the musical, <a href="https://twitter.com/HamiltonMusical" target="_blank">Hamilton</a>—effectively overshadowing the news that Trump had <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/19/us/politics/trump-university.html" target="_blank">agreed to pay</a> $25 million to settle lawsuits against his allegedly fraudulent Trump University—he was also busy meeting with Indian business partners, another example in a recent series of events suggesting that the incoming president has yet to separate his business interests from governing.</li>
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When Donald Trump was elected president, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/11/09/islamist-extremists-celebrate-trumps-election-win/">social media sites associated with ISIS and al-Qaeda celebrated Trump's victory</a>. "Rejoice with support from Allah, and find glad tidings in the imminent demise of America at the hands of Trump,” wrote one ISIS related outlet. <a href="https://twitter.com/rcallimachi">Rukmini Callimachi</a>, a correspondent for The New York Times who reports on al-Qaeda and ISIS, explains the terror groups' reaction to the election.
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<li><a href="https://twitter.com/GenMhayden">General Michael Hayden</a>, former Director of the NSA between 1999 and 2005, and the CIA between 2006-2009, discusses how the intelligence community is responding to Russian meddling and preparing for a Trump presidency. Last week, Hayden said that the intelligence community needs to "man up" when dealing with Trump. </li>
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A new film from executive producer Leonardo DiCaprio called <a href="https://theivorygame.com/" target="_blank">"The Ivory Game"</a> depicts the underbelly of ivory trafficking. The film goes undercover in Africa and China to find intelligence operatives, undercover activists, and front line rangers. Directors Kief Davidson and Richard Ladkani discuss the purpose of making their film: to serve as a riveting wake up call for the deep corruption at the center of the global ivory trafficking dilemma.
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Future of the ACA, Trump's Business Interests, The NSA reacts to Russia


<ul><li>The last functioning hospitals in the rebel-held side of Aleppo have been destroyed by government strikes. What is the future of those who remain trapped in the besieged city? <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/dr-rola-hallam"> Dr. Rola Hallam </a>is a British-Syrian doctor and CEO and Founder of Can-Do, a new start up providing medical and humanitarian aid to the people of Syria. </li>
</ul><ul><li>The North Carolina governorship still hasn't been called, with Democratic <a href="https://twitter.com/RoyCooperNC?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">Attorney General Roy Cooper’s</a> lead growing to about 6,600 votes over incumbent Republican <a href="https://twitter.com/PatMcCroryNC">Governor Pat McCrory</a>. If the margin remains below 10,000 votes, McCrory can call for a recount. <a href="https://twitter.com/j_tibs">Jeff Tiberii</a>, Capitol Bureau Chief for North Carolina Public Radio, reports.</li>
</ul><ul><li>Adding to their gains in 2014, Republicans picked up five state House chambers and two state Senate chambers in the election.  <a href="https://twitter.com/davedaley3">David Daley</a>, former editor in chief of Salon, explores how Republicans have been so successful at the state level and what the long term future for Democrats in the states is.</li>
</ul><ul><li>After a referendum in Colombia voted down a peace deal, today top leaders of the FARC in Bogota are expected to sign a new peace agreement with the government. Colombia's president Juan Manuel Santos won the Nobel Peace Prize last month for his efforts to end the war. The agreement will have to be signed, and then will likely go to Congress to debate and ratify the agreement.</li>
</ul><ul><li>As South Koreans call for the impeachment of President Park, gender has surfaced as a crucial factor in her presidency. Women’s groups protested her candidacy when she was elected as the country’s first female president in 2013, saying that a daughter of a dictator could not represent real women, and they now fear that the scandal will make sexism worse in a country with deeply entrenched gender inequality.  Contributing editor for The New Republic <a href="https://twitter.com/sukisworld?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">Suki Kim </a>weighs in.</li>
</ul><ul><li>On the Native American reservations of northern Minnesota, cycles drug abuse and gang violence can be hard to break out of. Native American filmmaker and Executive Producer <a href="http://www.chriseyre.org/">Chris Eyre </a>teams up with Director <a href="https://twitter.com/jack_riccobono_">Jack Riccobono</a> to share the story of a gang leader and his protege in the new documentary, "<a href="http://www.theseventhfire.com/">The Seventh Fire</a>."</li>
</ul><ul><li>The Black Lives Matter movement was born under an Obama presidency, but its supporters argue that it's more important now than ever before.  <a href="https://twitter.com/opalayo?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">Opal Tometi</a>, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, discusses what the next four years of the Black Lives Matter movement will look like in America.</li>
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A City Without Hospitals, Divided States, Black Lives Move Forward


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Transgender Rights, China Worries, Understanding the Cosmos


Coming up on today's show:
<ul><li>On Wednesday, the Trump Administration announced that it in plans to overturn an Obama-era protection that allows transgender students to use the bathroom of their choosing in schools. Here to discuss the policy shift is <a href="https://twitter.com/drjilliantweiss">Jillian T. Weiss</a>, executive director of the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund, and <a href="http://donnamilo.com/index.html">Donna Milo</a>, a Republican business owner and transgender woman.</li>
</ul><ul><li>Protest camps around the Dakota Access Pipeline are expected to be shut down by the Army Corps of Engineers today. For a look at where the movement goes next and for an analysis of other grassroots protests, The Takeaway turns to <a href="https://twitter.com/jaycaspiankang">Jay Caspian Kang</a>, a correspondent for Vice News Tonight, and writer-at-large for the New York Times Magazine.</li>
</ul><ul><li>A new study that collected data from people in 47 states over the course of 17 years reveals that teens are less likely to attempt suicide in places where gay and lesbian couples have the right to marry one another. <a href="http://scholar.harvard.edu/juliagoldberg/home" target="_blank">Julia Raifman</a>, postdoctoral fellow in the <a href="https://www.jhsph.edu/" target="_blank">Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health</a> in the Department of Epidemiology and co-author of the study, explains.</li>
</ul><ul><li>If President Trump does end up pursuing a very aggressive trade policy with China, and the Chinese government retaliates and targets Chinese students, many U.S. colleges could potentially <a href="http://blogs.wgbh.org/on-campus/2017/2/21/could-trumps-rhetoric-cost-colleges-billions-lost-tuition-revenue/" target="_blank">lose</a> billions of dollars in tuition revenue, according to <a href="https://twitter.com/KirkCarapezza?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" target="_blank">Kirk Carapezza</a>, managing editor of our partner WGBH’s <a href="http://blogs.wgbh.org/on-campus/" target="_blank">higher education</a> desk.</li>
</ul><ul><li>Scientists have announced two major discoveries this week that have the potential to drastically alter some of their previous held understandings of the cosmos. <a href="https://twitter.com/jasonskendall">Jason Kendall</a>, adjunct professor of astronomy at William Paterson University, joins The Takeaway to explain the significance of these developments. </li>
</ul><ul><li>Joe Feingold, a 93-year-old Holocaust survivor, donated his violin to Brianna, a 13-year-old schoolgirl from the Bronx. Their story is told in the Oscar-nominated documentary, "Joe's Violin." Today, the Takeaway hears from Graham Parker and <a href="https://twitter.com/kcorncoop">Kahane Cooperman</a>, directors of the film. </li>
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American Icons: Monticello


The home of America’s aspirations and deepest contradictions. <div class="embedded-image"><img class="mcePuppyImage" src="https://media2.wnyc.org/i/620/370/c/80/photologue/photos/monticello_featureNEW.png" alt="Monticello feature new" /></div>
Monticello is home renovation run amok. Thomas Jefferson was as passionate about building his house as he was about founding the United States; he designed Monticello to the fraction of an inch and never stopped changing it. Yet Monticello was also a plantation worked by slaves, some of them Jefferson’s own children. Today his white and black descendants still battle over who can be buried at Monticello. It was trashed by college students, saved by a Jewish family, and celebrated by FDR. With <a href="https://twitter.com/StephenAtHome" target="_blank">Stephen Colbert,</a> filmmaker James Ivory, and artist <a href="http://www.mairakalman.com/" target="_blank">Maira Kalman.</a>
(Originally aired October 22, 2010)
Monticello Update: 
Monticello <a href="http://www.npr.org/2017/02/20/516292305/monticello-restoration-project-puts-an-increased-focus-on-jeffersons-slaves">plans to re-create or restore spaces</a> where Thomas Jefferson's slaves worked and lived. This $35 million project includes the room where Sally Hemings likely lived, which was turned into a restroom in a 1940s renovation.
American Icons: Monticello was produced by <a href="http://www.journalism.cuny.edu/faculty/aronczyk-amanda-radio-instructor-broadcast-news-writing-production/" target="_blank">Amanda Aronczyk</a>. The Jefferson family graveyard story was produced by <a href="http://www.slc.edu/faculty/heppermann-ann.html" target="_blank">Ann Heppermann</a>. The actor <a href="http://howlthemovie.com/cast/david-strathairn/" target="_blank">David Strathairn</a> was the voice of Thomas Jefferson. <a href="http://www.studio360.org/people/david-krasnow/" target="_blank">David Krasnow</a> edited the show. Music was provided by <a href="http://www.liminal.org.uk/people/david-prior/" target="_blank">David Prior</a>, with John Matthias for Small Design Firm, and can also be heard at Monticello's interactive exhibition, Boisterous Sea of Liberty.

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American Icons: I Love Lucy


This is where television invented itself. <div class="embedded-image"><img class="mcePuppyImage" src="https://media2.wnyc.org/i/620/372/c/80/photologue/photos/I_Love_Lucy_card_feature.jpg" alt="I Love Lucy feature card" /></div>
It set the model for the hit family sitcom. Lucy was a bad girl trapped in the life of a ’50s housewife; her slapstick quest for fame and fortune ended in abject failure weekly. Both the antics and the humiliation entered the DNA of TV comedy, from “Desperate Housewives” to “30 Rock,”  writers can’t live without Lucy. Rapper Mellow Man Ace celebrates the breaking of an ethnic taboo; a drag performer celebrates Lucy as a freak. With novelist Oscar Hijuelos, producer Chuck Lorre, “The Mindy Project’s” Mindy Kaling, and a marriage counselor who has some advice for the bickering couple.
American Icons: I Love Lucy was produced by <a href="http://www.studio360.org/people/jenny-lawton/" target="_blank">Jenny Lawton</a>, with production assistance from Chloe Plaunt and <a href="http://www.prx.org/user/andreasson" target="_blank">Claes Andreasson</a>. <a href="http://www.studio360.org/people/david-krasnow/" target="_blank">David Krasnow</a> edited the show.
(Originally aired October 8, 2010)
Bonus Track: Mindy Hearts Ricky
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Mindy Kaling ("The Office") grew up thinking "I Love Lucy" was “one of the many black and white things that people keep telling you is so great... and you’re just sort of bored and annoyed by it.” Then her "Office" boss Greg Daniels ordered her to watch it. She came away with a pretty serious crush on Ricky Ricardo. And she says she's not bothered by jokes about his accent.
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Bonus Track: Deconstructing Lucy
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Although Lucy's on-screen antics may have looked improvised, every gesture, glance, and step was written into the script. Gregg Oppenheimer — son of creator, producer, and head writer Jess Oppenheimer — reads a bit of telling stage direction from “Lucy is Enceinte.” Jess and Gregg Oppenheimer are the authors of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0815605846/studi360-20" target="_blank">Laughs, Luck... and Lucy</a>.
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<a href="https://media.wnyc.org/media/resources/2010/Oct/07/Lucy_is_Enceinte_script.pdf" target="_blank">→ Read an excerpt from the "Lucy is Enciente" episode script</a> 
Bonus Track: Notes on a Scandal
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In 1955 "Confidential Magazine," a Hollywood scandal rag, reported on Desi Arnaz’s supposed philandering. Dartmouth film and television professor <a href="http://dfd.dartmouth.edu/profiles/66" target="_blank">Mary Desjardins</a> explores the less desirable side effect of being a celebrity couple.
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<a href="http://media.wnyc.org/media/resources/2010/Oct/07/Confidential_Lucy__Desi.pdf" target="_blank">→ Read about Lucy and Desi in Confidential Magazine (1955)</a>
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<div class="image-caption">The I Love Lucy show was the first comedy to be filmed in front of a live studio audience, a practice that is now standard in many of today's TV sitcoms. Lucille Ball's daughter, Lucie Arnaz, wrote that her mother's “clowning and comedy talent thrived on the sound of real people laughing uproariously at her antics.”</div>
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<div class="image-caption">The original I Love Lucy soundstage. Karl Freund, the Oscar-winning cinematographer, convinced Desi Arnaz that I Love Lucy needed to be filmed on a soundstage, not on a theatre stage, as was the convention at that time. A soundstage allowed Freund to set up the necessary infrastructure — including a hanging light grid and crab dollies — to successfully accomplish the innovative technique of three cameras shooting simultaneously. The techniques “Papa” Freund invented for I Love Lucy are still used to make sitcoms today.</div>
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<div class="image-caption">A seat to watch a live filming of I Love Lucy was one of the hottest tickets in town — brought to you by Phillip Morris, I Love Lucy's <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppk05iAh9cs" target="_blank">official sponsor</a>.</div>
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<div class="image-caption">Filming I Love Lucy with three cameras was just one of the show's many monumental innovations. Television historian Thomas Schatz explains, “I Love Lucy shaped the style, the technique, the veritable 'grammar' of the sitcom. And beyond the series' impact on the genre, there was Desilu itself, which affected the institutional, economic, and even the technological practices of the TV industry.”</div>
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Here's what you'll find on today's show:
— Within the Department of Education, there exists a dedicated team whose job is to investigate abuse by institutions of higher education. Their focus is on for-profit schools such as DeVry and Corinthian Colleges. The team is tasked with determining whether for-profit institutions misled students about job prospects or tricked them into predatory loans. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is effectively dismantling the investigative team tasked with monitoring these abuses, according to a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/13/business/education-department-for-profit-colleges.html">new report by The New York Times</a>.
— According to a new report out this week by the National Center for Education Statistics, 94% of teachers in high-poverty school districts pay for classroom supplies out of pocket. And on average, they spend <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/teachers-shelling-out-nearly-500-a-year-on-school-supplies-report-finds/2018/05/14/af2affae-57b8-11e8-b656-a5f8c2a9295d_story.html?utm_term=.e98228e55c2d">nearly $500</a> a year. About seven percent of teachers spend more than $1000 a year. For teachers in financially deprived areas, the amounts they spend on their students are even higher.
— A death sentence case involving a woman in Sudan has brought international <a href="http://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2018/5/statement-appeal-for-clemency-for-noura-hussein" target="_blank">condemnation</a> from human rights groups, as well as on social media through the campaign called #JusticeforNoura. 19-year-old Noura Hussein was sentenced to death last week for killing her husband after he allegedly attempted to rape her. Hussein was in a forced marriage, arranged by her father, and she claims she acted in self-defense. It has also <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sudan-women-death-penalty/sudanese-teen-bride-who-killed-husband-during-rape-to-be-executed-idUSKBN1IB2K9" target="_blank">been reported</a> that Hussein’s husband had allegedly raped Hussein the previous day as some of his relatives restrained her.
— "<a href="http://www.jewelscatchonedocumentary.com/">Jewel's Catch One</a>," a new documentary from <a href="https://twitter.com/CFitz_">C. Fitz</a>, explores the legacy of America's oldest black-owned disco club, as well as the life of businesswoman and activist Jewel Thais-Williams. For four decades, Jewel provided safe spaces in Los Angeles for the black, L.G.B.T.Q., and AIDS-impacted communities. The club closed in 2015. The film was recently acquired by Ava DuVernay's grassroots distribution company, <a href="http://www.arraynow.com/">ARRAY</a>.

Dep't of Education Stops Investigating For-Profit Colleges


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Mormon Deaths In Mexico Reignite Questions About the Ongoing Drug War 2019-11-18


<a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/takeaway/segments/mexican-drug-war">Mormon Deaths In Mexico Reignite Questions About the Ongoing Drug War</a>
Mexico and the United States are in an embittered battle with drug cartels, but some are calling into question its effectiveness as well as the media coverage. 
 <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/takeaway/segments/mark-ruffalo-and-todd-haynes-tackle-corporate-corruption-dark-waters">Mark Ruffalo and Todd Haynes Tackle Corporate Corruption in 'Dark Waters'</a>
Actor Mark Ruffalo and director Todd Haynes sit down with The Takeaway to discuss bringing the true story of a decades-long legal fight against chemical giant DuPont.
<a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/takeaway/segments/new-study-shows-two-million-americans-lack-access-running-water-and-toilet">New Study Shows Two Million Americans Lack Access to Running Water and Toilet</a>
As federal investment in the U.S.'s water infrastructure continues to shrink, the scope of this crisis is projected to grow.
<a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/takeaway/segments/despite-trumps-efforts-louisiana-re-elects-democratic-governor">Despite Trump's Efforts, Louisiana Re-Elects Democratic Governor</a>
This weekend, Louisiana residents re-elected incumbent governor John Bel Edwards.

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Tenants Left in a State of Precarity as Mysterious Shell Companies Buy Millions of Homes 2019-12-17


<a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/takeaway/segments/mysterious-shell-companies-own-millions-homes-leaving-tenants-state-precarity">Tenants Left in a State of Precarity as Mysterious Shell Companies Buy Millions of Homes</a>
Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting is now suing to determine who owns all these homes.
<a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/takeaway/segments/federal-government-crack-down-robocalls">Federal Government to Crack Down on Robocalls</a>
Americans received more than 5 billion robocalls in November alone, according to the robocall blocking app YouCall.
<a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/takeaway/segments/richard-jewell-and-female-journalists-hollywood">"Richard Jewell" and Female Journalists in Hollywood</a>
The new film is coming under fire for its portrayal of real-life reporter Kathy Scruggs.

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Politics as Entertainment, Vets Fighting for Benefits, Remembering Mike Nichols


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'House of Cards,' Political Correctness, A Silent Epidemic


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These days, many Americans believe that HIV is no longer a death sentence—many view it as a long-term, manageable disease.
That may be true for those with a strong support systems and access to quality healthcare, but this is not the case for a number of people, including those in the black community.
About 50,000 Americans are diagnosed with HIV every year, and nearly half of them live in the South. For black women in rural communities, the deadly virus is one of the leading causes of death.
According to the most recent data from the <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/group/racialethnic/africanamericans/">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention</a>, "African Americans have the most severe burden of HIV of all racial/ethnic groups in the United States."
This disparity has been true since the beginning, but has grown over the last decade. June Cross is a documentary television and film producer, and her new film "Wilhemina's War," explores the epidemic where it's particularly acute: The rural south.
"<a href="http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/wilheminas-war/">Wilhemina's War</a>" airs Monday, February 29th on PBS' Independent Lens.

Wilhemina's War: A Grandmother Fights the AIDS Epidemic


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From Broadway to television and the big screen, Mike Nichols was a prolific director. His success put him in an elite group of people—he earned an Oscar, Grammy, Emmy, and Tony award, among numerous other accolades.  
His screen and stage career spanned decades. His early film classics included "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and "The Graduate," which helped launch Dustin Hoffman's big screen career.
On the stage, he directed Neil Simon's comedies  like "The Odd Couple" and "Barefoot in the Park."  He helped launch another career in 1984 with his one woman show called "Whoopi Goldberg."  Nearly three decades later, at the age of 80, he would accept a Tony award for his direction of "Death of a Salesman." 
The documentary "<a href="http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/becoming-mike-nichols">Becoming Mike Nichols</a>," which premieres tonight on HBO, is a tribute to Nichols' career and legacy. Shot interview style over the course of two nights at Broadway's Golden Theater, it's a revealing look at the early life of Nichols, who died, at age 83 a few months after it was shot.
Directed by his friend and filmmaker Douglas McGrath, it's an intimate look at Nichols talking about his earliest beginnings from childhood, to directing and his entertaining start as an improvisational actor with actress Elaine May.  
Check out a trailer for the film below.
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