Presidency of Barack Obama

Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications and Speechwriting Ben Rhodes is accompanied by Deputy Press Secretary Eric Schultz at a press briefing at Martha's Vineyard

The post-9/11 generation ‘came to understand the limits of what America could accomplish,’ former Obama adviser says

September 10, 2021Foreign policy

For former Obama adviser Ben Rhodes, 9/11 was a life-changing event. Rhodes joined The World’s host Marco Werman to talk about the last 20 years since 9/11, and about his perspective on the end of the US mission in Afghanistan.

Samantha Power sitting The World's studio for a radio interview.

Former Amb Samantha Power stresses ‘political evolution, rather than revolution’

September 23, 2019Conflict & Justice

Overseas, America’s midterm elections are being viewed as a ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’ moment for President Obama’

November 6, 2014Global Politics

2011 State of the Union: assessing the language

July 17, 2014Global Politics

GOP, White House Reach Deal on Tax Cuts, Unemployment Benefits

July 17, 2014Global Politics

Richard Holbrooke: The Man Who Knew How to End a War

July 16, 2014Global Politics

Richard Holbrooke, President Obama’s special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan and famed diplomat, died of heart failure yesterday. He was 69. Holbrooke was the man that many presidents had turned to when they wanted to find a way to end a war. In the mid-1990s, Holbrooke helped broker the peace accords that ended the war […]

This week’s agenda: China, health care, economy

June 30, 2014Global Politics

China’s President Hu Jintao is heading to the United States this week and will meet with President Obama at the White House on Wednesday. Marcus Mabry, associate national editor for The New York Times, and Charlie Herman, economics editor for The Takeaway and WNYC, discuss what they expect to come out of this meeting between […]

House passes compromise tax package, Senate postpones funding bill, DADT

June 21, 2014Global Politics

A lot happened on Capitol Hill last night. Todd Zwillich, Takeaway Washington correspondent, watched the fireworks on the Senate floor last night.

The agenda: wrangling over tax cuts, Euro zone debt

June 14, 2014Global Politics

Todd Zwillich, The Takeaway’s Washington correspondent, has the latest from Capitol Hill. Charlie Herman, economics editor for The Takeaway and WNYC Radio, looks at what the implications of the crisis in Europe.

This week’s agenda: lame duck Congress returns, unemployment benefits expire

June 11, 2014Business, Economics and Jobs

We speak with Charlie Herman, economics editor for The Takeaway and WNYC Radio, and Marcus Mabry, associate national editor for our partner The New York Times, to discuss the important decisions that need to be made.