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Elaine ChenEC

Elaine Chen

ProducerThe Takeaway
Elaine came to The Takeaway from WLRN-Miami Herald News, where she produced a weekly politics show and worked on special projects.
The US Capitol building is shown under construction in 1860. President Abraham Lincoln directed that work continue through the Civil War.
Books
Washington was once quite literally a ‘cesspool’
El Salvador's defense minister, General Rafael Humberto Larios, speaks during a news conference in San Salvador in a 1990 file photo. Larios and eight other former Salvadoran soldiers were arrested in 2011 for suspected involvement in the 1989 killing of
Conflict
How justice for slain Americans took a backseat to Cold War politics
A pair of gray wolves in an undated file photo that were moved from the Red Feather Lakes, Colorado, wolf refuge, to a new refuge in northern New Jersey.
Environment
How success saving the gray wolf may backfire on environmentalists
Supporters look on at a news conference on Capitol Hill led by Democratic senators and congressmen in support of a proposed constitutional amendment for campaign finance reform on September 8, 2014.
Global Politics
Here’s how you beat the 1 percent at politics
A nurse attends to an infant in the neonatal intensive care unit of the Holtz Children's Hospital at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami.
Medicine
Deaths among low-income children are making the US a leader in infant mortality
Michele Mattana of Sardinia, Italy, poses with an iPhone 6 Plus and an iPhone 6 on the first day of sales at the Fifth Avenue store in Manhattan on September 19, 2014.
Technology
Some customers are bent out of shape after Apple’s big iPhone launch