Bliss it was to be alive in that dawn, but to be young twas very heaven.
If you were a child in 1950s America, basking in the afterglow of victory, the world was a more easy-going place and part of its placidity was the avuncular personality of the man at the top, President Dwight David Eisenhower.
However, [...]

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee today heard the first of two days of hearings on US policy towards Iraq. Committee Chair Senator Joe Biden says the hearings are necessary because “fundamental questions” need to be answered, before the US decides to attack Iraq.
Also today, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and General Tommy Franks spoke before [...]

Excerpts from Dwight Eisenhower’s farewell speech, where he warns the nation not to rely too heavily on its military might.
Guests:

Leo Felton went to jail for buglary and came out with plans to “spark a race war.”
Like many new prison inmates, Felton was locked-up, lonely and looking for protection. Racist, extremist and anti-government groups have hit a membership payload among the captive audience in U.S. prisons.
Guests:
Thanassis Cambanis, Federal Court reporter, Boston Globe
Brian Levin, Professor [...]

On Point’s Afghanistan correspondent Sarah Chayes visits a small village in southern Afghanistan, where residents are desperately trying to build a well.
Guests:
Sarah Chayes, On Point news analyst and Afghanistan correspondent

Bruce Springsteen sings the songs of everyman. His lyrics finds heroes all around us, in the laborer, the veteran, the guy next door.
In his latest album, The Rising, released today, the Boss offers his songs to a broken America. Songs of pain and faith. As Springsteen says: “The verses are the blues, [...]

This summer 3,500 incoming freshman at the University of North Carolina are required to read Michael Sell’s book, “Approaching the Qur’an.” Three students and a conservative Christian organization filed a lawsuit against the university last week.
Interest in the Koran has skyrocketed since 9/11. Many universities have created courses about the Koran, although none [...]

For the most part, Al Qaeda has been rooted out of Afghanistan. The Loya Jirga signaled the start of a new Afghan government. The Afghan people have been free of the Taliban for over six months. All signs point to a new Afghanistan, well on its way down the road of reconstruction.
Or is it? [...]

Afghanistan wants to replace its ethnic warlords with a new national military. The US is leading the military-rebuilding effort, but some Western allies say that Washington’s approach might not work, and could make Afghanistan’s security problems even worse.
Guests:
Ahmed Rashid ~ Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia correspondent
for the Far Eastern Economic Review and the Daily Telegraph, [...]

With corporate executives being led away in handcuffs, the president talking tough, and investors looking at uncertain financial futures, what to do with white-collar criminals is now a hot-button issue.
Washington has passed tough new legislation that could mean tougher prison sentences for convicted executives. Is shredding documents in the same league as robbing a [...]

Will white collar criminals go directly to jaiil? Washington is talking tough, but what’s the reality?
Guests:
David Hilzenrath, Washington Post

Modern day cosmologists wrestle with the big questions: How did it all begin? And how will it all end? Ancient religions and cultures have long turned to the celestial skies to find the answers. Now scientists are taking an empirical approach to understanding the universe based in evidence, not myth.
When scientific [...]

With corporate America under a dark cloud and the job market not looking much brighter, the 20-something generation is facing tough times and an uncertain road ahead. Many are rethinking their values and asking themselves tough questions about what they want and who they want to be when the grow up. In this hour, [...]

The boom of the 90’s is going down in flames. Congress passed the Corporate Crime Bill with an almost unanimous vote. High-living CEOs are now doing the perp walk, and law-makers are looking for the next suspect. Before we kiss off the glories of the free market and entepreneurial excess, let’s take a moment [...]

Zacarias Moussaoui, the accused 20th September 11th highjacker, stood in front of an Alexandria, Virginia court today. It was the latest in a long series of pre-trial hearings for the French national. Today, Moussaoui entered a guilty plea, then changed his mind. We hear the latest on today’s courtroom events.
Guests:
Josh Meyer – Staff writer and [...]

Documentary filmmaker Jamie Doran tells the story of “Massacre at Mazar” — his new film that explores eye-witness accounts of the alleged murder of Taliban prisoners at the hands of the Northern Alliance.
Guests:
Jamie Doran — Atlantic Celtic Films

According to Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge, the U.S. government may have to consider using the military for the purpose of domestic law enforcement. But doing so would necessitate changes in the long-standing Posse Comitatus Act. To what extent can, and should, the U.S. military serve as a domestic police force?
In the new security [...]

The author, scholar, and ordained Rabbi, Chaim Potok died yesterday at his home in Merion, Pennsylvania. He was 73. Potok’s works like “The Chosen” and “The Promise” opened up Orthodox and Hasidic life in America to readers around the world. Tonight we remember the distinguished writer
Guests:
Daniel Walden, author of “The World of [...]

Congress passed a sweeping corporate reform bill today, just as another scandal bubbled up to the surface of the business world. Five former executives of the Adelphia Communications Corporation were arrested today for alleged fraud.
Guests:
Christopher Stern ~ The Washington Post

Overseas markets are now joining Wall Street in a downward dive. French, German and British markets are all down. Experts say that foreign markets thrived off U.S. growth in the past, and are now suffering with the U.S. downturn. Are today’s industrial economies too synchronized? What’s in store for the [...]