Susan Orlean, best-selling author and staff writer for “The New Yorker” magazine has made a great career in intimate profiles of the celebrated and the unheralded. We spend an hour with the author of “The Orchid Thief,” and much more.
Guests:
Susan Orlean, staff writer for The New Yorker magazine and author of “The Orchid Thief,” [...]

Since 1995, New York Times investigative reporter David Cay Johnston has been unbundling the tax breaks and loopholes that make the top 1 percent of Americans obscenely rich.
In his new book “Pefectly Legal,” he explains how the rest of us got cheated. The super rich, he says, have further enriched themselves and duped the rest [...]

President Bush said today that he, too, wants to know the facts about prewar intelligence failures regarding Iraq’s weapons capabilities. But he stopped short of supporting calls for an independent investigation of how and why Washington followed flawed intelligence to war. Maura Reynolds, White House correspondent for The Los Angeles Times, reports on what [...]

In his new book “American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush,” political commentator and former White House strategist Kevin Phillips takes on the Bush dynasty, and traces four generations of aristocracy, fortune and politics.
Phillips says that each Bush generation is firmly rooted in oil, investment banking money, and [...]

With the primary season now in full-swing, the Democratic presidential candidates are looking for every opportunity to forge a human connection with voters. Wesley Clark served up pancakes in Oklahoma City today. John Kerry always has his wife nearby. And last week, the fiery Howard Dean took to late night TV to try and [...]

Exit polls this week showed fixing health care as the number one concern of voters in New Hampshire. Almost 44 million Americans have no health insurance. Millions who are covered fear they one day won’t be or that the coverage they have isn’t good.
Democratic candidates on the campaign trail and President Bush in Washington have [...]

New estimates released today by the White House project the just-enacted prescription drug program and Medicare overhaul will cost one-third more than promised just weeks ago and predict a deficit exceeding $500 billion for this year. Gail Chaddock who covers Congress for The Christian Science Monitor discusses the political consequences of these new estimates.
Guests:
Gail Chaddock, [...]

The last century saw an explosion in the fast food industry in America. Now, a new movement back to the local farm is sprouting up in Vermont. Tod Murphy has opened a diner that strives to use ingredients that were grown and raised as close to home as possible. Murphy’s “Farmers Diner” serves dishes made [...]

More details of the harrowing events of September 11th were released yesterday by the commission investigating the attacks. One of the things released was the tape of a dramatic phone call made by Betty Ong, a flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11, the first jet to ram into New York’s World Trade Center.
In [...]

John Kerry wins the New Hampshire primary, but the fight for the Democratic nomination has a few more rounds to go. Howard Dean showed he’s still a contender with his second place showing in New Hampshire. Wesley Clark and John Edwards virtually tied for third place and say they still hope to blow the race [...]

The much anticipated Hutton report was released today, and it exonerates prime minister Tony Blair on charges of lying to the British parliament about the threat of weapons of mass destruction from Iraq. Former chief American weapons inspector David Kay also testified before a Senate Committee today, saying that poor intelligence gathering was responsible [...]

We are broadcasting tonight from Manchester, New Hampshire where at this minute polls are closing in the nation’s first primary vote of the 2004 presidential campaign. By eight o’clock tonight Eastern Time, one hour from now, polls will be closed across all of New Hampshire, and exit polls should be giving us a pretty good [...]

We are broadcasting tonight from Manchester, New Hampshire where at this minute polls are closing in the nation’s first primary vote of the 2004 presidential campaign. By eight o’clock tonight Eastern Time, one hour from now, polls will be closed across all of New Hampshire, and exit polls should be giving us a pretty good [...]

We are broadcasting tonight from Manchester, New Hampshire where at this minute polls are closing in the nation’s first primary vote of the 2004 presidential campaign. By eight o’clock tonight Eastern Time, one hour from now, polls will be closed across all of New Hampshire, and exit polls should be giving us a pretty good [...]

On the eve of the New Hampshire primary, On Point talks with a roundtable of New Hampshire voters about who they want to see run against Bush in 2004.
Guests:
Nan Stearns, 68-year-old Army wife and a Dean supporter from Amherst, NH
Mark Anderson, 43-year-old software engineer and an Edwards supporter from Manchester, NH
Eleanor Kjellman, 57-year-old special education [...]

The transfer of power in Iraq has proven to be more complicated than American officials had anticipated. As key Iraqi political figures test their wings in a fledgling democracy the US struggles to influence the shape of Iraq’s future government. On Point looks behind the curtain at the the transfer of power in Iraq
Guests:
Dan Senor, [...]

History suggests the roman emperor Nero played a mean organ. In the medieval era, the great pipe organs of Europe drew crowds to God. Mozart called the organ the king of instruments. A century ago, American towns and cities prided themselves on local organs.
New York Times reporter Craig Whitney was a [...]

A surging stock market, 8.2 percent economic growth in the third quarter, low interest rates and a robust housing market may mean the good times are back.
Or the news may be hiding problems ahead.
Tonight, On Point, bull run or bubble, the stock market’s incredible climb.
Guests:
Jeremy Siegel, professor of finance, University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and [...]

Those who urge a restoration of the social safety net are quick to point to growing disparity between rich and poor as an indication of the imbalance of the American system but Jacob Hacker, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University argues that a more important and troubling trend is the growing economic insecurity [...]

The Inuit people continue to live traditional lives above the Arctic Circle. They travel by kayak and hunt food from the sea. The surprise is that they host the highest human concentration of toxins on earth.
Guests:
Marla Cone, Environmental Reporter for “The Los Angeles Times”
Christopher Furgal, Researcher, Nasivvik Centre for Inuit Health and Changing Environments
Ken [...]