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Past Shows — July, 2009
 
 
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Friday, July 31, 2009 at 3:48 pm

Dave Eggers and the subject of his new book, Abdulrahman Zeitoun, joined us on Friday and vividly described how Zeitoun was arrested in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

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Friday, July 31, 2009 at 1:55 pm

Urban farmer Novella Carpenter joined us yesterday to talk about growing food in the inner city. Here are her follow-up thoughts – on hygiene, hydroponics, and growing year-round.

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Friday, July 31, 2009 at 11:00 am

In his new book, Dave Eggers tells one man’s story in the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, and takes on post-9/11 America. He’ll join us.

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Friday, July 31, 2009 at 10:00 am

Health care maneuvers in Washington. Diplomacy in the Middle East. And a White House beer summit. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

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Friday, July 31, 2009 at 8:59 am

On moonless nights the men and boys of Jableh, a dusty fishing town on the coast of Syria, would gather their lanterns and set out in their quiet est boats. Five or six small craft, two or three fishermen in each. A mile out, they would arrange the boats in a circle on the black [...]

 
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Thursday, July 30, 2009 at 11:00 am

We’ll talk with two green thumbs with grand visions for growing food in cities.

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Thursday, July 30, 2009 at 10:00 am

NFL quarterback Michael Vick served time for dog fighting. Now he’s been conditionally reinstated by the league. Should he be allowed to play? And what does it say about the big business of pro sports?

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Wednesday, July 29, 2009 at 11:00 am

Award-winning journalist Paul McGeough on how the failed assassination of one Hamas leader changed the course of Mideast politics.

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Wednesday, July 29, 2009 at 10:00 am

Hospitals, uninsured illegal immigrants, and the law. We’ll look at a jury’s controversial verdict in Florida and the precedent it sets.

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Tuesday, July 28, 2009 at 11:00 am

Alabama’s Winston Groom, author of “Forrest Gump,” takes on the Battle of Vicksburg.

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Tuesday, July 28, 2009 at 10:00 am

Iran, nuclear weapons, and the Middle East. Is it never going to happen? Or is the US ready to accept, and put up what Hillary Clinton calls a “defense umbrella”?

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Monday, July 27, 2009 at 4:16 pm

Michael Medved, the nationally syndicated talk-radio host, joined On Point this morning for our show on the “birthers” and had strong words for his fellow conservatives who aren’t speaking out against “this incredible stupidity.”

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Monday, July 27, 2009 at 11:00 am

Sandra Tsing Loh and Caitlin Flanagan — two old friends — argue two very different views of American marriage.

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Monday, July 27, 2009 at 10:00 am

More than six months after Barack Obama took the oath of office, angry holdouts are loudly claiming that he is not American. What’s going on here? We’ll look at the fury of the “birthers” and what it means.

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Friday, July 24, 2009 at 2:13 pm

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the Harvard professor who has been much in the news this week – and was a big topic in our news roundtable  today – had a thought-provoking conversation with Tom in 2006.

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Friday, July 24, 2009 at 11:00 am

Forget summer heat. We’re talking glaciers, igloos, blizzards, and adventures in the world’s coldest places.

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Friday, July 24, 2009 at 10:00 am

Health care politics in high gear. Clinton talks tough in Asia. And a professor’s arrest stirs debate on race. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

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Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 5:05 pm

Patrick Radden Keefe talked today about “snakeheads” in New York’s Chinatown. Here, Tom Ashbrook recalls his days as a rookie reporter covering snakeheads in Hong Kong for the South China Morning Post.

 
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Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 11:00 am

A true story of gangs, human smuggling, and the American dream in New York’s Chinatown. We’ll talk with the author of “The Snakehead.”

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Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 10:00 am

The health care debate gets hotter and hotter as the president pulls out the stops. We’ll look at the fight in Washington and what’s coming for American health care.

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Recent Shows
The Future of Aging
Thursday, November 5, 2009 image

A surge of new strategies to “manage” aging — from diets to testosterone. We’ll get the story.

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Climate, Congress & Copenhagen
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The Copenhagen climate conference is one month away. US climate action is going nowhere in Congress. We’ll look at the global implications of America’s domestic climate politics.

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On Point Blog
California, here we come! And we need your questions!

On Point is headed west!
No, no. Not for good. Only for one show. But it’s a very special show!  The NPR station in Thousand Oaks, California – KCLU – is celebrating their 15th anniversary. We’re lucky to have been on their airwaves for nearly seven years, and they invited us out west to host a live [...]

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For Love of Science – or Money?

A new study supports the idea that U.S. dominance in engineering and science is threatened — but not for lack of training and education. It has more to do with a lack of social and economic incentives.

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Matthew Hoh’s Resignation Letter

Matthew Hoh, a former Marine captain, became the first foreign service official to publicly resign in protest over the war in Afghanistan. The move has generated a lot of reaction. You can read Hoh’s resignation letter, posted by The Washington Post, which reported on it here.

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