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Friday, August 29, 2008 at 10:00 am

Democrats make history in Denver. Our news roundtable looks at how the Democrats made their case for the White House — and looks ahead to the GOP convention in St Paul.

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Thursday, August 28, 2008 at 7:00 pm

Our coverage from Denver continues live from Invesco Field, the big stadium where Barack Obama makes his convention appeal to the nation.

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Thursday, August 28, 2008 at 10:00 am

Our coverage of the Democratic National Convention continues from Denver with top international journalists and a closer look at Obama on the world stage.

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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 at 7:00 pm

Our in-depth coverage continues from Denver. We’ll take a closer look at VP pick Joe Biden and what he brings to the ticket.

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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 at 10:00 am

Our coverage continues from Denver. We’ll talk with Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, and Ishmael Reed about how they’re seeing this historic moment.

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Tuesday, August 26, 2008 at 7:00 pm

Our live coverage continues from Denver. We’ll hear from Democratic convention delegates from key battleground states.

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Tuesday, August 26, 2008 at 10:00 am

Our live coverage from Denver continues with a look at progressives versus “Blue Dog” conservatives inside the Democratic Party.

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Monday, August 25, 2008 at 7:00 pm

It’s opening night for the Democratic Convention. We are in Denver as the party comes together to lay out its platform.

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Monday, August 25, 2008 at 10:00 am

The curtain goes up on the Democratic Convention in Denver. We’ll be there with up-to-the minute coverage and fresh perspective.

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Wednesday, June 4, 2008 at 10:00 am

There was history made yesterday in the Democratic Party, the first African American to claim a major party’s presidential nomination: Barack Obama — before a rapturous crowd in Minnesota — claiming the prize after an epic campaign.
And there was mystery in the Democratic Party: Hillary Clinton, watching the same last primary results come in from [...]

 
Monday, June 2, 2008 at 10:00 am

There are just two more states — one more day — in the Democrats’ marathon primary battle. South Dakota and Montana, tomorrow — and that’s it for primary voting.
But the last chapter may already have been written in Washington this weekend, when the Democrats’ Rules Committee sat down to vote on how to treat the [...]

 
Wednesday, May 21, 2008 at 10:00 am

In the New Deal era, the Democrats owned the white working class. In the Civil Rights era, they lost them. Not all, of course, but enough to give Republicans win after big win.
This year, with economic challenges front and center again, the math could change. But in West Virginia and North Carolina, in Kentucky and [...]

 
Wednesday, May 7, 2008 at 10:00 am

Barack Obama stepped out of the worst weeks of his campaign yesterday and turned in a big win in North Carolina.
Hillary Clinton took those same weeks, and a stretch of high Clinton camp spirits, and turned in a squeaker victory — a two-point win — in Indiana.
Everybody’s vowing to battle on, but the raw numbers [...]

 
Wednesday, April 23, 2008 at 10:00 am

It ain’t over — again. Hillary Clinton pulls out a win in Pennsylvania and sends Barack Obama and superdelegates a double-digit message: Don’t count me out.
And so, the battle for the Democratic nomination goes on, and on, and on, and on. In two weeks, primaries in Indiana and North Carolina.
On paper, the math and money [...]

 
Monday, April 21, 2008 at 10:00 am

Tomorrow, Pennsylvanians go to the polls. For weeks Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have been courting the Keystone state nonstop. The candidates have bowled, and traded bitter barbs on everything from patriotism, Iraq, small town America, and each other’s character.
We are all about Pennsylvania today, too — bringing Pennsylvanians to the microphone to tell us [...]

 
Monday, March 10, 2008 at 10:00 am

By guest host Jane Clayson
When Michigan and Florida Democrats broke the rules and moved up their primaries, they got spanked. Hard. The party poohbahs stripped them of all delegates — and their ticket to the big Democratic dance in Denver in August.
But that was before Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama got locked in a fierce [...]

 
Wednesday, March 5, 2008 at 10:00 am

At 8:30 last night, Barack Obama, in San Antonio, called John McCain, in Dallas, to congratulate the man who last night clinched the GOP nomination, to say he looked forward to running against him. And maybe Obama will.
But up in Columbus, Ohio, one Hillary Clinton was preparing a speech of her own. Before the night [...]

 
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at 10:00 am

Twenty Democratic debates, and last night, the last debate before primaries next Tuesday that could decide the Democrats’ competition. Senator Hillary Clinton and Senator Barack Obama were gladiators once more in a test of ideas, and integrity, and attitude.
Clinton, fierce and focused, was a commanding presence fighting for the lead she has lost. Obama, cool [...]

 
Monday, February 18, 2008 at 10:00 am

And you thought the Clinton-Obama horse race was already hot — the candidates virtually tied for votes and delegates. Now the party is locked in a behind-the-scenes horse race for the votes of superdelegates.
Those are the 795 party elites — free agents — whose votes at the Democratic convention this summer will not necessarily be [...]

 
Monday, January 28, 2008 at 10:00 am

A week from tomorrow, coast to coast, and with everything on the line, the biggest day of presidential primary voting in American history will take place. On Super Tuesday, February 5th, nearly two dozen states are in play — and big ones.
The Democrats are thundering for the big day. Barack Obama is fresh off a [...]

 
On Point Today
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Chemicals in Our Bodies
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Scientists report that widely used chemicals — endocrine disruptors — are causing serious health problems in humans. We ask what the government is, and is not, doing about it.

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Sarah Palin’s Surprise
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Alaksa Governor Sarah Palin’s out-of-the-blue resignation. We ask what it means for her future — and for the GOP.

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The passage of the House climate bill – discussed in our first hour today – has been greeted with enthusiasm in many quarters. But in some ways, the real question is whether a global framework can be established in Copenhagen in December, when countries will negotiate a new international treaty to curb greenhouse gases.

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The week-in-the-news roundtable always involves tough choices on sound clips – what to include, what to leave out. Amid all the pressing hard news, we often give a nod to a notable person who’s passed away. But this week brought, well, a ridiculous range of choices.

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Planet Money, On Point — Your Questions!

On Wednesday night, June 24, On Point will tape a show before an audience in Boston with two stars of NPR’s “Planet Money,” Adam Davidson and David Kestenbaum. We need your online questions to put to them — about anything from the roots of the economic crisis to NPR’s coverage.

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