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Assessing the Taliban
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Monday, October 26, 2009 at 10:00 am

Taliban rising and fighting. We’ll ask who and what the Taliban really is today.

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Obama’s War in Afghanistan
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Monday, March 30, 2009 at 10:00 am

A new plan for Afghanistan. Pakistan, too. We’ll look at the Obama strategy and what it’s up against.

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Closing Guantanamo
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Thursday, January 22, 2009 at 10:00 am

Barack Obama says the prison for terrorists at Guantanamo Bay must be closed. We’ll ask how.

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Who’s Winning the War on Terror?
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Thursday, September 11, 2008 at 10:00 am

Seven years after 9/11, has Al Qaeda achieved its goals? And if so, does America need to rethink its post-9/11 strategy?

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Revolt Within Al Qaeda?
Tuesday, June 3, 2008 at 10:00 am

The big news in Western media out of Al Qaeda country lately is that Al Qaeda is in trouble. That the spearhead of global terrorism is being rejected by mainstream Muslims sick of death and destruction, even rejected by onetime theorists of jihad.
New Yorker magazine reporter Lawrence Wright has gone deep on what he calls [...]

 
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
Thursday, November 5, 2009 image

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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