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Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 10:00 am

Nine months into the Obama administration, critics on the left and right say the president isn’t delivering. Arianna Huffington, Byron York, and Jack Beatty weigh in.

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Monday, August 10, 2009 at 10:00 am

August, Congress heads home, and it’s halftime for the president’s first year. We’ll check in on the Obama game-plan, and how it’s playing across the country.

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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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Monday, June 15, 2009 at 11:00 am

Novelist Joseph O’Neill’s award-winning novel, “Netherland,” has been on the president’s nightstand. We talk with O’Neill, and with writer James McBride, about its themes of American identity.

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Thursday, June 4, 2009 at 10:00 am

President Obama, in Cairo, addresses the Muslim world. We hear excerpts, and get reaction from the Middle East.

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Friday, May 22, 2009 at 10:00 am

Democrats defy Obama on Guantanamo. The president speaks. Detroit emissions get a haircut. Iran tests a missile. It’s the weekly news roundtable.

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Monday, May 18, 2009 at 10:00 am

We’ll hear the speech and the controversy over abortion, the president, and Catholicism.

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Wednesday, April 29, 2009 at 10:00 am

Obama at a hundred days. We’ll take stock and go deep with historian Doris Kearns Goodwin and conservative thinker Pat Buchanan.

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Monday, April 13, 2009 at 10:00 am

Hot words on the airwaves. Gun sales up. We’ll take a hard look at an “angry America” in the age of Obama and economic bust.

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Tuesday, April 7, 2009 at 10:00 am

President Obama speaks in Turkey, and reaches out to the Muslim world. We’ll hear reactions from across the region.

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Tuesday, March 3, 2009 at 10:00 am

President Obama has announced his plan to end, he says, the war in Iraq – as he turns hard to Afghanistan. We’ll ask leading anti-war critics how they see Obama on war.

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Monday, March 2, 2009 at 11:00 am

Are happy days here again for liberals? We’ll talk with political scientist Alan Wolfe about the meaning – and future – of liberalism in the Obama era.

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Wednesday, February 25, 2009 at 10:00 am

The president lays out his agenda to Congress and the nation. We’ll hear reaction from Republicans and Democrats on the partisan front lines.

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Thursday, February 12, 2009 at 10:00 am

Abraham Lincoln at 200. We’ll look back on his presidential leadership style during crisis — with Pulitzer-Prize-winning historian James McPherson.

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Tuesday, February 10, 2009 at 10:00 am

President Obama’s first full-dress press conference. The economy and banking bailout front and center. We’ll look at the recipe for recovery.

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Wednesday, January 21, 2009 at 10:00 am

President Obama. The oath is taken. Now comes the governing. We’ll look at what’s ahead in the first 100 days.

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Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at 7:00 pm

Special 7pm Broadcast: Our in-depth coverage from Washington continues with perspectives on Obama’s speech, and all the buzz and celebration around the nation’s capital.

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Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at 10:00 am

Inauguration Day. Barack Obama takes the oath as president. We’ll have all the latest news, analysis and excitement from the nation’s capital.

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Thursday, January 8, 2009 at 10:00 am

Barack Obama’s nearly $800 billion stimulus package outline is now front and center in Washington. What’s in it? And can it save the economy?

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Friday, January 2, 2009 at 11:00 am

On January 1st, 1863, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Historian Edna Greene Medford explains what it meant for African Americans, and how it resonates in the era of Obama.

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On Point Today
The Pandora Effect
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We’ll talk with the founder of Pandora, the online music service that claims it knows what you’ll want to hear.

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Week in the News
Friday, November 20, 2009 image

Obama in China. Healthcare crunch time in the Senate. And the mammogram controversy rages on. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

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Recent Shows
Poker: America’s Game
Thursday, November 19, 2009 image

Poker and American history. How the game of presidents, cowboys, gangsters, and online gamblers helped shape America.

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Google vs. Murdoch
Thursday, November 19, 2009 image

Rupert Murdoch wants to block the search giant from scooping free content from his newspapers. We’ll look at the staredown.

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On Point Blog
Michael Wolff and Jeff Jarvis on Murdoch v. Google

We had a rousing discussion about Google vs. Murdoch, and what it says about the whole future of news, with Michael Wolff, Jeff Jarvis, and Steven Brill. Here’s what Wolff and Jarvis had to say about the delusions of both Murdoch and Google.

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Video: Google CEO Eric Schmidt

Last week, host Tom Ashbrook was on stage with Google CEO Eric Schmidt, asking him about some of the biggest technology and business issues of our time.

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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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