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Cuba and Cuban Americans
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Thursday, April 16, 2009 at 10:00 am

President Obama lifts all restrictions on Cuban American travel and remittances to Cuba. We’ll ask what that may mean for Cuba, and Cuban Americans.

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Cuba After Castro
Tuesday, February 19, 2008 at 10:00 am

Call him “the undefeated.” Fidel Castro, at the age of 81 and suffering from a long illness, officially stepped down this morning as president of Cuba.
And he did it on his own terms — after half a century of iron-clad rule of the Communist island nation 90 miles off the Florida coast, having faced down [...]

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

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Google vs. Murdoch
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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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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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