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Tuesday, July 21, 2009 at 11:00 am

College for all. No-frills campuses. Online degrees. Two university presidents speak out on rethinking higher education.

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Monday, April 6, 2009 at 11:00 am

It’s college decision time — for students, and for colleges themselves. In these economic times, what makes sense? We’ll talk to students and schools making tough choices.

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Thursday, March 5, 2009 at 10:00 am

We talk with Arne Duncan, the new U.S. Secretary of Education, about President Obama’s big plans to revitalize the nation’s schools.

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Wednesday, February 25, 2009 at 11:00 am

Young Americans borrow 90 billion dollars a year to go to college. We’ll look at a student loan system one critic calls a “scam.”

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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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