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Wednesday, September 16, 2009 at 10:00 am

We’ll talk with the founder of J Street, the upstart Jewish lobbying organization that wants to be the liberal answer to AIPAC.

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Wednesday, July 29, 2009 at 11:00 am

Award-winning journalist Paul McGeough on how the failed assassination of one Hamas leader changed the course of Mideast politics.

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Tuesday, July 28, 2009 at 10:00 am

Iran, nuclear weapons, and the Middle East. Is it never going to happen? Or is the US ready to accept, and put up what Hillary Clinton calls a “defense umbrella”?

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Tuesday, May 19, 2009 at 10:00 am

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with President Obama. Two countries, two new leaders, two agendas. We’ll look at what’s next for the U.S. and Israel.

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Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at 11:00 am

A Palestinian doctor from Gaza lost three daughters when Israel invaded, and still wants to talk peace. We’ll talk with him.

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Wednesday, January 7, 2009 at 10:00 am

As Israel presses its war on Hamas, we’ll look at the Arab world’s reaction to the dire situation in Gaza, and what it means for the Middle East.

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Wednesday, December 31, 2008 at 10:00 am

Israeli, Palestinian, and U.S. analysts on what’s next for Gaza — and the Middle East.

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Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 10:00 am

Missiles and sabers rattling in the Middle East: Iranian. Israeli. American. We ask where it’s headed, and where Washington really stands on the possibility of war with Iran

 
Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 10:00 am

By the Hebrew calendar, today marks the 60th anniversary of the creation of Israel in 1948. And Israel has been celebrating, with picnics and parties and warplanes on display.
Of course, Arabs call the events of 1948 the “naqba” — or catastrophe.
But it’s Israel’s birthday. We’ll observe today with one of the hottest writers of a [...]

 
Thursday, April 3, 2008 at 11:00 am

Through nearly 20 years of wild ups and downs, Aaron David Miller was in the middle of American efforts to broker Arab-Israeli peace in the Middle East. He saw the good, the bad, and the ugly of our efforts, and theirs.
Now he’s out of the bubble, and talking. Very frankly. About how Americans have lost [...]

 
Tuesday, November 27, 2007 at 10:00 am

The last time Israelis and Palestinians sat down at an American conference table to talk peace — seven long and bloody years ago — the Middle East was a different place.
Today, as the old adversaries meet in Annapolis, Maryland — along with the U.S. and dozens of other countries, including most of the Arab world [...]

 
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The Future of Aging
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A surge of new strategies to “manage” aging — from diets to testosterone. We’ll get the story.

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Climate, Congress & Copenhagen
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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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