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Issues 08
 
 
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 10:00 am

The last big issue: America’s wars. With one week to election day, we’ll look at McCain and Obama on Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at 10:00 am

Taxes, spending, and the huge federal deficit. We’ll dig deep into the McCain and Obama plans, and what they could mean for the country’s bottom line.

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Thursday, October 16, 2008 at 10:00 am

We look at the McCain and Obama visions on the giant issues of energy and the environment.

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Thursday, October 9, 2008 at 10:00 am

We’ll talk with the top advisors to Obama and McCain on the number one issue in the world — the economy, and how to save it.

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Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 10:00 am

The presidential election and the U.S. Supreme Court. Top legal thinkers on what an Obama Court or a McCain Court would mean for the country.

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Wednesday, September 24, 2008 at 10:00 am

Economy in crisis — and 46 million Americans without health insurance. We ask advisers to Obama and McCain how each would tackle the health-care crisis now.

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Thursday, September 18, 2008 at 10:00 am

Former Bush Treasury official John Taylor, now advising McCain, and former Clinton Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, now advising Obama, on the way out of this financial crisis.

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Tuesday, September 16, 2008 at 10:00 am

Forget lipstick. We’re talking issues. This time: education, and what Barack Obama and John McCain would offer the country at school.

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On Point Today
The Pandora Effect
Friday, November 20, 2009 image

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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