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Thursday, April 2, 2009 at 2:03 pm

We got a great range of reactions to today’s show on “bromances,” both on air from callers (and Tom and Jack), and online in the comments section. One view we heard a lot: that the terms we were headlining — bromance, man-crush, and so on — weren’t the angle we should be taking: one commenter [...]

 
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Thursday, April 2, 2009 at 11:00 am

Are we in the age of “bromance”? The buddy flick “I Love You, Man” has guys talking again about male bonding.

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Monday, October 1, 2007 at 11:00 am

In overall earning power, American women still lag behind American men. But among the young and urban, in some of the country’s hottest cities — New York, Chicago, Boston, Minneapolis — young women are actually outstripping young men in take-home pay; some by a wide margin.
It’s those young women who have the cash, the nice [...]

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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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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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