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Monday, October 19, 2009 at 10:00 am

Irene Khan, the first woman and Muslim to head Amnesty International, and New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, on the global state of human rights.

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Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at 10:00 am

We’ll talk with writer Barbara Ehrenreich about how the working poor are getting by — and not — in these extra-hard times.

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Tuesday, June 9, 2009 at 11:00 am

Nearly half the world lives on two dollars a day – or less. We’ll look at exactly how they do that. It’s surprising.

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Tuesday, April 7, 2009 at 11:00 am

A young African economist says “no thanks” to aid for Africa — that it hurts the continent. We’ll stage a debate.

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Monday, December 15, 2008 at 10:00 am

36 million people in America don’t get enough to eat. We’ll look at hunger in the land of obesity.

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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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