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Monday, April 21, 2008 at 10:00 am

Tomorrow, Pennsylvanians go to the polls. For weeks Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have been courting the Keystone state nonstop. The candidates have bowled, and traded bitter barbs on everything from patriotism, Iraq, small town America, and each other’s character.
We are all about Pennsylvania today, too — bringing Pennsylvanians to the microphone to tell us [...]

 
Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at 10:00 am

Between the war and the economy, it looked like a slam-dunk year for Democrats and the White House. It may still be.
But the long-slog trench warfare between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has some Democrats scared that it’s slipping away. That John McCain is making hay while the Dems duke it out.
Bill Clinton now says, [...]

 
Wednesday, January 9, 2008 at 10:00 am

Hey, stop the presses. New Hampshire has written its own headline. Upset! Comeback! It’s Clinton over Obama — never mind Iowa and the polls and the magic. It’s McCain over Romney — never mind, again, the money of the man who was governor right next door.
Hillary Clinton never quit and nearly cried and pulled it [...]

 
Tuesday, January 8, 2008 at 11:00 am

New Hampshire was supposed to be a firewall for the Hillary Clinton campaign — the primary stronghold where she would anchor her drive for the White House. Instead, it’s primary day and New Hampshire is a major challenge.
The other kid from Chicago, Barack Obama, has a solid lead in opinion polls. John Edwards is nipping [...]

 
Tuesday, January 8, 2008 at 10:00 am

Iowa got the first caucuses, but New Hampshire holds the first primary. Today, on a beautiful day in the snowy Granite State, the pressure is on and the stakes are huge for both Republican and Democratic presidential contenders.
Hillary Clinton emoted yesterday as polls showed Barack Obama in the lead. John McCain looks strong as Mitt [...]

 
Monday, January 7, 2008 at 10:00 am

Only four days after the first votes, in Iowa, of Election ‘08, and one day before the New Hampshire primaries, Americans are in the thick of one of the most amazing political seasons in years.
But one thing’s been missing: the late-night laughs. Leno and Letterman sneaked back on last week. Tonight, Jon Stewart and Stephen [...]

 
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The Bandwidth Crunch
Monday, March 22, 2010

The coming bandwidth crunch. Does the U.S. economy have the broadband Internet capacity to surge again?

 
Health Care Reform and History
Monday, March 22, 2010

We’ll look at how the epic battle over health care compares to other defining reform moments in U.S. history.


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The Department of Defense provided On Point with some statistics about IED attacks in Afghanistan, where there has been an increase in the use of such weapons over the past 14 months. It’s striking to see the spike in numbers — from 2,677 IED incidents in 2007 to 8,159 last year.

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