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Closing Guantanamo
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Thursday, January 22, 2009 at 10:00 am

Barack Obama says the prison for terrorists at Guantanamo Bay must be closed. We’ll ask how.

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War and Peace in Afghanistan
Monday, June 23, 2008 at 10:00 am

It’s going on seven years since the United States invaded Afghanistan in the wake of 9/11. But the news out of Afghanistan in the last couple of days and weeks hardly sounds like a wrap-up phase.
A giant jailbreak in the traditional southern Taliban stronghold of Kandahar. NATO forces rushed from Kabul to a [...]

 
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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