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Tuesday, November 11, 2008 at 10:00 am

On Veterans’ Day, we look at American women at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, and what a new generation of women in uniform has seen at the battlefront.

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Monday, September 8, 2008 at 10:00 am

Ms. Clinton, Ms. Obama, Ms. Palin. They’ve riveted, and divided, the nation — and sparked fresh debates about gender and sexism. We’ll hear women’s views on the women of ‘08.

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Tuesday, May 27, 2008 at 10:00 am

Joanna Connors was thirty years old and married when she was raped by a stranger on an empty stage in Cleveland in 1984.
She went on to raise a family and build a career as a reporter at the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Now, almost a quarter century later, Joanna Connors has written the biggest story of [...]

 
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 [...]

 
On Point Today
Hour 2
Apple, Steve Jobs, and the Future
Friday, January 9, 2009 Apple Macworld

The buzz at Macworld this week was all about Steve Jobs’ health, big changes for iTunes — and the end of an era. We’ll look at what’s next for Apple and American innovation.

 
Hour 1
Week in the News
Friday, January 9, 2009 MIDEAST ISRAEL PALESTINIANS

Trillion-dollar deficits. War in Gaza. And a new Senator from Illinois? Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.


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How Nukes Spread
Thursday, January 8, 2009 090108nukes225

Spies, lies and nukes. We’ll look at a new history of nuclear proliferation – and how the bomb really spread.

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The Stimulus Debate
Thursday, January 8, 2009 Obama

Barack Obama’s nearly $800 billion stimulus package outline is now front and center in Washington. What’s in it? And can it save the economy?

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On Point Blog
Here, for the holidays…
By Eileen Imada

One of the great pleasures of directing On Point is that I hear just about every show we produce. And around the holidays, I listen back to some of our best shows to rebroadcast while the staff takes a well-deserved break.

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Canon Wars, Cont.
By John Wihbey

Jay Parini, Middlebury College professor and jack-of-all-literary trades, makes the case in our second hour today for America’s thirteen “representative” books in his new tome “The Promised Land.” Of course, the idea of a great list or “canon” of hallowed must-reads

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How Much to Pay the College Prez?
By John Wihbey

Today’s second hour looks at how the financial crisis is hitting higher education. And as belts tighten, it’s perhaps inevitable that executive compensation – the big payouts to people at the top – will come under scrutiny in academia as it has on Wall Street and in Detroit.

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