On Point with Tom Ashbrook
From NPR and WBUR, On Point is public radio's live morning news program - covering each day's important news developments and conducting conversations with newsmakers and thinkers from all around the world.
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Flops And Fantasies In A Fall TV Season
A look at the good and bad of the new ...
A look at the good and bad of the new fall television season. And a preview of the Emmys on Sunday.
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Week In The News: GOP Debate, Congressional Stalemate, Refugee Crisis Grows
The GOP debate. Congress and government shutdown. Clashes as Hungarian ...
The GOP debate. Congress and government shutdown. Clashes as Hungarian troops confront migrants on the border. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.
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Trying To Fix Tech's Diversity Problem
Journalist Mark Luckie opens up about being a black employee ...
Journalist Mark Luckie opens up about being a black employee at Twitter. We'll look at tech's diversity problem.
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Pope Francis In America
Pope Francis has been taking stands on everything from the ...
Pope Francis has been taking stands on everything from the environment to Wall Street. How will he preach to America when he comes next week?
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A Brief History Of American Populism
We'll take a look at the history of populism in ...
We'll take a look at the history of populism in our country and how presidential candidates Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders are carrying on that tradition.
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Inside War-Torn Syria: Who Is Still There?
A deep look inside Syria: Russia's military steps up. Hundreds ...
A deep look inside Syria: Russia's military steps up. Hundreds of thousands of migrants flee: who's leaving? Who's staying?
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One Suprisingly Modern Arranged Marriage
We'll meet the makers of 'Meet the Patels,' a documentary ...
We'll meet the makers of 'Meet the Patels,' a documentary about an Indian-American who finally lets his parents find him a wife.
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Wage Growth, Job Growth And The Ongoing Unemployment Puzzle
Job openings at a record high, but many unemployed are ...
Job openings at a record high, but many unemployed are still stranded on the sidelines. We'll take a big look at the American job market, American wages and more.
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A More Physical Form of Mindfulness
How intelligence lives beyond the brain. In your body. Intelligence, ...
How intelligence lives beyond the brain. In your body. Intelligence, in the flesh.
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Obama And The World He Shaped
Russian grand chessmaster Garry Kasparov is a critic of Vladimir ...
Russian grand chessmaster Garry Kasparov is a critic of Vladimir Putin, and now of President Obama's foreign policy too. We'll hear his argument and the pushback.
