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10/16/13 10:00am |
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's New Book - NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is with On Point on turning his own childhood struggles into stories of inspiration.
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10/16/13 9:00am |
The Latest In Government Negotiations - Negotiations down to the wire on the debt ceiling and the government shutdown.
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10/15/13 10:00am |
Looking At The Lives Of Powerful Working Women - We look at the lives of powerful working women, and how their rise has created a less equal world.
Guest(s): Alison Wolf |
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10/15/13 9:00am |
Sounding The Alarm For Basic Science Research Funding - This year’s Nobel laureates and more have sounded the alarm bell on funding basic science research, the main building blocks of civilization. We talk to them.
Guest(s): Dr. James Rothman , Arieh Warshel |
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10/14/13 10:00am |
Actor/Author James Franco On "Actors Anonymous" And Fame - Hollywood A-lister now novelist James Franco joins On Point to talk about his new book "Actor's Anonymous.”
Guest(s): James Franco |
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10/14/13 9:00am |
Debt Limit, Continuing Resolutions, And D.C. Dealmaking - The push for a deal on debt, debt-ceiling, default, shutdown. On Point parses the state of play with top reporters
Guest(s): Charles Babington , Susan Davis , Michael Hirsh |
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10/10/13 10:00am |
The Biblical "Book Of Job" In The Modern Age - The Book of Job (JOBE), and the trials of Job. Hard and endless. On Point asks what the hard old bible story has to say now.
Guest(s): Mark Larrimore , Greg Epstein |
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10/10/13 9:00am |
Digging Into The Definition Of A Federal Default - On Point goes deep on scenarios for the economy. They’re scary . . . and the politics . . . they're scary too.
Guest(s): Martin Wolfe , Alan Auerbach , Austan Goolsbee |
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10/9/13 10:00am |
Brandy Clark Sings Her Own "Stories" - She's the songwriter behind some of country’s biggest recent hits. She’s got her own album now. It’s dark, funny, heartfelt . . . and she’ll be with On Point.
Guest(s): Brandy Clark |
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10/9/13 9:00am |
The Supreme Court And Campaign Finance Limits, Again - The High Court and blowing the lid off campaign contributions.
Guest(s): Fred Wertheimer , Robert Barnes |
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10/8/13 10:00am |
The History Of Noodles - Noodle-mania. On Point tracks the birth story of a staple from China to Italy. Its savory history.
Guest(s): Jen Lin-Liu |
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10/8/13 9:00am |
A Global Summit In Asia - The president of the United States is missing from a big summit of Asia-Pacific nations this week. China is happy to step in. On Point looks at how the U.S. is doing in its pivot to Asia.
Guest(s): Indira Lakshmanan , Susan Shirk |
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10/7/13 10:00am |
Adult Children Of Divorce Still Feel The Sting - A new comedy about adult children of divorce and what they carry with them. It’s funny – and it’s not.
Guest(s): Stuart Zicherman |
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10/7/13 9:00am |
Searching For Common Ground In The Midst Of A Shutdown - Can a Tea Party activist, a mainstream Republican congressman and a former Democratic presidential candidate, Howard Dean find common ground on how to fix Washington? On Point finds out.
Guest(s): Howard Dean , Katrina Pierson , Vin Weber |
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10/3/13 10:00am |
The Future Of Baseball - Has America’s past-time gone past its time? Major league baseball playoffs are upon us, but the future of baseball is looking kinda wobbly.
Guest(s): Matthew Futterman , David Steele |
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10/3/13 9:00am |
Thomas Friedman And American Democracy At Risk - New York Times columnist Tom Friedman on gerrymandering, the shutdown, and our democracy, he says, on the line, right now.
Guest(s): Tom Friedman , Robert Costa |
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10/2/13 10:00am |
David Kilcullen On The Urban Guerilla - In the wake of a terrorist attack in Nairobi (nye-ROW-bee), top counter-insurgency expert David Kilcullen
looks at the age of the urban guerilla.
Guest(s): Mark Bowden , David Kilcullen |
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10/2/13 9:00am |
Shutdown, Debt Ceiling, And The U.S. Economy - With a government shutdown, and the debt ceiling up next, On Point looks at how
the U.S. economy may react to a season of political upheaval.
Guest(s): Trish Regan , Justin Wolfers , Diane Swonk , Jason Holstine |
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10/1/13 10:00am |
Miss America And Diversity Now - On Point talks with the new Miss America - Nina Davuluri <<Dav-uh-LOOR-ee>> - on diversity now in this country, and how it’s working.
Guest(s): Nina Davuluri |
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10/1/13 9:00am |
Dysfunction In Washington: Shutdown And Beyond - A look at the great age of dysfunction in Washington, DC. Shutdown and beyond. What’s making the House divided?
Guest(s): Jonathon Cohn , Sarah Kliff |
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