On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
Get ready for your aha moment: Every weekday, host Meghna Chakrabarti pierces your news bubble to expose the whole story. Getting answers to the questions that need to be asked, examining our history and the human condition. No topic is too complicated or off the table. It’s all On Point.
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How 9/11 shaped America
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Did the Treasury just make it easier to launder money?
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Who's to blame when AI goes rogue?
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How should e-bikes be regulated?
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The teachers pushing back on screens in schools
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The Jackpod: Promises, promises …
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Why have so many of us seen ghosts?
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Why is toxic wastewater bubbling up from underneath this Ohio city?
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Behind the public backlash against Flock cameras
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What we have lost now that we found the blue dot
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Who’s really working class in America?
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The Jackpod: America’s government teacher
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The weird world of ladybugs
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Can California fix plastic recycling?
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Is AI helping human creativity, or harming it?
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Can an 'everyday bro' fix your dating life? Comedian Jared Freid thinks so
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The not-so-underground world of Black punk
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The Jackpod: Grocery stores and the dignity of essential labor
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Brainwaves: How does a brain stay healthy?
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Brainwaves: What happens between life and death?
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Brainwaves: Is AI actually thinking?
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Brainwaves: Are you in there?
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Brainwaves: Why is the brain such a mystery?
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The Jackpod: Fixing the past to save the future
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It wasn't just Lewis and Clark
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Are we thinking about the Israel-Hamas conflict all wrong?
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Should states decide what kids read in school?
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How socialism shaped Wisconsin
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Why ABC says the FCC is attempting censorship
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The Jackpod: The politics of us against them
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Can Congress stop Wall Street from buying up your neighborhood?
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Ty Cobb once advised President Trump. Now he calls him 'evil'
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Why women's clothing sizes are so confusing
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Could 'predistribution' solve America's wealth gap?
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Trump’s latest bid to rewrite the rules of federal funding
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Your fitness resolution is 200 years old
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When heartland rock ruled the airwaves
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Does the U.S. need a $1.5 trillion defense budget?
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Can AI really do our jobs?
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Sen. Chris Murphy’s vision for America
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What immigrants say it means to assimilate in the U.S.
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'The Yahoo Boys' behind online romance scams
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Is Trump undermining faith in American elections?
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Are 'middle power' countries having a moment?
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Why expiration dates in America are going bad
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Can math equations solve inequality?
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How El Paso shaped modern America
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The real differences between communism and socialism
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A master magician on how to avoid your blind spots
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Why do we love an underdog?
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