Former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee talks GOP politics, Obama, and his own political future.
Retired Army colonel and big thinker Andrew Bacevich on why it’s time to throw out the playbook on American military policy.
Randy Cohen, writer of the ethicist column at the New York Times Magazine, tackles the nation’s moral challenges and yours, too.
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Spying on American consumers is big business on the Internet. How companies slice, dice and sell your personal identity online.
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We take a closer look at the emotional and physical toll of losing your job.
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The birthright citizenship controversy and the burning question of whether children of illegal immigrants should be given citizenship if they are born in the United States.
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The facinating stories around the Golden Gate Bridge. We explore the span of its colorful history.
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Gay marriage in California. Troop withdrawal out of Iraq. Cement plugs BP’s well. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.
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Elizabeth Gilbert hit the big road in a desperate search for redemption and herself. We talk with her about soul seeking, resetting her compass, and her book “Eat, Pray, Love.”
(Monday, March 6, 2006)E.O. Wilson is as big a biologist as the world has to offer, arguably the planet’s most honored scholar of life. He’s written on Charles Darwin and the still-burning challenge of evolution. We hear his thoughts.
(Tuesday, November 29, 2005)Joshua Redman’s got the world swaying to his saxophone. The New York Times has called him one of the most visible jazz musicians today. We talk with Redman about changing the shape of jazz music.
(Friday, June 24, 2005)In his book “Will in the World,” Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt has set out to show how religious, political and social movements of the 16th century gave Shakespeare the inspiration to write his timeless works.
(Monday, November 29, 2004)Legendeary cellist Yo-Yo Ma was born in Paris. His first musical memories, and music lessons, were Parisian. We relive the music of that city’s great “Belle Epoch” and more with Yo-Yo Ma.
(Friday, May 9, 2003)Lauded by many as one of the greatest female vocalists of our generation, Cassandra Wilson’s music and style are incomparable. We speak with her about her artistry and listen to her album “Belly of the Sun” — recorded in an old Mississippi train depot.
(Friday, April 26, 2002)Our guest Randy Cohen, who writes “The Ethicist” column for the New York Times, took some questions from listeners about their moral quandaries. Cohen helped Tommy, from Washington D.C., puzzle out the ethics of a college meal plan.
MoreLeslie Mulcahy, owner of the Rabbit Hill Inn in Vermont and a guest in our second hour today, is accepting new requests from those who have lost jobs to stay at her inn for free.
More | Comments [1]See the viral video that has brought this issue into the public square. It’s by the Enough Project. Apple CEO Steve Jobs has even weighed in on the debate. We re-post his note here, too.
More | Comments [1]During our Iraq show Tuesday, we received a poignant call-in from a self-identified Iraq War veteran named “Mike,” from Nashville, TN. “We were really just over there trying to get each other home,” he said. Listen to the call.
More | Comments [5]Our recent segment about the social games craze got one of our guests, Mia Consalvo, of MIT, thinking more about the concept of cheating in social games. She wrote a blog post for On Point. Have you “cheated” in social games?
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