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Hosted by award-winning journalist Tom Ashbrook, On Point is broadcast for two hours daily across the country on NPR. The show's lively conversation covers everything from breaking news to ancient poetry, and features writers, politicians, journalists, artists, scientists and ordinary citizens from around the world.
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Recent items from the WBUR On Point podcastJun 17, 2013 - China's rapid growth and its profound effect on the environment.
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Jun 17, 2013 - Washington's new pledge to Syria: More military aid to the rebels. We'll ask what aid and what it may mean.
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Jun 14, 2013 - Kevin Kwan's new novel out of Singapore sends up a new world of wealth exploding in the East.
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Jun 14, 2013 - NSA leaks and Edward Snowden. Immigration moves. Colorado on fire. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.
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Jun 13, 2013 - The New Yorker's Adam Gopnik joins us on the seedy, wacky face of Sunshine State crime fiction.
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Jun 13, 2013 - We'll talk about privacy and liberty in the age of the Internet and big surveillance with big web thinker Jaron Lanier.
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Jun 12, 2013 - Conservative National Review editor Rich Lowry on the Republican Party, from Abe Lincoln's time to today's Tea Party tensions.
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Jun 12, 2013 - The Common Core
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Jun 11, 2013 - Neuroscientist Carl Hart says don't blame drugs for society's problems. And end the war on drugs. We'll hear his case.
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Jun 11, 2013 - The internship economy. Who it helps. Who it hurts. And where it takes us.
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Jun 10, 2013 - The story and legacy of slain civil rights hero Medgar Evers, 50 years after his assassination in Mississippi.
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