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Thomm Jutz and Peter Cooper perform at On Point Nashville. (Molly Nicholas)
Posted on Wednesday, April 10, 2013

On Point Live in Nashville featured — in addition to our great discussion on Obamacare — a terrific musical performance by singer/songwriters Peter Cooper and Thomm Jutz. Take a listen to the audio here.

 
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Sports writer and friend of On Point David Steele — who joined us for our show on “42,” the new film about Jackie Robinson — just wrote a great piece on the film over on AOL Sporting News, incorporating the insight he got from the discussion with writer-director Brian Helgeland on our show.

 
Posted on Thursday, April 4, 2013

Congresswoman Louise Slaughter (D-NY) set the tone right out of the gate in our hour on meat and antibiotics, saying Americans should be much more alarmed than they are.

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Posted on Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Ken Levine, Irrational Games creative director and the man behind the BioShock series visited On Point for our show on BioShock Infinite today.

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The Nashville, Tenn. downtown area and the Cumberland River are shown on Sept. 27, 2011. (AP)
Posted on Friday, March 22, 2013

On Point is headed to Nashville on March 29 to tape the show before a live audience with public radio’s WPLN. We’re excited! The topic is implementing the Affordable Care Act – “Obamacare” – and we would love your questions to put to our Nashville panel….

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Posted on Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Get the back scene story on how On Point comes together, and the host at the heart of it all in this new magazine profile.

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A crew from "Today" films Tom and guest Kelly Beatty. (Jesse Costa for WBUR)
Posted on Thursday, February 14, 2013

The ‘Today’ show is visiting Boston, and they sent a crew — including NBC’s Ron Mott — to film a bit of Tom and the process of putting together On Point.

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Posted on Monday, January 14, 2013

Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig spoke to us about the death of internet activist Aaron Swartz and what he stood for.

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Posted on Friday, January 11, 2013

Subscribe to the “Ultimate On Point Playlist” on Spotify and we’ll keep it up-to-date with all the music we play on the show. It’s a short playlist now, but will soon be mighty.

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Posted on Wednesday, January 9, 2013

We put together a Spotify playlist of the music we played on our show on new music for 2013.

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May 20, 2013
In this Friday, July 20, 2012 photo, workers are pictured on a drilling rig near Calumet, Okla. Oklahoma is one of several states, including North and South Dakota, that has enjoyed a boom in the energy sector driven in large part by new and improved drilling techniques such as horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, which cracks open fissures in rock formations to retrieve oil and gas. (AP)

The International Energy Agency says the North American shale revolution will upend the world order –and may be a curse as much as a blessing.

May 20, 2013
Senate subcommittee on Personnel Chair Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., right, greets members of the third panel before the subcommittee's hearing on sexual assault in the military. (AP)

Solving the military’s sex abuse problem. We look at the chain of command and what needs to change.

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Great quotations. What makes them? And how they shape our language and our view of the world

 
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Attorney General Eric Holder gestures as he testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 15, 2013, before the House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on the Justice Department. (AP)

IRS and AP scandals. White House damage control. More military sex abuse. Angelina Jolie. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

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Switching Shows For Our Second Hour Today
Friday, May 17, 2013

Adventures in live radio. Richard Snow, our guest for our show on Henry Ford, was held up — possibly by a faulty Model T? — so we’re running a terrific archive show on great quotations.

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Floyd Abrams On Obama Vs. Nixon
Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Floyd Abrams — one of the country’s leading authorities on the First Amendment — joined us today to talk about revelations that the Justice Department seized two months of phone records from the Associated Press.

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Dr. Judy Garber On Angelina Jolie’s Cancer Decision
Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Dr. Judy Garber — director of the Center for Cancer Genetics and Prevention at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute — joined us for the final segment of our show today to talk about star Angelina Jolie’s decision to undergo a preventative double mastectomy.

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