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Tuesday, January 1, 2013 | 10:00 AM
Sen. John Barrasso, left, R-Wyo., talks with Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, who holds up his watch, near the Senate chambers after a vote on the fiscal cliff, on Capitol Hill Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013 in Washington. (AP)

Hammering out a deal. We’ve got the latest news and analysis from the fiscal cliff.

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Thursday, December 20, 2012 | 10:00 AM
President Barack Obama, accompanied by House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, speaks to reporters in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. President Barack Obama’s re-election has stiffened Democrats’ spine against cutting popular benefit programs like Medicare and Social Security. (AP)

A controversial fiscal cliff: peg social security payments to a lower inflation gauge, — the “chained CPI.” We’ll look at the impact.

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Thursday, December 13, 2012 | 10:00 AM
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin walking on the moon in 1969. (NASA)

Once we went to the Moon. Now we make smartphone apps. We’ll talk about really taking on our big challenges, with big ambition again. Cancer. The climate. Sky’s the limit.

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Tuesday, December 4, 2012 | 10:00 AM
Cliff Diving in Portugal. (AP)

Liberals on the fiscal cliff. The White House is negotiating tough. We’ll hear the liberal view of the cliff and its meaning.

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Thursday, November 29, 2012 | 10:00 AM
James Dresch of MND Partners Inc. works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York. (AP)

Your tax breaks may be on the chopping block at the fiscal cliff. Home mortgage interest, state income tax and charitable deductions. We’ll add it all up.

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Thursday, November 15, 2012 | 10:00 AM
Time Card. (By TheGoogly/Flickr)

A soaring number of Americans are stuck with part-time jobs. It’s keeping costs down for companies, but it’s crippling the Middle Class. We’ll dig in.

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Tuesday, October 2, 2012 | 10:00 AM
In this Monday Sept. 24, 2012 mobile phone photo, windows of a Foxconn workers' dormitory building are broken after a brawl in Taiyuan, capital of Northern China's Shanxi province. The company that makes Apple's iPhones suspended production at a factory in China on Monday after a brawl by as many as 2,000 employees at the nearby dormitory injured 40 people. The facility will reopen Tuesday. (AP)

Worker riots at Foxconn. The Chinese economy slowing; We’ll look at the future of “state capitalism” in China.

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Wednesday, September 26, 2012 | 10:00 AM
Zenobia Bechtol, 18, and her seven-month-old baby girl Cassandra, live in the dining room of her mother's apartment in Austin, Texas, Friday, Dec. 14, 2011, after Bechtol and her boyfriend were evicted from their apartment after he lost his job. The latest census data paint a bleak picture of a shrinking middle class amid persistently high unemployment and a fraying government safety net. (AP)

Stuck in America. Upward mobility—the American Dream—is at an all time low. We look at what’s happened to the ladder.

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Wednesday, September 12, 2012 | 10:00 AM
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke speaks to educators in the board room of the Federal Reserve in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012, during a town hall meeting. (AP)

Job numbers are bad. The Fed weighs juicing the American economy – again. Should it do it now? We’ll hear the arguments.

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Friday, August 17, 2012 | 10:00 AM
Young immigrants stand in a long line at Chicago's Navy Pier on Wednesday, Aug.15, 2012, for guidance with a new federal program that would help them work legally in the United States and avoid deportation. (AP)

Paul Ryan shakes the race. Candidates cry foul. Young immigrants get a break. There’s a new galaxy on the map. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

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May 23, 2013
In this 2010 photo, a sign announcing the acceptance of electronic Benefit Transfer cards is seen at a farmers market in Roseville, Calif. (Rich Pedroncelli/AP)

Congress says food stamps are costing the country too much and debating big cuts. One in every seven Americans is using them to eat. What’s going on?

May 23, 2013
In this 2011 photo, U.S. Navy sailors participate in intense 10-minute workout intervals. (Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Michael K. McNabb/U.S. Navy)

Rock-hard bodies in a fraction of the time. We’ll look at the 7-minute workout and the promises of high-intensity exercise.

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May 22, 2013
A woman carries her child through a field near the collapsed Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., Monday, May 20, 2013. (Sue Ogrocki/AP)

After Oklahoma’s giant twister, does Tornado Alley need to change the way it builds and lives in the age of superstorms?

 
May 22, 2013
Apple CEO Tim Cook is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, prior to testifying before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Permanent subcommittee on Investigations hearing. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

Apple in the hot seat. Lawmakers say the company dodged billions in taxes on overseas profits. We’ll look at the world of off shore tax escapes.

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Is American Coming Undone?
Thursday, May 23, 2013

New York writer George Packer says yes. He reflected on the nation’s core institutions failing the American people.

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WIRED’s Bill Wasik On The Henry Fords Of Today
Wednesday, May 22, 2013

He talked about how Google and Tesla are paving the way of innovation and how technological development is related not only to creativity but to environmental responsibility.

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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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