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Monday, February 4, 2013 | 11:00 AM
Sports And Politics
Super Bowl football fans walk past a several-stories tall likeness of San Francisco 49ers' Colin Kaepernick on the Audubon Nature Center along the Riverwalk, Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013, in New Orleans. (AP)

The day after the Super Bowl, politics and mega-sports. Imperial sports.

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Thursday, January 31, 2013 | 11:00 AM
Hillary Clinton’s Legacy And Future
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during a Global Townterview at the Newseum in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013. (AP)

Thinking about Hillary Clinton: we’re looking to the legacy and future of the outgoing Secretary of State.

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Thursday, January 31, 2013 | 10:00 AM
The GOP Regroups
The Republican National Convention opens in Tampa, Fla., on Monday, Aug. 27, 2012. (AP)

Rebranding the GOP. Republican insiders on regrouping for their party’s future.

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Thursday, January 24, 2013 | 11:00 AM
Hard Times And Polarized Politics
Fog obscures the Capitol dome on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP)

Economist Benjamin Friedman on how hard times feed polarized politics.

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Tuesday, January 22, 2013 | 10:00 AM
President Obama’s Inaugural Address And His Second Term
President Barack Obama speaks at his ceremonial swearing-in at the U.S. Capitol during the 57th Presidential Inauguration in Washington, Monday, Jan. 21, 2013. (AP)

We’ll look at President Obama’s inaugural address and the second term ahead.

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Monday, January 21, 2013 | 10:00 AM
Listening Back To Our 2006 Interview With Barack Obama
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., in his office on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, July 19, 2006, in Washington. (AP)

As the president is sworn in for a second term, we’re listening back to our 2006 On Point interview with then young Senator Obama.

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Thursday, January 17, 2013 | 10:00 AM
President Obama’s Call For Action On Guns
President Barack Obama, accompanied by Vice President Joe Biden, gestures as he talks about proposals to reduce gun violence, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013. (AP)

Gun policy and politics now. We’re looking at the President’s new push and what’s possible, on this side of Newtown.

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Friday, January 11, 2013 | 10:00 AM
Week In The News: New Cabinet, Gun Summits, Flu
President Joe Biden gestures as he speaks during a meeting with Sportsmen and Women and Wildlife Interest Groups and member of his cabinet, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013. (AP)

New cabinet picks. Joe Biden’s gun summits. The flu hits hard. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

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Thursday, January 10, 2013 | 10:00 AM
Artist And Dissident Ai Weiwei
Dissident artist Ai Weiwei listens as his lawyer announces over a speakerphone the verdict of Ai's lawsuit against the Beijing tax authorities in Beijing Friday, July 20, 2012. A Beijing court on Friday rejected an appeal by Ai against a more than $2 million fine for tax evasion, which he says is part of an intimidation campaign to stop him from criticizing the government. (AP)

Ai Weiwei, China’s most famous living artist and most creative political dissident joins us from Beijing for a rare appearance in American media.

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Tuesday, January 8, 2013 | 10:00 AM
Chuck Hagel And The Nomination For Secretary Of Defense
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Republican former Sen. Chuck Hagel and the nomination for secretary of defense. We’ll hear supporters and critics.

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ONPOINT
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May 20, 2013
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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
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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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