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Monday, November 12, 2012 | 11:00 AM
Voters stand in line at a Fort Myers, Fla. church late Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012. (AP)

America’s voting problem. Long lines. Tangled ballot counts. Overall low turnout. How do we fix it?

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Monday, November 12, 2012 | 10:00 AM
A supporter reacts to voting results displayed on a television screen during Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's election night rally, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in Boston. (AP)

Republicans on what’s next for the GOP. What stays the same, post-election? What has to change? We’ll hear the internal debate.

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Thursday, November 8, 2012 | 10:00 AM
A statue of former Treasury Secretary Albert Gallatin outside the Treasury Building in Washington. (AP)

Four more years. Obama-Biden and a divided Congress. We’ll look at challenge number one – the fiscal cliff, and what it will say about the road ahead.

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Wednesday, November 7, 2012 | 11:00 AM
A supporter of Republican presidential candidate former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney holds an American flag at a Romney campaign rally at Red Rocks Amphitheater in Golden, Colo., on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012. (AP)

We’ll look at the big picture. What did we vote for? And what now?

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Wednesday, November 7, 2012 | 10:00 AM
President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Jill Biden acknowledge the crowd at his election night party Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012, in Chicago. President Obama defeated Republican challenger former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. (AP)

The vote and the presidency. We’ll have all the news, numbers, and analysis from election day.

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Monday, November 5, 2012 | 10:00 AM
In this Oct. 18, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama, right, and Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney exchange views during the second presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. (AP)

We talk with top pollsters and party strategists about the fate they see in the election day map.

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Friday, November 2, 2012 | 11:00 AM
People, some waving to those on dry ground, are rescued by boat in Little Ferry, N.J. Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012 in the wake of superstorm Sandy. Sandy, the storm that made landfall Monday, caused multiple fatalities, halted mass transit and cut power to more than 6 million homes and businesses. (AP)

Survivor stories and lessons in the path of Sandy. We’ll listen.

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Thursday, November 1, 2012 | 10:00 AM
Kimberly Fisher, from White Haven, Md., casts her ballot at a polling place at the Wicomico County Youth and Civic Center in Salisbury, Md., Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012. (AP)

We vote, and the young live with the future we choose. With just days to Election Day – we ask college newspaper editors from across the country what they want – who they want – for America’s future.

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Wednesday, October 31, 2012 | 10:00 AM
Marijuana is weighed and packaged for sale at the Northwest Patient Resource Center medical marijuana dispensary, Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012, in Seattle. Washington state is on the verge of becoming the first in the nation to let adults over 21 buy taxed, inspected marijuana at state-licensed shops. Supporters of Initiative 502 say allowing recreational pot sales could make drug laws a little more reasonable, prevent thousands of arrests a year, and bring Washington hundreds of millions of dollars to help pay for schools, health care and basic government services. (AP)

Marijuana, on the ballot again next week. For medical use. For recreational use. We’ll look at the country’s changing take on pot.

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Monday, October 29, 2012 | 11:00 AM
Sacco di Roma 455 (WikiCommons)

The great historian Jacques Barzun is dead at 104. He said western civilization is in decline. We’ll debate.

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ONPOINT
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Jun 20, 2013
Qatari Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs Ali bin Fahd al-Hajri, center right, and Jan Mohammad Madani, center left, one of the Taliban officials cut the ribbon at the official opening ceremony of a Taliban office in Doha, Qatar, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. (Osama Faisal/AP)

Direct talks with the Taliban: Is this the key to peace in Afghanistan?

Jun 20, 2013
There's a new movement for "flat" hierarchies in which employees are their own bosses. (Victor1558/Flickr)

We examine workplaces where worker bees are the leaders and how that really works.

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Questions on Civil Rights Champion Medgar Evers?
Wednesday, Jun 5, 2013

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. We’ll be talking about his life and legacy. What are your questions about Evers, about civil rights now?

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What’s Your Question For Mark Bittman?
Tuesday, Jun 4, 2013

We’ve got a terrific On Point Live event coming up this Thursday evening. Tom will be interviewing food author and columnist Mark Bittman at the Paramount Theater in Boston.

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Tick Tock: The Secrets To Your Relationship To Time
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Claudia Hammond, author of “Time Warped: Unlocking The Mysteries Of Time Perception,” told us new memories make you feel like there’s more time, whereas routine makes it seem like the weeks and years zip by.

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