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Reviews: 6
Episodes: 300

C
 Aug 13, 2023
Meghna is an excellent interviewer, asking great questions. A lot of interesting discussions and tries to present solutions at the end of the episode. These are the reasons why this stays on my feed as one of the few current event podcasts I listen to.


 Nov 21, 2022
Love megda. thought provoking interviewing, and tries to find solutions, not just talk about problems, which I appreciate.

birdbohannon
 Jan 6, 2020
Consistant quality, most balanced NPR show.

Damien
 Feb 23, 2019
Better with Tom. I've listened to on point for over a decade, and I gave it a chance for over a year after he was forced out, its just not as good of a show anymore. the shows lost its soul.

GG
 Oct 4, 2018
reliably good reporting without a lot of filler

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Let's make sense of the world – together. From the economy and health care to politics and the environment – and so much more – On Point host Meghna Chakrabarti speaks with newsmakers and everyday people about the issues that matter most. On Point is produced by WBUR.

Episode Date
The Jackpod: The haunting relevance of D-Day
Apr 19, 2024
Your data, the U.S. government and the 'new American surveillance state'
Apr 18, 2024
The ethical dilemma of involuntary mental health treatment
Apr 17, 2024
Battleground: How the outcome of the Ohio Senate race affects us all
Apr 16, 2024
How the 2024 U.S. presidential election could be stolen
Apr 15, 2024
The Jackpod: How it looks to a Republican
Apr 12, 2024
The high cost of the youth sports arms race
Apr 12, 2024
Rebroadcast: The little-known virus behind a majority of nongenetic birth defects
Apr 11, 2024
Democrats consider changing course on Israel support
Apr 10, 2024
China’s divided memory of the Cultural Revolution
Apr 09, 2024
How to become a 'supercommunicator'
Apr 08, 2024
Whistleblowers, an executive shakeup, and the future of Boeing
Apr 05, 2024
The Jackpod: How to steal an election
Apr 05, 2024
What defines Latino identity in the U.S.?
Apr 04, 2024
'Pig-butchering': The online scam that's raked in $75 billion and counting
Apr 03, 2024
Sports betting is booming, but at what cost?
Apr 02, 2024
Could holding parents criminally responsible curb the country’s gun violence epidemic?
Apr 01, 2024
From the archive and in the news: How to cut through the 'noise' that hinders human judgment
Mar 30, 2024
The Jackpod: Missing misery
Mar 29, 2024
Has the United States lost its 'can-do' attitude?
Mar 29, 2024
This attorney's ideas could change how you buy and sell your home
Mar 28, 2024
'Battle for your brain': What the rise of brain-computer interface technology means for you
Mar 27, 2024
Reproductive health under a second Trump term
Mar 26, 2024
Inside the 'no social media' movement
Mar 25, 2024
The Jackpod: What leopard?
Mar 23, 2024
The Jackpod is delayed
Mar 22, 2024
Should the U.S. ban TikTok?
Mar 22, 2024
How disinformation 'sabotages America'
Mar 21, 2024
Finance companies have a new customer: The wrongfully convicted
Mar 20, 2024
Could ranked-choice voting take the poison out of politics?
Mar 19, 2024
The hidden value of herbariums
Mar 18, 2024
On Point presents 'Beyond All Repair,' a new podcast from WBUR
Mar 16, 2024
The Jackpod: The Xanadu Effect
Mar 15, 2024
The goal: Can the U.S. actually meet its ambitious climate targets?
Mar 15, 2024
The promise of nickel: Power and prosperity in Indonesia
Mar 14, 2024
The human cost of cobalt: Modern slavery in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Mar 13, 2024
The copper tradeoff: Protecting today's lands versus preserving tomorrow's climate
Mar 12, 2024
The lithium boom: What's holding back a lithium rush in the U.S.?
Mar 11, 2024
The Jackpod: Still
Mar 09, 2024
'Blood Money': Inside the global business of selling plasma
Mar 08, 2024
Lessons from Poland’s democratic resurgence
Mar 07, 2024
How the anti-tax movement went from fringe to mainstream
Mar 06, 2024
The dark legacy of extrajudicial killings in the Philippines
Mar 05, 2024
Foreign diplomats on America's global future
Mar 04, 2024
'Food, we need to talk': Finding a better way to discuss our bodies and what we eat
Mar 01, 2024
The Jackpod: Low information voters
Mar 01, 2024
U.S. military barracks are in shambles. Will the government take action? 
Feb 29, 2024
Your brain on menopause
Feb 28, 2024
Can 'colorblindness' lead to equality in America?
Feb 27, 2024
Trump’s 2025 authoritarian playbook and what it means for democracy
Feb 26, 2024
Finding creative solutions to America’s care crisis
Feb 23, 2024
The Jackpod: Goodbye to all that
Feb 23, 2024
Understanding the aging brain
Feb 22, 2024
Is it time to abandon the ‘tough love’ approach to addiction?
Feb 21, 2024
A Ukraine-born journalist on his country's 'battle for survival'
Feb 20, 2024
Rebroadcast: Can focusing on class instead of race solve our country’s equity issues?
Feb 19, 2024
Fear, conspiracy, gender: The long legacy of witch trials
Feb 16, 2024
The Jackpod: Saving Rafah
Feb 16, 2024
A Boeing whistleblower speaks out
Feb 15, 2024
Rebroadcast: How fast fashion and social media fuel a high consumption, low quality world
Feb 14, 2024
The fight for transparent health care prices in America
Feb 13, 2024
How the death of third-party cookies could grow Google's advertising empire
Feb 12, 2024
The Jackpod: The bystander
Feb 09, 2024
What we lose if snow disappears
Feb 09, 2024
China's big push for a baby boom
Feb 08, 2024
Can a regional war be avoided with Iran?
Feb 07, 2024
The legacy of 'Ingenuity,' NASA's helicopter on Mars
Feb 06, 2024
Should Trump be constitutionally barred from the presidency?
Feb 05, 2024
How communities worldwide are working to solve the water crisis
Feb 02, 2024
The Jackpod: The meddler’s trap
Feb 02, 2024
How to fix chronic absenteeism in America's schools
Feb 01, 2024
The standoff at the U.S.-Mexico border
Jan 31, 2024
What experiences are young people missing in remote work?
Jan 30, 2024
Florida looks to Canada for cheaper prescription drugs
Jan 29, 2024
Controversy and contradiction: The death penalty in America
Jan 27, 2024
Why are Americans getting shorter?
Jan 26, 2024
The Jackpod: Not the odds, but the stakes
Jan 26, 2024
Inside Israel's divided war cabinet
Jan 25, 2024
'The great dechurching': Why so many Americans are leaving their churches
Jan 24, 2024
The Great Salt Lake is drying up. Can it be saved?
Jan 23, 2024
What Republican party elites don’t understand about Trump voters
Jan 22, 2024
The Jackpod: A little touch of Harry in the night
Jan 20, 2024
The Jackpod: Buried in snow
Jan 19, 2024
Uncertainty: The surprising gift of being unsure
Jan 19, 2024
Inside Ecuador's battle against drug gangs
Jan 18, 2024
AI's influence on election 2024
Jan 17, 2024
Should workers get paid for their commute?
Jan 16, 2024
Half a century of Black TV
Jan 15, 2024
The 737 Max and Boeing’s unresolved issues
Jan 13, 2024
The Jackpod: Democracy and its discontents
Jan 12, 2024
Zero-proof: Behind the growing popularity of an alcohol-free lifestyle
Jan 12, 2024
The escalating crisis in the West Bank
Jan 11, 2024
Why the past 75 years of human history have been 'an anomaly'
Jan 10, 2024
The race for the Republican presidential nomination
Jan 09, 2024
A former Capitol police sergeant on the personal and political consequences of Jan. 6
Jan 08, 2024
Rebroadcast: Why mental health is declining for teenage girls in the U.S.
Jan 05, 2024
How an effort to cut credit card fees could impact your credit card points
Jan 04, 2024
The Money Ladies' New Year's guide to the 2024 economy
Jan 03, 2024
Lessons from the world's longest happiness study
Jan 02, 2024
Woniya Thibeault survived extreme cold and isolation to become a winner
Jan 01, 2024
Rebroadcast: Cartoonist Barbara Brandon-Croft on being the first Black woman with a nationally syndicated comic
Dec 29, 2023
Rebroadcast: Why Americans are spending less time with friends -- and what to do about it
Dec 28, 2023
Rebroadcast: Author Achut Deng's journey of survival from Sudan to America
Dec 27, 2023
Rebroadcast: The power of American English to unite a fractured nation
Dec 26, 2023
Rebroadcast: What do American Christians believe about their religion?
Dec 25, 2023
How the 14th Amendment could block Donald Trump from becoming president
Dec 23, 2023
The art of Italian home cooking with Lidia Bastianich
Dec 22, 2023
The Jackpod: In the host's seat
Dec 22, 2023
The unexpected friendship between an Arab and Israeli writer
Dec 21, 2023
The largely unknown man behind the U.S. judiciary’s shift to the right
Dec 20, 2023
How Big Oil helped push the idea of a 'carbon footprint'
Dec 19, 2023
Is shoplifting getting worse in the U.S.?
Dec 18, 2023
The Taylor Swift and Beyonce economy
Dec 15, 2023
The Jackpod: They want revenge
Dec 15, 2023
Pharmacy benefit managers: The middlemen who decide what you pay for medications
Dec 14, 2023
Is there a path to ceasefire in Gaza?
Dec 13, 2023
What happened to Sports Illustrated?
Dec 12, 2023
Chile's lessons and failures in writing a new constitution
Dec 11, 2023
Inside the 'rewilding' movement
Dec 08, 2023
The Jackpod: The disappearance of political persuasion
Dec 08, 2023
The Biden approach to Israel
Dec 07, 2023
How to talk to kids about climate change
Dec 06, 2023
How politics corroded the American evangelical movement
Dec 05, 2023
The looming pharmacy crisis in America
Dec 04, 2023
Power, profits and labor practices in the video game industry
Dec 01, 2023
The Jackpod: The uncertainty of existence
Dec 01, 2023
Can offshore wind help power the U.S. economy?
Nov 30, 2023
How foreign authoritarian rule reaches into the U.S.
Nov 29, 2023
The legacy of the 1993 Oslo Accords
Nov 28, 2023
The benefit of 'the two-parent privilege'
Nov 27, 2023
Rebroadcast: Why more Americans are choosing to live in multigenerational housing
Nov 24, 2023
Rebroadcast: Pitmaster Ryan Mitchell on America’s complicated history with barbeque
Nov 23, 2023
Former poet laureate Tracy K. Smith's 'plea for the American soul'
Nov 22, 2023
How to teach media literacy to children
Nov 21, 2023
An On Point follow-up: The political fallout over the migrant crisis in Chicago
Nov 21, 2023
First person: He was held hostage for 444 days
Nov 20, 2023
The plight of the hostages in Gaza
Nov 20, 2023
Debunking myths about the Asian American academic experience
Nov 17, 2023
The Jackpod: The 'F-word'
Nov 17, 2023
Why this U.S. government arms dealer resigned over weapon transfers to Israel
Nov 16, 2023
How to fix America's aviation system
Nov 15, 2023
UFOs and the U.S. government: The push towards greater transparency
Nov 14, 2023
Israel, Hamas and the laws of war: A primer
Nov 13, 2023
Millions of Americans can't save for retirement. These economists have a plan to change that
Nov 11, 2023
What clues do this week’s elections hold for 2024?
Nov 10, 2023
The Jackpod: Last exit or 'Live free or die'
Nov 10, 2023
Gaza's widening humanitarian crisis
Nov 09, 2023
What drove Mitt Romney to stand up to his own party?
Nov 08, 2023
How private equity is changing American health care
Nov 07, 2023
The Influence of Christian nationalism in American politics
Nov 06, 2023
Podcast extra: Should domestic abusers have gun rights?
Nov 04, 2023
What's behind the sharp rise in U.S. antisemitism
Nov 03, 2023
Unintended consequences: Jack Beatty on the political legacy of the 1965 Immigration Act
Nov 03, 2023
How to rid the world of plastic waste
Nov 02, 2023
Lessons for Israel from the U.S. invasion of Iraq
Nov 01, 2023
The NCAA, antitrust and the future of college sports
Oct 31, 2023
The latest in the lawsuits surrounding Donald Trump
Oct 30, 2023
The Catholic Church considers its future
Oct 27, 2023
A republic of fear: Jack Beatty on America’s broken social contract
Oct 27, 2023
The border crisis arrives in Chicago
Oct 26, 2023
Israel's decisionmakers
Oct 25, 2023
Roundtable: Palestinian Americans share their perspectives on conflict in Gaza
Oct 24, 2023
The risk that the Israel-Hamas conflict becomes a wider war
Oct 23, 2023
100 is the new 65: The new world of super-aging
Oct 20, 2023
'Pathologize': Jack Beatty on psychiatric name-calling in the 2024 campaign
Oct 20, 2023
Roundtable: Jewish Americans share their perspectives on conflict in Gaza
Oct 19, 2023
The adventures and complications of a child-free life in Maria Coffey's 'Instead'
Oct 18, 2023
How elites captured the social justice movement
Oct 17, 2023
Hamas: A history lesson
Oct 16, 2023
Differ we must: Steve Inskeep on Lincoln's success in a divided America
Oct 14, 2023
Nobel prize winner Claudia Goldin on women, the work force and the pandemic
Oct 13, 2023
Kakistocracy: Jack Beatty on government by the worst
Oct 13, 2023
What Israelis are thinking and feeling since the Hamas attack
Oct 12, 2023
California has new ideas about how to teach math, but critics argue it won't work
Oct 11, 2023
Guyana’s oil boom: The world’s newest petrostate plans to combat climate change with oil revenues
Oct 10, 2023
A new approach to science rooted in Indigenous tradition
Oct 09, 2023
Unraveling the secrets of the human Y chromosome
Oct 06, 2023
'I voted my district': Jack Beatty on who the McCarthy ousters represent
Oct 06, 2023
Is Donald Trump normalizing political violence in America?
Oct 05, 2023
U.S. v. Google: Will Washington’s antitrust push change the web?
Oct 04, 2023
Disability rights enforcement could be weakened in latest SCOTUS case
Oct 03, 2023
What the rise of ultra-processed foods means for our health and society
Oct 02, 2023
Defining American antitrust law, from Bork to Khan
Oct 01, 2023
How the Amazon marketplace shapes how we shop
Sep 30, 2023
What is Amazon?
Sep 30, 2023
Historian Heather Cox Richardson's notes on the state of America
Sep 29, 2023
The Line: Jack Beatty on the sources of white working-class anxiety
Sep 29, 2023
PEPFAR: The anti-AIDS program that changed the world now under threat
Sep 28, 2023
Do electric vehicles mean the end of the U.S. auto industry as we know it?
Sep 27, 2023
Lessons from California on how to adapt to sea level rise
Sep 26, 2023
Who owns the moon owns the future
Sep 25, 2023
Introducing ‘The Gun Machine’, a podcast about how America was forged by the gun industry
Sep 25, 2023
Saudi-Israel normalization: What's at stake?
Sep 22, 2023
Captured: Jack Beatty on the fall in Black and Hispanic working-class support for Democrats
Sep 22, 2023
Should medical debt be bought and sold in America?
Sep 21, 2023
Rebroadcast: A record cull of Yellowstone bison intensifies debate into how to best manage them
Sep 20, 2023
Tales from the world of cryptocurrency and casino capitalism
Sep 19, 2023
Rebroadcast: Psychedelics and who should be able to use them
Sep 18, 2023
Why are cancer rates rising among young people?
Sep 15, 2023
Sacrifice: Jack Beatty on the sunk moral cost of the Trump supporter
Sep 15, 2023
How HGTV is transforming our homes — and us
Sep 14, 2023
How to save child care in the face of a massive funding loss
Sep 13, 2023
Is the rise of AI the best argument for universal basic income?
Sep 12, 2023
'The Expanse' authors on 'the importance of complicating people'
Sep 11, 2023
How the 14th Amendment could block Donald Trump from becoming president
Sep 11, 2023
Can the Korean Armistice Agreement serve as a model for peace in Ukraine?
Sep 08, 2023
'Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?': Jack Beatty on the 2024 election
Sep 08, 2023
Is it time to rethink how the farm bill works?
Sep 07, 2023
The health and geopolitical impacts of Japan’s Fukushima wastewater release
Sep 06, 2023
Why Americans feel pessimistic about their economic future
Sep 05, 2023
Rebroadcast: Could a four-day work week work in the United States?
Sep 04, 2023
Rebroadcast: How to slow down and find some meaningful rest
Sep 01, 2023
Inside Israel's ongoing battle for its own democracy
Aug 31, 2023
A better way to rebuild after wildfires
Aug 30, 2023
Why some advocates are pushing back against decriminalization in the sex trade
Aug 29, 2023
What the coup in Niger means for West Africa and the world
Aug 28, 2023
Week of wonder: The healing power of music
Aug 25, 2023
Week of wonder: The case for preserving parasites
Aug 24, 2023
Awe: Science's answer to your search for happiness
Aug 23, 2023
Week of wonder: How animals perceive the world
Aug 22, 2023
Week of wonder: In defense of darkness
Aug 21, 2023
Is Biden's historic climate plan delivering?
Aug 18, 2023
Inside Georgia's indictment of Donald Trump
Aug 17, 2023
How some police departments are rethinking 911 call responses
Aug 14, 2023
Hip-hop turns 50: The origins of West Coast hip-hop and its lasting legacy
Aug 11, 2023
What a decline in rural colleges means for rural communities
Aug 10, 2023
Behind the group pushing for a third-party presidential candidate
Aug 09, 2023
Our planet in hot water
Aug 08, 2023
Are index funds getting too powerful?
Aug 07, 2023
Rebroadcast: Richard Reeves on why the modern male is struggling, and what to do about it
Aug 04, 2023
Can focusing on class instead of race solve our country’s equity issues?
Aug 03, 2023
The authoritarian’s playbook in America
Aug 02, 2023
Behind the Global South's hesitancy to criticize Russia's invasion of Ukraine
Jul 31, 2023
Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen's quest to make the internet safer
Jul 28, 2023
Where and why tipping is changing
Jul 27, 2023
'Third places' strengthen community. Here's how we can rebuild them
Jul 26, 2023
Rebroadcast: The real winners and losers in America's lottery obsession
Jul 25, 2023
Why Ron DeSantis' campaign is struggling
Jul 24, 2023
What neuroscience tells us about spiritual experiences
Jul 21, 2023
Inside America's critical shortage of foster care homes
Jul 20, 2023
A year of discovery from the James Webb Space Telescope
Jul 19, 2023
As extreme heat becomes the new normal, how should we adapt?
Jul 18, 2023
'Food, we need to talk': Finding a better way to discuss our bodies and what we eat
Jul 17, 2023
How South Korea became a global beauty powerhouse
Jul 14, 2023
Deep-sea mining: Climate solution or ecological threat?
Jul 13, 2023
A 25 year-old bet on human consciousness gets settled
Jul 12, 2023
Does the man enforcing the country’s gun laws have the tools to do the job?
Jul 11, 2023
What's behind the ADHD drug shortage
Jul 10, 2023
How California public colleges boosted diversity without affirmative action
Jul 07, 2023
Instead of finding that dream job, why not find the 'good enough job'?
Jul 06, 2023
How the Snowden leaks changed government surveillance
Jul 05, 2023
Rebroadcast: The U.S. immigration crisis through the eyes of a border town mayor
Jul 04, 2023
Rebroadcast: Americans are avoiding the news. What can journalists do?
Jul 03, 2023
Musician Rhiannon Giddens digs into American roots music and finds connections to cultures around the world
Jun 30, 2023
Pitmaster Ryan Mitchell on America’s complicated history with barbeque
Jun 29, 2023
'A most tolerant little town': The forgotten story of desegregation in Clinton, Tennessee
Jun 28, 2023
The man helping TikTok disrupt the music industry
Jun 27, 2023
Why so many U.S.-educated foreign students don't stay for work
Jun 26, 2023
Are return-to-office mandates backfiring?
Jun 23, 2023
Will the PGA Tour-LIV Golf deal sportswash Saudi's reputation?
Jun 22, 2023
Is it time to take Putin's nuclear threats more seriously?
Jun 21, 2023
Why one female pastor left the Southern Baptist Convention
Jun 20, 2023
How cities can better confront climate change
Jun 19, 2023
How Trump's trial could alter the nation's political landscape
Jun 16, 2023
Woniya Thibeault survived extreme cold and isolation to become a winner
Jun 15, 2023
'Recoding America' author Jennifer Pahlka on how we can reshape our government to work for us
Jun 14, 2023
Should schools ban smartphones in the classroom?
Jun 13, 2023
Is Vice President Kamala Harris a liability or an asset in 2024?
Jun 12, 2023
How California agriculture is the problem and solution to its Colorado River water crisis
Jun 09, 2023
CITES: A historic treaty protecting endangered species turns 50. Is it still an effective tool?
Jun 08, 2023
First person: 'They've actually penetrated my defenses'
Jun 07, 2023
Reality wars: Deepfakes and national security
Jun 07, 2023
What the impeachment of the Texas attorney general means for Ken Paxton and his party
Jun 05, 2023
'Greedflation': A once fringe theory of inflation gains momentum
Jun 02, 2023
The little-known virus behind a majority of nongenetic birth defects
Jun 01, 2023
How the medical aid in dying movement is gaining momentum in the U.S.
May 31, 2023
What the debt ceiling deadline means for your money
May 30, 2023
'The last supper': How a 1993 Pentagon dinner reshaped the defense industry
May 29, 2023
Gold Star children on life without their heroes
May 26, 2023
Rebroadcast: Understanding J. Edgar Hoover's America
May 25, 2023
What Hunter Biden's troubles could mean for the president's 2024 reelection campaign
May 24, 2023
What the DeSantis agenda means for higher education in Florida
May 23, 2023
First person: 'I helped to connect families ... from country to country'
May 22, 2023
A new rivalry between the U.S. and China over the world’s undersea cables
May 22, 2023
The U.S. military promised to counter extremism. Has the Pentagon made progress?
May 19, 2023
How remote work is reshaping commercial real estate
May 18, 2023
Why hasn't the media learned its lesson about covering Donald Trump?
May 17, 2023
A record cull of Yellowstone bison intensifies debate into how to best manage them
May 16, 2023
What happened to Nina Jankowicz when Fox News came for her
May 15, 2023
The U.S. COVID public health emergency ends: How did the pandemic change American life?
May 12, 2023
How the politicization of COVID endangered our lives and democracy
May 11, 2023
The clock ticks on the debt limit: Lessons from America's last debt ceiling crisis
May 10, 2023
Rebroadcast: Is customer service bad on purpose?
May 09, 2023
'It goes so fast': NPR's Mary Louise Kelly on her life as journalist and mother
May 08, 2023
Does the Supreme Court need a code of conduct?
May 05, 2023
First person: A tragedy inspired her activism
May 04, 2023
What Tennessee tells us about democracy in America's states
May 04, 2023
Why Americans are leaving big cities behind
May 03, 2023
Reforming the country's organ transplant system
May 02, 2023
Can AI be regulated?
May 01, 2023