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Get ready for your aha moment: Every weekday, host Meghna Chakrabarti pierces your news bubble to expose the whole story. Getting answers to the questions that need to be asked, examining our history and the human condition. No topic is too complicated or off the table. It’s all On Point.

On Point | Podcast

On Point news analyst Jack Beatty on how “affective polarization” and partisan hatred has come to define American political culture.

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The Jackpod: The politics of us against them

Would-be homeowners across the Sun Belt increasingly find themselves in competition with deep-pocketed private equity firms. Can a new housing law level the playing field?

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Can Congress stop Wall Street from buying up your neighborhood?

Ty Cobb served as special White House counsel in the first Trump administration. Now, he’s one of the president’s loudest critics. Ty Cobb talks about why he thinks the president is no longer fit for office.

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Ty Cobb once advised President Trump. Now he calls him 'evil'

How can you wear an XS shirt in one fabric, brand or style -- but an XL in another?

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Why women's clothing sizes are so confusing

Redistributing wealth through things like taxpayer-funded welfare programs gets a lot of pushback in the U.S. But what if income inequality could be fixed, not after the fact, but before it happened?

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Could 'predistribution' solve America's wealth gap?

Billions of dollars of federal grants support everything from medical research to community services. Now, the Trump administration wants to tie that money to the president’s political priorities.

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Trump’s latest bid to rewrite the rules of federal funding

Humans have been obsessed with fitness for centuries. But how did this fascination start? In the new book “When Fitness Went Global” historian Conor Heffernan examines the rise of physical culture worldwide.

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Your fitness resolution is 200 years old

In the 1980s, artists like John Mellencamp and Bruce Springsteen sang swelling anthems about working people, family farms and factory towns. But heartland rock is also deeply political -- and often misunderstood.

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When heartland rock ruled the airwaves

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is asking Congress for a record amount of money, $1.5 trillion, as the U.S.-Israel war with Iran continues. What do those taxpayer dollars pay for?

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Does the U.S. need a $1.5 trillion defense budget?

Companies rushed to replace workers with AI. Now, some of these same companies are hiring back human workers. What happened?

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Can AI really do our jobs?

When his mother fell for an online romance scam, Carlos Barragán flew to Nigeria to track down the con artist. What he uncovered was so much bigger.

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'The Yahoo Boys' behind online romance scams

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