• Should the government give first-time homebuyers $25,000?
    Sep 18 2024

    Vice President Harris proposes giving a $25,000 grant to first-time homebuyers to help solve America’s housing crisis. Many are skeptical.

    But Florida’s Republican Governor Ron DeSantis has championed a similar program in his state.

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    47 mins
  • Part II: Why is America's birthrate declining?
    Sep 17 2024

    Becoming a parent was once a social norm. But today, more Americans than ever are ambivalent about having children. What could create a renewed sense of meaning in parenting?

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    47 mins
  • Part I: Why is America's birthrate declining?
    Sep 16 2024

    Hear On Point's mini-series on the declining birth rate in the United States.

    We're not looking at economics, or education, but another aspect of parenthood highlighted and debated in two new books.

    Do children bring a unique sense of meaning to life?

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    47 mins
  • A scientist's search for the origins of COVID
    Sep 13 2024

    In 2020, Alina Chan called for the scientific community to not abandon a potential lab leak origin of SARS-CoV-2. She was called a conspiracy theorist and a race traitor. Her story and the search for the origins of COVID, four years later.

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    47 mins
  • The Jackpod: Unanswered questions
    Sep 13 2024

    On Point news analyst Jack Beatty imagines a presidential debate in which Vice President Kamala Harris candidly answers the questions of undecided voters.

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    37 mins
  • Rebroadcast: Can 'colorblindness' lead to equality in America?
    Sep 12 2024

    In his new book "The End of Race Politics," Coleman Hughes argues that closing racial divides in America means building a color-blind society. Coleman Hughes joins Meghna Chakrabarti.

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    47 mins
  • Is Mexico's judicial reform a good or bad idea?
    Sep 11 2024

    Mexico could soon become the world's first country to elect every single one of its judges, even on the Mexican supreme court. Will it combat corruption or is it a political power grab?

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    47 mins
  • Can we save the quietest places in the world?
    Sep 10 2024

    Our planet’s rich nature sounds are disappearing, drowned out by human-made noise. Sound recordist Matt Mikkelsen travels the world, listening to and working to preserve our vanishing soundscapes.

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    47 mins