On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

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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.

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Episodes

How big will the Iran war price shock be?

Why Iran wants a long war

Is the U.S. fighting a war without rules?

Who will profit off of ICE’s new detention warehouses?

Why 'KPop Demon Hunters' is everywhere

The Jackpod: The founders’ worst fears

The one thing driving U.S. job growth

Why regime change in Iran isn't so simple

The Trump administration's war against legal immigration

Why the Pentagon wants AI without guardrails

What really happened to Amelia Earhart?

The Jackpod: Hold the tiger

The Epstein class: What the files reveal about the global elite

Celebrating Ramadan while living in fear

Where are Ukraine's abducted children?

A stress test for the midterms

Why you can't get that jingle out of your head

The Jackpod: Two cheers for the filibuster

How to change a memory

Inside PragerU’s conservative push into American classrooms

The Epstein files' lingering questions

How America sees itself through film

Brainwaves: How does a brain stay healthy?

The Jackpod: Don’t exhaust your indignation

Brainwaves: What happens between life and death?

Brainwaves: Is AI actually thinking?

Brainwaves: Are you in there?

Brainwaves: Why is the brain such a mystery?

What if the polio vaccine becomes optional?

The Jackpod: America’s golden age

Lessons for the U.S. in 'China’s quest to engineer the future'

Does America's new national security strategy actually put 'America First'?

Inside the AI surveillance state

What happened to shame in politics?

The Jackpod: Gimme shelter!

A pattern of denial at the Department of Homeland Security

The promise and reality of the rural health fund

How Minneapolis is standing up to ICE

'Poorly trained, overwhelmed and inexperienced': Who are the newest ICE agents?

Is American architecture destined to be boring?

The Jackpod: America as a dual state

Lauren Southern was an alt-right influencer. Now she's finding her 'way back to reality'

Has Trump's erratic behavior gone too far?

Trump wants to cap credit card interest. Can he?

DOGE didn't save taxpayers $1 trillion, after all

America is polarized. Could this writer's new approach fix it?

Minnesota’s mining fight has global consequences

The Jackpod: Gouged

The history and science behind why we're all vulnerable to brainwashing

How the U.S. could 'lose the 21st century' over Greenland

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