On Point
Weekdays 9 -10 pm
Let's make sense of the world – together. Produced by WBUR in Boston, On Point’s vibrant conversation covers everything from breaking news to ancient poetry, and features writers, politicians, journalists, artists, scientists and ordinary citizens from around the world.
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Law journalist Dahlia Lithwick profiles female lawyers and judges who challenged the Trump administration in her new book, 'Lady Justice.' -
Many Silicon Valley companies want their software engineers to live for their jobs. And they offer them everything from meals to dry cleaning to spiritual coaches. But is the office really the place to find a life’s worth of fulfillment?
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Jackson, Mississippi hasn't had safe drinking water for weeks. The city's mayor says the problem's decades in the making. That makes Jackson a lesson for the entire country.
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Our series of podcast-only episodes called Remarkable Science features conversations with scientists about their work, recorded in front of a virtual audience at WBUR’s CitySpace venue in Boston.
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President Biden's $37 billion anti-crime plan includes funding to hire 100,000 more police. What's actually in the plan?
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Russia has cut off energy supplies to Europe. It's causing a crisis. How long can Europe hold on?
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The midterms are coming, and your TV's already been flooded with campaign ads. But do the ads even work? Do they sway voters at all?
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This year, Congress actually came up with a solution to help the U.S. Postal Service. A bipartisan bill passed that's the biggest financial reform of the Post office in 20 years. What's been fixed?
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One decade and 6,000 pages of documents later, the Bin Laden papers have upended our understanding of al-Qaida.
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Some school libraries have been forced to remove controversial books. The threat now is on public libraries, where some communities have recently taken another step -- they've voted to defund their local libraries.
