On Point with Tom Ashbrook | Podcasts

Big powers want to chop up the global internet and put nations in charge. Russia. China. We're looking at the push to rein in the web.

American Revolution. Historian Kevin Phillips looks at American politics then and now from 1775.

Liberals on the fiscal cliff. The White House is negotiating tough. We'll hear the liberal view of the cliff and its meaning.

They're growing up. They need work. A life. Maybe work the rest of us might fail at.

The law and American drones. They're killing all over. What should the rules be?

It's hip. It's big. Does it keep us from living a full life?

Cracks in the GOP tax pledge. Obama and Romney do lunch. Palestinian statehood at the U.N. Uproar in Egypt. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

A.I., artificial intelligence, is on the move again. Deep learning. Big strides. It may change the world around you.

Your tax breaks may be on the chopping block at the fiscal cliff. Home mortgage interest, state income tax and charitable deductions. We'll add it all up.

Superstar Dolly Parton joins us to talk music and where she's found meaning in life.

Rebels on the move in Congo. We'll go there with NPR's John Burnett. To Africa's endless war.

This American Life contributor Davy Rothbart on life and love on the road, and his latest collection "My Heart Is An Idiot."

Texas talks secession. A big petition is before the White House. We'll hears the case.

Too much stuff in our lives. We'll talk to "The Minimalists," who say throw it away, and don't look back.

Fracking for natural gas booms on. But it uses and pollutes a lot of water. We'll look at the push to reduce, reuse, and recycle "frack water."