History has shown that making the adjustment from “GI Joe” to ordinary Joe has never been easy. And the new generation of Iraq war veterans are no exception.
There are reports of substance abuse, marital problems, flashbacks and other signs that prove that, whatever happened on the battlefront, all is not well on the home front.
Are [...]

Bibles to Baghdad. A new flock of missionaries is taking the Gospel to Islamic nations. A look inside Christian evangelism in the Muslim world.
Guests:
David Van Biema, staff writer, Time Magazine, author of “Should Christians Convert Muslims?” in the latest issue of Time
Hussein Ibish, communications director, American-Arab Anti-Descrimination Committee
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At least one American has been killed and eight others wounded in the latest round of escalating violence in Iraq. Tom Ricks, military correspondent for The Washington Post, gives an update on what the Pentagon is making of these developments.
Guests:
Tom Ricks, military correspondent for The Washington Post

For more than thirty years, foreign correspondent Jim Sterba has brought the world home to readers of the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. He has covered the Vietnam War, famine in Africa, student protests in Tiananmen Square — to name a few highlights of an illustrious career.
Now, Jim Sterba is looking inward [...]

“Half in Love,” Maile Meloy’s 2001 collection of short stories, sparkled with spare writing and deep insight. Now Maile Meloy takes us on a four-generation family saga with her new book, “Liars and Saints.”
Guests:
Maile Meloy, author of “Liars and Saints”

The Fed has cut interest rates to the lowest level in 45 years. Where should you put your money now? Top financial planners weigh in.
Guests:
Gary Schatsky, financial advisor and founder of Independent Financial Counselors
Patricia Houlihan, president and chief executive officer, Houlihan Financial Resource Group
Deena Katz, certified financial planner and president of Evensky, Brown & Katz

The battle over genetically modifed foods is heating up, as the U.S. squares off against the EU at the Washington summit, and Environmental groups protest biotech giants at the conference on Agricultural Science and Technology in Sacramento.
The dialogue over GM foods is now hostage to the extremes on both sides says science author Peter Pringle. [...]

Guests:
Greg Ip, economics reporter for The Wall Street Journal

First-hand accounts of post-war Iraq from an A-list of foreign correspondents. Now back at their respective posts, we hear from reporters who walked with the troops, witnessed the chaos, and wonder at the future of a renewed nation.
Guests:
Adam Piore, General Editor, Newsweek
John Hendren, Pentagon Correspondent, LA Times
Ilene Prusher, Istanbul bureau chief, Christian Science Monitor
Yaroslav Trofimov, [...]

The World Health Organization says that by the year 2020 depression will be the second leading cause of disability world wide. Depression is already costing the U.S. $44 billion a year in lost workplace productivity annually. A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association raises new questions on how effectively America [...]

Lying at the very heart of Africa, Congo’s history of dictators, coups, material wealth and plunder is a study in post-colonial history. Now, with more than three million dead in five years of fighting, history is being made again.
Guests:
Jason Beaubian, NPR Africa Correpondent
Philip Gourevitch, staff writer at “The New Yorker,” author of “We Wish to [...]

Howard Dean is galvanizing voters on the left with his firey antiwar stance. But does the former governor from Vermont hurt Democratic prospects in 2004?
Guests:
Ronald Brownstein, columnist, The Los Angeles Times
Matt Bai, contributing writer, The New York Times Magazine and author of a piece about Howard Dean in the June 1 issue of the [...]

The court did not rule out affirmative action as a whole. Instead, it acknowledged that universities can see racial diversity as an important goal. In one case, the court ruled that racial diversity can be considered a “compelling interest” of the university. In the case involving undergraduate admissions, the court ruled that a formal system [...]

Husband and wife duo Jay Ungar and Molly Mason perform some of the greatest songs of ’60s… 1860s that is. They share a mission of unearthing traditional American fiddle and dance gems from Civil war songs to New England contra songs to country swing tunes and bringing them to a new generation of listeners in [...]

Summer has arrived and it’s time to select the summer books that you finally have time to read.
Perhaps it’s Harry Potter and “The Order of the Phoenix,” or Carolyn Parkhurst’s “The Dogs of Babel.” In non-fiction there’s a new biography on Benjamin Franklin, Hillary Clinton’s memoir, and Sidney Blumenthal’s “The Clinton Wars.”
Click “Listen” above [...]

A draft of a soon-to-be published EPA report on the environment has been heavily edited by the White House to support the administration’s agenda. An internal EPA memo, leaked to “The New York Times,” protests the administration’s edits. As a result, some inside the EPA say, the draft “no longer accurately represents scientific consensus on [...]

The author of many books, celebrated best-selling writer and novelist Isabel Allende tells her own story in her new memoir “My Invented Country.” It is the story of her living in and living in exile from her homeland, Chile.
The military coup of September 11, 1973 in Allende’s native country, Chile, claimed the life of her [...]

General Wesley Clark is a former NATO supreme allied commander in Europe, a Rhodes scholar, businessman and political commentator, and perhaps, a future presidential candidate.
Click the “Listen” link to hear Gen. Clark talk about war, the world, and the White House.
Guests:
General Wesley K. Clark, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe, chairman and CEO of Wesley [...]

American soldiers are getting killed or injured every day in Iraq. Is this a clean-up operation? Occupation? Or the tail-end of a war that’s not yet finished? John Diamond, Pentagon correspondent for USA Today, discusses the various inside views from the Pentagon.
Guests:
John Diamond, Pentagon correspondent for USA Today

Guests:
Ilene Prusher is Middle East Correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor. She spoke with us from Baghdad.

The Clinton Wars. From Whitewater to “that woman” to the Clinton legacy and beyond. Sidney Blumenthal, former White House advisor and Clinton-devotee, makes the case for Bill and Hillary.
Guests:
Sidney Blumenthal, author of “The Clinton Wars”
Jack Beatty, On Point news analyst and senior editor at the Atlantic Monthly

Yesterday, the Canadian cabinet approved a new national policy to allow open marriage for same sex couples. In the United States, legislation is pending for the possibility of gay-marriage in both New Jersey and Massachusetts. In Texas, the state Supreme Court is deciding on the outcome of a major case regarding the state’s [...]

Thirty years ago, writer Erica Jong turned the literary world and the nation on its backside with her first novel “Fear of Flying.” The uninhibited adventures of 29-year-old Isadora Wing and her desire to fly in the face of 1970s “nice women don’t say that” conventions became a blockbuster best-seller and cultural phenomenon. “Growing up [...]

The war in Iraq was won. But can the U.S. get a handle on new security challenges in the region? Political unrest, nuclear weapons in Iraq, and how to find a new balance of power in the Persian Gulf with a free Iraq now in the picture.
Guests:
Kenneth Pollack, director of research, Saban Center [...]

After five years of solid deadlock, the U.S. Senate is on the verge of passing a bill that would bring about the largest expansion of Medicare benefits in history.
For the first time, Medicare will offer subsidies for prescription drugs. The new bill has made strange bipartisan bedfellows, but is it the best deal for senior [...]

All three branches of the U.S. government are embroiled in a debate over the role of ideology in judicial appointments.
Politics play a leading role in the way judges vote, according to a study done by Professor Cass Sunstein, but does that mean that nominees should be screened through the filter of ideology?
Choosing judges based on [...]

In his new book, “Songcatchers: In Search of the World’s Music,” long-time Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart explores the world’s far-flung musical legacies and the colorful histories behind their first recordings.
Click the “Listen” link above to hear about the history and legacy of the people who traveled to the edge of the world for the [...]

America’s GDP is up, but the next job to go may be yours. Why do recovery and instability go hand-in-hand in America’s new sink-or-swim economy?
The stock market is picking up but consumer confidence dropped this month. The $360 billion tax-cut that Congress approved recently will mean a higher dollar amount in everyone’s paychecks starting next [...]

“Let the good times roll” was the mantra for the 1980s. Easy money flowed like Perrier and Americans had an unquenchable thirst for attaining fabulous wealth. This was the era of champagne wishes and caviar dreams. Junk bonds on steroids. And very big scandals that famously included the Keating Savings and Loan. Nowadays, it’s [...]

Two months after declaring victory in Iraq, U.S. and British soldiers are dying almost daily, Baathist remnants are still attacking when night falls and the lights only come on some of the time. A check-in on the progress of rebuilding a nation.
Guests:
Michael Weisskopf, reporter, TIME magazine
David Rohde, Foreign Correspondent, The New York Times
Neal Keny-Guyer, CEO [...]

The 20th century was marked by the clash of superpowers. Out of that bloody century, one country has emerged as the world’s strongest. But author Jonathan Schell points to another superpower, the people of the “unconquerable world.”
Guests:
Jonathan Schell, Editor of The Nation magazine and author of “The Unconquerable World, Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of [...]

Last week’s hope for peace was again tarnished today by an Israeli helicopter attack that wounded Hamas’s number two man, Abdel Aziz Rantisi. Israel claimed the assassination attempt as retaliation for a militant attack which killed four Israeli soldiers earlier this week. Where is the road map leading in a renewed cycle of violence?
Guests:
Harvey Morris, [...]

Novelist Jonathan Wilson takes us back to 1924 British Palestine and a world of passion, politics, and intrigue still alive today.
Guests:
Jonathan Wilson, novelist and author of the new book” A Palestine Affair”

Universal soldier. The Pentagon is redeploying to put U.S. troops a short hop from…everywhere. What are the implications for 21st century warfare?
Guests:
Greg Jaffe, Pentagon reporter, The Wall Street Journal
Thomas Barnett, Defense Department analyst and professor of military strategy at the Naval War College
Owen Cote, associate director of the MIT Security Studies Program
Randall Kennedy, On [...]

Harvard Medical School is considering loosening regulations regarding financial ties between faculty research and drug companies. It’s the latest example of a deepening relationship between industry and academic institutions.
Logos from sports companies like Nike and Reebok are front and center on team uniforms. High Tech corridors around the country are mini university campuses.
Former Harvard [...]

One of the most controversial political figures of the Clinton administration never held office. Now, she’s telling her story. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s tell-all book hit the stores today. Is Hillary a holdover from the ’90s, or a presidential candidate of the future?
Guests:
Joe Conason, National Correspondent for the New York Observer. Author of, “The Hunting of [...]

Once you think of it, it takes about half a second to feel the link between the legendary Lou Reed and the dark American master poet Edgar Allan Poe. Think passion. Think noir. Think taboo. And you’ve got the terrain of Lou Reed and Poe in Reed’s new album “The Raven.”
Lou Reed made a giant [...]

The annual Liar’s Contest is a standing room only hit in Chareleston, West Va. Seventeen-year-old Justin Wood scooped up the “Biggest Liar” title for the second year in a row. His fibbing also got him a cash prize of $100 and a Golden Shovel as a trophy. In this radio diary, Justin Wood spins a [...]

From the Laci Peterson case to late term abortion, there’s a powerful movement to endow the fetus with civil rights. Is dismantling Roe v. Wade far behind? Inside the fight for fetal rights.
Guests:
Suzanne Smalley, reporter for Newsweek, co-author of this week’s cover article, “Should a Fetus Have Rights?”
Congresswoman Melissa Hart (R-PA), sponsoring the Unborn [...]

With Funny Cide attempting to become horse racing’s first Triple Crown winner in 25 years, this could be a weekend for horse-racing films. On Point’s Movie Maven, Garen Daly takes us through a few of the wins and places of Hollywood’s horse racing movies.
Guests:
Garren Daly, On Point’s Movie Maven and Director of the Dedham [...]

Less than five weeks after the Jayson Blair scandal broke, a stunning page turned today at The New York Times. This morning, Howell Raines resigned as Executive Editor of the Times and Gerald Boyd resigned from his post as the paper’s managing editor. Raines and Boyd, both highly regarded, seasoned journalists, faced intense criticism [...]

The Bush administration cited the imminent threat of Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction as justification for war. The weapons are still missing and accusations of cooked intelligence reports abound. WMD, administration lies and the new political cost of war.
Guests:
Jonathan Marcus, BBC military defense correspondent
Larry Johnson, a former CIA officer and deputy director [...]

With unemployment in Israel and the Palestinian territories sky high, Boston attorney Geoffrey Lewis and his partners want to turn desperate residents into stakeholders for peace by giving them jobs. An innovative jobs program in Northern Ireland employs residents on both sides of the entrenched conflict in the booming customer service call center industry.
Guests:
Geoffrey [...]

It’s redemption time for the Garden State. Tonight, the New Jersey Nets take on the San Antonio Spurs in game one of the NBA Finals. On the ice, the New Jersey Devils are neck-in-neck with the Anaheim Ducks after game four of the Stanley Cup Finals. Jersey-born sports fan Bill Littlefield recalls the Garden State’s [...]

To thine own self be true? Not any more in America says Bioethics and Philosophy Professor Carl Elliot. Increasingly over the last half century, our obsessive quest for self-fulfillment has been sought through “medical enhancement technologies.” — psychotropic drugs like Paxil, nose jobs, Botox, even voluntary amputations that make people feel complete and “better than [...]

President Bush met with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas today in the Jordanian port city of Aqaba to push forward on the “road map.” We look at the outcome of the summit and the road ahead.
Guests:
Steven Cohen, National Scholar for the Israel Policy Forum
Michael Tarazi, Legal Advisor for the [...]