To the Point

In an age of political polarization, "fact checkers” vow to help voters sort fact from fiction. Can the checkers themselves be trusted? Are some questions too complicated?

Another poll, another Republican presidential hopeful jumps into the top tier… only this time there's only one day left to go. We hear about Rick Santorum and the others in Iowa. 

Healthcare reform is being used as a campaign issue against President

Iran is threatening to close one of the world's most important waterways, a main route for the global oil supply. The US is responding with warnings of its own.

Should voters have to show photo ID's? Several states have laws in place. But when South Carolina passed a new law, the Justice Department stepped in to block it.

A new study finds that nearly half of all Americans are either poor or "low income." Meanwhile, consumers who were saving appear once again to be heaping on the debt.

It’s been a year of protest worldwide…  We’ll look at the history of past uprisings, what current ones have in common and whether or not they’re likely to accomplish real change.

Conventional wisdom has it that warfare has become increasingly deadly, with dire predictions of massive casualties to come. But in the past 10 years, battle-related deaths were half those of the 1990’s, a third of those in the Cold War and a hundredth of those during World War II.

Pfc. Bradley Manning may get life in prison for releasing almost three-quarters-of-a-million classified documents.  Today we’ll hear about Manning’s pre-trial, WikiLeaks and the classification of information that poses no risk to national security.