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To the Point episodes

March 29, 2011 President Obama and the Case for Military Intervention in Libya
Last night, President Obama laid out his rationale for military action in Libya. Today, the US and coalition partners met to strategize before NATO takes over tomorrow...
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March 28, 2011 America Looks in the Mirror with 2010 Census Data
The latest Census reveals America changing population. Will growing "minorities" produce a "white identity crisis" or will the future bring a "post-racial" America?
52 min
March 25, 2011 Getting to Know the Neighbors
Have Americans come to prefer TV, iPods, texting and Facebook to flesh and blood friendships? Also, Japan's nuclear breach, and organized labor and Solidarity Saturday.
52 min
March 24, 2011 The 'Nuclear Renaissance' and Fukushima
As Japan struggles to get its Fukushima reactors under control, Chancellor Angela Merkel says Germany will phase out nuclear power. Should the US do the same thing?
52 min
March 23, 2011 A New Arab World: Are Revolutions Transforming the Middle East?
"People power" has raised hopes for real change in the entrenched dictatorships of the Mid East. But today Egypt's military formally criminalized protests.
52 min
March 22, 2011 In Libya, President Obama Tests the Limits of Military Power
The intervention in Libya shows President Obama pulled in a multitude of different directions. Is there now an "Obama Doctrine" in the Middle East? What are the implications for US policy toward the rest of the world?
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March 21, 2011 What's the End Game for the Attack on Libya?
Has President Obama finally done the "right thing" by leading a UN coalition against Libya's Gadhafi? Are the coalition's objectives clear? Also, would a $39 billion merger be good news or bad news for cell-phone users?
52 min
March 18, 2011 The Nuclear Danger Escalates in Japan
The danger of Japan's nuclear crisis has been raised to the level of Three Mile Island, the American plant that partially melted down in 1979...
52 min
March 17, 2011 Japan's Radiation Fallout; UN on No-Fly Zone in Libya
In Japan, the dangers of radiation; In Libya, the prospects for intervention...
52 min
March 16, 2011 Is the US on a Path to Victory in Afghanistan?
General Petraeus is not getting much attention as he testifies to Congress about Afghanistan. Also, Japan's overheating nuclear reactors, and NPR and Congress.
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A monthly reality-check on the issues Americans care about most. Host Warren Olney draws on his decades of experience to explore the people and issues shaping – and disrupting - our world. How did…