Get ready for your aha moment: Every weekday, host Meghna Chakrabarti pierces your news bubble to expose the whole story. Getting answers to the questions that need to be asked, examining our history and the human condition. No topic is too complicated or off the table. It’s all On Point.
4771 - The revolutionary history of Black comedy
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Get ready for your aha moment: Every weekday, host Meghna Chakrabarti pierces your news bubble to expose the whole story. Getting answers to the questions that need to be asked, examining our history and the human condition. No topic is too complicated or off the table. It’s all On Point.
Épisodes
4771-
The revolutionary history of Black comedy
Écouté
ven., 26 juin 2026
4770-
Is the Freedom of Information Act delivering on its promise?
Écouté
jeu., 25 juin 2026
4769-
The big influence of big sugar
Écouté
mer., 24 juin 2026
4768-
Should fans be able to alter the music they love using AI?
Écouté
mar., 23 juin 2026
4767-
What makes baseball magic
Écouté
lun., 22 juin 2026
4766-
The Jackpod: Yankee Doodle Caged
Écouté
lun., 22 juin 2026
4765-
What does the Iran peace memo mean for the U.S.?
Écouté
ven., 19 juin 2026
4764-
What Frederick Douglass warned us about America
Écouté
jeu., 18 juin 2026
4763-
Is there a right (or wrong) way to love America?
Écouté
mer., 17 juin 2026
4762-
Will a historic sewage spill undo the Chesapeake Bay's restoration?
Écouté
mar., 16 juin 2026
4761-
Meghna Chakrabarti in conversation with American historian Heather Cox Richardson
Écouté
mar., 16 juin 2026
4760-
How prediction markets have found their way into American politics
Écouté
lun., 15 juin 2026
4759-
The Jackpod: Mindless
Écouté
lun., 15 juin 2026
4758-
Is ‘eldest daughter syndrome’ real?
Écouté
ven., 12 juin 2026
4757-
Is it safe for Americans to go into the woods today?
Écouté
jeu., 11 juin 2026
4756-
The real story of birthright citizenship
Écouté
mer., 10 juin 2026
4755-
How John Quincy Adams went from president to maverick
Écouté
mar., 09 juin 2026
4754-
How New Mexico's governor got big things done
Écouté
lun., 08 juin 2026
4753-
The Jackpod: Slamming the golden door
Écouté
lun., 08 juin 2026
4752-
Inside a diminished CDC as it confronts Ebola
Écouté
ven., 05 juin 2026
4751-
A road trip through American history
Écouté
jeu., 04 juin 2026
4750-
China's take on the Trump summit
Écouté
mer., 03 juin 2026
4749-
Why the pope wants to 'disarm' AI
Écouté
mar., 02 juin 2026
4748-
The Declaration of Independence: 250 years later
Écouté
lun., 01 juin 2026
4747-
The Jackpod: Catastrophe-proofing AI
Écouté
lun., 01 juin 2026
4746-
How China's superfast charging cars are leaving American EVs in the dust
Écouté
ven., 29 mai 2026
4745-
Does Trump's 'anti-weaponization' fund go too far?
Écouté
jeu., 28 mai 2026
4744-
Is Google's new AI search killing the internet?
Écouté
mer., 27 mai 2026
4743-
How Katie Herzog drank her way to sobriety
Écouté
mar., 26 mai 2026
4742-
The new science of 'dad brain'
Écouté
lun., 25 mai 2026
4741-
The Jackpod: Bearing his pain silently
Écouté
lun., 25 mai 2026
4740-
How women are breaking records in ultramarathons
Écouté
ven., 22 mai 2026
4739-
Is an energy crisis coming for the global economy?
Écouté
jeu., 21 mai 2026
4738-
The small Utah county fighting a massive data center
Écouté
mer., 20 mai 2026
4737-
What Yale saw when it looked in the mirror
Écouté
mar., 19 mai 2026
4736-
Is Trump taking a chainsaw to the Forest Service?
Écouté
lun., 18 mai 2026
4735-
The Jackpod: The times they are a-changin’
Écouté
lun., 18 mai 2026
4734-
Introducing 'The Midnight Rebellion,' a new climate fiction podcast
Écouté
sam., 16 mai 2026
4733-
Why American low-cost airlines fail
Écouté
ven., 15 mai 2026
4732-
Inside Trump's self-dealing presidency
Écouté
jeu., 14 mai 2026
4731-
A Holocaust scholar asks: 'Israel, what went wrong?'
Écouté
mer., 13 mai 2026
4730-
The hidden chemistry at the heart of the Milky Way
Écouté
mar., 12 mai 2026
4729-
What Democrats could learn from the GOP
Écouté
lun., 11 mai 2026
4728-
The Jackpod: Blue money blues
Écouté
lun., 11 mai 2026
4727-
When thinking ‘inside the box’ is better
Écouté
ven., 08 mai 2026
4726-
Why authoritarians put their faces on everything
Écouté
jeu., 07 mai 2026
4725-
Roundup transformed farming in the U.S. Could it change regulation too?
Écouté
mer., 06 mai 2026
4724-
The 'how' behind the sub-two hour marathon
Écouté
mar., 05 mai 2026
4723-
Why you’re thinking about the Supreme Court in the wrong way