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1. China at the Movies

   

   We look at China’s hottest films and directors, and what they’re watching in Shanghai. (26 days ago)

2. American Business in China

   

   Live from Shanghai, we talk with American business chiefs in China about China’s boom and t... (26 days ago)

3. China and the Olympics

   

   We kick off a week of broadcasting live from Shanghai, China. Topic number one is China in the Ol... (27 days ago)

4. Young China

   

   We sit down in Shanghai with three Chinese students to ask how they see the road ahead for China ... (27 days ago)

5. The Reading Mind

   

   A neuroscientist explains how reading shapes the human mind, and what happens when reading stops. (27 days ago)

6. Week in the News

   

   Olympic torch protests. General Petraeus grilled on Iraq. Shakeup at the top of the Clinton campa... (27 days ago)

7. Pope Benedict's US Tour

   

   Pope Benedict comes to America next week. From the UN, to a New York synagogue, to a mass at Yank... (27 days ago)

8. Our Human Footprint

   

   Guest host Jane Clayson: You’ve heard it a thousand times in recent years: being a citiz... (31 days ago)

9. China on the World Stage

   

   China’s big road to the Olympics is turning into a hard course in global pushback and big p... (32 days ago)

10. The Candidates and Petraeus

    

    McCain, Clinton, and Obama have now questioned General Petraeus on Iraq. We zero in on their exch... (32 days ago)

11. James Watson

    

    A conversation with scientist James Watson - who along with Francis Crick discovered the “d... (221 days ago)

12. The Falling Dollar

    

    This hour, On Point: the incredible shrinking dollar, and what it’s telling us about the US... (221 days ago)

13. The New Space Race

    

    This hour, On Point: fifty years after Sputnik, the new race in space. (221 days ago)

14. Dating Down

    

    This hour, On Point: the meeting of the sexes when the woman makes the bucks. (221 days ago)

15. Myanmar and the World

    

    The images out of Burma - out of “Myanmar” - last week were stunning, exotic, inspiri... (223 days ago)

16. Marching Bands, American Dreams

    

    The stomping, drumming, trumpeting phenomenon of high school marching bands is bigger than ever. ... (226 days ago)

17. Week in the News

    

    Protests all over this week: on UAW picket lines outside GM plants while a lightning strike laste... (226 days ago)

18. Innovating in America Today

    

    The big GM wobble this week over workers and wages and whether its factories will be built in thi... (226 days ago)

19. Ken Burns' "The War"

    

    Ken Burns and co-producer Lynn Novick join us to discuss their massive 15-hour PBS documentary, &... (227 days ago)

20. Norman Podhoretz on Islamo-fascism and America's "Domestic Insurgency"

    

    In the neoconservative camp that pushed for war with Iraq, Norman Podhoretz is a great patriarch,... (228 days ago)