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4769 - The big influence of big sugar

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.

4769 - The big influence of big sugar

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On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

Episodes

The big influence of big sugar

Should fans be able to alter the music they love using AI?

What makes baseball magic

The Jackpod: Yankee Doodle Caged

What does the Iran peace memo mean for the U.S.?

What Frederick Douglass warned us about America

Is there a right (or wrong) way to love America?

Will a historic sewage spill undo the Chesapeake Bay's restoration?

Meghna Chakrabarti in conversation with American historian Heather Cox Richardson

How prediction markets have found their way into American politics

The Jackpod: Mindless

Is ‘eldest daughter syndrome’ real?

Is it safe for Americans to go into the woods today?

The real story of birthright citizenship

How John Quincy Adams went from president to maverick

How New Mexico's governor got big things done

The Jackpod: Slamming the golden door

Inside a diminished CDC as it confronts Ebola

A road trip through American history

China's take on the Trump summit

Why the pope wants to 'disarm' AI

The Declaration of Independence: 250 years later

The Jackpod: Catastrophe-proofing AI

How China's superfast charging cars are leaving American EVs in the dust

Does Trump's 'anti-weaponization' fund go too far?

Is Google's new AI search killing the internet?

How Katie Herzog drank her way to sobriety

The new science of 'dad brain'

The Jackpod: Bearing his pain silently

How women are breaking records in ultramarathons

Is an energy crisis coming for the global economy?

The small Utah county fighting a massive data center

What Yale saw when it looked in the mirror

Is Trump taking a chainsaw to the Forest Service?

The Jackpod: The times they are a-changin’

Introducing 'The Midnight Rebellion,' a new climate fiction podcast

Why American low-cost airlines fail

Inside Trump's self-dealing presidency

A Holocaust scholar asks: 'Israel, what went wrong?'

The hidden chemistry at the heart of the Milky Way

What Democrats could learn from the GOP

The Jackpod: Blue money blues

When thinking ‘inside the box’ is better

Why authoritarians put their faces on everything

Roundup transformed farming in the U.S. Could it change regulation too?

The 'how' behind the sub-two hour marathon

Why you’re thinking about the Supreme Court in the wrong way

The Jackpod: Sock puppets

Inside the life of a 'degenerate' sports gambler

Who's a 'domestic terrorist' in Donald Trump's America?

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