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Young conservatives Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam are the toast of Republican thought circles right now. But their call to Republican revival is also a broadside.

Bush-era crony capitalism and government neglect, they charge, have pushed the USA toward a Latin American model of rich and poor and nothing in between. If the Grand Old Party wants a comeback, they argue, it's going to have to do something serious for American workers. But something conservative. This hour,… more

Real Issues: Health Care Costs (On Point/WBUR Boston Radio)

Listen to the online audio from the show featuring Shannon Brownlee, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation and author of Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer. ...

There are issues that get a big workout on the presidential campaign trail: big headlines, big applause lines. And there are a raft of really big issues that barely get touched: from defense spending, to American deficits,… more

'On Point' radio program interviewed Flynt Leverett on Iran and the politics of nuclear intelligence. Check out the On Point website:

When America's spy agencies issued a National Intelligence Estimate two weeks ago stating that Iran shuttered its nuclear weapons program in 2003, it was a blockbuster like few can recall.

The sigh of relief in Washington and around the world was audible. Only recently, President Bush had said a nuclear Iran might ignite "World War III."

But behind the scenes,… more

A new study says the war in Iraq is creating terrorists out of foreign fighters who will then pose a new threat when they return to their home countries. The study comes to the conclusion that Iraq War critics have been making for some time: the war is causing terrorism rather then stopping it.We speak with Peter Bergen, a research fellow at the Center on Law and Security at the NYU School of Law and senior fellow at… more

No Iranian of former Iranian President Khatami's stature has traveled outside of New York in the United States since followers of Ayatollah Khomeini seized the American embassy in Iran in 1979, taking 52 American hostages for more than a year.

Why is Khatami in the U.S., and what does he represent? For some answers we turn to Afshin Molavi, author of "The Soul of Iran: A Nation's Journey to Freedom."

To listen to the interview, please visit the Boston radio website, more