• To the Point

  • By: KCRW
  • Podcast

  • Summary

  • 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 everything change so fast? Where are we headed? The conversations are informal, edgy and always informative. If Warren's asking, you want to know the answer.
    KCRW 2024
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Episodes
  • Nicholas Kristof on good news in a bad world; Steve Lopez on aging
    Mar 10 2023
    Despite war and pandemic, New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof finds good news in a “stunning” decline of worldwide poverty and “extraordinary” improvements in child mortality. Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez...
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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • For the first time in Iran’s history, women are leading a counter-revolution
    Dec 5 2022
    Writer and author of The Great Revolution: Turmoil and Transformation in Iran, Robin Wright says that after weeks of protest on the streets of Iran, “for the first time in human history, you're beginning to see a counter...
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    46 mins
  • Can the news media help save democracy?
    Oct 31 2022
    Former New York Times and Washington Post Media Critic Margaret Sullivan says America faces a threat to democracy. In her new book, “Newsroom Confidential: Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life,” she says it’s time...
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    1 hr and 2 mins

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