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Is the meaning of family changing?
Family estrangement – cutting ties with a parent, grandparent, or sibling – is often seen as at odds with the meaning of family as we know it. Sociol…
1 month ago
Is your driver's license on the dark web?
153 million U.S. drivers' licenses were hacked and put up for sale on the Dark Web. That's more than half of all licensed drivers. How that happened …
1 month ago
The sound of the land before time
What did the Jurassic world actually sound like? Using fossils and AI, scientists have reconstructed the calls of insects that lived alongside the di…
1 month ago
The Jackpod: What hath the godly wrought
On Point news analyst Jack Beatty looks into the devotion of white evangelical Americans to Donald Trump and the power of political Christianity.
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1 month, 1 week ago
The secret lives of snow leopards
Ecologist Kullu Suryawanshi has spent 20 years tracking one of the most elusive animals in the world, deep in the mountains of Asia. What has he lear…
1 month, 1 week ago
What's at stake in the race for AI dominance
Top AI researchers and leaders worry AI is developing too fast. But critics argue the U.S. can't risk to slow down in its AI race with China. So, wha…
1 month, 1 week ago
Free range parenting vs. the zero-risk state
A Virginia mom let her 5-year-old son take a walk alone in her gated community. The authorities found out and now she’s on Virginia's child abuse and…
1 month, 1 week ago
Trump's war on mail-in ballots
The Supreme Court has rejected President Trump’s plan to control how ballots get sent in the mail. But that does not mark the end of the President's …
1 month, 1 week ago
'A climate of fear' at the Pentagon
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired or blocked promotions of 10% of the military's top ranked officers. Former Secretary of the Air Force Frank …
1 month, 1 week ago
The Jackpod: Nobody knows dumb has a B
On Point news analyst Jack Beatty on one of President Trump’s oft-repeated rhetorical tropes and what its conjectured origin story might say about hi…
1 month, 2 weeks ago