
Meghna Chakrabarti
Host and Editor at On Point (WBUR-FM)
My new, new goal in life is to make my Twitter so boring you listen to @onpointradio @wbur instead. Also still want visit every US national park before I die.
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1 week ago |
wbur.org | Jonathan Chang |Meghna Chakrabarti
Trump's budget bill and ballooning deficits Play44:24 Download Audio Embed on your website Close× Copy the code below to embed the WBUR audio player on your site <iframe width="100%" height="124" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://player.wbur.org/onpoint/2025/06/20/trump-budget-bill-ballooning-deficits"></iframe> Copy embed code With Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) by his side President Donald Trump arrives for a House Republican meeting at the U.S. Capitol on May 20, 2025...
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1 week ago |
wbur.org | Willis Arnold |Meghna Chakrabarti
The $1 trillion defense budgetSecretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, right, and Gen. John D. Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, left, appear before a Senate Committee on Appropriations subcommittee hearing to examine proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2026 for the Department of Defense, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, June 11, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)The One Big Beautiful Bill Act will increase defense spending to over $1 trillion for the first time in U.S. history.
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1 week ago |
wbur.org | Paige Sutherland |Meghna Chakrabarti
How the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’ impacts health care Play44:43 Download Audio Embed on your website Close× Copy the code below to embed the WBUR audio player on your site <iframe width="100%" height="124" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://player.wbur.org/onpoint/2025/06/16/one-big-beautiful-bill-impacts-health-care"></iframe> Copy embed code Demonstrators protest prior to a news conference regarding the pending passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act at the Capitol, Tuesday,...
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2 weeks ago |
wbur.org | Jonathan Chang |Meghna Chakrabarti
Hong Kong, 5 years after mass protestsPlay43:12Download AudioEmbed on your websiteClose×Copy the code below to embed the WBUR audio player on your site<iframe width="100%" height="124" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" src="https://player.wbur.org/onpoint/2025/06/13/hong-kong-5-years-mass-protests"></iframe>Copy embed codeA protestor holds a flag that reads: "Liberate Hong Kong, Revolution of Our Times" at a rally in Hong Kong, on Dec. 12, 2019.
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2 weeks ago |
wbur.org | Paige Sutherland |Meghna Chakrabarti
From Twentieth- to Twenty- first- Century Mind- Control Techniques I seek to create afresh the stages by which the mind gives way to compulsion from without . . . hat’s the brainwashing of brainwashing,” my dinner companion said to me. “The fact that it is unrecognized while it is happening.” It was summer and we were sitting in the dining facility of a fancy Ger-man research institute situated in the woods of Berlin, a city not known for woods but one that is actually full of them.
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