Week in the News

The small-world principle was on big display in the U.S. this week. Leaders from all over, sitting elbow to elbow at the UN in New York. Leaders of the world’s twenty most powerful economies descending on Pittsburgh.
We’ve got a nuclear weapons vote in the Security Council. “Rebalancing” on the table at the G20. Explosive charges that Iran is hiding secret nuclear capacity.
Health care reform grinding on in Wahsington. And terrorism plot allegations tumbling out of Denver, Dallas, and Springfield, Illinois.
This hour, On Point: Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.
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Joining us from Washington is Ruth Marcus, editorial writer and columnist for The Washington Post.

Also from Washington, we're joined by Susan Glasser, executive editor of Foreign Policy magazine.

And from Hanover, N.H., we're joined by Jack Beatty, On Point news analyst and senior editor at The Atlantic.