Season 2

1. Paul Krugman on Why Jobs Come First

2. Fighting the Filibuster

3. What's Fueling the Modern Abortion Debate

4. Are Drones Destroying Our Democracy

5. Who's Widening America's Digital Divide

6. The Fight to Keep Democracy Alive

2013-02-15

Dan Cantor, New York Working Families Party; Jonathan Soros, Friends of Democracy super PAC; the power of poetry with Martin Espada.

7. Taming Capitalism Run Wild

8. Fighting Creeping Creationism

2013-03-01

Anti-creationism activist Zack Kopplin; author Susan Jacoby discusses secularism.

9. What We Can Learn From Lincoln

2013-03-08

Screenwriter Tony Kushner talks about Abraham Lincoln.

10. Ending the Silence on Climate Change

2013-03-15

Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication.

11. What Has Capitalism Done for Us Lately?

2013-03-22

Economist Richard Wolff analyzes income equality; Sheila Bair, former chairperson of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

12. And Justice for Some

2013-03-29

Bryan Stevenson, founder of Equal Justice Initiative, discusses the American justice system; an essay on the idea of justice for all.

13. MLK's Dream of Economic Justice

2013-04-05

Historian Taylor Branch and theologian James Cone discuss Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision of economic justice.

14. Living Outside Tribal Lines

2013-04-12

Economic inequality in California; writer Sherman Alexie.

15. A Mother Fights Toxic Trespassers

2013-04-19

Activist Sandra Steingraber discusses protecting children from toxic trespassers contaminating air, water and food.

16. Trading Democracy for National Security

2013-04-26

Journalist Glenn Greenwald discusses the Boston Marathon bombings; political scholars Norman Ornstein and Thomas Mann.

17. The Sandy Hook Promise

2013-05-03

Francine Wheeler, whose son Ben was among the children killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., and singer Peter Yarrow, discuss the power of music to create change; David Wheeler talks about resolving the gun issue.

18. How People Power Generates Change

2013-05-10

Marshall Ganz, senior lecturer in public policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government; Rachel Laforest, executive director of Right to the City and Madeline Janis, co-founder of Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy.

19. The Toxic Politics of Science

2013-05-17

Public health historians David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz discuss the dangers of lead; Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics; Danielle Brian, Project on Government Oversight.

20. Going to Jail for Justice

2013-05-24

Environmental activist Tim DeChristopher, co-founder of Peaceful Uprising; columnist Gretchen Morgenson.

21. Living Outside Tribal Lines

2013-05-31

Economic inequality in California; writer Sherman Alexie.

22. Taming Capitalism Run Wild

2013-06-07

Economist Richard Wolff; activist Saru Jayaraman.

23. Big Brother's Prying Eyes

2013-06-14

Professor Lawrence Lessig, director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University.

24. United States of ALEC: A Follow-Up

2013-06-21

ALEC -- the American Legislative Exchange Council.

25. The Faces of America's Hungry

2013-06-28

Filmmaker Kristi Jacobson and Mariana Chilton, director of the Center for Hunger-Free Communities, discuss hunger in America; journalist Greg Kaufmann.

26. Surviving the New American Economy

2013-07-05

First profiled 22 years ago, two American families in Wisconsin struggle to keep up with the changing U.S. economy; authors Barbara Miner and Barbara Garson.

27. Distracted From Democracy

2013-07-12

Columnist Marty Kaplan discusses economic inequality in the U.S.; historian Gary May.

28. A New Case for Gun Control

2013-07-19

Tom Diaz discusses gun control; Baldemar Velásquez fights for the rights of farmworkers.

29. John Lewis Marches On

2013-07-26

Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) discusses his leadership role during the civil-rights movement of the 1960s.

30. The Faces of America's Hungry

2013-08-02

Director Kristi Jacobson and Mariana Chilton, director of the Center for Hunger-Free Communities, discuss hunger, food insecurity and poverty in America.

31. Taming Capitalism Run Wild

2013-08-09

Economist Richard Wolff; activist Saru Jayaraman.

32. How People Power Generates Change

2013-08-16

Marshall Ganz, senior lecturer at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government; Rachel LaForest, executive director of Right to the City; Madeline Janis, co-founder of Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy.

33. America's Gilded Capital

2013-08-23

Journalist and author Mark Leibovich discusses his views on Washington, D.C.

34. John Lewis Marches On

2013-08-30

Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) discusses the 1963 march for civil rights.

35. What Are We Doing in Syria?

2013-09-06

Correspondent Deborah Amos, National Public Radio; historian Andrew Bacevich; guest host Phil Donahue.

36. The Collision of Sports and Politics

2013-09-13

Davie Zirin, sports editor of The Nation.

37. Robert Reich on Inequality for All

2013-09-20

Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich discusses the movie "Inequality for All," which examines income disparity in America.

38. Saving the Earth From Ourselves

2013-09-27

Kumi Naidoo, international executive director of Greenpeace.

39. Wendell Berry: Poet & Prophet

2013-10-04

Writer Wendell Berry discusses the environment.

40. Citizens United: The Sequel

2013-10-11

Yale Law School professor Heather Gerken discusses McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission; historian Joyce Appleby.

41. The Debt Ceiling Is a Nuclear Bomb the US Has Aimed at Itself

2013-10-18

British journalist Martin Wolf discusses the debt ceiling debate and its potential impact on the global economy; MIT professor Sherry Turkle.

42. Progressives Pick Up the Pieces

2013-10-25

Financial journalist Gretchen Morgenson; historian Peter Dreier.

43. The Top Secret Trade Deal You Need to Know About

2013-11-01

Yves Smith, the Naked Capitalism blog; Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research; a preview of "Unmanned: America's Drone Wars."

44. How Dollarocracy Is Destroying America

2013-11-08

John Nichols, The Nation; professor Robert McChesney.

45. The Path of Positive Resistance

2013-11-15

Dr. Jill Stein, co-founder of the Massachusetts Coalition for Healthy Communities; Dr. Margaret Flowers, Physicians for a National Health Program.

46. Zombie Politics and Casino Capitalism

2013-11-22

Author Henry Giroux; remembering novelist Doris Lessing; the documentary "Birth of the Living Dead."

47. Wendell Berry: Poet & Prophet

2013-11-29

Author and environmental activist Wendell Berry; short documentary "Dance of the Honey Bee."

48. Behind Washington's Closed Doors

2013-12-06

Mark Leibovich, The New York Times Magazine, discusses Washington's powerbrokers.

49. Gunfighter Nation

2013-12-13

Historian Richard Slotkin talks about guns and violence in America.

50. Incarceration Nation

2013-12-20

Civil rights lawyer and legal scholar Michelle Alexander.

51. The Pope, Poverty, and Poetry

2013-12-27

Historian Thomas Cahill discusses Pope Francis and the relevance of the church in the 21st century.

52. State of Conflict: North Carolina

2014-01-03

The battle of American politics rages on in North Carolina.