2x1 - Paul Krugman on Why Jobs Come First

2x2 - Fighting the Filibuster

2x3 - What's Fueling the Modern Abortion Debate

2x4 - Are Drones Destroying Our Democracy

2x5 - Who's Widening America's Digital Divide

2x6 - The Fight to Keep Democracy Alive

February 15, 2013

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

2x7 - Taming Capitalism Run Wild

2x8 - Fighting Creeping Creationism

March 1, 2013

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

2x9 - What We Can Learn From Lincoln

March 8, 2013

Screenwriter Tony Kushner talks about Abraham Lincoln.

2x10 - Ending the Silence on Climate Change

March 15, 2013

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

2x11 - What Has Capitalism Done for Us Lately?

March 22, 2013

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

2x12 - And Justice for Some

March 29, 2013

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

2x13 - MLK's Dream of Economic Justice

April 5, 2013

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

2x14 - Living Outside Tribal Lines

April 12, 2013

Economic inequality in California; writer Sherman Alexie.

2x15 - A Mother Fights Toxic Trespassers

April 19, 2013

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

2x16 - Trading Democracy for National Security

April 26, 2013

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

2x18 - How People Power Generates Change

May 10, 2013

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.

2x19 - The Toxic Politics of Science

May 17, 2013

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.

2x20 - Going to Jail for Justice

May 24, 2013

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

2x21 - Living Outside Tribal Lines

May 31, 2013

Economic inequality in California; writer Sherman Alexie.

2x22 - Taming Capitalism Run Wild

June 7, 2013

Economist Richard Wolff; activist Saru Jayaraman.

2x23 - Big Brother's Prying Eyes

June 14, 2013

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

2x24 - United States of ALEC: A Follow-Up

June 21, 2013

ALEC -- the American Legislative Exchange Council.

2x25 - The Faces of America's Hungry

June 28, 2013

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

2x26 - Surviving the New American Economy

July 5, 2013

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.

2x27 - Distracted From Democracy

July 12, 2013

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

2x28 - A New Case for Gun Control

July 19, 2013

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

2x29 - John Lewis Marches On

July 26, 2013

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

2x30 - The Faces of America's Hungry

August 2, 2013

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

2x31 - Taming Capitalism Run Wild

August 9, 2013

Economist Richard Wolff; activist Saru Jayaraman.

2x32 - How People Power Generates Change

August 16, 2013

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.

2x33 - America's Gilded Capital

August 23, 2013

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

2x34 - John Lewis Marches On

August 30, 2013

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

2x35 - What Are We Doing in Syria?

September 6, 2013

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

2x36 - The Collision of Sports and Politics

September 13, 2013

Davie Zirin, sports editor of The Nation.

2x37 - Robert Reich on Inequality for All

September 20, 2013

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

2x38 - Saving the Earth From Ourselves

September 27, 2013

Kumi Naidoo, international executive director of Greenpeace.

2x39 - Wendell Berry: Poet & Prophet

October 4, 2013

Writer Wendell Berry discusses the environment.

2x40 - Citizens United: The Sequel

October 11, 2013

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

2x41 - The Debt Ceiling Is a Nuclear Bomb the US Has Aimed at Itself

October 18, 2013

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

2x42 - Progressives Pick Up the Pieces

October 25, 2013

Financial journalist Gretchen Morgenson; historian Peter Dreier.

2x43 - The Top Secret Trade Deal You Need to Know About

November 1, 2013

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."

2x44 - How Dollarocracy Is Destroying America

November 8, 2013

John Nichols, The Nation; professor Robert McChesney.

2x45 - The Path of Positive Resistance

November 15, 2013

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

2x46 - Zombie Politics and Casino Capitalism

November 22, 2013

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

2x47 - Wendell Berry: Poet & Prophet

November 29, 2013

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

2x48 - Behind Washington's Closed Doors

December 6, 2013

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

2x49 - Gunfighter Nation

December 13, 2013

Historian Richard Slotkin talks about guns and violence in America.

2x50 - Incarceration Nation

December 20, 2013

Civil rights lawyer and legal scholar Michelle Alexander.

2x51 - The Pope, Poverty, and Poetry

December 27, 2013

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

2x52 - State of Conflict: North Carolina

January 3, 2014

The battle of American politics rages on in North Carolina.