Season 2
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- S2E1
Paul Krugman on Why Jobs Come First
- S2E2
Fighting the Filibuster
- S2E3
What's Fueling the Modern Abortion Debate
- S2E4
Are Drones Destroying Our Democracy
- S2E5
Who's Widening America's Digital Divide
- S2E6
The Fight to Keep Democracy Alive
Feb 15, 2013Dan Cantor, New York Working Families Party; Jonathan Soros, Friends of Democracy super PAC; the power of poetry with Martin Espada.
- S2E7
Taming Capitalism Run Wild
- S2E8
Fighting Creeping Creationism
Mar 1, 2013Anti-creationism activist Zack Kopplin; author Susan Jacoby discusses secularism.
- S2E9
What We Can Learn From Lincoln
Mar 8, 2013Screenwriter Tony Kushner talks about Abraham Lincoln.
- S2E10
Ending the Silence on Climate Change
Mar 15, 2013Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication.
- S2E11
What Has Capitalism Done for Us Lately?
Mar 22, 2013Economist Richard Wolff analyzes income equality; Sheila Bair, former chairperson of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
- S2E12
And Justice for Some
Mar 29, 2013Bryan Stevenson, founder of Equal Justice Initiative, discusses the American justice system; an essay on the idea of justice for all.
- S2E13
MLK's Dream of Economic Justice
Apr 5, 2013Historian Taylor Branch and theologian James Cone discuss Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision of economic justice.
- S2E14
Living Outside Tribal Lines
Apr 12, 2013Economic inequality in California; writer Sherman Alexie.
- S2E15
A Mother Fights Toxic Trespassers
Apr 19, 2013Activist Sandra Steingraber discusses protecting children from toxic trespassers contaminating air, water and food.
- S2E16
Trading Democracy for National Security
Apr 26, 2013Journalist Glenn Greenwald discusses the Boston Marathon bombings; political scholars Norman Ornstein and Thomas Mann.
- S2E17
The Sandy Hook Promise
May 3, 2013Francine 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.
- S2E18
How People Power Generates Change
May 10, 2013Marshall 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.
- S2E19
The Toxic Politics of Science
May 17, 2013Public 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.
- S2E20
Going to Jail for Justice
May 24, 2013Environmental activist Tim DeChristopher, co-founder of Peaceful Uprising; columnist Gretchen Morgenson.
- S2E21
Living Outside Tribal Lines
May 31, 2013Economic inequality in California; writer Sherman Alexie.
- S2E23
Big Brother's Prying Eyes
Jun 14, 2013Professor Lawrence Lessig, director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University.
- S2E24
United States of ALEC: A Follow-Up
Jun 21, 2013ALEC -- the American Legislative Exchange Council.
- S2E25
The Faces of America's Hungry
Jun 28, 2013Filmmaker Kristi Jacobson and Mariana Chilton, director of the Center for Hunger-Free Communities, discuss hunger in America; journalist Greg Kaufmann.
- S2E26
Surviving the New American Economy
Jul 5, 2013First 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.
- S2E27
Distracted From Democracy
Jul 12, 2013Columnist Marty Kaplan discusses economic inequality in the U.S.; historian Gary May.
- S2E28
A New Case for Gun Control
Jul 19, 2013Tom Diaz discusses gun control; Baldemar Velásquez fights for the rights of farmworkers.
- S2E29
John Lewis Marches On
Jul 26, 2013Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) discusses his leadership role during the civil-rights movement of the 1960s.
- S2E30
The Faces of America's Hungry
Aug 2, 2013Director Kristi Jacobson and Mariana Chilton, director of the Center for Hunger-Free Communities, discuss hunger, food insecurity and poverty in America.
- S2E32
How People Power Generates Change
Aug 16, 2013Marshall 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.
- S2E33
America's Gilded Capital
Aug 23, 2013Journalist and author Mark Leibovich discusses his views on Washington, D.C.
- S2E34
John Lewis Marches On
Aug 30, 2013Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) discusses the 1963 march for civil rights.
- S2E35
What Are We Doing in Syria?
Sep 6, 2013Correspondent Deborah Amos, National Public Radio; historian Andrew Bacevich; guest host Phil Donahue.
- S2E36
The Collision of Sports and Politics
Sep 13, 2013Davie Zirin, sports editor of The Nation.
- S2E37
Robert Reich on Inequality for All
Sep 20, 2013Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich discusses the movie "Inequality for All," which examines income disparity in America.
- S2E38
Saving the Earth From Ourselves
Sep 27, 2013Kumi Naidoo, international executive director of Greenpeace.
- S2E40
Citizens United: The Sequel
Oct 11, 2013Yale Law School professor Heather Gerken discusses McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission; historian Joyce Appleby.
- S2E41
The Debt Ceiling Is a Nuclear Bomb the US Has Aimed at Itself
Oct 18, 2013British journalist Martin Wolf discusses the debt ceiling debate and its potential impact on the global economy; MIT professor Sherry Turkle.
- S2E42
Progressives Pick Up the Pieces
Oct 25, 2013Financial journalist Gretchen Morgenson; historian Peter Dreier.
- S2E43
The Top Secret Trade Deal You Need to Know About
Nov 1, 2013Yves 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."
- S2E44
How Dollarocracy Is Destroying America
Nov 8, 2013John Nichols, The Nation; professor Robert McChesney.
- S2E45
The Path of Positive Resistance
Nov 15, 2013Dr. Jill Stein, co-founder of the Massachusetts Coalition for Healthy Communities; Dr. Margaret Flowers, Physicians for a National Health Program.
- S2E46
Zombie Politics and Casino Capitalism
Nov 22, 2013Author Henry Giroux; remembering novelist Doris Lessing; the documentary "Birth of the Living Dead."
- S2E47
Wendell Berry: Poet & Prophet
Nov 29, 2013Author and environmental activist Wendell Berry; short documentary "Dance of the Honey Bee."
- S2E48
Behind Washington's Closed Doors
Dec 6, 2013Mark Leibovich, The New York Times Magazine, discusses Washington's powerbrokers.
- S2E49
Gunfighter Nation
Dec 13, 2013Historian Richard Slotkin talks about guns and violence in America.
- S2E50
Incarceration Nation
Dec 20, 2013Civil rights lawyer and legal scholar Michelle Alexander.
- S2E51
The Pope, Poverty, and Poetry
Dec 27, 2013Historian Thomas Cahill discusses Pope Francis and the relevance of the church in the 21st century.
- S2E52
State of Conflict: North Carolina
Jan 3, 2014The battle of American politics rages on in North Carolina.