Sex and the Arab world. Shereen El Feki takes us from behind the Saudi veil to the rough streets of Cairo.

“The Mortal Sea.” A ship’s captain turned scholar tracks our impact on the oceans through time.

A big second look at capitalism. How it’s worked over time. How it hasn’t. And whether it’s run its course.

More employers are penalizing overweight workers on insurance rates and benefits. We look at what’s fair and what’s coming.

Mongolia-born violinist Xiang Yu, on the future of classical performance and finding a voice in music.

Jackie Robinson broke the color line in Major League Baseball. The new movie “42″ tells the story. The director is with us.

Jobs and the sequester. We’re looking at the new dip in job creation.

The editor of Poetry magazine on poetry and spirituality at death’s door.

All eyes on North Korea. More dead lawmen, and a Texas manhunt. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

Antibiotics and the meat we eat. The volumes are huge. Maybe breeding superbugs. We look for a better way.

Ronald Reagan budget director David Stockman says crony capitalism has left the U.S. economy in giant trouble. He’s with us.

Letters are dead. E-mail outdated. Text messages so passé. What’s going on with how we communicate?

The White House proposes a 100-million dollar project to map the inner workings of the human mind. We’re looking at the challenge with some of the country’s biggest brains.

”BioShock Infinite”. The latest, biggest, brainiest video game of all. We’ll talk to the creator and ask where games are going.

North Korea’s war threats go ballistic. We look at how South Korea and the United States are responding.

On Point goes to Nashville — big medical center — to look at the rollout of the Affordable Care Act — Obamacare.

State-level moves on abortion. North Dakota, Arkansas and more are reining it in. Where does this go?

Teenage love with Asperger’s Syndrome. Connecting when it’s not easy.

Gay marriage at the Supreme Court. Banks and Cyprus. Abortion and North Dakota. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

Jobs and new graduates. We look at personal and national strategies for putting our young to work.

An epic week on gay marriage before the Supreme Court. On Point sums up the arguments, the history, the outlook on gay marriage and the court.

The internet headline was “engineering genius babies” out of China. Not true. But the reality is very interesting. We’ll check it out.

We look at veterans back from war and waiting way too long for benefits. The price of war delayed and denied.

A look at the rise and fall of Phil Spector, creator of the “wall of sound.”

Russian oligarchs are in the news – for a “haircut” in Cyprus, a death in London, billions all over. We check in on the post-Soviet robber barons.

What happy families do right, from telling the family story to creating healthy relationships across generations.

Syria and chemical weapons. Where is the red line? What if it’s crossed?

“Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” again. It’s opened on Broadway this time. We revisit an American classic.

President Obama in Israel. Colorado’s prison chief, shot. The Iraq War, ten years on. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

Never mind future shock. Douglas Rushkoff says we’re suffering “present shock.” The tyranny of the digital, always-on “now.”

Three months after Sandy Hook. Will gun reform be gutted in the U.S. Senate? Is it happening right now?

The kill-off of elephants is getting worse. Humans are wiping them off the face of the earth, and scientists say the elephants know it.

Drones on top of drones. New, commercial drones take off. Some say our skies will be dark with privately-owned drones.

Into the woods. How John James Audubon hunted, pinned, and painted his masterpiece, “The Birds of America.”

As Congress tightens the national budget belt, big corporations are getting monster tax breaks, with the help of high paid lobbyists.

Social media, outrage, justice and the Steubenville rape case.

Ten years after the American invasion of Iraq, we weigh the price and lessons of the war that followed.

For St. Patrick’s Day, the story of the legendary tall-masted ship – the Jeanie Johnston – that brought thousands of Irish from famine to America.

Pope Francis. Paul Ryan and dueling budgets. The Steubenville rape case goes to trial. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

America’s first feminist. The 19th century’s journalist, critic, transcendentalist, adventurer, Margaret Fuller.

Barack Obama was a controversial pathbreaker in putting big private money in campaign politics. Now he’s doing it in the White House. We investigate.

The Afro-Cuban All Stars bandleader Juan de Marcos Gonzalez joins us. We’ll get the latest hot sounds out of Havana.

The TSA’s new strategy on airline security: Small knives are OK and so are “trusted” passengers. But who makes that list? And how?

A judge strikes down New York’s ban on big sugary drinks. What do we do about American obesity?

The cardinals sit down in Rome. The conclave begins. We look at the politics and prayer of choosing a new pope.

Asian-Americans and college admissions. Is the bar set higher for Asian-Americans?

A new generation of “climate activists” are ready to raise Hell over the Keystone Pipeline and more. We hear from them.

Mushers, majestic huskies, and more: we go to the Iditarod.

Obama breaks bread with the GOP. Hugo Chavez. HIV baby cured.

We examine the science of winning and losing. Why a lucky few are top dogs and the rest of us aren’t.

The Dow hit a record high. What’s behind the jump? And what’s the big picture economic message?

The Supreme Court heard a challenge to the Voting Rights Act. Is it still needed? We ask Shelby County, Alabama.

Hugo Chavez, dead at 58. We’re looking at what’s ahead for Venezuela.

Children as young as five, being treated for anorexia. We’re exploring the subtle causes and treatments that can save lives.

More refugees pouring out of Syria, more promises of aid for the rebels, and more fears that the radicals will win this fight. We take stock.

We’re looking inside America’s gun culture.

The first workweek under sequester begins. We’re touching down around the country, and in Washington for the impact and where this goes.

Sequester: day one. The Pope, now emeritus. US aid to Syrian rebels. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

Reimagining the Vikings, where history meets drama.

Technology you will wear. Google’s glasses. Apple’s iWatch. And “augmented reality” on its way.