We’ll look at President Obama’s inaugural address and the second term ahead.

DJ and electronic composer Steven Ellison – aka Flying Lotus – the master beatmaker at work.

As the president is sworn in for a second term, we’re listening back to our 2006 On Point interview with then young Senator Obama.

Lance Armstrong takes his story to Oprah. So, what do we think about him and doping now?

The President’s push on guns. Hostage nightmare in Algeria. Boeing’s Dreamliner grounded. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

Robert Green Ingersoll, the great American agnostic — and how his 1880s message resonates today.

Gun policy and politics now. We’re looking at the President’s new push and what’s possible, on this side of Newtown.

The storm over Mali. Al Qaeda in Africa. The French in Mali. And the stakes for all.

With so many Americans scraping by, we’re looking at the debt traps and who’s most vulnerable.

Fire-walking, the hydrogen bomb, Death Valley, and more. We’ll go deep on the essence of heat.

Israeli politics loom large in American policy. Next week is a big vote there. We’ll look at sharply different visions from Israel’s future.

A former Air Force officer says the U.S. military is bleeding talent and needs an overhaul. We’ll listen. Plus, remembering Aaron Swartz.

After years of fiscal trouble, California’s looking at a budget surplus. We’ll look at how they did it and the lessons there.

Breakout novelist Ayana Mathis and her raw telling of African-America’s great northern migration in “The Twelve Tribes of Hattie.”

New cabinet picks. Joe Biden’s gun summits. The flu hits hard. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

American drought and the mighty Mississippi. Running low. We’re looking at climate change, commerce and the fight over water on the Big Muddy.

Ai Weiwei, China’s most famous living artist and most creative political dissident joins us from Beijing for a rare appearance in American media.

New music for a new year.

Are online dating services undermining American monogamy?

We talk with actor Jeff Bridges about Zen Buddhism and “The Big Lebowski.”

Republican former Sen. Chuck Hagel and the nomination for secretary of defense. We’ll hear supporters and critics.

All of India up in arms over a brutal gang rape and killing. We’ll look at the treatment of women and the uproar in India.

On the coming debt ceiling battle, the President says he won’t be held hostage by Congress. But is there any constitutional way for him to avoid a standoff?

How the Wild West of late night cable and internet comedy is changing the world of American humor.

A fiscal cliff deal. Uproar over Sandy relief. Hillary’s health. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

Once Star Trek’s Mr. Sulu, now he’s a web favorite and a big voice for gay rights. We’re talking with the singular George Takei.

There’s a world of oil up in the Arctic waters off Alaska. But a drilling rig run aground has revived fears about the price we may pay to tap it.

Jared Diamond tells us what we can learn from traditional societies.

The US economy in 2013. We’ll look at the bright spots, red flags and big trends for the year ahead.

Nature speaks. We’ll hear a symphony of natural sound. Growls and gurgles, wind and water, wolf and jaguar, glaciers on the move.

Hammering out a deal. We’ve got the latest news and analysis from the fiscal cliff.

Superstar Dolly Parton joins us to talk music and where she’s found meaning in life.

We’ll get the latest on the fast-approaching fiscal cliff.

The opera “therapist,” the opera “terrorist.” Two greats. We’ll listen in with critic Peter Conrad.

The week in review, the year in review. Our weekly news roundtable live and in the studio looks back at 2012 and peeks ahead to the brand new year.

From spoiled milk to monkey brains – and worse. What revolts us and why? We’ll take on the science of disgust.

From the origins of the universe, to the Tudor age, to an Indian reservation in North Dakota, we look at the best books of the year.

Ken Perenyi made millions forging famous works of art. Now he tells all.

Nobel laureate Toni Morrison joins us to talk race, war, redemption and her new book, “Home.”

A new documentary, “Rejoice and Shout,” explores gospel music from roots to right now. We’re listening.

From Wikipedia to Kickstarter, we’ll look at the growing power of collaboration as a source of hope and progress with Steven Johnson, author of “Future Perfect.”

How rock ‘n roll saved the Christmas song.

We’ll get the latest from the edge as the nation hurtles towards the fiscal cliff.

The aftermath of an American massacre. Blame for Benghazi. Plans, A, B, and C for the fiscal cliff. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

In the sacred season, spiritual leaders from Connecticut take on the challenge of Newtown.

Online privacy changes and Instagram. Who owns your digital life?

A controversial fiscal cliff: peg social security payments to a lower inflation gauge, — the “chained CPI.” We’ll look at the impact.

What a generation of older parents means for family life and American society.

The political power of the NRA after Newtown. Will a massacre of children break the grip of the NRA?

The sound of commerce. How advertising has moved in on American popular music.

Mass shootings, Sandy Hook, and how we care for troubled minds.

The real cosmology of the ancient Maya, as Mayan apocalypse fever hits American pop culture.

Our society and guns in the wake of the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut.

Tragedy strikes an elementary school in Connecticut. A mass shooting leaves dozens dead. We’ll get the latest.

He brought Indian music to the world. We’ll remember sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar.

A North Korean missile goes long range. Union defeat in Michigan. Will it be a fiscal cliff Christmas? Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

Big money investors are now buying up piles of homes, and whole neighborhoods. We’ll look at what’s happening with houses and the real estate market.

Once we went to the Moon. Now we make smartphone apps. We’ll talk about really taking on our big challenges, with big ambition again. Cancer. The climate. Sky’s the limit.

We’ll explore the body and mind-bending world of competitive yoga.

Unions in the age of right to work laws. We’ll look at labor and organized labor nationwide after the big fight in Michigan.