The old school of community organizing can find common ground with the new school.  Joshua Levy, the Managing Editor of Change.org, and Bertha Lewis, the Chief Organizer of ACORN nationwide, draw connections between organizing on the web and organizing on the ground, and talk about the new post-election world of civic engagement. 

If you were in Barack Obama's shoes, what would you do first?  Simon Constable, a columnist at Dow Jones Newswires, talks economic options and takes viewer calls. 

Sandeep Junnarkar, the founder and editorial director of "Lives in Focus: Family Life Behind Bars", and an associate professor at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, and Makeba Lavan, a video blogger for "Lives in Focus" and a student at John Jay College, talk about the cost of incarceration on the families of the incarcerated.

How important was the web in reshaping our political system?  And what does that system look like going forward? We were joined by Andrew Rasiej, the Co-founder of Personal Democracy Forum, Edward-Isaac Dovere, the Editor of City Hall and The Capitol monthly magazines, and Steve Clemons, who writes the Washington Note, to react to the new political landscape. 

What does an African American President mean for America?  We are joined by Leon Wynter, the author of American Skin: Big Business, Pop Culture and the End of White America and Jim Sleeper, a Yale lecturer in Political Science who wrote Liberal Racism and the Closest of Strangers, to talk about the future of race relations in America.  

Lots of people are celebrating the Obama victory, and not just here in the United States.  Lena Einhorn, a Swedish documentary filmmaker and writer, Nils Wigginghaus, an Obama supporter Skyped in from Germany, and Lenore Skenazy, a writer and humorist, react to the election news.  

Author and Princeton University professor Eddie Glaude is joined by world-renowned psychiatrist and author Robert Jay Lifton from Cape Cod via Skype to discusses racial politics and the motifs of Hope and Fear in the final run up to election.  

Election time is here, and with it concern over whether or not your vote will be counted correctly.  Mark Crispin Miller, the author of Loser Take All, takes a closer look at voter fraud and suppression

The votes (at least from the city council) are in, and Mayor Bloomberg is eligible to run for a third term in this time of economic upheaval.  New York Times reporter Clyde Haberman checks in on what Bloomberg Version 3.0 might look like.