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We'll talk about how investing in infrastructure could solve some of our biggest economic problems.

We'll examine what's really behind the GOP's war on voting rights -- rather than change their extremist positions, they can win elections by simply rigging the system.

Ian Millhiser from Think Progress will tell us if the GOP has made any progress since releasing

We'll look at the choice that the Democratic Party has to make in this year's midterms and in the next presidential election. The question is: Will they be populists or corporatists?

And Ring of Fire co-host Sam Seder is going to discuss some of the best stories from independent progressive media from the last week -- stories that the traditional, corporate-

As the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence feuds with the CIA over the declassification of its 6,000-page report on the agency's secret detention and interrogation programs, former CIA acting general counsel John Rizzo and human rights attorney Scott Horton debate. This comes as the United Nations Human Rights Committee has criticized the Obama administration for closing its investigations into the CIA's actions after Sept. 11. A U.N. report issued Thursday stated, "The Committee notes with concern that all reported investigations into enforced disappearances, torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment that had been committed in the context of the CIA secret rendition, interrogation and detention programmes were closed in 2012 leading only to a meager number of criminal charges brought against low-level operatives."

Sen. Sanders reacts to the 5-to-4 decision in the McCutcheon v. FEC case, being described as the "next Citizens United," referring to the 2010 ruling that opened the floodgates for unlimited corporate spending on U.S. elections.

Alaa Abd El-Fattah speaks with Sharif Abdel Kouddous in his first extended interview after nearly four months behind bars. An open Internet and political activist, Fattah has been at the forefront of the struggle for change in Egypt for many years and has the distinction of having been actively persecuted by Egypt's past four successive rulers.

Outrage is growing in Albuquerque, New Mexico, after the latest incident in a spate of police shootings. Video footage captured by a police helmet camera shows officers killing James Boyd, a homeless man who appeared to be surrendering to them at a campsite where he was sleeping. Boyd is seen picking up his belongings and turning away when officers deploy a flash grenade and then fire six live rounds at him from yards away. The Albuquerque Police Department has come under federal scrutiny for being involved in 37 shootings since 2010, 23 of them fatal. This week the FBI confirmed it is investigating the killing of Boyd, and the Justice Department has already been investigating the city's police shootings for more than a year.

Despite Saudi Arabia's funding and arming of militants in Syria, Iraq and beyond, President Obama is set to visit the kingdom this week to meet with King Abdullah. It's the only Middle Eastern or Gulf nation on Obama's overseas itinerary. Many analysts say the conflict in Syria has grown into a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Saudi Arabia's links to jihadist groups go back decades. Fifteen of the 19 Sept. 11 hijackers were Saudi. The 9/11 Commission Report identified Saudi Arabia as the main source of al-Qaeda financing. And in 2010, WikiLeaks published U.S. diplomatic cables which identified Saudi Arabia as the world's largest source of funds for Islamist militant groups. Members of Congress and human rights organizations have also been calling on Obama to address the kingdom's treatment of women, religious minorities and political activists.

A federal judge in Michigan overturned that state's ban on same-sex marriage this past Friday, the 14th consecutive court to rule in favor of marriage equality

In doing so, the judge demolishes the rightwing testimony by Regnerus attacking gay and lesbian parents.

Marriages in Michigan got underway Saturday morning, but Sixth Circuit later stayed the decision.

Vice President Joe Biden says that anti-gay cultural norms do not deserve respect.

Lesbian wins anti-discrimination suit in NYC against restaurant that led staff in anti-gay prayers

The Hobby Lobby case at the Supreme Court looks ominous for women and gay people.

The anti-gay head of the Catholic League is given permission to march in NY's LGBT Pride Parade.

The out gay Speaker of the Rhode Island House resigns over a mysterious investigation into him by state police.

Fred Phelps is dead.

San Mateo health officials use fake GRINDR profiles to do AIDS education

BREAKING: We reported on this week's show that the Christian relief group World Vision was not going to discriminate against same-sex married couples that had sex. After we taped, the group reversed itself after bullying by evangelical groups.

Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Errol Morris talks about his new film, "The Unknown Known," based on 33 hours of interviews with former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. The title refers to an infamous press briefing in 2002 when Rumsfeld faced questions from reporters about the lack of evidence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.

Egypt is facing international criticism after the largest mass sentencing in its modern history. On Monday, 529 supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi were ordered killed over the death of a single police officer in protests last summer. The trial lasted just over two days, with the majority tried in absentia. The exceptionally swift trial and harsh sentences mark a new escalation of the Egyptian military regime's crackdown on Morsi supporters, which has led to hundreds of deaths and thousands of arrests. In another closely watched trial, Al Jazeera journalists Peter Greste, Baher Mohamed and Mohamed Fahmy have been denied bail after nearly three months in prison. They are accused of belonging to or aiding a terrorist organization. Meanwhile, two leading Egyptian activists have been freed after over 100 days behind bars. Alaa Abd El-Fattah and Ahmed Abdel Rahman are among a group of activists charged with violating the military regime's anti-protest law. They and 23 others have been released on bail but still face a trial that resumes next month.