1: Need to Know Foster Care, A ‘Lost Boy’ of Sudan

2: Need to Know Gun Control, Haiti, High-Speed Rail

3: Need to Know Care for Disabled Adults, Michael Vick’s Dogs, China

4: Need to Know Aging in the Car-Happy Suburbs, Congo, A New 'New Deal'?

5: Need to Know Egypt, End-of-Life Care, Alzheimer’s

6: Need to Know Ahead of the Class

7: Need to Know The Universe(s), Egypt’s Future, and Fracking

8: Need to Know Sea level rise, National Guard bonuses, Somali pirates

9: Need to Know Libya’s uprising, the high cost of college sports, Wisconsin’s unions

10: Need to Know Public unions and state budgets, blood transfusions

11: Need to Know Crisis in Japan, stories of academic transformation

12: Need to Know Wounded in war, Arne Duncan, breast cancer research

13: Need to Know Haiti and the Dominican Republic, Medicare, Edwidge Danticat

14: Need to Know The BP oil spill and the Grand Isle one year later, fixing American education

15: Need to Know Chinese drywall, ‘Capitalism 4.0,’ right-sizing Detroit

16: Need to Know Joe Nocera on the Charlie Engle story, Tavis Smiley, free music education in Chicago

17: Need to Know Adoptions in Nepal, Bin Laden economics, the united states of women

18: Need to Know Detainee abuse, broadband in Europe, crisis mappers

19: Need to Know Climate change and tropical disease, Upper Big Branch mine disaster, Stuxnet

20: Need to Know Political storm over tornadoes, Paralympics, shrinking Youngstown

21: Need to Know Paying for war, medicating foster children, childhood obesity

22: Need to Know Clinical trials overseas, legacy of nuclear waste, Brian Greene and the multiverse

23: Need to Know New voter laws, the anti-abortion movement, therapy for Tourette’s syndrome

24: Need to Know Combating IEDs, the ramifications of the Wal-Mart case, the science of happy marriages

25: Need to Know Greece’s debt crisis, congressional redistricting, ‘Page One’ and the New York Times

26: Need to Know Congo’s orchestra, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Sudan, workplace safety

27: Need to Know California nuclear safety, population control, Gloria Steinem

28: Need to Know Famine in Somalia, nuclear waste storage, Eric Cantor and the debt ceiling

29: Need to Know Adult autism, food safety, wealth inequality

30: Need to Know Breast cancer trials, Rick Perry’s ambitions, cyberweapons

31: Need to Know The history of debt, detainee abuse, living with Chinese drywall

32: Need to Know Urban farming in Detroit, consumer finance protection, gold mining in the Amazon

33: Need to Know Texas textbooks, wild horses, hurricanes and climate change

34: Need to Know Water contamination at Camp Lejeune, polls and markets, crisis-mapping

35: Need to Know 9-11, Ten Years Later

36: Need to Know Privatizing infrastructure, government and the private sector

37: Need to Know Creating ‘green jobs,’ the American garage sale

38: Need to Know Chemical pollution and the EPA

39: Need to Know Help wanted

40: Need to Know The politics of resentment

41: Need to Know The nuclear question

42: Need to Know Jobs in the balance

43: Need to Know Creating opportunity

44: Need to Know Coming home: The enduring sacrifice

45: Need to Know The Pentagon: Hard times, hard choices

46: Need to Know Resisting Alabama’s immigration crackdown

47: Need to Know Help wanted: Revisiting Ohio

48: Need to Know Making Congress work

49: Need to Know Mayor under siege

50: Need to Know Christian-Muslim relations in Iraq

51: Need to Know Eye on Iowa