Vanguard

- Season 2

(2008)

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Lauren Cerre zigzags from Los Angeles to New York on bus, stopping to talk to young Americans about national issues affecting them.

Kaj Larsen goes on a search for modern day pirates in the straits of Malacca, one of the most trafficked seaborne trading routes in the world.

Adam Yamaguchi travels to the Artic to see how global warming is having a greater impact there than anywhere else in the world.

Mariana van Zeller travels to Angola to investigate China's rapidly growing presence in Africa.

The 18-34 year-old demo is one that grew up on great wealth and what we're facing could be the first real financial jolt we've seen.

Laura Ling follows several young inmates out of prison and into the often losing battle to keep from going back in.

Japan is facing a demographic crisis that will shrink the population dramatically. Adam Yamaguchi learns about Japans unique solution --- Robots.

The debate on gun control rages on in the U.S. Kaj Larsen investigates the issues of guns and crime in America.

Guantanamo Bay is seen as a necessity and a failure of the American government. Adrian Baschuk reports from the controversial detention center in Cuba.

Cerissa Tanner takes us to the streets of Oakland, CA, where teen prostitution is on the rise as drug dealers shift from selling dope to selling young women.

Adam Yamaguchi visits the island of Saipan to document the rise and sudden collapse of a tiny piece of America.

Laura Ling travels to the border towns of Juarez and Tijuana, Mexico where drugs gangs are fighting for control of the drug routes into the United States.

Kaj Larsen and Christof Putzel return to the Horn of Africa to investigate one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world.

No place in America boomed more than Las Vegas. But when the economy collapsed, Vegas fell hard. Laura Ling tours the wreckage of Sin City.

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Lauren Cerre and Tracey Chang travel to Argentina to learn a thing or two on surviving a recession.