- February 14, 2003 | NOWOnce-confidential documents offer a startling picture of the nation’s campaign fundraising system. Producers also considered the effects of war on children and race in America.
- February 7, 2003 | NOWThis episode of NOW investigates what the Patriot Act does to the balance of security and liberty, and analyzes the threat of smallpox as a bio-weapon.
- January 24, 2003 | NOWThe episode looked into the dangers of nuclear power plants, featured literary legend Doris Lessing and took a look at Gullah culture's contemporary challenges.
- November 22, 2002 | NOWBill Moyers reflects on a new biography of the late great curmudgeon H. L. Mencken.
- October 11, 2002Bill talks to poet Naomi Shihab Nye about the comfort that can be found in poetry.
- October 4, 2002NOW's cameras travel with writer and insomniac Sherman Alexie as he navigates the streets of Seattle at night looking for inspiration.
- September 20, 2002 | NOWThree years before Hurricane Katrina, this episode of NOW considers what would happen if New Orleans were struck by a massive hurricane. Bill Moyers also interviews author and activist Arundhati Roy.
- May 24, 2002 | NOWThis episode featured a landmark counseling center helping children traumatized by 9/11, and looked into the atrocities committed in the war for the independence, of Aceh, a remote Indonesian province.
- April 26, 2002Bill interviews author Herman Gollob on the modern relevance of Shakespeare's work.
- March 22, 2002 | NOWOne month before his assassination, NOW talked with Marwan Zaloum, who personally selected and trained suicide bombers to carry out attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians.