Popular Science magazine's "Futurist in Residence" calls for our now-focused society to form a national vision of the future, and writer Susan Neiman asks how we recognize the face of evil.
NOW tells the story of an extraordinary place of worship with a spiritual leader whose candid observations of public policy and religious doctrine stand in marked contrast to fundamentalist Christianity.
How Wal-Mart uses taxpayers money to keep prices low and profits high, Samantha Power on trying and punishing former tyrannical leaders, and former Maine Governor and political Independent Angus King.
An investigation into how diminished government transparency leaves the public — and democracy — at risk, and conversations with Pulitzer winner Dorothy Rabinowitz and NY Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.
What happens when the US spends more on defense than education, transportation, the environment, and agriculture combined? Meanwhile, photographs show the human cost of war.
Bill talks to former Major League Baseball pitcher and author Jim Bouton, media critic John Leonard and views the work of photographer Sebastiao Salgado.
A three-part investigation into the roots of growing US economic inequality, and the often-forgotten human toll of government policies that favor corporations over individuals.
A discussion of big corporations' cozy ties to the White House and war profiteering, the Patriot Act and escalating erosion of liberties, and decades of US environmental policy.
The largely unnoticed battles of wounded veterans, the relationship between Big Media conglomerates and government, and myths about productivity, professional mobility and the middle class.