NOW
A weekly show including documentary reporting, in-depth one-on-one interviews and articulate commentary from a wide variety of media-makers and those behind the headlines. The series shed light on a wide range of issues confronting the nation, including the Enron scandal, corporate tax havens, conflict in the Middle East, and the Wars on Terror and Iraq. NOW also explored American culture through interviews with major authors, religious leaders, and artists. Bill Moyers, one of America’s foremost journalists, added his voice to insightful documentary reporting, breaking news analysis, and articulate commentary. Essential viewing for the engaged citizen, NOW viewers are informed and challenged by the series, which provides insight into the important issues facing the nation and the globe. Each week, NOW provided viewers with the necessary context to explore their relationship to larger issues and to make sense out of the events shaping our time. (2002-2004)
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EDITORS' PICKS
September 26, 2003 | NOWSupporters say faith-based charities step in to take care of people when government social service agencies can't, but critics contend some are vehicles to push religion on vulnerable clients.
October 10, 2003 | NOWThe possible hidden agendas of some faith-based charities, a discussion of corporate reform with the founder of Vanguard Group, and writer John Ridley on the intersection of politics and entertainment.
October 17, 2003 | NOWThe Houston superintendent was tapped to be Secretary of Education — but was his model so "successful" thanks to high cheating drop-out rates? And should insurance companies treat chemical addit
October 24, 2003 | NOWA battle between union workers and corporate efforts to cut pay and benefits, politicians who tout their religions but don't help those in need, and the plight of women in Afghanistan.
October 31, 2003 | NOWThe bitter battle over President Bush's nominee for the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, a conversation with the man at the helm of The Economist, and the political effects of piety in government.
November 7, 2003 | NOWThe largely unnoticed battles of wounded veterans, the relationship between Big Media conglomerates and government, and myths about productivity, professional mobility and the middle class.
November 14, 2003 | NOWA 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.
November 21, 2003 | NOWA 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.
November 21, 2003How the politics of the privileged is jeopardizing America’s economic future.- November 28, 2003 | NOWBill talks to former Major League Baseball pitcher and author Jim Bouton, media critic John Leonard and views the work of photographer Sebastiao Salgado.
December 5, 2003 | NOWWhat happens when the US spends more on defense than education, transportation, the environment, and agriculture combined? Meanwhile, photographs show the human cost of war.
December 12, 2003 | NOWAn 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.
December 19, 2003 | NOWHow 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.
December 26, 2003 | NOWNOW 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.
January 2, 2004 | NOWPopular 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.
