Bill talks to psychiatrist and author Robert Jay Lifton about Trump, lies and dueling realities. “It’s a kind of purity of a single authoritarian person who claims to have nobility and claims that he alone and no one else can save the country. And by implication, the world. It’s pure megalomania,” Lifton says.

With so many leaks in the White House and no one to stop them, the Trump administration and the right-wing media are stepping up attacks on the "fake news" mainstream media and whistleblowers.

A media critic reviews the post-debate coverage on Fox and MSNBC — and finds a few surprises.

As Trump disses democracy, it would be nice to address the anxieties of those who are beginning to doubt it can help them.

An occasional look at how campaign 2016 is playing on prime time TV

Political campaigns, as well as anonymous (and not so anonymous) millionaires and billionaires, are spending more and more on ads to influence the presidential election — and network heads are cheering them on.

When one side believes poor people, immigrants, people of color, LGBTQ people and others deserve rights and the other doesn’t, how can we possibly bridge the gap?

Too many political reporters think the details of public policy are boring, and that's a real problem.