Legal expert Robert A. Williams Jr. says stereotypes about American Indians have been codified into laws and government policies, with devastating consequences.

Bill speaks with Ta-Nehisi Coates, a senior editor for The Atlantic about his cover story on why America needs to reconcile with its racist past.

Ian Haney López tells Bill that dog whistle politics is “the dark magic” by which middle-class voters have been seduced to vote against their own economic interests.

Journalist and creator of the TV series The Wire talks about the crisis of capitalism in America and how it's dividing our country.

Lawyer and activist Michelle Alexander tells Bill about an emerging movement that aims to end mass incarceration and its impact on America.

Scholar Henry Giroux says America's current political system is leading to a culture where people are so focused on surviving, they become like "the walking dead."

An acclaimed historian puts into perspective the 2013 Supreme Court decision gutting the Voting Rights Act, which was signed into law in 1965.

Journalists Martin Clancy and Tim O’Brien share the history, human stories and tragic inequities behind capital punishment in America.

Attorney and legal scholar Bryan Stevenson joins Bill to expose the class prejudices of our criminal justice system.

Why is true justice -- not just the word we recite from the Pledge of Allegiance -- still unaffordable for those who need it most?