Is America on the threshold of a new nuclear arms race? And John Dean has written a new book – his sixth – in which he concludes that the obsessive secrecy and deception in Washington today is “Worse Than Watergate.”

Bill talks to former Nixon Administration counsel John Dean about White House secrecy and presidential accountability during the Bush administration.

An investigation into the back-room deals giving Big Media more control than ever over what Americans consume and read, and a look at what it would take for Democrats to reclaim the South.

Supporters 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.

This episode of NOW looks at the state of the Iraq War, considers how ancient poetry transcends time, and considers what happens when companies renege on their pension agreements.

How can the American corrections system break the cycles of addiction and incarceration? A look at the psyche of Iran, and should colleges offer race-based affirmative action?

Did the Bush administration distort Saddam's weapons of mass destruction to drum up support for the war? And Chilean author Isabel Allende writes about two world-changing September 11ths.

The insider story of how investors get duped and defrauded and why it may keep happening, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the eyes of a writer with a poignant understanding of both sides.

This episode of NOW questions what the war in Iraq means for the rest of the Middle East, and contemplates the danger of media deregulation.

With city, state and county governments facing unprecedented budget shortfalls, how does the cost of war in the Middle East worsen the crisis in our communities?