This week on Moyers & Company, scholar Henry Giroux connects the dots between our politics and "casino capitalism," Bill previews a new documentary and a tribute to writer Doris Lessing.

A new poll finds that, because of revelations about NSA surveillance, we're paying more attention to our social media privacy settings. Call it the "Snowden Effect."

Is the invasion of privacy through surveillance ever justified? Here's what our audience had to say.

Free Press's Craig Aaron discusses the challenges the Obama administration and corporations are posing to a free press and a free Internet.

The United States has experienced fundamental changes that are dramatically detrimental to democracy.

Bill examines two major threats to democracy: the money and media election complex destroying our politics and the extraordinary surveillance invading our privacy.

What are your thoughts on being personally tracked, tapped or monitored? Is it ever justified?

With friends like US, who needs enemies? The US "now resembles a rogue superpower to an increasingly resistant and restless world."

In a special report, Alternet uncovers the hidden corporate cash behind America’s out-of-control national surveillance state and finds that Democratic leaders are full-fledged players, right along with Republicans.

Dovish Republicans like Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) and Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) are turning away from the neoconservative wing of the party, and they're gaining support.