In a live chat with viewers, Bill said that reaching out to fellow citizens and neighbors is an essential step in transforming our broken democracy.

A woman filmed a now-viral video to challenge xenophobic attitudes in light of Ebola’s proliferation.

Micah Sifry’s new book offers some answers, but misses important shifts in the power base of traditional progressive organizing.

In this clip, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson tells Bill that as a society -- and that includes politicians -- we are stooping way too low in the way we treat and speak to one another.

Amid continual headlines of terror plots, we have been relegated to the role of so many frightened spectators when it comes to our government and its actions.

We can’t tackle climate change while fracking and burning more oil and gas. Big media outlets that refuse to make this simple connection are the new climate denialists.

Watch Bill's interviews with a range of leaders, thinkers and doers on the front lines.

The war whoops of the pundit class have helped propel the nation into yet another doomed military adventure in the Middle East, but their tone is changing.

Here’s the bottom line: we can’t solve any of the daunting challenges facing our country now without a guaranteed Open Internet.

The money keeps flowing - not only to politicians but also to efforts aimed at undermining climate science.