Once-confidential documents offer a startling picture of the nation’s campaign fundraising system. Producers also considered the effects of war on children and race in America.

This episode of NOW investigates what the Patriot Act does to the balance of security and liberty, and analyzes the threat of smallpox as a bio-weapon.

The episode looked into the dangers of nuclear power plants, featured literary legend Doris Lessing and took a look at Gullah culture's contemporary challenges.

Bill Moyers reflects on a new biography of the late great curmudgeon H. L. Mencken.

Bill talks to poet Naomi Shihab Nye about the comfort that can be found in poetry.

NOW's cameras travel with writer and insomniac Sherman Alexie as he navigates the streets of Seattle at night looking for inspiration.

Three years before Hurricane Katrina, this episode of NOW considers what would happen if New Orleans were struck by a massive hurricane. Bill Moyers also interviews author and activist Arundhati Roy.

This episode featured a landmark counseling center helping children traumatized by 9/11, and looked into the atrocities committed in the war for the independence, of Aceh, a remote Indonesian province.

Bill interviews author Herman Gollob on the modern relevance of Shakespeare's work.

One month before his assassination, NOW talked with Marwan Zaloum, who personally selected and trained suicide bombers to carry out attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians.