A look at American and British media's failure to question the narratives provided by their governments, and the Sierra Club's efforts to expose Dick Cheney's relationships with energy insiders while writing energy policy.

With soldiers in Iraq making a base pay of as little as about $1300 per month, are America's service men and women worrying about their families affording their basic needs back home?

This episode of NOW features the New Yorker's Jon Lee Anderson, religious scholar Karen Armstrong and politics/ economics writer Kevin Phillips.

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.”

The use of public education money to support private schools, covering the 9/11 hearings as a White House correspondent, and the insanity of CEO pay.

A look at the influence of Christian Zionists on Middle East policy, a civil rights attorney winning big cases in the name of equality, and an uncertain future for a rebuilding Iraqi government.

Popular Science magazine's "Futurist in Residence" calls for our now-focused society to form a national vision of the future, and writer Susan Neiman asks how we recognize the face of evil.

How Wal-Mart uses taxpayers money to keep prices low and profits high, Samantha Power on trying and punishing former tyrannical leaders, and former Maine Governor and political Independent Angus King.

What happens when the US spends more on defense than education, transportation, the environment, and agriculture combined? Meanwhile, photographs show the human cost of war.

The largely unnoticed battles of wounded veterans, the relationship between Big Media conglomerates and government, and myths about productivity, professional mobility and the middle class.