NOW examines health issues around the world and Bill Moyers sits down with Microsoft mogul and public health student Bill Gates.

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.

This bill looks at a bill that would change how overtime works and considered the economic effects of the Iraq War and the societal effects of September 11.

This investigation into the state of the media considers the media's widely varying coverage of the Iraq War, and asks if democracy can survive without the diversity of ideas presented by a truly free press, and an interview with Susan Sontag.

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?

Alice Walker on her opposition to the war in Iraq. Also: Is protecting chemical plants from terrorist attacks the responsibility of the government or the private sector?

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's Jessica Tuchman Mathews' 2003 warning against the Iraq War and the disturbing increase in pharmaceutical advertising.

Libertarian conservative Lew Rockwell on war's long-term economic effects, and New York Times foreign correspondent Chris Hedges on the human toll of war.

Bill Moyers talks with Maya Lin about her upbringing and multifaceted career.