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For years I’ve been asking Americans to grow up about sex. Especially the Catholic Church, who not only needed to grow up but needed to wait for the people they were having sex with to grow up, too. But nobody needed to grow up more than the puritanical Evangelicals, who spent much of the Clinton and Bush years talking about abstinence, monogamy, and other good wholesome family values, like “gay people are going to hell.”
Read MoreBill and his Real Time panelists – Preet Bharara, Gov. Jen Granholm, Charlie Sykes, Jonathan Swan, and Adam Conover – answer viewer questions after the show.
In his editorial New Rule, Bill argues that the phony personas people adopt in public are vastly different than the weirdness they crave.
Former US Attorney Preet Bharara joins Bill to discuss whether the Republican Party is enabling a traitorous president and the importance of defending America's institutions.
Bill and his Real Time panelists – Gov. Jen Granholm, Charlie Sykes, Jonathan Swan, and Adam Conover – discuss the the Catholic Church's latest child abuse scandal.
Bill recaps the top stories of the week, including a new wave of reality show drama in the White House.
The Interview:
Preet Bharara is the former US Attorney for the Southern District of New York and host of the podcast, "Stay Tuned With Preet." In the newest episode, he sat down with recent Real Time guest Steve Schmidt to discuss the Republican Party in the Trump Era.
Twitter: @PreetBharara
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Bill and his roundtable guests - Preet Bharara, Jennifer Granholm, Jonathan Swan, Charlie Sykes & Adam Conover - will answer viewer questions after Friday's show.
Submit your questions in the comments section below. Selected questions will be answered on the Real Time Youtube Channel immediately following the premiere. Please be aware that concise (50 words or less) single-topic questions have the best chance of being selected, so the shorter and more specific you can be, the better.
Democrats aren’t really going to make this election about showing off how open we are to the word socialism, are they? How we can differentiate the good kind of Denmarky socialism from the bad kind of Venezuelish socialism?
Read MoreAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez had a rough couple interviews where she jumbled facts about the budget and even the U.S. population, so conservatives have been mocking her relentlessly in articles like Charles Cooke’s in The National Review: “The Unserious Face of an Unserious Movement.”
Read MoreBill and his Real Time panelists – Lawrence O'Donnell, Rep. Seth Moulton, D.L. Hughley, Christina Bellantoni, and Steven Pinker – answer viewer questions after the show.
In his editorial New Rule, Bill reveals the truth about #QAnon.
Author and cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker joins Bill to share some good news about the 21st century.
Author and MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell joins Bill to discuss reaching new heights in political corruption and the re-release of his book, “Deadly Force: A Police Shooting and My Family's Search for the Truth.”
The Interview:
Lawrence O'Donnell is the host of MSNBC's "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell" and author of “Deadly Force: A Police Shooting and My Family's Search for the Truth.”
Twitter: @Lawrence
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Bill and his roundtable guests - Lawrence O'Donnell, Rep. Seth Moulton, D.L. Hughley, Christina Bellantoni & Steven Pinker - will answer viewer questions after Friday's show.
Submit your questions in the comments section below. Selected questions will be answered on the Real Time Youtube Channel immediately following the premiere. Please be aware that concise (50 words or less) single-topic questions have the best chance of being selected, so the shorter and more specific you can be, the better.
Tucker Carlson needs to have his head examined. I don’t say that to suggest that he’s a clueless blowhard who’s lost his mind. I mean it literally — I think Tucker Carlson’s brain needs to be studied by scientists.
Read MoreReal Time with Bill Maher will return LIVE on Friday, January 20 at 10PM.
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