Guest List: August 11, 2017

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The Interview:

Richard Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist, and the New York Times bestselling author of Science in the Soul: Selected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist.  

Twitter: @RichardDawkins

The Panel:

Fareed Zakaria is a columnist for the Washington Post and the host of CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS". His latest special, “Why Trump Won,” is now available on demand and will encore August 28 on CNN.

Twitter: @FareedZakaria

Jon Meacham is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush, available now in paperback.

Twitter: @jmeacham

The Mid-Show Interview: 

Jim Parsons stars in CBS's "The Big Bang Theory" and is the Executive Producer and narrator of the new documentary series “First In Human,” airing Thursdays at 9pm on Discovery.

Submit a question for this week’s guests using #RTOvertime and watch them answer LIVE after the show on the Real Time YouTube channel.

Submit Your Overtime Questions for August 11, 2017

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Bill and his roundtable guests - Richard Dawkins, Fareed Zakaria, Jon Meacham and Jim Parsons - 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.

Guest List: August 4, 2017

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The Interview: 

Former Vice President Al Gore is the subject of the documentary “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power" which premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and opens nationwide on August 4th. The companion action handbook is available now in both physical and eBook form.

Twitter: @algore / @aitruthfilm

Michael Weiss is a CNN Analyst for International Affairs and co-author of ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror. 

Twitter: @michaeldweiss

Mid-show Interview:

Ralph Reed, Jr. is the Founder and Chairman of the Faith and Freedom Coalition and author of Awakening: How America Can Turn From Economic and Moral Destruction Back to Greatness.

Twitter: @ralphreed

Submit a question for this week’s guests using #RTOvertime and watch them answer LIVE after the show on the Real Time YouTube channel.

Submit Your Overtime Questions for August 4, 2017

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Bill and his roundtable guests - Vice President Al Gore, Kristen Soltis Anderson, Joshua Green, Michael Weiss, and Ralph Reed - 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.

What Do We Do About Global Warming Now?

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What Do We Do About Global Warming Now?

Now that our President has joined us with Syria and Nicaragua as the only nations in the world who aren’t part of the Paris Agreement — thanks, dude — what are Americans supposed to do about global warming? Well, there’s a new book called “Drawdown” and in the language of the internet, “Drawdown is the global warming book America needs right now.” It asked a coalition of climatologists, economists, entrepreneurs, scholars, and activists to come up with a list of the 100 most effective solutions for global warming. And since it’s a book, you don’t even have to click through all 100 in a slideshow. Or subject yourself to the language of the internet.

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