Death and Taxes
/Almost nobody pays estate tax anymore. Last year, 2.6 million people died, but less than 5000 paid any estate tax – and even they are paying only 40 percent, which is about the lowest rate since the Great Depression.
Read MoreOvertime: Obamacare, Charter Schools, Politricks
/Bill Maher and his Real Time guests – James Carville, Mark Cuban, Johann Hari and Pitbull – answer viewer questions after the show.
New Rule: America Rules, Trump Drools
/In in editorial new rule, Bill Maher urges Democrats to stop conceding the Republican narrative that America is a country that needs drastic change, and reminds us that the facts tell a different story.
Senator Al Franken on Lying Liars
/Senator Al Franken joins Bill to discuss his return from a "comedy hiatus," the fact-free environment of today's politics and his hopes for overturning Citizens United.
I Don't Know It For a Fact...I Just Know It's True
/Long before Donald Trump was "hearing things," Bill Maher was making baseless assertions in a segment called "I Don't Know It For a Fact...I Just Know It's True.
Guest List: October 7, 2016
/Sen. Al Franken (D) is the junior Senator from Minnesota. Before running for the Senate, he spent 37 years as a comedy writer, author and radio talk show host. He was one of the original writers and cast members of Saturday Night Live.
Twitter: @alfranken
Read MoreThree Minutes and Fifteen Seconds
/When Adlai Stevenson ran for president in the 1950s, a woman told him, “You’ve got the vote of every thinking person in America,” and he shot back, “Yeah, but I need a majority.” That story may or may not be true, but I think about it every time I hear, “I’d like to vote for Hillary, but I just can’t trust her.”
Read MoreHard Bill to Swallow
/President Obama dropped in to a summit of health insurance CEOs last month to ask them to help make the Affordable Care Act work better for all involved. He also sent out letters asking them to join him in a campaign to get more young, healthy people covered, which would both benefit health insurers and bring down premiums for everybody.
Read MoreNew Rule: Trump's Basket of Inexplicables
/In his editorial New Rule, Bill Maher examines Trump's surrogates, and questions whether this cast of characters would be fit to serve in a Presidential administration. Original Air Date: September 30, 2016
Gary Johnson Is No Bernie, Bro
/Bill welcomes comedian Sarah Silverman to the panel for a discussion about how voters hoping that third party candidate Gary Johnson will take up the mantle of Bernie Sanders are sadly - and dangerously - mistaken. Original Air Date: September 30, 2016.
Lesser Known Trump Endorsements
/Donald Trump has yet to be endorsed by a daily newspaper, but Bill Maher has a list of some of his more obscure endorsements. Original Air Date: September 30, 2016.
Yes, This is Really Happening
/In his editorial New Rule, Bill Maher examines Trump's surrogates, and questions whether this cast of characters would be fit to serve in a Presidential administration. Original Air Date: September 30, 2016
Your Dildo Is Watching You
/We’ve said before that privacy is dead, but this story just put two in privacy’s skull, just to be sure.
Read MoreGuest List: September 30, 2016
/Sean Penn is an Academy Award-winning actor who narrates the audiobook of Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff by first-time author Pappy Pariah. He founded the J/P Haitian Relief Organization to aid in humanitarian efforts after devastating earthquakes hit the country in 2010.
Twitter: @imseanpenn
Read MoreMagic Hate Ball
/Solving our immigration problems is so important to Donald Trump that he says he’s going to do that first – before he “restores law and order,” “defeats ISIS,” and “creates jobs.” And then in week two…
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