# Real Time with Bill Maher season 12

This is a list of episodes from the twelfth season of Real Time with Bill Maher.

## Episodes

| No. overall | No. in season | Guests | Original air date |
| 303 | 1 | Glenn Greenwald, Steve Schmidt, Jennifer Granholm, James Carville, Mary Matalin | January 17, 2014 (2014-01-17) |
| Obama's speech on NSA reform, Chris Christie's Fort Lee lane closure scandal, Benghazi, Independents' self-identification rising, 2014 Elk River chemical spill, marriage between a Democrat and a Republican, global warming affecting animals, Republicans' war against the poor, unemployment benefits, minimum wage, women in US politics ||||
| 304 | 2 | Erin Brockovich, Josh Barro, Howard Dean, Carly Fiorina, Willie Nelson | January 24, 2014 (2014-01-24) |
| 2014 Elk River chemical spill & coal mining, Republicans & women issues, Obamacare, Richard Sherman's outburst after game against the San Francisco 49ers, Obama's inconsistent policies about marijuana, poverty & income inequality in the United States, 2014 Winter Olympics & Vladimir Putin's positions on LGBT rights, American football & concussions ||||
| 305 | 3 | John Ridley, Chrystia Freeland, Ronan Farrow, Darrell Issa, Stephen Merchant | January 31, 2014 (2014-01-31) |
| Solomon Northup and slavery, 2014 State of the Union Address, minimum wage in the United States, income inequality, demographics of the top 1%, Gerrymandering, differences between UK and US politics, stand-your-ground laws and African Americans, gun politics, Michael Grimm threatening a reporter, Flip a District, puritanism ||||
| 306 | 4 | Charlie Crist, Tom Colicchio, Alicia Menendez, S. E. Cupp, P. J. O'Rourke | February 7, 2014 (2014-02-07) |
| Independents in US politics, Cuban embargo, immigration reform, executive orders, Congressional Budget Office's report on Obamacare's effect on jobs, lowest abortion rates in 30 years, Russia and communism, heroin and prescription drugs, United States Department of State's report on the Keystone Pipeline, federal spending for children vs. for senior citizens ||||
| 307 | 5 | Bill Nye, Dylan Ratigan, Jeremy Scahill, Eric Klinenberg, Mayim Bialik | February 14, 2014 (2014-02-14) |
| Creationism vs. science, Comcast–Time Warner Cable merger, net neutrality, drop in infrastructure spending, targeted killings of US citizens who plot against other Americans, veganism, attachment parenting, World Health Organization's warning about cancer, Philip Seymour Hoffman's published diaries, Edward Snowden praising Russia ||||
| 308 | 6 | Michelle Alexander, Charles C. W. Cooke, Jane Harman, Rachel Maddow, Steve Coogan | February 21, 2014 (2014-02-21) |
| The New Jim Crow, incarceration in the US, human rights in North Korea, MSNBC's overcoverage of the Chris Christie scandal, BYU's anti-masturbation campaign, Philomena, forced adoptions in the Catholic Church, Pat McCrory blocking lawsuits against Duke Energy, drought in California and regulations, John Kerry's statement about climate change ||||
| 309 | 7 | Christopher Leonard, Austan Goolsbee, Margaret Hoover, William Kristol, Bruce Dern | February 28, 2014 (2014-02-28) |
| Meat industry's secretiveness, Obama's failed efforts to reform corporate agribusiness, azodicarbonamide in Subway bread, Tea Party movement and bailouts, military budget of the United States, intervention vs. diplomacy, poverty in the Midwest, WhatsApp acquired by Facebook, homophobia in the bible, victim playing by the 1 percent ||||
| 310 | 8 | Alan Weisman, Andrew Sullivan, Salman Rushdie, Amy Chua, Seth MacFarlane | March 14, 2014 (2014-03-14) |
| Environmentalism and overpopulation, family planning in Iran, annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, Rand Paul winning the 2014 CPAC straw poll, paid time off in the United States and Europe, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, Rush Limbaugh's comment on 12 Years a Slave winning the Academy Award for Best Picture, SAT changes for 2016, random religious rules ||||
| 311 | 9 | Errol Morris, Simon Schama, Sheila Bair, Keith Ellison, Shane Smith | March 21, 2014 (2014-03-21) |
| The Unknown Known, Donald Rumsfeld & the Iraq War, 2014 midterm elections, Democrats & gun politics, Flip a District candidates: Michael Grimm & Blake Farenthold, Greenland & climate change in the Arctic, CNN & quality of journalism in the 24-hour news cycle, 2014 Russian military intervention in Ukraine, relationship between Pakistan & bin Laden ||||
| 312 | 10 | Jimmy Carter, W. Kamau Bell, Neera Tanden, Rick Lazio, Josh Gad | March 28, 2014 (2014-03-28) |
| A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power, treatment of women in various countries, militarized police force, GM's recall of vehicles & corporations' liability, Paul Ryan's statements about inner cities compared to Michelle Obama's, Erdoğan banning Twitter and YouTube, Frozen & gay conspiracy theory, Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby, marine pollution ||||
| 313 | 11 | Paul Watson, Thomas M. Davis, Carrie Sheffield, Alex Wagner, Nas | April 4, 2014 (2014-04-04) |
| Marine pollution, Obamacare reaching its target number of enrollees, Flip a District candidates: Kerry Bentivolio & Scott Garrett, gerrymandering, McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission & unlimited campaign contributions, 2014 Fort Hood shootings & PTSD, United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's report on torture ||||
| 314 | 12 | Pussy Riot (Maria Alyokhina & Nadezhda Tolokonnikova), Rob Lowe, Duncan D. Hunter, Ana Marie Cox, Matt Taibbi | April 11, 2014 (2014-04-11) |
| 315 | 13 | Tom Steyer, Christine Quinn, John Avlon, Charles Murray, Annabelle Gurwitch | April 25, 2014 (2014-04-25) |
| 316 | 14 | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Ziggy Marley, Walter Kirn, Gavin Newsom, Monica Mehta | May 2, 2014 (2014-05-02) |
| 317 | 15 | Simone Campbell, Dinesh D'Souza, Arianna Huffington, Baratunde Thurston, Matt Welch | May 9, 2014 (2014-05-09) |
| 318 | 16 | Kevin Nealon, Brian Schweitzer, Robert Lustig, Kellyanne Conway, Ian Bremmer | May 16, 2014 (2014-05-16) |
| 319 | 17 | Sarah Silverman, Michael Smerconish, David Frum, Anna Deavere Smith, Jose Antonio Vargas | May 23, 2014 (2014-05-23) |
| 320 | 18 | John Waters, Anthony Weiner, Ralph E. Reed, Jr., Nicolle Wallace, Jim Geraghty | June 6, 2014 (2014-06-06) |
| 321 | 19 | Gina McCarthy, Krystal Ball, Richard A. Clarke, Carol Leifer, Tom Rogan | June 13, 2014 (2014-06-13) |
| 322 | 20 | Glenn Greenwald, Mike Shinoda, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Paul Rieckhoff, Kristen Soltis Anderson | June 20, 2014 (2014-06-20) |
| 323 | 21 | Joy-Ann Reid, Bobby Ghosh, Andy Dean, Martin J. Blaser, Max Brooks | June 27, 2014 (2014-06-27) |
| 324 | 22 | Jason Box, Sandra Tsing Loh, Ron Suskind, Donna Edwards, Reihan Salam | July 11, 2014 (2014-07-11) |
| 325 | 23 | Jane Harman, George Takei, Nate Silver, Jamie Weinstein, William Barber II | July 18, 2014 (2014-07-18) |
| 326 | 24 | Neil deGrasse Tyson, Amy Goodman, Matt Kibbe, Hogan Gidley, Richard D. Wolff | July 25, 2014 (2014-07-25) |
| 327 | 25 | Ralph Nader, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Reza Aslan, Chris Hardwick, Doug Heye | August 1, 2014 (2014-08-01) |
| 328 | 26 | Nancy Pelosi, Andrea Mitchell, Haley Barbour, Jon Huntsman, Jr., Jerry Seinfeld | September 12, 2014 (2014-09-12) |
| 329 | 27 | Colin Powell, Matthew Segal, Jack Kingston, Joan Walsh, Wendell Pierce | September 19, 2014 (2014-09-19) |
| 330 | 28 | Anthony Zinni, Alexandra Pelosi, Naomi Klein, Charles M. Blow, John Feehery | September 26, 2014 (2014-09-26) |
| 331 | 29 | Ben Affleck, Elizabeth Warren, Nicholas Kristof, Michael Steele, Sam Harris | October 3, 2014 (2014-10-03) |
| 332 | 30 | Kirsten Gillibrand, Barbara Lee, David Miliband, David Frum, Joel Stein | October 17, 2014 (2014-10-17) |
| 333 | 31 | James Risen, Cornel West, Mary Matalin, John Avlon, Chloe Maxmin | October 24, 2014 (2014-10-24) |
| 334 | 32 | Eva Longoria, Wesley Clark, Angus King, Kal Penn, Rula Jebreal | October 31, 2014 (2014-10-31) |
| 335 | 33 | Bernie Sanders, Lisa Kudrow, Robert Costa, Kristen Soltis Anderson, Linda Tirado | November 7, 2014 (2014-11-07) |
| 336 | 34 | Rand Paul, Martin Short, Andrew Sullivan, Margaret Hoover, Jeremy Scahill | November 14, 2014 (2014-11-14) |
| 337 | 35 | Seth Rogen, Chris Matthews, John Cleese, Chrystia Freeland, Roland Martin | November 21, 2014 (2014-11-21) |