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Where Are the GOP Supporters of Voting Rights?
6 Jun 2014 … Since Barack Obama’s election, GOP-controlled states have embarked on the most significant effort to restrict access to the ballot since Reconstruction. Continue reading
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National Book Award Finalists Announced
10 Oct 2012 … The National Book Foundation announced the finalists for the 2012 National Book Awards yesterday. Every year, the Foundation nominates five finalists for four categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry and Young People’s Literature. Bill interviewed one of the finalists for fiction, Louise Continue reading
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Saving a Baseball Park, Polio’s Deadly Conquest, and Journalistic Independence
11 Nov 2003 … Bill Moyers sits down with Jim Bouton, former Major League Baseball pitcher and author. Bouton, who turned MLB inside out with his best-selling book Ball Four, tells Bill Moyers about the influence of Big Media on his crusade to save a Continue reading
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Here Are the 56 Percent of Congressional Republicans Who Deny Climate Change
2 Feb 2015 … A compilation of the politicians on the wrong side of history. Continue reading
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The Earth Debate: A Special Roundtable From the UN Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg
8 Aug 2002 … Panelists discuss the state of the Earth, including population, poverty, hunger, health, energy, water and genetic diversity. Continue reading
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The Great Eviction: The Landscape of Wall Street’s Creative Destruction
8 Aug 2013 … The foreclosure crisis hit African Americans particularly hard with disastrous consequences for many communities, writes Laura Gottesdiener. Continue reading
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Twisting the Phrase “Culture of Poverty”
3 Mar 2012 … Author Barbara Ehrenreich says poverty's not a cultural aberration -- it's simply a shortage of money. Continue reading
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Unsanitized: $2,000 Check Battle Heads to an Endgame
12 Dec 2020 … First Response There have been several developments in the past 24 hours in the continuing story of direct payments for Americans. When we last left you, Donald Trump had blown up an already-passed deal by saying the payments were “ridiculously low.” Democrats Continue reading
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Coming Home From War, Salon on Big Media, and Misconceptions About the Middle Class and the Economy TRANSCRIPT ONLY HAS PICTURE
11 Nov 2003 … This episode of NOW examines the gaps between the Defense Department and the Department of Veterans Affairs that allow America's war wounded to fall between the cracks after sacrificing so much for their country, the relationship between Big Media conglomerates Continue reading
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Peter Edelman on Waging Another War on Poverty
1 Jan 2014 … Bill discusses our country's most successful effort to cut poverty with another veteran of that fight, Peter Edelman, who is today one of the leading experts on poverty. Continue reading