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Congress Takes a Step or Two Forward, Two Steps Back
3 Mar 2012 … Does the recently-passed STOCK Act go far enough? Plus, House members using their positions for family benefit. Continue reading
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Roots, Radio and Social Change: Why Low Power FM Radio is about YOU
10 Oct 2013 … The FCC is now accepting applications for new low power FM radio stations. Activist Betty Yu explains how community radio can be a catalyst for racial justice, economic equity and human rights. Continue reading
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Frederick Douglass and Ulysses S. Grant on Reconciliation and Its Pitfalls
1 Jan 2021 … The post-Civil War years teach us the perils of heeding calls for unity while ignoring those for justice. Americans today — including the new president — can learn a number of things from this history. Continue reading
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New Podcast: Trump’s Grotesque Tulsa Speech and the Cult of Trump
6 Jun 2020 … Bill Moyers talks with journalist Jeff Sharlet, whose reporting for Vanity Fair describes how Trump the orator has turned his re-election campaign into a militant crusade fueled by conspiracy theories and rhetoric that incites violence. Continue reading
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The Fight to Save the Hudson River
4 Apr 2002 … As Bill Moyers says, "Progress brought pollution to paradise -- and almost overwhelmed it." Bill explores the dramatic history, complex ecology and profound natural beauty of the Hudson River. Continue reading
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Book Excerpt: “Alone Together”
10 Oct 2013 … We recreate ourselves as online personae and give ourselves new bodies, homes, jobs and romances. Yet, suddenly, in the half-light of virtual community, we may feel utterly alone. Read more about how culture is changing us in this book excerpt Continue reading
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Who’s Sorry Now? Not Donald Trump—Yet
4 Apr 2020 … There's no imaginable excuse for Trump's words and inaction, but a simple apology couldn’t hurt. Continue reading
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Our Common Enemy is Climate Change
1 Jan 2020 … There’s a lot of talk about climate change. A lot more talk than there is action. Not a heck of a lot of willingness to confront Americans with the fact that dealing with climate change will require sacrifice, will require Continue reading
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Podcast: Andrew Bacevich on “The Age of Illusions” and What Does It Mean to Be an American After the Cold War
1 Jan 2020 … Bacevich: "It is past time for us to have a serious conversation about what freedom means, what freedom entails, what obligations or duties freedom imposes. We’ve avoided that, and I think, in particular after the Cold War, we didn’t want Continue reading
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Bill Moyers Talks To Author Ben Fountain About Trump’s Triumph
10 Oct 2018 … Ben Fountain's Beautiful Country Burn Again is the boldest, bravest, and most bracing book about politics that I have read this year. - Bill Moyers Continue reading