John Light

Reporter/Producer

John Light is a reporter and producer for the Moyers team. His work has appeared at The Atlantic, Grist, Mother Jones, Salon, Slate, Vox and Al Jazeera, and has been broadcast on Public Radio International. He's a graduate of Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. You can follow him on Twitter at @LightTweeting.

ALL POSTS BY John Light

  • March 26, 2013
    The majority of Americans support gay marriage. Will the Supreme Court take that into account when they rule on DOMA and Prop 8?
  • March 25, 2013
    Seven bills in the House take aim at the law's derivatives trading rules, even though the regulations have yet to be finalized.
  • March 21, 2013
    A new report finds that the number of registered lobbyists in the nation's capitol has dropped in the past few years. But that doesn't necessarily mean there's less lobbying going on.
  • March 19, 2013
    Los Angeles Times journalist Matea Gold talks to Michael Winship about her efforts to investigate Washington's money trail.
  • March 16, 2013
    Michael Winship speaks with the former senator about what needs to happen before America is ready for another round of campaign finance reform.
  • March 15, 2013
    Michael Winship talks with the economist about lessons on government transparency that America learned, then forgot, in the years since Watergate.
  • March 14, 2013
    Two neighboring Florida communities -- one poor, one rich -- show that health improvements among the wealthy don't necessarily raise all boats.
  • March 11, 2013
    A new study says the world's temperatures have changed more since the industrial revolution than they have since the last ice age, with devastating eventual impact.
  • March 7, 2013
    A new report finds that many local TV stations selling airtime to dark money groups for political ads are not following the FCC disclosure requirements.
  • March 6, 2013
    A YouTube video showing how Americans' perceptions of income inequality differ from reality has been receiving a lot of attention. Watch the video.