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 6, 2013Because Obama is a lame duck -- and not a campaigning candidate -- Organizing for Action gives big donors more access to his administration than ever before.
March 4, 2013The Violence Against Women Act passed Congress last week. Now take a look at other legislation that could have made a difference for women, but didn't.
March 1, 2013Find out which schools are receiving taxpayer money to teach creationism.
February 27, 2013Sheila Bair writes that growing income inequality in America is everyone's problem, and calls on her fellow Republicans to take action.
February 22, 2013Since the recession started, America's richest have seen their earnings bounce back while everyone else’s have stayed the same.
February 22, 2013What if, instead of tying the minimum wage to the cost of living, we tied it to the earnings of the top 1 percent?
February 19, 2013Instead of helping America's crime-ridden communities, putting more men in prison for longer has had a devastating effect.
February 15, 2013Government watchdog Michael Smallberg discusses the cozy relationship between SEC regulators and the financial players they’re supposed to police.
February 14, 2013Who said the campaigns were over? Check out new super PACs and politically-aligned nonprofits hoping to keep their causes alive and the money coming.
February 12, 2013Why are Senate Republicans doing everything they can to cripple the already-successful Consumer Financial Protection Bureau?
