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  1. Robin Lindley Talks with Historian Adam Domby about The False Cause
    9 Sep 2020 … Adam Domby, an award-winning historian and specialist on the Civil War and Reconstruction, examines the role of lies and exaggeration in the Lost Cause narratives and their celebration of white supremacy in his timely and groundbreaking new book The False Cause: Continue reading
  2. What I Learned From My March With Democracy Spring Lappé addresses a crowd gathered for the Democracy Spring mobilization in Washington, DC. (Photo: Democracy Spring)
    4 Apr 2016 … Yesterday was the most important day of my life. I walked up to the Capitol building and sat on the steps with more than 400 people. When asked to move, we refused and were arrested. We committed nonviolent civil disobedience Continue reading
  3. The War on Medicaid Is Moving to the States Mary Mayhew, commissioner of Maine's Dept. of Health & Human Services (left) and Gov. Paul LePage answer questions during a news conference to announce changes to the MaineCare system in Augusta, Maine, on Dec. 6, 2011. (Photo by Joe Phelan/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)
    9 Sep 2017 … In the early 1960s, as the Kennedy and Johnson administrations worked to enact Medicare and Medicaid, then-actor Ronald Reagan was a spokesman for the American Medical Association. He made a recording that warned of the dangers of the legislation — Continue reading
  4. Morning Reads: Journos, Pols Arrested in Ferguson; Yazidis Escape Mountain Siege A man watches as police walk through a cloud of smoke during a clash with protesters Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. Protests in the St. Louis suburb rocked by racial unrest since a white police officer shot an unarmed black teenager to death turned violent Wednesday night, with people lobbing Molotov cocktails at police who responded with smoke bombs and tear gas to disperse the crowd. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
    8 Aug 2014 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at Moyers & Company HQ... Continue reading
  5. The Story Behind the Story of Those Huge Corporate Tax Cuts Capitol Hill by night, August 11, 2012. (Image: Flickr/ Paul Arps)
    12 Dec 2014 … Congress has extended these give-aways for years without any public attention. Continue reading
  6. Why We Fail When We Try to Talk About Race in America About 2,000 New Yorkers marched in Manhattan, bringing traffic to a halt for hours in a demonstration demanding police accountability and remembering Delrawn Small, Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, the three men recently shot dead by police. (Photo by Erik Mcgregor/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
    7 Jul 2016 … Conversations about race in the United States fall short of their stated aims. We declare, usually after some horrific event, that Americans need to have a hard talk about racism. Politicians and pundits convene town hall meetings. Television and radio Continue reading
  7. Dean Baker: Main Street’s Economic Pain Is a Result of a Policy Failure
    12 Dec 2013 … Economists Dean Baker and Jared Bernstein have written a new book about how to cure what ails the American economy. Continue reading