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10 Dynamics That Will Shape the Next Two Years of American Politics
12 Dec 2014 … We look ahead at what's likely to come as Republicans take control of the Senate. Continue reading
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Dispatch From Baltimore: Praying for Peace, Living Another Reality
4 Apr 2015 … The emotional distance between Freddie Gray’s moving funeral and the chaos that followed isn’t as wide as it may seem. Continue reading
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Juneteenth: America’s Other Independence Day
4 Apr 2021 … (Recorded at Carnegie Hall on June 19, 2019) Juneteenth marks the day in 1895 when slaves in Texas learned they were free. Abraham Lincoln had issued the Emancipation Proclamation two and a half years earlier, but many states ignored it, Continue reading
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Morning Reads: Obama Doubles Down in Extremism Debate
2 Feb 2015 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at Moyers & Company HQ... Continue reading
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How the States Are Trying to Rein in Dark Money
3 Mar 2014 … With federal action stymied by politics, activists are turning to the "laboratories of democracy." Continue reading
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The Media’s Rapid Retreat
3 Mar 2017 … Oh, how optimistic, naïve and ultimately foolish we were! When Donald Trump bulldozed his way through his first five weeks of his presidency, leaving wreckage in his wake, we knew the mainstream media couldn’t pretend this was business as usual. Continue reading
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Linguist Geoffrey Nunberg on Language and Losers
6 Jun 2017 … (Trump's) language isn’t the language of public life. When he says they’re not just evil, they’re losers, of the terrorists, he’s really reducing it to kind of high school categories. To him being a loser is worse than being evil. Continue reading
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Will Texas Stamp Out Dark Money?
10 Oct 2014 … The state's Ethics Commission adopted new disclosure rules on Wednesday, but conservatives are outraged and there may be a fight ahead. Continue reading
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Slandering Populism: a Chilling Media Habit
5 May 2017 … I imagine I’m not the only political and media observer sickened by the dominant (“mainstream”) corporate media’s habitual reference to xenophobic, right-wing, white-nationalist and neo-fascist politicians like Donald Trump, Geert Wilders, Nigel Farage, and Marine Le Pen as “populists.” Populism Continue reading
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Bank of America Strikes Again
3 Mar 2012 … Just a few months after public outrage forced Bank of America to drop a planned $5 fee for using debit cards to make purchases, the financial institution is at it again. On March 1, The Wall Street Journal reported that Continue reading