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The Plutocrats Are Winning. Don’t Let Them!
12 Dec 2015 … Dear Reader, In the fall of 2001, in the aftermath of 9/11, as families grieved and the nation mourned, Washington swarmed with locusts of the human kind: wartime opportunists, lobbyists, lawyers, ex-members of Congress, bagmen for big donors: all of 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
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The Right-Wing Machine Behind The Curtain
4 Apr 2017 … The mood was jubilant two days after the November 2016 election at a Washington, DC, panel co-hosted by two powerhouse conservative think tanks — the American Enterprise Institute and the Heritage Foundation. Continue reading
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Greenwald Bombshell: NSA, FBI Spied on High-Profile Muslim-Americans
7 Jul 2014 … A new investigation based on documents leaked by Edward Snowden finds what appears to be ethnic profiling. Continue reading
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The President’s Never-Ending Campaign for Cash
6 Jun 2012 … With help from Hollywood, Obama looks for ways to close the fund-raising gap and do his job at the same time. Continue reading
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Why Hasn’t ‘Big Data’ Saved Democracy?
10 Oct 2014 … Micah Sifry’s new book offers some answers, but misses important shifts in the power base of traditional progressive organizing. Continue reading
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Morning Reads: The NRA’s Convention of Fear; Partisan Attacks Hurt ACA Enrollments
4 Apr 2014 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at Moyers & Company HQ... Continue reading
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Recommended Reading: Author James Zirin on Roy Cohn, Robert Reich on Senator Richard Burr, George Monbiot on Climate
4 Apr 2020 … From the tale of Trump's love of lawsuits learned from Roy Cohn to a reminder that our planet has many more problems than Covid-19 —this week's recommended reading. Continue reading
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Why I Used to Believe That Voter ID Laws Were Just Common Sense
10 Oct 2012 … Jeremiah Goulka, a Republican-turned-Democrat, explains both perspectives on the controversial new voter ID laws. Continue reading
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The Second American Revolution, Part Two
4 Apr 1984 … 1954 was a clarifying point of convergence in American history. Among other things, it was the year that brought the Supreme Court’s decision to outlaw racial segregation in the schools. Bill Moyers, Ossie Davis, and Ruby Dee tell the story Continue reading