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  1. Science for Sale? Drug Companies and Ad Agencies; The Cuban Missile Crisis and Iraq; Bob Moses’ Algebra Project
    11 Nov 2002 … As drug costs increase, are advertising agencies influencing the research behind your medication? And at one Mississippi high school, a former civil rights activist is using math to change his students' lives. Continue reading
  2. A Tale of Two Countries Protesters demonstrate in front of the White House during the Women's March in Washington, DC on Jan. 21, 2017. (Photo by Ted Eytan/ flickr CC 2.0)
    1 Jan 2017 … The storm clouds that gathered over the inauguration on Friday seem like a portent. Jan. 20, 2017, a dark day, is likely to live in infamy alongside the attack on Fort Sumter, Black Friday, Pearl Harbor, JFK’s assassination and 9/11. Continue reading
  3. Morning Reads: Gun Showdown on GA Law’s First Day; Two Small Towns Changed the Fracking Debate
    7 Jul 2014 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at Moyers & Company HQ... Continue reading
  4. Going Big on the Coronavirus Relief Bill
    2 Feb 2021 … If Biden gets this bill passed and Americans feel that it relieves the economic crunch, it will go a long way toward erasing people’s distrust of government action to regulate the economy. Continue reading
  5. Trump, the Arsonist of the Party
    10 Oct 2016 … The world according to Donald Trump is very dark indeed. The American economy has tanked. Mexico has sent a horde of criminals over the border to steal jobs and rape women. The Islamic State, cofounded by Barack Obama and Hillary Continue reading
  6. A Long Time Coming: Cabinet Nominee Deb Haaland: Pueblo of Laguna Deb Haaland, new Secretary of the Interior in the Biden administration (Courtesy: debforcongress.com)
    12 Dec 2020 … The Department of Interior is just the most recent of a long line of defilement and destruction of Native American lives and culture — now the first Native American in a cabinet position will lead it.. "A voice like mine Continue reading
  7. Heck of an October Surprise
    10 Oct 2020 … We are already exhausted, and we are entering a period that is going to be chaotic. The extraordinary chaos feeds the needs of this president to destabilize the country and emerge as a savior. The current chaos is designed to Continue reading
  8. Republicans’ Miserly Stimulus Plan Is More Band-Aid Than Economic Treatment Senator Susan Collings (R-ME) speaks to the media outside of the Senate Chamber shortly after President Barack Obama nominated Merrick B. Garland to be a Supreme Court justice, March 16, 2016 in Washington, DC. Collins said she would meet with Obama's Supreme Court although many of her Republican colleagues said they would not. (Photo by Pete Marovich/Getty Images)
    2 Feb 2021 … Here’s what the GOP's $600 billion counteroffer leaves out. Continue reading
  9. GOP: Get With The Program Biden says he is approaching the coronavirus with a “wartime” strategy, moving the power of the federal government behind the effort to get everyone vaccinated.(Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)
    11 Nov 2020 … Michigan’s certification of its election results pushed the General Services Administration, and some of the GOP itself, to call for the beginning of the transition process. Continue reading
  10. What the Media and Congress Are Missing on Zika and Poverty Without access to necessary comprehensive health care and social support services, low-income women and families could be looking at even deeper levels of poverty and poorer health outcomes on the horizon. (Photo by Luis Robayo/AFP/Getty Images)
    5 May 2016 … Somewhere along the way the focus shifted. What began as coordinating a response to Zika that is rooted in smart public health policy and caring for our fellow citizens became a funding fight on Capitol Hill in which many conservatives Continue reading