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Two Firsts, One Candidate, One Superstar
10 Oct 2016 … Halfway through Hillary Clinton’s get-out-the-vote rally at Wake Forest University in North Carolina yesterday afternoon, I realized that Pogo, the cartoon possum, was right: I was seeing the future, and it was us. To roars of approval from some 11,000 Continue reading
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Donald Trump Has Some Explaining to Do
8 Aug 2016 … First things first, Donald Trump: Release. Your. Tax. Returns. No excuses. Second, if we have to have a cartoon character running for president, I would prefer Bart Simpson. He has better writers and a healthier sense of self-awareness. Like Donald Continue reading
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“Money Fer Nothin”
5 May 2013 … In Mark Fiore's new cartoon, Little Suzy Newsykins tells us about her summer job at the IRS "Determination Center," where she expects to pass her days doing very little work at all. Continue reading
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Hate on Trial
2 Feb 1992 … Bill Moyers investigates the facts and forces that led to the trial of Tom Metzger and his son, John Metzger, for their role in inciting neo-Nazi skinheads in Portland, Oregon, to murder Ethiopian immigrant Mulugeta Seraw. Continue reading
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Salman Rushdie
6 Jun 2007 … Salman Rushdie has written 14 novels. His latest novel, QUICHOTTE, was shortlisted for the 2019 Booker prize. The NEW YORK TIMES bestseller is inspired by the Cervantes classic DON QUIXOTE. In June 2007 he received knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Continue reading
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Beyond Hate
5 May 1991 … Moyers talks to those whose lives have been shaped by hate and those who have dedicated their lives to moving beyond it, including Elie Wiesel, Nelson Mandela, Jimmy Carter, Myrlie Evers-Williams, Václav Havel and others. Continue reading
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Scholar John McWhorter Suggests a New Approach To Racial Issues
2 Feb 2009 … Veteran political commentator, linguist and author John McWhorter weighs in on race in America. Continue reading
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Charisma, Personality and Power
10 Oct 1992 … Bill Moyers examines leadership, the presidency, and the presidential election of 1992. Featured in the program are Abraham Zaleznik, Steve Pieczenik, Fernando Moreno and Kathleen Hall Jamieson. Continue reading
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The Year of the Populist Outsider: 1896
2 Feb 2016 … Historians like me are sometimes described as professional gazers into the rearview mirror to tell us what’s ahead. It’s not quite right; the mirror isn’t a crystal ball but a spotlight into an attic full of lookalike things to think Continue reading
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The Reel World of News
2 Feb 1984 … A look at how newsreels grew into a unique 20th-century institution that informed and entertained whole generations. Bill Moyers conducts a tour of the cultural and political landscape so dramatically rendered by the American newsreel. Continue reading