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Two headline-grabbing numbers suggest we're picking up the tab for a good chunk.

The city is home to more than 40,000 vacant properties. Now neighborhoods are hoping a new public entity can help them bounce back from the post-industrial blues.

Best-selling author and historian Thomas Cahill talks to Bill in a wide-ranging conversation covering everything from the bubonic plague to Christopher Columbus to the nature of human progress.

Bill talks to best-selling author Thomas Cahill about why Pope Francis has conservatives up in arms.

Bill talks to Philip Levine, a recent US poet laureate, who explores how his years working on Detroit's assembly lines inspired his poetry.

While Washington was stuck in the grip of the politics of obstruction, grassroots activists around the country did their part, and they scored some major wins for economic justice, civil liberties and democracy.

Christ's teaching for his followers to love one another gave way to inter-Christian violence within a few hundred years of his death.

A roundup of some of the stories we're reading this morning at Moyers & Company HQ...

Economists Dean Baker and Jared Bernstein have written a new book about how to cure what ails the American economy.

Big banks claim to be meritocracies, but a Bloomberg report suggests the old-boy network is alive and well on Wall Street.