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After months of negotiations, back-up dancers for the pop star have a union contract, which activists hope could become an industry standard.

This grim Newtown anniversary reminded us of the moment when Charlton Heston made his boast that gun control advocates would have to pry his rifle from his “cold, dead hands.”

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

After two years of writing about poverty for BillMoyers.com and The Nation magazine, Greg Kaufmann is signing off to go fight on the front lines.

Bill discusses the work of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, which has just released a moving video urging viewers to speak out against firearms violence.

Did violent video games play a role in preparing Adam Lanza to commit mass murder? One year after Newtown, Bill explores violence in America with the preeminent cultural historian Richard Slotkin.

Bill reflects on the class struggles he observed in the small East Texas town he grew up in and the modern-day class war waged by the wealthy on our democracy.

Hundreds of ordinary people are contributing to a crowdsourced effort to measure radiation levels in the Fukushima fallout zone.

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

Forget Congress: The real action after Newtown was in 40 states -- from assault weapon bans to "volunteer emergency security forces" for K-12 schools.