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In this web-only video, screenwriter Tony Kushner and Bill Moyers discuss what draws us to examine Abraham Lincoln again and again.

Inspired by Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, learn about and experience ten instances of powerful presidential rhetoric on a wide range of topics.

On this second anniversary of the Sandy Hook massacre, revisit Bill's recent essay urging us to remember the victims and to seek out moral solutions.

From the short story "Otravida, Otravez"

Ten suggestions to improve education for all American children from The Nation's Greg Kaufmann.

Victor Pickard answers our questions about the (almost) golden age of the FCC when progressive commissioners tried to make commercial media more attentive to public interests.

In many cases, politics -- not policy -- determined if governors chose to create health insurance exchanges for their states.

In a preview of this week's encore broadcast, The Lincoln screenwriter talks about how writing the movie affected his own view of democracy.

Submit your clever ideas in the latest caption-the-cartoon contest and you may end up in our winners' gallery!

Spending by The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, the nation's most prominent gun control group, amounts to about one percent of NRA spending.