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  1. North Carolina Just Gave Millionaires a Tax Cut, Raised Taxes on the Poorest 900,000 Working Families North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory and his wife Ann greet the public prior to taking the oath of office during the inaugural ceremonies at the state capitol in Raleigh, NC, Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
    1 Jan 2014 … The 900,000 poorest working families in North Carolina just got another tax hike from the conservatives who swept state legislature elections in 2010. Continue reading
  2. What Aiken Said George Aiken
    8 Aug 2015 … It’s hard to imagine a Republican of national stature denouncing his party for being unfair to labor, for being too friendly with Wall Street, for failing to lead. But it happened in 1938. Continue reading
  3. Islamophobia’s Anniversary Ann Podina from Long Island attends a rally in opposition to the controversial proposed mosque located near Ground Zero during the 9/11 anniversary remembrance ceremony in New York on Sept. 11, 2010. (Photo by Carol Guzy/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
    5 May 2017 … May 25 is the seventh anniversary of Islamophobia in America. Not that the irrational fear and hatred of Muslims and Islam started then and there, but rather that the events helped coalesce a loose alliance of bigots and opportunists into Continue reading
  4. Angela Glover Blackwell
    4 Apr 2012 … Angela Glover Blackwell has spent most of her adult life working to advance the cause of economic and social equity for all. She is the founder and CEO of PolicyLink, a national research and action institute advancing economic and social Continue reading
  5. A Poet a Day: Marge Piercy Marge Piercy
    6 Jun 2020 … During these trying days of social distancing, self-isolating and quarantines, days rife with fear and anxiety, my colleagues and I thought you might like some company. So each day we will be introducing you to poets we have met over Continue reading
  6. Curing the Economy The floor of the American Stock Exchange in New York is crowded with workers as the Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted about 157 points in one of its worst one-day losses, Oct. 27, 1987. (AP Photo/Osamu Honda)
    6 Jun 1992 … Bill Moyers considers what we can do to repair the US economy. Among those who discuss potential solutions are Robert Kuttner, co-editor of The American Prospect; Henry Nau, author of The Myth of America’s Decline; and Patricia Saiki, head of Continue reading
  7. Reading Dostoyevsky For Thanksgiving Portrait by Vasily Perov. (Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain)
    11 Nov 2016 … Dostoyevsky’s books enact a radical empathy. Amid ugliness, strife, distortion, mutilation, a hand reaches as through flame to stroke the anguished face of another. A man asks himself in the cold of winter, "If the rich have so much money, Continue reading
  8. The Nuns on the Bus Hit the Road for Immigration Reform
    6 Jun 2013 … We travel to Camden, NJ with Sister Simone Campbell as she and her sisters advocate for comprehensive immigration policy reform. Continue reading
  9. Charlottesville Goddam Rescue workers move victims on stretchers after car plowed through a crowd of counterdemonstrators marching through the downtown shopping district on Aug. 12, 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
    8 Aug 2017 … Enough. We have a president who is emotionally challenged and empathy-free, who on Saturday read from a prepared statement of concern and condemnation, incapable of speaking genuinely from the heart, apparently because he knows that those who speak racist hate Continue reading
  10. Morning Reads: Did Andrew Cuomo Cut a Shady Deal With the GOP? N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo delivers his nomination acceptance speech at the state's Democratic Convention, in Melville, N.Y., Thursday, May 22, 2014. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
    11 Nov 2014 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at Moyers & Company HQ... Continue reading