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  1. The Songs Are Free Bernice Johnson Reagon - The Songs Are Free (Photo: The Songs Are Free)
    2 Feb 1991 … Bernice Johnson Reagon, founder of the musical group Sweet Honey in the Rock and curator of the Community Life Division of the Smithsonian Institution, discusses how black music has shaped the African-American experience and identity. Continue reading
  2. ‘Poetry Is Pure Research for the Human Project’
    4 Apr 2017 … April is National Poetry Month, and we’re celebrating by featuring examples of “civic” poetry from new and familiar voices. Throughout the month we’ll be discussing what it means to be civic through the art of words. Join us on Twitter at #civicpoetry. Continue reading
  3. David Sirota’s Word of the Week: Looting We’re missing billions in taxes each year. That’s partly why our roads and transit systems are falling apart. (Mural by graffiti artist Alec Monopoly / Photo by aisletwentytwo | Flickr CC 2.0)
    5 May 2020 … We don’t call this “looting” because it is being done quietly in nice marbled office buildings in Washington and New York. We don’t call this “looting” because the looters wear designer suits and are very polite as they eagerly steal Continue reading
  4. After Living in Norway, America Feels Backward. Here’s Why.
    1 Jan 2016 … Some years ago, I faced up to the futility of reporting true things about America’s disastrous wars and so I left Afghanistan for another remote mountainous country far away. It was the polar opposite of Afghanistan: a peaceful, prosperous land Continue reading
  5. Are Tiny Houses the Key to Fighting Homelessness? An architect's rendering of Quixote Village in Olympia, Wash. Image courtesy of Panza.
    2 Feb 2014 … Government officials and city planners are beginning to see the tiny-house village as one viable solution for addressing homelessness. Continue reading
  6. Unsanitized: The Vaccine Distribution Gaps
    12 Dec 2020 … There’s a gap in transparency and a gap in funding. Plus, looking at the holiday travel stats. Continue reading
  7. Morning Reads: Welcome to John Roberts’ Plutocracy; Drug Warriors Losing Battle for Hearts and Minds Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justice Antonin Scalia sit for a new group photograph at the Supreme Court in Washington. September 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
    4 Apr 2014 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at Moyers & Company HQ... Continue reading
  8. An Education Holiday Wish List Courtney Thornton, 10, and her mother, Colleen Thornton, participate in a candlelight vigil outside the Chester-Upland School District administration building in Chester, Pa. School Administrators say they won't be able to make payroll Wednesday, Jan. 18, unless the state advances the district $18.7 million in expected funding. January 2012. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
    12 Dec 2012 … Ten suggestions to improve education for all American children from The Nation's Greg Kaufmann. Continue reading
  9. Be a Modern-Day Robin Hood Nurses from the National Nurses United union protest for the Robin Hood Tax
    5 May 2012 … Fans call it the “Robin Hood” tax, but it’s more formally known as the Financial Transaction Tax (FTT). It’s a small fee on large transactions of currencies, bonds and shares. More than 65 U.S. and international environmental, health, labor, faith, Continue reading
  10. “I Question America”: Fannie Lou Hamer and the Battle for Full Citizenship Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer of Ruleville, MS, speaks to Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party sympathizers outside the Capitol in Washington, September 17, 1965, after the House of Representatives rejected a challenge to the 1964 election of five Mississippi representatives. (AP Photo/William J. Smith)
    8 Aug 2014 … The soul-searching that the country is going through in the wake of the turmoil in Ferguson, Missouri, echoes that of our past. Continue reading