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  1. Strengthening Public-Interest Armies Against Big Banks In his new 80-page report “Too Big,” Public Citizen’s Financial Policy Advocate, Bart Naylor provides a vital tool for building a much stronger public-interest army for taking on the big banks. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
    6 Jun 2016 … Bart Naylor likes to joke that when he accepted a job as a Wall-Street lobbyist, he assumed he’d be making a big fat salary. Seven-digit paychecks have indeed become the norm. The three top lobbyists for the Securities Industry and Continue reading
  2. BillMoyers.com’s Most Popular Segments of 2013 Bill Moyers on set at 'Moyers & Company' (Photo: Dale Robbins)
    12 Dec 2013 … A roundup of Bill's ten most popular discussions and essays this year. Continue reading
  3. Carter and Country Jimmy Carter
    2 Feb 1979 … Bill Moyers discusses the first two tentative and often erratic years of Jimmy Carter's presidency. Experts James Fallow, Brooks Holifield, Nicholas Von Hoffman, Bill Miller, Reynolds Price and Charles Hamilton share their opinions. Continue reading
  4. The 1970 Women’s Strike: A Bit of History At the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 53nd Street, a large group of women hold a banner that reads 'Women of the World' at the Women Strike for Equality demonstration, New York, New York, August 26, 1970. Tens of thousands of women (and men) marched along Fifth Avenue towards Bryant Park to demand equal opportuntity in employment and social equality. (Photo by Michael Abramson/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)
    3 Mar 2017 … Time was, you didn’t need a strike to create “A Day Without a Woman.” That’s just how things were. If you walked into any voting booth on Election Day, or watched any Supreme Court hearing, or tuned in at dinnertime Continue reading
  5. The IPCC and ExxonMobil Have Very Different Thoughts About Our Future
    4 Apr 2014 … Exxon and the UN's Panel on Climate Change released reports on the same day. The two reports' views of the future are starkly different. Continue reading
  6. Do Democrats Really Need Wall Street?
    10 Oct 2017 … Halloween is coming and fear mongering seems to be the order of the day — not just on the part of Republicans, but apparently no less so on the part of “centrist” and conservative Democrats who are expressing growing anxiety Continue reading
  7. Are Tiny Houses a Viable Affordable Housing Solution? Minim House at Boneyard Studios. (Photo: John Light/Moyers & Company)
    10 Oct 2014 … Micro-homes could provide a place for those experiencing homelessness to find stability and, perhaps, to live permanently. Continue reading
  8. How Is Citizens United Ruining Democracy and How Can We Stop It? (Photo: DonkeyHotey/Flickr)
    1 Jan 2015 … Five years after Citizens United, outside spending on elections is totally out of control. Here's an enraging and inspiring rundown of the current state of election spending and some ideas to improve things. Continue reading
  9. Last Night: Debating the Merits of the First Presidential Debate Media spin room, debate 2016
    9 Sep 2016 … In this special debate-night edition of "Last Night," our ongoing effort to monitor how politics is covered on prime-time television — still the major source of news for the vast majority of Americans — some of our subject-matter experts join Continue reading
  10. Ten Examples of Welfare for Corporations and the Ultra-Rich Olympic athletes queue up at the McDonalds inside the dining hall at the Olympic Village in London. July 2013. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)
    1 Jan 2014 … We spend a fortune in welfare for those comfortably at the top. Continue reading