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  1. The Trump Administration Is Confused About Meals on Wheels. My Grandma Could Teach Them A Thing or Two. Meals On Wheels of San Francisco driver Jim Fleming delivers meals to Yvonne Jarkowski on Feb. 27, 2013 in San Francisco. Programs for the poor like Meals On Wheels, which delivers meals to homebound seniors, could be affected if $85 billion in federal spending cuts come down due to sequestration. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
    3 Mar 2017 … Last week, White House budget director Mick Mulvaney defended the Trump administration’s proposal to cut funding for Meals on Wheels by arguing that the program is “just not showing any results.” Continue reading
  2. How Bill Clinton’s Welfare “Reform” Created a System Rife With Racial Biases President Clinton shakes hands with Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole of Kansas and Vice President Gore shakes hands with House Speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia during their Oval Office meeting Tuesday Dec. 19, 1995 to discuss the federal budget impasse. Budget talks collapsed Wednesday after President Clinton scuttled an Oval office meeting with Republican leaders and accused "the most extreme" House Republicans of reneging on a deal that could have ended the government's partial shutdown. (AP Photo/White House)
    5 May 2014 … A ten-year study of the aftermath of one of Clinton's signature achievements revealed some surprising results. Continue reading
  3. Richard Rodriguez (Part Two) Richard Rodriguez
    10 Oct 1990 … Part II of an discussion between acclaimed journalist and essayist Richard Rodriguez and Bill Moyers. They speak more about how Rodriguez writes about the intersection of his personal life with some of the most vexing cultural and political problems facing Continue reading
  4. The Ultimate ‘Bad Hombre’ Protestors carrying pinata likeness of Donald Trump.
    10 Oct 2016 … Donald Trump’s disdain for undocumented people bubbled over again during the last presidential debate of 2016. Is he so intent on Trump TV that he wants to expand Hillary Clinton’s edge with the nation’s 27 million eligible Latino voters? Asked Continue reading
  5. American Culture Has Become More Open, International and Diverse. Trump’s Budget Would Reverse That. Supporters of New York City's cultural institutions and programs hold a rally on the steps of City Hall to denounce cuts to funding for the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities contained in the current proposed federal budget platform. (Photo by Albin Lohr-Jones/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
    6 Jun 2017 … The Trump administration’s proposed 2018 budget, which prioritizes defense and national-security spending above all else, would deal crippling blows to government-funded institutions in the arts and humanities and leading American organizations that foster international dialogue and understanding of global affairs Continue reading
  6. Segment: Thomas Cahill on the People’s Pope
    12 Dec 2013 … Bill talks to best-selling author Thomas Cahill about why Pope Francis has conservatives up in arms. Continue reading
  7. Panama Papers Offer More Evidence That Free Trade Isn’t Really Free (L-R) Vernon Jordan, former US President Bill Clinton, Ron Kirk and US President Barack Obama walk off a green while golfing at Farm Neck Golf Club August 15, 2015, in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts on Martha's Vineyard. (Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)
    4 Apr 2016 … You might wonder what the connection is between a friendly game of golf last summer in Martha’s Vineyard and the Panama Papers. Read on. As anyone who hasn’t been in a cave – or otherwise away from the Internet — Continue reading
  8. Time or Money: The US Worker’s Dilemma Worker in bottle factory, 2000
    4 Apr 2003 … This bill looks at a bill that would change how overtime works and considered the economic effects of the Iraq War and the societal effects of September 11. Continue reading
  9. Beyond Neoliberal Miseducation HOLD FOR RELEASE UNTIL 12:01 A.M. EDT. THIS PHOTO MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST OR POSTED ONLINE BEFORE 12:01 A.M. EDT. - In this Oct. 6, 2011 photo, Gan Golan, of Los Angeles, dressed as the "Master of Degrees," holds a ball and chain representing his college loan debt, during Occupy DC activities in Washington. As President Obama prepared to announce new measures Wednesday to help ease the burden of student loan debt, new figures painted a demoralizing picture of college costs for students and parents: Average in-state tuition and fees at four-year public colleges rose an additional $631 this fall, or 8.3 percent, compared with a year ago. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
    3 Mar 2014 … Higher education is being defunded as part of a larger scheme to dismantle and privatize all public services, goods and spheres. Continue reading
  10. Activists to Watch: Daniel Schlademan
    10 Oct 2013 … Historian Peter Dreier explains why Schlademan is a part of a new wave of grassroots activists changing America. Continue reading