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  1. The First Post-Middle-Class Election The crowds reacts as they watch montiors waiting for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton during her primary night event at the Duggal Greenhouse, Brooklyn Navy Yard, June, 7, 2016 in New York. / AFP / TIMOTHY A. CLARY (Photo credit should read TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)
    7 Jul 2016 … Two years ago, a pollster for Democratic candidates told me he’d begun advising his clients to cease emphasizing “the middle class” when speaking of those Americans whose interests they were defending. Many Americans who once thought of themselves as middle-class, Continue reading
  2. One Person, One Vote? Watching the Democrats Change Metaphors. Preemptive Democracy. Close view of a collection of VOTE badges. 3D render with HDRI lighting and raytraced textures.
    7 Jul 2004 … This 2004 NOW episode looked at whether America was at risk for a repeat of the 2000 election debacle, and considered Democrats' struggle to determine how America should act in a post-9/11 world. Continue reading
  3. Why Immigrants in California Are Canceling Their Food Stamps One week of food for a family of four on food stamps in California. (Photo by Alameda County Community Food Bank/ flickr CC 2.0)
    3 Mar 2017 … What if you had to make a choice between hunger or deportation? As the Trump era unfolds in California, fear of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement crackdown is disrupting the daily lives of immigrants and their families. In a state Continue reading
  4. Morning Reads: ALEC vs. the Environment; Open Carry Extremists Terrify Innocent Bystanders
    5 May 2014 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at Moyers & Company HQ... Continue reading
  5. One Cheer and a Half for Re-Election
    11 Nov 2012 … Perhaps one cheer and a half for the re-election of Obama. He is at best a moderate Republican to judge by his first term, a better bet on the future than Romney, and yet not what our desperate times need, Continue reading
  6. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on the Urgency of Fighting Against the Racist Right-Wing Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor delivering the keynote commencement speech at Hampshire College's commencement ceremony on May 20, 2017. (Screenshot from YouTube)
    10 Oct 2017 … Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is an assistant professor at the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. After Taylor called Donald Trump “a racist, sexist megalomaniac” at a commencement speech earlier this year, she received several deaths threats, leading her to Continue reading
  7. La Guardia’s the Name and Boy, Could We Use Him Now New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt share a laugh together, circa 1944. (Photo by Keystone Features/Getty Images)
    10 Oct 2016 … One of the most awkward interviews I ever conducted in my life was with Marie La Guardia, widow of the late three-term mayor of New York City, the legendary Fiorello H. La Guardia. She was 86 at the time. I Continue reading
  8. Business Is Hyper-Organized. Shouldn’t Workers Be, Too?
    1 Jan 2014 … Powerful business groups are mounting an aggressive campaign against worker advocacy groups, which have become better organized in recent years. Continue reading
  9. Bill Moyers Essay: What’s the Truth Behind the Sunny New Unemployment Numbers? Ronald Reagan gives a televised address from the Oval Office, outlining his plan for Tax Reduction Legislation in July 1981.
    1 Jan 1984 … Bill tells the story of Ron Bricker, an out-of-work man who asked President Reagan for help finding a job, only to end up making less than he did on unemployment. Continue reading
  10. Margaret Flowers — The American Dream
    6 Jun 2017 … This is the time for a strong offense, because the only way we will achieve a transition to a clean energy economy, peace, and fulfillment of our human rights is by building people power to overcome those who profit from Continue reading