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  1. Watch Bill Moyers and Christiane Amanpour: ‘Truth is the Oxygen of Democracy’ The moon rises behind the Statue of Liberty in New York City
    6 Jun 2020 … "Democracy was dying of too many lies long before this murder," Moyers tells Amanpour. "Unless we see the truth and act on it, we are going to run out of oxygen." Continue reading
  2. ‘Yes, We Can’ Progressivism Fairfax, UNITED STATES: US Senator Barack Obama greets supporters after speaking at the "Yes We Can" rally at the Johnson Hall at George Mason University 02 February 2007 in Fairfax, Virginia. Obama is expected to officially announce 10 February his intention to run in the presidential election of 2008. AFP Photo/PAUL J. RICHARDS (Photo credit should read PAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images)
    2 Feb 2016 … Though it is little noted in discussions of this year’s election, Senator Bernie Sanders’s campaign has brought back the essential message of then-Senator Barack Obama’s “Yes We Can” campaign of 2008. The core of that message is the word “we,” Continue reading
  3. For the Trump Era: Fight Not Flight Demonstrators gather outside Trump Tower to protest against President-elect Donald Trump on November 9, 2016. (Photo by Mohammed Elshamy/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
    11 Nov 2016 … A lot of US citizens are now talking about leaving the country. Canada, Europe and New Zealand are popular scenarios. Moving abroad might be an individual solution. But the social solution is to stay and put up a fight. Continue reading
  4. Are We Facing a Future of Invisible Workers? This undated photo provided by Facebook shows the server room at the company's data center in Prineville, Ore. (AP Photo/Facebook, Alan Brandt)
    2 Feb 2014 … The new trusts -- Amazon, Google, Apple -- are very different from the old ones, writes George Packer. Continue reading
  5. ALEC Is Bad for the Economy
    12 Dec 2012 … This article originally appeared in Mother Jones. The American Legislative Exchange Council, the corporate-funded group that generates nearly a thousand pro-business model bills per year and feeds them to state legislatures nationwide, is holding its annual policy summit in the nation’s capital this week Continue reading
  6. The View From Georgia Fulton county workers continue to count absentee ballots at State Farm Arena on November 6, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia. The 2020 presidential race between incumbent U.S. President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden is still too close to call with outstanding ballots in a number of states including Georgia. (Photo by Jessica McGowan/Getty Images)
    12 Dec 2020 … Will Georgia's communities of color come out in higher numbers for the senate run-off than they did for the main event? Continue reading
  7. Juan Cole on America’s Terrorism Double Standard Left: Sikh temple shooter Wade Michael Page, Right: Fort Hood shooter Nadal Hasan, (AP)
    8 Aug 2012 … Scholar and blogger Juan Cole explains how racism plays a factor in how we view terrorist incidents in the U.S. Continue reading
  8. 10 Reasons We Should Be Glad the TPP Is Dead Union members and community activists protest outside the Miami Dade College where the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce and the college were hosting a moderated conversation with Secretary of the Treasury Jacob Lew on March 20, 2015 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
    2 Feb 2017 … Since Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, I’ve found myself talking for the first time with a lot of my 20-something friends about trade agreements. My friends didn’t vote for Donald Trump. Most are from “liberal” parts Continue reading
  9. Keeping Faith in Democracy
    10 Oct 2014 … Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson talks to Bill about what the title character of her new book Lila, says about the state of democracy in America. Continue reading
  10. Rev. Dr. William Barber II on North Carolina’s Fight for Democracy Moral Monday (Photo: David Biesack/Flickr CC 2.0)
    8 Aug 2014 … "Our role now is to be like a social defibrillator, to shock the heart of the nation, to cause it to revive and to remember what the real enemy is: regressive extremism." Continue reading