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  1. Unsanitized: The Return of Checks Checks Checks
    12 Dec 2020 … With three days to go before government funding expires, the leadership in the House and Senate finally got in a room together to discuss a year-end deal that packages an omnibus spending bill and coronavirus aid. And what progressives are fighting for in Continue reading
  2. Morning Reads: Right Outraged at Budget Deal; Pope Francis Wins
    12 Dec 2013 … A roundup of stories we're reading this morning at Moyers & Company HQ... Continue reading
  3. Dispatch From Baltimore: Praying for Peace, Living Another Reality Police move a protester back, Monday, April 27, 2015, following the funeral of Freddie Gray in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
    4 Apr 2015 … The emotional distance between Freddie Gray’s moving funeral and the chaos that followed isn’t as wide as it may seem. Continue reading
  4. Cities Go Rogue Against Trump and the Radical Right On February 27, 2017, about 1,000 protesters gathered to denounce Donald Trump and demand Minneapolis defend Muslims, accept immigrants, welcome refugees and support workers. They called on the Minneapolis government to expand sanctuary city protections for immigrants and pass a $15 per hour minimum wage for all workers. (Photo: Fibonacci Blue, Flickr CC 2.0)
    3 Mar 2017 … On Jan. 25, President Donald Trump signed an executive order promising to strip funding from the so-called sanctuary cities that have vowed to defy his plan to deport millions of undocumented immigrants. Whether and how the order can be enforced Continue reading
  5. Living Outside Tribal Lines
    4 Apr 2013 … A hard look at the state of American economic inequality, and writer Sherman Alexie on living in two different cultures at the same time. Continue reading
  6. Do You Know Where Your Tomatoes Come From? Farmworkers pick tomatoes at Taylor & Fulton Tomatoes in Immokalee, Fla. March 2006 (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)
    7 Jul 2012 … Probably from Immokalee, Florida, where a group of immigrant farmworkers are taking on the titans of the food industry. Continue reading
  7. The Politics of Swimming in 2016 Man measuring how much skin is exposed on women swimmer's leg.
    9 Sep 2016 … When I go swimming – every day, for whatever part of an hour best suits my mood and muscles – I slip into another zone, a blue bubble of silence that restores my soul while it expands my horizons. Nothing Continue reading