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  1. These Eight Charts Show Why Racial Equality Is a Myth in America Photo credit: Lauren Feeney
    5 May 2014 … We haven't come very far at all since the Civil Rights victories of the 1960s. Continue reading
  2. Inequality’s Dead End — And the Possibility of a New, Long-Term Direction
    3 Mar 2015 … The crisis of inequality represents a tragic and painful failure of the old system and the old politics, but it's also an oppurtunity to create something new. Continue reading
  3. Democrats Accept More Cuts in Food Stamp Program Senate Agriculture Committee Chair Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 14, 2013, during the committee's hearing on the Farm Bill, officially known as the Agriculture Reform, Food and Jobs Act of 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
    5 May 2013 … The Nation's Greg Kaufmann is surprised that Senate Democrats caved to GOP demands for more cuts to the already sequester-gouged SNAP program and new rules that would bar ex-cons from receiving food stamps for life. Continue reading
  4. A Bold New Drive to Recast the War on Want
    11 Nov 2014 … An ambitious new global campaign declares that we’ll only make real progress against economic inequality if we confront the concentration of wealth at the top. Continue reading
  5. Writers and Activists React to Bill’s Conversation With Arthur Brooks
    7 Jul 2014 … Bill's interview with the president of the conservative American Enterprise Institute provoked responses from writers and activists on the left. Continue reading
  6. Crowd-sourced Outpouring Lifts Struggling Mom
    11 Nov 2013 … An Internet fairy tale for the age of austerity: Linda Tirado’s essay about being poor and making bad decisions could catapult her into the middle-class. Continue reading
  7. How a Right-Wing Political Machine Is Dismantling Higher Education in North Carolina Woman crossing UNC campus
    6 Jun 2015 … What began as isolated ideological attacks is looking more and more like a wholesale gutting of the state’s public colleges. Continue reading
  8. Slavery, Race, and Inequality in America James Hopkinsons Plantation Slaves Planting Sweet Potatoes (Wikimedia)
    6 Jun 2008 … The Pew Research Center recently reported that black Americans are more dissatisfied with their progress now than at any time in the past quarter century. In this program Bill Moyers gets perspective from historical and cultural sociologist Orlando Patterson and Continue reading
  9. Children in America’s Schools Kids at school
    4 Apr 1996 … A documentary tour of America's schools, illustrating the vast differences among inner city, rural and suburban settings. Bill Moyers moderates a town meeting immediately following the documentary. Continue reading
  10. Why My Student Voted for Trump An attendee wearing a hat reading "Make America Great Again" waits for the arrival of Donald Trump during a campaign event in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Friday, Oct. 28, 2016. (Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
    1 Jan 2017 … This past October, I taught a weeklong seminar on the history of conservatism to honors students from around the state of Oklahoma. In five long days, my nine very engaged students and I got to know each other fairly well. Continue reading