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  1. A Conversation with Maya Lin Maya Lin
    4 Apr 2003 … The acclaimed sculptor and architect talks with Bill Moyers about a life and career that has been shaped by her Chinese-American heritage. This extended version of Bill's half-hour broadcast interview with Lin was released for home video distribution and never Continue reading
  2. The President Should Make Wal-Mart Part of the Minimum Wage Debate
    5 May 2014 … Walmart, the country’s largest private employer, pays 825,000 workers less than $25,000 a year. The president needs to push it to pay its low-wage workforce more. Continue reading
  3. The Fire Next Door
    3 Mar 1977 … In this award-winning documentary, Bill Moyers takes a breathtaking look at the arson and crime that nearly destroyed the Bronx in the 1970s. Continue reading
  4. ‘American Winter’ Arrives at Capitol Hill Diedre Melson, John Cox and Pamela Thatcher. (Credit: Don Mathis.)
    6 Jun 2013 … Three Oregonians living on the margins testified at a congressional subcommittee hearing last week on the state of the American Dream and how economic policies are affecting the middle class. Continue reading
  5. The Home Front The Home Front with Bill Moyers
    5 May 1991 … This 60-minute special documents the major crises facing our country at a time when the media and political world were distracted with matters abroad. Continue reading
  6. War Culture, Militarism and Racist Violence Under Trump President-elect Donald Trump greets retired Marine Gen. James Mattis at the Crown Coliseum in Fayetteville, North Carolina on Dec. 6, 2016. (Photo by Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images)
    12 Dec 2016 … When history repeats itself with a vengeance, it generally signals a crisis of memory, historical consciousness and civic literacy. The ghosts of the past disappear in a comforting somnolence and a deadening market-driven culture of consumption, privatization and individualization. As Continue reading
  7. The Ghost of Authoritarianism in the Age of the Shutdown Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, pauses as he listens to a reporters question at the Fort Worth Texas Chamber of Commerce office after he participated in a small business roundtable meeting with area business representatives, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013, in Fort Worth, Texas. Across the nation, the GOP is in the midst of an internal war pitting tea partyers like Cruz who argue for ideological purity against more mainstream Republicans advocating a more pragmatic, inclusive party approach to governing. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
    11 Nov 2013 … This essay first appeared in Truthout. In the aftermath of the reign of Nazi terror in the 1940s, the philosopher Theodor Adorno wrote: National Socialism lives on and even today we still do not know whether it is merely the Continue reading
  8. One River, One Country Mexican American flag
    9 Sep 1989 … Bill Moyers examines the issues of immigration, economics and the special relationship that has developed between the U.S. and Mexico by talking to the people of the border who live and work in a world that is both Mexican and Continue reading
  9. ‘The Religion of Inequality’, November 12, 2012
    11 Nov 2012 … Public remarks from Bill Moyers for the Forrest Church Lecture Series at the Union Theological Seminary. Continue reading
  10. Beyond Savage Politics and Dystopian Nightmares
    11 Nov 2013 … This essay first appeared in Truthout. We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals and our banks destroy the economy. —Chris Hedges Continue reading