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  1. Taking On Sallie Mae and the Cost of Education
    6 Jun 2013 … Nearly 200 rallied at Sallie Mae’s shareholder meeting last week to demand the nation’s largest private student loan lender meet with students to discuss their crushing debt burden. Continue reading
  2. How the Fight for 15 Won
    4 Apr 2016 … The political earth has shifted. Last week’s tectonic jolt began in California, where the legislature voted Thursday to raise the statewide minimum wage to $15, the highest in the nation. The ripple effects of California’s huge victory for progressive forces Continue reading
  3. What You Should Know About Wal-Mart’s Raise Wal-Mart workers protesting for better wages and a union in front of Alice Walton's $25 million Park Ave penthouse in NYC in October 16, 2014. (Photo: Charina Nadura/Moyers & Company)
    2 Feb 2015 … Wal-Mart's raise does deserve some praise, but it's not nearly enough. Continue reading
  4. Here’s What Students Think Biden Needs to Do in His First 100 Days
    1 Jan 2021 … From reimagining the Postal Service to combating climate change to reforming OIRA, students across the country told us what they think Biden’s top priority should be. Continue reading
  5. Losing Medicaid in Mississippi, The Politics of Oil, and Gay Marriage and the Bible Oil Rig Maintenance in Darwin Harbour September 2013. (Photo: Ken Hodge/flickr CC 2.0)
    7 Jul 2004 … A look at a report on the size and scope of the international oil and gas industry and its governmental influence; inside America's moral debate; and are tough cuts necessary to save Medicaid? Continue reading
  6. America Wakes Up to the Reality: Inequality Matters Protesters form a wall of signs at the Occupy Portland camp in downtown Portland, Ore. October 2011. (AP Photo/Don Ryan)
    1 Jan 2012 … Decrying income inequality isn't "class warfare" -- and it matters to us all. Continue reading
  7. Morning Reads: Boehner Resigning, Pope on the Hill, Shutdown May Be Days Away
    9 Sep 2015 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at Moyers & Company HQ... Continue reading
  8. Is Paul Ryan Racist?
    3 Mar 2014 … He insists not, but the author of Dog Whistle Politics hopes he’s learned his lesson. Continue reading
  9. Trump Flip-Flops on Afghanistan, Opts for Years-Long Quagmire Members of the US military listen as President Donald Trump delivers remarks on American involvement in Afghanistan on Aug. 21, 2017 in Arlington, Virginia. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
    8 Aug 2017 … The 16-years-long Afghanistan War has bedeviled Washington decision-makers since the US invasion of fall 2001, which came in response to the attacks of Sept. 11. Continue reading
  10. This is What a Real Food Policy Conversation Looks Like Four-year-old Nathan Hobbs, who lives in a homeless shelter with his mother, sits in a stroller with one-dollar bills he received for his birthday pinned to his chest in Los Angeles, Wednesday, September 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
    7 Jul 2013 … In contrast to the rubbish that passes for a conversation about food and hunger in Congress, the recent Forum on the Future of Food in New York City offered substantive talk. Continue reading