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  1. God and Politics in the Holy Land, Suing Our Way to a Multi-Racial Democracy, and the Iraqi Constitution Holy Bible
    2 Feb 2004 … A look at the influence of Christian Zionists on Middle East policy, a civil rights attorney winning big cases in the name of equality, and an uncertain future for rebuilding Iraqi government. Continue reading
  2. Highlights: All Work and No Pay Saru Jayaraman
    4 Apr 2014 … Watch clips from Bill's interview with the activist fighting the National Restaurant Association to get wages beyond their current level of $2.13 per hour. Continue reading
  3. The Clock is Running Out on Health Care for 9 Million Kids Dr. Michael Paul, with the Pediatric Mobile Health Unit of Loyola University Medical Center, performs a physical exam on fourth-grader Bennita Correa outside David Burnham Elementary School on May 11, 2004 in Cicero, Illinois. The Pediatric Mobile Health Unit, is a 40-foot long truck which accommodates two patient examination rooms, a laboratory, a medical records area and hearing booth. Since 1998 more than 50,000 uninsured and underinsured children in the Chicago area have been evaluated and treated at the unit. (Photo by Tim Boyle/Getty Images)
    9 Sep 2017 … Since the inauguration of President Trump, health care has been front and center in American politics. Yet, attention has almost exclusively been focused on the Affordable Care Act, most recently in the form of Graham-Cassidy. With Congress preoccupied with a Continue reading
  4. Mark Danner and America Bracho Mark Danner
    10 Oct 2009 … Mark Danner, war reporter and author of 'Stripping Bare the Body', and public health doctor America Bracho speak with Bill Moyers. Continue reading
  5. America: “The Land of the Percents” A line of job applicants snakes through a ropeline to attend the CUNY Big Apple Job Fair Friday in New York. March 2009. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
    9 Sep 2012 … Romney’s recent characterization of the mindset of the 47 percent of Americans who don’t pay income taxes has spurred discussion about who pays what, and how income, taxes and entitlements affect American voters’ decisions in the voting booth. And though Continue reading
  6. America’s Schools: Still Separate and Very Much Unequal Clarksdale High School students delve into the complexities of chemistry equations, in Clarksdale, Miss. Community leaders hope improved education will help stanch a hemorrhaging population. The city's nine public schools may also be the crossroads of Mississippi's education system as state lawmakers are considering a new route, one characterized by charter schools, teacher merit pay, a tougher statewide curriculum, state-paid preschool classes and an intensive focus on reading for young students. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
    10 Oct 2014 … A teacher argues that America's schools have not “abandoned” the mission of Brown v. Board of Education, they never fully committed to it. Continue reading
  7. Low-Wage Employers Have Fought Hard to Keep Their Workers Poor — Now Workers are Fighting Back Protesting fast food workers demonstrate outside a McDonald's restaurant on New York's Fifth Avenue, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
    9 Sep 2013 … Employers like Wal-Mart and McDonald's have fought hard to keep wages low, but the working poor are fighting back. Continue reading
  8. Crunching Test Scores Isn’t Enough to Educate Our Kids EMBARGOED FOR RELEASE AT 3 A.M. EST (5 P.M. JST) - Students Julian Lopez, 12th grade, second left; Ben Montalbano, 11th grade, second right; and James Agostino, 12th grade, right; listen during their Advanced Placement (AP) Physics class at Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington, Friday, Feb. 7, 2014. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
    2 Feb 2014 … One teacher's perspective on today's data-driven education system. Continue reading
  9. Banks Got Nowhere to Run To, Baby US Bank branch in Omaha, Neb.
    4 Apr 2013 … After facing protests in their home city of Minneapolis, U.S. Bank executives moved their shareholders meeting to Idaho -- but the outrage followed. Continue reading
  10. That Night the Lights Went Out Police officers and passersby in front of a damaged Brooklyn store front, looted in the wake of the New York City blackout, July 14, 1977. (Photo by Robert R. McElroy/Getty Images)
    7 Jul 2017 … The summer of 1977 was long, hot and bizarre, and not simply because of the massive blackout. The city was still trying to pull itself from near-bankruptcy, just two years after the New York Daily News had reported the federal Continue reading