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  1. An Oasis in a Food Desert
    10 Oct 2013 … Take a look inside America’s first nonprofit grocery store, which is bringing fresh food to a struggling community in Pennsylvania. Continue reading
  2. Where Free Speech Ends, Ignorance Begins Middlebury College students protest speaker Charles Murray. (Photo by Todd Balfour)
    3 Mar 2017 … At the risk of sounding like a geezer complaining about “these kids today,” back in my college days, when it came to points of view we were unhesitatingly exposed to literature, teachers and on-campus speakers covering the ideological waterfront. In Continue reading
  3. Kiss Goldman Sachs Goodbye
    11 Nov 2012 … The author is waiting for President Obama to focus on people who are struggling to get by and to bail out his real constituency. Continue reading
  4. Freedom to Teach? Academic Freedom Post-9/11 Freedom to teach
    2 Feb 2002 … This episode of NOW questioned whether there any areas of opinion that should be off-limits in the classroom, and considered how people of differing faiths could communicate better. Continue reading
  5. Democratic Direction and Swing State Politics Sarah Palin RNC 08
    8 Aug 2008 … Bill Moyers sits down with Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation, and the University of Pennsylvania’s Adolph Reed Jr. to discuss the promises from the DNC and expectations of Barack Obama. Moyers also speaks with political analysts Merle and Continue reading
  6. Future Talk Pollution ocean
    6 Jun 1992 … Bill Moyers examines the politics of the environment and how choices Americans make now will determine whether we can create and sustain a quality of life that will not jeopardize our children’s future. The program focuses on population and energy Continue reading
  7. On the Money: A House Divided Against Itself
    3 Mar 2014 … Our latest roundup of key money and politics reporting. This week: A Republican civil war, a rebranded Koch brothers' enterprise and how to do some dark money digging on your own. Continue reading
  8. Counting Down to 2014 in Afghanistan Smoke rises from the building of Kabul traffic police headquarters during insurgents' attack, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Jan. 21, 2013. Taliban insurgents wearing suicide vests attacked the headquarters before dawn Monday, police said, and eyewitnesses heard numerous explosions while a gun battle was still raging nearly four hours later. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
    1 Jan 2013 … This report originally appeared on Tom Dispatch. Three Lousy Options: Pick One Kabul, Afghanistan — Compromise, conflict, or collapse: ask an Afghan what to expect in 2014 and you’re likely to get a scenario that falls under one of those Continue reading
  9. Is Trump’s Family Leave Plan a Shell Game? "Paid Leave is a Family Value" sign in the Women's March on Washington, DC, Jan. 21, 2017. (Photo courtesy of Ellen Bravo)
    5 May 2017 … Ellen Bravo, co-director of Family Values @ Work, a network of coalitions in 24 states winning paid sick days and paid family medical leave insurance, talks with Sarah Jaffe about President Trump’s proposed family leave plan, part of his newly Continue reading
  10. Meet the Tenacious Gardeners Putting Down Roots in “America’s Most Desperate Town” Nohemi Soria and Pedro Rodriguez harvest collard greens in Camden, N.J. (Photo: Kristin Moe)
    6 Jun 2014 … In Camden, New Jersey, they've created one of the nation's fastest growing networks of urban farms. Continue reading