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  1. Watch Edward R. Murrow’s ‘Harvest of Shame’
    7 Jul 2013 … Edward R. Murrow's famous documentary is just as powerful -- and relevant -- today. Continue reading
  2. America’s Biggest Divide: Winners and Losers President Donald Trump is presented with a jersey from the US Air Force Falcons football team after presenting them with the Commander-in-Chief trophy, in the Rose Garden at the White House, on May 2, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
    10 Oct 2017 … In this as in most things, Trump is the divider-in-chief. He is not only the most prominent proponent of a society rent between winners and losers; he is its personification: the guy who was born on third base and thinks Continue reading
  3. Remembering Revolutionary Mayor Chokwe Lumumba
    3 Mar 2014 … The mayor of Jackson, Miss., believed that economic development and the creation of jobs must be a collective rather than individual effort. Continue reading
  4. Anti-Politics and the Plague of Disorientation: Welcome to the Age of Trump Anti-Trump protesters stamp on a 'Make America Great Again' cap outside the Anaheim Convention Center following a rally for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on May 25, 2016. (Photo credit should read MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images)
    6 Jun 2016 … The Greek chorus has finally been heard in that both the left and right are now calling Donald Trump a fascist or neo-fascist. Pundits and journals across the ideological spectrum now compare Trump to Hitler and Mussolini or state he Continue reading
  5. Ronald Walters on Race in Politics and an FCC Update Ronald Walters (Photo: Robin Holland)
    12 Dec 2007 … Dr. Ronald Walters, director of the African American Leadership Center at the University of Maryland, discusses racial issues intertwined with the 2008 presidential campaign. And Bill Moyers provides an update on the FCC and media consolidation. Continue reading
  6. Stop Punishing People After They Have Been Released From Prison
    1 Jan 2015 … Continuing to punish people after they have been punished is not only vindictive but also counterproductive to building safe and healthy communities. Continue reading
  7. Chapter One of Winner-Take-All Politics
    1 Jan 2012 … Read the first chapter of Hacker and Pierson's book. Continue reading
  8. The World’s Largest Humanitarian Crisis Is Basically Being Blacked Out by Western Media A Yemeni boy inspects the damage at a sports hall that was partially destroyed by Saudi-led air strikes in the Yemeni capital Sana'a on Jan. 19, 2016. (Photo by Mohammad Huwais/AFP/Getty Images)
    7 Jul 2017 … The Arab world’s richest country, Saudi Arabia, went to war against the Arab world’s poorest country in 2015. In this period, Yemen — with a population of 25 million — has been substantially destroyed. The United Nations has been tracking Continue reading
  9. What We Can Learn From FDR A bronze bust of Franklin D. Roosevelt sits in an alcove at the south end of the new Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park in New York, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012. The park, designed by renowned architect Louis I. Kahn, is named after Roosevelt's 1941 State of the Union address, known as the Four Freedoms Speech. (Photo by Diane Bondareff/Invision/AP Images)
    4 Apr 2014 … Historian Harvey J. Kaye’s on why we must look to America’s progressive past to fix our future. Continue reading
  10. The Demolition of Workers’ Comp Dennis Whedbee
    3 Mar 2015 … Over the past decade, states have slashed workers’ comp benefits, denying injured workers the help they need and shifting the costs of accidents to taxpayers. Continue reading