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  1. Behold: A Republican Health Care Plan
    1 Jan 2014 … The problem is that it’s grounded in the same old conservative thinking about what ails our health care system. Continue reading
  2. How Class-Conscious Women Garment Workers Shaped the Movement for Women’s Suffrage
    8 Aug 2020 … Rose Schneiderman, Clara Lemlich, and Leonora O’Reilly are not household names like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, but these working-class suffragists were indispensable to winning women’s right to vote in New York state in 1917. Continue reading
  3. 50 Years After Bloody Sunday in Selma, Everything and Nothing Has Changed FILE - In this March 21, 1965 file photo, Dr. Martin Luther King, foreground row, fifth from right, waves as marchers stream across the Alabama River on the first of a five day, 50-mile march to the state capitol at Montgomery, Ala. (AP Photo/File)
    3 Mar 2015 … Racism, segregation and inequality persist in this civil-rights battleground. Continue reading
  4. Trump Is Trying to Cut Disaster Relief to Build a Border Wall Rescue workers and volunteers help to rescue residents of an apartment complex after it was inundated with water following Hurricane Harvey on Aug. 30, 2017 in Houston. Harvey, which made landfall north of Corpus Christi August 25, has dumped nearly 50 inches of rain in and around Houston. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
    8 Aug 2017 … On Monday, President Donald Trump was asked point-blank whether he supports cutting the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) budget in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. His response: “No.” Continue reading
  5. The Stereotypes of People Who Get Welfare Benefits Are All Wrong David Donald, 6, of Philadelphia eats dinner supplied from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program also know as food stamps (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
    12 Dec 2013 … These common assumptions threaten programs that keep families afloat. Continue reading
  6. Kansas Republicans Are Finally Embracing Obamacare — Just as Trump Is Trying to Kill It
    3 Mar 2017 … While Republicans in DC are pushing for massive cuts to Medicaid, John Eplee and other Republicans in one of the country's most conservative states are fighting to expand the program. Eplee is a family doctor in Atchison, Kansas — a Continue reading
  7. The GOP Tax Plan Tells Us Everything About Who Matters In American Democracy President Donald Trump shows samples of the proposed new tax form as he meets with House Republican leaders and Republican members of the House Ways and Means Committee at the White House in Washington, DC, on Nov. 2, 2017. (Photo by Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images)
    11 Nov 2017 … The United States is the richest country in the history of the world. Last year, the genius and muscle of the American people generated more than $18.6 trillion in wealth. This year, our brains and brawn will combine to create Continue reading
  8. Morning Reads: Lost World Found in China and Putin’s Watching
    10 Oct 2013 … A round-up of some of the stories we're reading this morning at Moyers & Company HQ. Continue reading
  9. The Terrible News Economists Are Trying to Hide About American Jobs
    6 Jun 2014 … Creating 217,000 new jobs is not a sign of economic health. Measuring the job market by quantity — with no regard for quality — devalues workers themselves. Continue reading
  10. The Answer to Homelessness? Reliable Employment. Catharine Fletcher suns herself in front of one of over a hundred brilliant pink tents newly set-up as a shelter for homeless people Monday, Sept. 22, 2008, in Seattle. Homeless advocates in Seattle set up a new camp early Monday that they're calling Nickelsville after Mayor Greg Nickels to demonstrate the need for more homeless shelters in the city. Fletcher is no longer homeless, but was helping out at the encampment. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
    2 Feb 2015 … Providing housing is critical, but the ultimate solution to ending homelessness is preventing it in the first place. Continue reading