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  1. Morning Reads: SCOTUS Strikes Down Campaign Limits; Republican Asks How Equal Pay Will Help Men
    4 Apr 2014 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading this morning at Moyers & Company HQ... Continue reading
  2. Bob Herbert: Losing Our Way
    10 Oct 2014 … In this book excerpt, the reporter and former New York Times columnist writes about his cross-country trip investigating the lives of the 99 percent. Continue reading
  3. The Fair Housing Act — A Complete Failure
    7 Jul 2013 … When President Lyndon B. Johnson saw his 1966 bill to ban housing discrimination die in Congress, he considered it one of his most devastating political defeats. The relentless negotiator had managed to force through the most sweeping civil rights legislation Continue reading
  4. The Big Idea That Could Bring Disaffected Voters Back to the Polls Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., smiles as he is introduced before speaking at a luncheon at the National Press Club in Washington, Monday, March 9, 2015. Sanders, an independent who caucuses with Democrats, is considering running for the 2016 Democratic nomination as a liberal alternative to Hillary Clinton, focusing on income inequality and climate change. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
    11 Nov 2015 … Bernie Sanders has a plan to expand, not “save,” Social Security — and it should be popular. Continue reading
  5. Morning Reads: Clinton Outlines Economic Vision; More Racial Gerrymandering in North Carolina WARREN, MI - AUGUST 11: Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton greets workers before delivering a speech on the U.S economy at Futuramic Tool & Engineering August 11, 2016 in Warren, Michigan. In her speech, Clinton contrasted her economic plan to that of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's. (Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)
    8 Aug 2016 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at BillMoyers.com HQ... Continue reading
  6. Domestic Workers’ Dream Unfulfilled
    7 Jul 2013 … In 1963, Representative John Lewis, then the Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), spoke to the several hundred thousand Americans who had gathered before the Lincoln Memorial and who would soon hear Dr. King give his electrifying “I Continue reading
  7. I Grew Up in Flint. Here’s Why Governor Snyder Must Resign. FLINT, MI - JANUARY 23: The City of Flint Water Plant is illuminated by moonlight on January 23, 2016 in Flint, Michigan. A federal state of emergency has been declared in Flint due to dangerous levels of contamination in the water supply. (Photo by Brett Carlsen/Getty Images)
    1 Jan 2016 … Flint isn’t the only city in Michigan experiencing this decline. In fact, Flint was one of six cities — most of which were poor and had a majority black population — to be placed under emergency management by Governor Snyder Continue reading
  8. Capitalism’s Deeper Problem Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, in coronation robes, 1775 (Photo: Wiki Commons)
    7 Jul 2014 … Globalizing capitalism and its new extremes -- rising prices and wealth inequalities -- has a remarkable historical parallel in the events of the 16th century. Should modern-day capitalists be guarding the Bastille? Continue reading
  9. When the Workday Never Really Ends Grace Tan, right, bags up a grocery purchases for Angela Coffer and her daughters at a Gladstone, Missouri, Walmart. (Photo: Walmart/flickr CC 2.0)
    10 Oct 2014 … The "new economy" has created a demand for "flexible" workers, but it's creating a new social order that brings chaos to the workplace and the home. Continue reading
  10. Anti-Nuclear Pacifists Get Federal Prison Terms for Nonviolent Protest
    11 Nov 2020 … The most dedicated peace activists you’ve never heard of are headed to federal prison amid a deadly pandemic. Continue reading