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  1. Fading Hope Among the Urban Poor
    1 Jan 2013 … There’s been a lot of handwringing of late over the murder rate in Chicago. Everyone points out that last year’s number, 506, exceeded the previous year’s count by 16 percent. But if you look at the numbers over the past Continue reading
  2. 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
  3. The Good War? The View from Cairo, and Deregulation of Media Egyptian flag
    4 Apr 2003 … This episode of NOW questions what the war in Iraq means for the rest of the Middle East, and contemplates the danger of media deregulation. Continue reading
  4. The Bigger Dog Whistle Bogeyman: Liberal Government Republican vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., gives a thumbs-up at a rally. August 2012. (AP Photo/Jason E. Miczek)
    3 Mar 2014 … The conservative assault on food stamps -- authored by Reagan, updated by Ryan -- is really an attack on the middle class. Continue reading
  5. The Four Major Third-Party Candidates on What’s Missing From the National Dialogue Ralph Nader, election 2004
    10 Oct 2004 … We hear from four candidates excluded from presidential debates: Ralph Nader (Reform Party), Michael Peroutka (Constitution Party), David Cobb (Green Party), and Michael Badnarik (Libertarian Party). Continue reading
  6. The Nation’s Most Segregated City
    1 Jan 2013 … Much has been written about the decline in crime in the United States over the past twenty years. The violent crime rate in 1980 was almost five times 1960s’ rate and it remained depressingly high for a decade. But in the early Continue reading
  7. Recommended Reading: Abortion Before and After Roe v. Wade The largest pro-choice rally to ever assemble demonstrates against any possible Supreme Court reversal of the Roe v. Wade decision: Nov. 12, 1989. (Photo by Andrew Holbrooke/Corbis via Getty Images)
    11 Nov 2017 … In 1965, illegal abortions made up one-sixth of all pregnancy- and childbirth-related deaths, according to the Guttmacher Institute. Today, more than four decades after the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalized abortion nationwide, it is an extremely safe 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. 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