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  1. We Supported Their Dictators, Led the Failed ‘War on Drugs’ and Now Deny Them Refuge Migrants seeking asylum in the United States await near the US-Mexico border at El Chaparral crossing in Tijuana, Mexico on May 7, 2017. (Photo by Guillermo Arias /AFP/Getty Images)
    11 Nov 2017 … President Donald Trump has tied his executive order giving Congress six months to “fix” DACA to constructing a wall between the US and Mexico as well as a rapid and massive deportation of unaccompanied children and families entering the US Continue reading
  2. Missing in the American Media: Working People Lena Dunham in HBO's 'Girls' (Photo: Courtesy of HBO)
    9 Sep 2014 … Corporate flacks and entitled millennials get plenty of TV airtime. Working Americans, not so much. Continue reading
  3. Wendell Potter and Marcia Angell on Health Care Reform
    3 Mar 2010 … Bill Moyers sits down with former insurance executive turned public health advocate Wendell Potter, who argues that all is not lost in the healthcare bill and details what he likes about the legislation. And single-payer advocate Marcia Angell explains why Continue reading
  4. Does This Movie Capture the National Mood? Chris Pine and Ben Foster star as brothers Toby and Tanner in Hell or High Water. (CBS Films)
    8 Aug 2016 … Political reporters and pundits this election season have confessed to being flummoxed by the Donald Trump groundswell, which has led to head-scratching, soul-searching and navel-gazing as they try to figure out just what it is that Trump has been tapping Continue reading
  5. Trumpcare Will Make the Opioid Crisis Worse President Donald Trump looks to House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) and other House lawmakers in the Rose Garden after the House pushed through a health care bill, at the White House in Washington, DC on May 4, 2017. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
    5 May 2017 … In the midst of the most devastating drug epidemic in US history, the legislation could disrupt addiction coverage for millions of Americans. Continue reading
  6. Clip: Why a Nobel Prize-winning Economist Became an Economist Joseph E. Stiglitz
    6 Jun 2014 … In this clip, Joseph E. Stiglitz talks about how growing up in Gary, Indiana inspired him to become an economist. Continue reading
  7. Heather McGhee
    2 Feb 2012 … Heather McGhee is the Director of the Washington office of Demos, a New York-based non-partisan research and advocacy organization that focuses on economic equality, democratic participation, and strengthening the public sector in an effort to find public solutions to shared Continue reading
  8. In the Face of Powerful Protests, Middle America Enters the Twilight Zone 
    6 Jun 2020 … Trump and Barr are at the forefront, trying to scare the citizenry with tales of anarchy and destruction. Continue reading
  9. Sanders and Trump: How the Political and Media Establishment Got 2016 So Wrong TAMPA, FL - AUGUST 26: An ice sculpture reading Middle Class is displayed as people gather to protest before the beginning of the Republican National Convention on August 26, 2012 in Tampa, Florida. The convention starts the week of August 27th. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
    2 Feb 2016 … Perhaps the biggest story coming out of campaign 2016 is not the rise of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, but the fact that the media and political establishment never saw it coming. And the fact that they never saw it Continue reading
  10. Come to the Fairs Worlds Fair 1964
    4 Apr 1984 … Out of the tradition of the great 19th-century European trade exhibitions came the World’s Fair. From the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 to the sprawling 1982 celebration in Knoxville, Tennessee Bill Moyers, explores the many ways in which these global Continue reading