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  1. Jeanette Winterson
    9 Sep 2010 … Jeanette Winterson is a poet and novelist who has authored over 20 books. She was awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2006 for services to literature, and, in 2011, her memoir WHY BE HAPPY WHEN YOU COULD Continue reading
  2. Why We Must Try DURHAM, NH - FEBRUARY 08: Audience members listen to Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) speak at a campaign rally and concert at the University of New Hampshire's Whittemore Center Arena on February 8, 2016 in Durham, New Hampshire. Sanders was campaigning on the eve of the New Hampshire primary, the nation's first. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)
    2 Feb 2016 … Instead of “Yes we can,” many Democrats have adopted a new slogan this election year: “We shouldn’t even try.” We shouldn’t try for single-payer system, they say. We’ll be lucky if we prevent Republicans from repealing Obamacare. We shouldn’t try Continue reading
  3. America Now Has (at Least) 9,999 Problems Latinos vote at a polling station in El Gallo Restaurant on Nov. 8, 2016 in the Boyle Heights section of Los Angeles, California. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)
    11 Nov 2016 … When I wrote this piece, “The Hole in Obama’s Legacy,” for The New Yorker back in August, I did not, even briefly, imagine that Obama’s failure to reach the white working class would lead to a Trump presidency. I thought Continue reading
  4. Toni Morrison: Dealing with Race in Literature (Part Two)
    3 Mar 1990 … Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Toni Morrison on the lack of discourse about race in literary criticism and the silent history of black characters in books. Continue reading
  5. Six-Month Update for Trump Voters President Donald Trump arrives for a rally on June 21, 2017 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Trump spoke about renegotiating NAFTA and building a border wall that would produce solar power during the rally. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
    7 Jul 2017 … So after six months, has he delivered what he promised you? Continue reading
  6. Humanity Faces Climate “Suicide” Without US Rejoining Paris Agreement, Says the UN Secretary General
    12 Dec 2020 … Joining China and other big polluters, Biden’s pledge of “net zero” US emissions by 2050 brings the Paris Agreement goals “within reach” Continue reading
  7. Morning Reads: Liz Warren Hits Wall Street Dems Hard; Does ALEC Want to Kill the Planet?
    12 Dec 2013 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading this morning at Moyers & Company HQ... Continue reading
  8. Plutocracy the First Time Around Haymarket affair
    4 Apr 2015 … The first Gilded Age drove Americans into the streets of our land as they refused to accept that unbridled capitalism was their fate. Continue reading
  9. Swirl Like A Leaf: Jimmy Santiago Baca, Marilyn Chin and Robert Bly Swirl like a leaf
    5 May 1995 … Expressions of rage and forgiveness by Jimmy Santiago Baca, of identity and duality by Marilyn Chin, and of aging and wisdom by Robert Bly. Continue reading
  10. Behind the Kitchen Door: Serving Food While Sick women protesting for sick days
    4 Apr 2014 … The vast majority of restaurants across the country pressure their employees to work while sick or injured, writes activist Saru Jayaraman in this book excerpt. Continue reading