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  1. This Week in Political Money: Presidential Ad Spending Down; Big Bucks to State Judicial Races A Nevada voter looks at a Donald Trump electronic billboard truck. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
    10 Oct 2016 … We’ll be posting this roundup each week leading up to Election Day. Share your thoughts about these must-read stories and always feel free to suggest your own in the comments section. Continue reading
  2. Eight Policies That Could Make Obama’s Promise of ‘Opportunity for All’ a Reality Barack Obama, Joe Biden, John Boehner, SOTU 2014
    1 Jan 2014 … While the president outlined important steps forward in his State of the Union, bolder solutions are needed. Continue reading
  3. Take Me Out to the Ball Game — But Pay Me a Living Wage Pregame festivities are shown at AT&T Park before the final game of the World Baseball Classic between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic in San Francisco, Tuesday, March 19, 2013. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
    6 Jun 2013 … Michael Winship explains how even when baseball players, owners and stadiums win, hard-working concession workers lose. Continue reading
  4. Morning Reads: Paul Ryan’s Fuzzy Math and Some Movement on Gitmo
    11 Nov 2013 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading this morning at Moyers & Company HQ... Continue reading
  5. Michelle Alexander Speaks Out on “The New Jim Crow” Legal scholar and author Michelle Alexander speaks at New York’s Union Theological Seminary on March 4, 2015.
    3 Mar 2015 … The legal scholar spoke at New York's Union Theological Seminary and encouraged people "to explore the meaning of race and justice at a particularly critical moment in our nation's history." Continue reading
  6. The End of Journalism or a New Beginning? Newspaper newsroom, April 26, 1966. (Photo by Jerry Engel/New York Post Archives / (c) NYP Holdings, Inc. via Getty Images)
    12 Dec 2016 … If our first fake news election turns out to mark the end of democracy as we know it, I think I can pretty precisely date when the end began. More than 20 years ago, I and a bunch of other Continue reading
  7. Anxious in the Trump Era? You’re Not Alone President Donald Trump stands outside the West Wing of the White House as Klaus Iohannis, Romania's president, not pictured, arrives on Friday, June 9, 2017. (Photo by Pete Marovich/Bloomberg via Getty Images
    9 Sep 2017 … It’s no surprise that our office phone at the Center for Anxiety has been ringing off the hook since January 2017. From immigration and health care concerns to white supremacy — and let’s not forget the threat of nuclear war Continue reading
  8. The Get-Off-My-Lawn Party Meets in Cleveland Delegates from Washington State dance during the Republican National Convention in Cleveland on July 19, 2016. (Photo by Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
    7 Jul 2016 … Oh dear. Watching C-SPAN and waiting for Tuesday’s roll call confirming Donald Trump’s nomination to begin, the house band there in the hall, led by GE Smith, formerly of Saturday Night Live, played covers of The Temptations’ “I Can’t Get Continue reading
  9. This Small Town’s History Shows Why the TPP Could Be a Disaster for US Workers Galesburg residents saw their jobs disappear after the passage of NAFTA. The Trans-Pacific Partnership won't be any different. (tfooq / Flickr)
    6 Jun 2015 … Galesburg, IL residents saw their jobs disappear after the passage of NAFTA. The Trans-Pacific Partnership won't be any different Continue reading
  10. Not Your Grandma’s Civil Rights Strategy On March 8, 2015, Marchers retraced the steps of those who marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 50 years before over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. (Photo by Jessica Rinaldi/,em>The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
    3 Mar 2017 … On a glorious afternoon in August 1963, after the massive March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom wrapped up on the national mall, President John F. Kennedy, prodded by Attorney General Robert Kennedy, welcomed John Lewis, Martin Luther King Jr., Continue reading