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  1. What ‘Defunding Obamacare’ Really Means
    10 Oct 2013 … Tens of thousands of Americans between the ages of 25 and 64 die every year because they lack health insurance. Continue reading
  2. How the Gun Lobby Became a Threat to Public Safety Nearly 100 confiscated illegal firearms rests on a table before a press conference with Mayor Michael Bloomberg, NYPD Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, and New York City District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Friday, Oct. 12, 2012 in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
    3 Mar 2014 … Having won the debate about Americans' right to bear arms, the lobby now pushes for a society with more guns. Continue reading
  3. ‘99 Homes’ Director Ramin Bahrani on How the Foreclosure Crisis Is a Modern ‘Dog Day Afternoon’
    10 Oct 2015 … The director discusses his film exploring morality in the shadow of the foreclosure crisis. Continue reading
  4. America at War Since 9/11 Now that our democratic connection to the wars fought in our name has receded one more step from our real lives, isn’t it about time to ask some questions about the very nature of reality and of those wars? (Photo by DVIDSHUB | Flickr CC 2.0)
    6 Jun 2017 … The headlines arrive in my inbox day after day: “US-led airstrikes in Syria killed hundreds of civilians, UN panel says.” “Pentagon wants to declare more parts of world as temporary battlefields.” “The US was supposed to leave Afghanistan by 2017. Continue reading
  5. Morning Reads: Ebola in US; Are Syrian Civilians Expendable? Dr. James LeDuc with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention is silhouetted in front of a screen showing a map of Ebola outbreak areas in Africa at the start of the 49th Annual Conference for the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Sunday, Oct. 29, 2000, in Houston. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)
    10 Oct 2014 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at Moyers & Company HQ... Continue reading
  6. This Night of Calm Before the Storm
    11 Nov 2020 … The next three days will bring the culmination of the 2020 election season, as those of us who have not already cast our ballots will show up on Tuesday to vote in our local, state, and national elections around the Continue reading
  7. How Ferguson Uses Cops and the Courts to Prey on Its Residents Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson is surrounded by his officers as he leaves a news conference in Forestwood Park on Friday, Aug. 15, 2014. Jackson took questions in the quiet park after earlier identifying Darren Wilson as the officer who shot Michael Brown. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Robert Cohen)
    3 Mar 2015 … The DoJ report traces the pattern of racial bias from traffic stops to arrests to the courtroom and, finally, to a cycle of incarceration and indebtedness. Continue reading
  8. Clearing the Air: Misguided EPA Priorities and the Politics of Environmental Policy Copenhagen Power Stations at dusk
    9 Sep 2003 … Christine Todd Whitman recounts the controversies that dogged her tenure as head of the EPA, and National Environmental Trust's Philip Clapp discusses the influence of the oil and nuclear industries. Continue reading
  9. Goodbye to All That Democracy A demonstrator holds a "99%" sign as hundreds of people stage a protest in Hollywood, California on Jan. 25, 2012 against "corporate tax dodgers," namely FedEx. The demonstrators included unemployed workers, community groups, and Occupy LA activists. (Photo by Joe Klamar/AFP/Getty Images)
    9 Sep 2017 … There ought to be a German word for the unpleasant feeling that comes when one’s dire predictions come true. Schmerz-Prognose: pain in premonition. Something like that feeling likely overcame Vanderbilt law professor Ganesh Sitaraman at around 10 p.m. on Nov. 8, Continue reading
  10. Why Is it so Controversial to Help Poor Mothers Afford Diapers? Jennifer Donald whose family receives money from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program also know as food stamps, eats dinner with her sons David, 6, left, and Donovan, 4, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
    8 Aug 2014 … Imagine you’re a single mother working a minimum-wage job with a toddler at home. When your diaper supply runs out mid-month, where can you turn to help you afford that incredibly basic necessity? Not SNAP, nor WIC, nor most other Continue reading