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  1. Playing for Change: Peace Through Music Various musicians from around the world sing Ben E. King's 'Stand By Me'
    10 Oct 2008 … Bill Moyers talks with Mark Johnson, the producer of a remarkable documentary about the simple but transformative power of music. Also: Economist James K. Galbraith Continue reading
  2. The Woman Giving Refugee Kids Free Lawyers Alexandra Rizio is an advocate for refugee children, defending them from deportation. She is a senior staff attorney at Safe Passage Project. (Photo courtesy of YES! magazine.
    3 Mar 2017 … This post originally appeared at YES! magazine. Alexandra Rizio Defending children from deportation Alexandra Rizio has long fought for refugees in her professional life, starting as a volunteer with the Refugee and Immigrant Fund in Queens, New York. Today, she Continue reading
  3. Obama on Voter-ID Laws: the Right Speech in the Right Place for the Right Reason President Barack Obama speaks at Al Sharpton's National Action Network conference in New York, Friday, April 11, 2014. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
    4 Apr 2014 … The racism of voter ID laws has received too little attention where it matters. Continue reading
  4. The State of Abortion, 40 Years After Roe v. Wade (Guttmacher Institute)
    1 Jan 2013 … To mark the 40th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision on Jan. 22, 2013, the Guttmacher Institute — a sexual and reproductive health policy nonprofit — has created five infographics on the state of abortion in Continue reading
  5. An Optimist for Our Times
    4 Apr 2012 … Bill Moyers and Angela Blackwell explore reasons for hope in a period of social and economic distress. Continue reading
  6. Morning Reads: A Gruesome Terror Attack That Went Unnoticed People gather at the scene of a car bomb explosion, at the central market, in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Tuesday, July 1, 2014. A car bomb exploded in a market in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri on Tuesday morning, and dozens of people are feared dead, witnesses said. They immediately blamed Boko Haram, the Islamic extremist group whose birthplace is Maiduguri and which is accused of a series of recent bomb attacks in the West African nation. (AP Photo/Jossy Ola)
    1 Jan 2015 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at Moyers & Company HQ... Continue reading
  7. Tobacco Traffic: Cigarette Smuggling cigarettes
    4 Apr 2002 … In this episode, producers investigate whether Big Tobacco companies have grown so powerful they can disregard international law. Continue reading
  8. Bernie Sanders: ‘The Nation’ Interview Katrina vanden Heuvel, John Nichols and Sen. Bernie Sanders in Washington, DC, Sept. 14, 2016. (Photo by Natalie Fertig/The Nation)
    9 Sep 2016 … Bernie Sanders is still campaigning for the political revolution. He’s protesting with Native Americans against the Dakota Access pipeline, championing the Working Families Party, and hitting the trail for antimonopoly congressional candidate Zephyr Teachout. Sanders continues to draw big crowds Continue reading
  9. Morning Reads: Members of Congress Fleeing in Droves; Glenn Greenwald’s Soft Side
    1 Jan 2014 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading this morning at Moyers & Company HQ. Continue reading
  10. Trump’s Education Budget Feeds School Privatization at the Expense of Students President Donald Trump with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos during an event for School Choice in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on May 3, 2017. (Photo by Aaron P. Bernstein/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
    5 May 2017 … The vision of “education reform” coming from the Trump administration and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos entails cutting direct aid to students, especially those from low-income families, in order to expand the private sector’s financial footprint in education. Continue reading