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  1. Morning Reads: Kochs Muzzle Press, Israel Mourns, New Obama Climate Rules Charles Koch (AP Photo/Topeka Capital-Journal, Mike Burley)
    8 Aug 2015 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at BillMoyers.com HQ… Continue reading
  2. Roberto Lovato and Linda Chavez on the Hispanic Vote in 2008; Mark Crispin Miller on Voter Protection Voters mark their ballots during Florida's primary elections. September 2002. (AP photo/Oscar Sosa)
    10 Oct 2008 … Bill Moyers sits down with Mark Crispin Miller, who follows voter fraud allegations in his blog News from the Underground, and Roberto Lovato and Linda Chavez discuss politics leading up to the election. Continue reading
  3. Trickle Down Devastation: A Single Mom Responds to Trump’s Tax Plan (Photo by Alison Stine for Equal Voice News)
    4 Apr 2017 … The president’s tax plan is going to make the nation weak. We as a nation are only as strong as our weakest members. Continue reading
  4. Sister Simone Campbell
    8 Aug 2012 … Sister Simone Campbell is the executive director of the Catholic social justice lobby NETWORK in Washington, DC. As an advocate for the poor, she lobbies on issues of healthcare, economic policy, and immigration reform. Armed with a law degree and Continue reading
  5. We Hold This Truth to Be Self-Evident: It’s Happening Before Our Very Eyes President Trump speaks to world leaders at the 72nd United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York on Sept. 19, 2017. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
    6 Jun 2020 … Democracy in America has been a series of narrow escapes. We may be running out of luck, and no one is coming to save us. For that, we have only ourselves. Continue reading
  6. For the Trump Era: Fight Not Flight Demonstrators gather outside Trump Tower to protest against President-elect Donald Trump on November 9, 2016. (Photo by Mohammed Elshamy/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
    11 Nov 2016 … A lot of US citizens are now talking about leaving the country. Canada, Europe and New Zealand are popular scenarios. Moving abroad might be an individual solution. But the social solution is to stay and put up a fight. Continue reading
  7. Are We Facing a Future of Invisible Workers? This undated photo provided by Facebook shows the server room at the company's data center in Prineville, Ore. (AP Photo/Facebook, Alan Brandt)
    2 Feb 2014 … The new trusts -- Amazon, Google, Apple -- are very different from the old ones, writes George Packer. Continue reading
  8. ALEC Is Bad for the Economy
    12 Dec 2012 … This article originally appeared in Mother Jones. The American Legislative Exchange Council, the corporate-funded group that generates nearly a thousand pro-business model bills per year and feeds them to state legislatures nationwide, is holding its annual policy summit in the nation’s capital this week Continue reading
  9. 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
  10. The Legal System Uses an Algorithm That’s Biased Against Blacks to Predict Recidivism Scores known as risk assessments are increasingly common in courtrooms across the nation, used to inform decisions about who can be set free at every stage of the criminal justice system, from assigning bond amounts to even more fundamental decisions about defendants' freedom. (Photo by Spencer Weiner-Pool/Getty Images)
    5 May 2016 … Risk assessments are increasingly common in courtrooms across the nation. They are used to inform decisions about who can be set free at every stage of the criminal justice system, from assigning bond amounts — as is the case in Continue reading