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  1. Memo to the Next President: Don’t Forget the Working Class Construction worker on scaffolding in NYC
    11 Nov 2016 … At the end of most US presidential elections, most Americans are ready to see the last of campaign ads, social media commentaries and tension-fraught news coverage. That’s even more true this year. But more than in most recent elections, we Continue reading
  2. Morning Reads: Keystone to Create Only 35 Perm Jobs; Putin’s Conservative Fans
    2 Feb 2014 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading this morning at Moyers & Company HQ. Continue reading
  3. Personal Wealth: A Nation of Extremes, And a Congress, Too
    11 Nov 2015 … Wealth inequality in the United States is pervasive — so much so that it’s apparent even in Congress. Continue reading
  4. The Latino Electorate in Nine Charts
    10 Oct 2012 … Get a statistical snapshot of Hispanic America and the issues Latinos consider important when choosing a president. Continue reading
  5. Let’s Be Brazil
    6 Jun 2013 … This post first appeared in The Jewish Journal.  I have outrage envy. For nearly two weeks, more than a million citizens across Brazil have taken to the streets to protest political corruption, economic injustice, poor health care, inadequate schools, lousy Continue reading
  6. Is a New Political System Emerging in This Country? American flag
    3 Mar 2015 … Based on developments in our post-9/11 world, we could be watching the birth of a new American political system and way of governing for which, as yet, we have no name. Continue reading
  7. Bernie Sanders’ Revealing Exchange With Trump’s Health Care Appointee Tom Price
    1 Jan 2017 … It has been argued with some validity that budgets are moral documents, as the priorities they outline reveal the values of the political figures who draft, debate and enact them. And if this is the case then, surely, presidential cabinets Continue reading
  8. Do Politicians Read the Emails You Send Them?
    12 Dec 2012 … Since the advent of the Internet the number of messages sent to politicians has increased dramatically, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the messages are being heard. Continue reading
  9. What Economic Sleuths Can Tell Us About Our Corrupt Politics
    8 Aug 2013 … Forensic economists devise ingenious ways of sniffing out corruption -- both the kinds that land people in jail and the kinds that help land others in Congress. Continue reading
  10. Need a Lawyer? Sell Everything
    12 Dec 2014 … The test of whether a person can afford a lawyer is often so extreme that even the most indigent of defendants may be deemed unworthy of counsel. Continue reading