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  1. The Candidates’ Battle for America’s Middle Class Trump and Clinton are making a pitch for the votes of an activist middle class. (Hollywata/Flickr cc 2.0)
    8 Aug 2016 … If Donald Trump can get over his nonsense about President Obama being the “Founder” of ISIS and his hassling Gold Star families and fellow Republicans, Campaign 2016 can get to America’s core issue — economic inequality and the rival pitches Continue reading
  2. Morning Reads: Governors’ Dark Money; Is the War on Terror Ending?
    1 Jan 2014 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading this morning at Moyers & Company HQ. Continue reading
  3. The Push and Pull Towards an Inclusive Nation Talley Wells - I Am Olmstead selfie
    7 Jul 2015 … In the years since Olmstead and the passage of the ADA, we as a country have engaged in the difficult and revolutionary work of real inclusion. Continue reading
  4. The Songs Are Free Bernice Johnson Reagon - The Songs Are Free (Photo: The Songs Are Free)
    2 Feb 1991 … Bernice Johnson Reagon, founder of the musical group Sweet Honey in the Rock and curator of the Community Life Division of the Smithsonian Institution, discusses how black music has shaped the African-American experience and identity. Continue reading
  5. ‘Poetry Is Pure Research for the Human Project’
    4 Apr 2017 … April is National Poetry Month, and we’re celebrating by featuring examples of “civic” poetry from new and familiar voices. Throughout the month we’ll be discussing what it means to be civic through the art of words. Join us on Twitter at #civicpoetry. Continue reading
  6. A Chronicle of a Lost Decade Foretold In this Jan. 31, 2010 file photo, an unmanned U.S. Predator drone flies over Kandahar Air Field, southern Afghanistan, on a moon-lit night. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)
    6 Jun 2020 … Many on the left still cling to the hope that the COVID-19 crisis will translate into the use of state power on behalf of the powerless. But those in authority have never hesitated to harness government intervention to the preservation Continue reading
  7. Naomi Klein: Climate Change “Not Just About Things Getting Hotter… It’s About Things Getting Meaner” Naomi Klein at the "Flood Wall Street" protest in September 2014. (John Light/Moyers & Company)
    2 Feb 2016 … A week and a half ago, just as a blizzard was barreling up the East Coast, I traveled to my hometown, Canandaigua, NY, and before a standing-room-only audience of more than 400 at Finger Lakes Community College, had a conversation Continue reading
  8. Glenn Greenwald on Afghanistan, the CIA and Corruption Glenn Greenwald
    10 Oct 2009 … In this web exclusive, Bill Moyers sits down with the renowned and controversial journalist Glenn Greenwald to discuss the war in Afghanistan, the CIA and corruption. Continue reading
  9. Food Fight: Why Frances Moore Lappé Is Taking on Democracy Reform Voters lined up at a polling place in Flint, Michigan
    11 Nov 2016 … Well before the results of Tuesday’s election were in, Frances Moore Lappé had made up her contrarian mind: For her, the end of our long national nightmare of a campaign would mark the start of something new. “This is only Continue reading
  10. Paul Ryan’s Seven Terrible Ideas House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, holds a copy of President Barack Obama's fiscal 2014 budget proposal book as he questions Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, April 12, 2013, as Sebelius testified before the House Ways and Means Committee hearing on the HHS fiscal 2014 budget request. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
    12 Dec 2015 … The former labor secretary runs down the "dumb" ideas Ryan clings to including tax relief for the rich, Medicaid block grants for the states, Medicare vouchers for seniors and slashing the safety net. Continue reading