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  1. Income Disparities in Connecticut and Single-Payer Health Care in Maine Welcome to Maine
    5 May 2002 … Producers visit Connecticut, where the gap between rich and poor was growing faster than in any other state, and Maine to consider a debate on single-payer health insurance. Continue reading
  2. Morning Reads: The Coziness of AT&T and the NSA, More Trump Follies, Julian Bond’s Comic Book computer keyboard with a lock, chain
    8 Aug 2015 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at BillMoyers.com HQ… Continue reading
  3. How Our Tax Code Makes Inequality Worse A Boston suburb from the air. (Photo by Aftab Uzzaman | Flickr CC 2.0)
    5 May 2017 … If asked to describe American housing policy, the average person would almost surely answer that the government spends massive amounts of money on public and subsidized housing for poor and low-income families. Yet this is not the case. Continue reading
  4. How Corporations Inflate CEO Pay With Stock Buybacks — And Why It’s Bad for the Rest of Us In this Feb. 17, 2009 file photo, shoppers leave a Wal-Mart in Danvers, Mass. Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer, on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010 said it is realigning its U.S. operations in an effort to give more autonomy to executives in regional markets and reinvigorate U.S. growth.. (AP Photo/Lisa Poole, File)
    6 Jun 2014 … Wage squeezes, stock buybacks and tax subsidies are all combining to keep America’s high and mighty ever higher and mightier. Continue reading
  5. At Scott and Zelda’s Final Resting Place, Gatsby Lives Author Francis Scott Fitzgerald in an undated photo. (AP Photo, File)
    5 May 2013 … As The Great Gatsby movie opens, Michael Winship remembers the last, strange chapter of the Fitzgerald story. Continue reading
  6. Kumi Naidoo
    9 Sep 2013 … Kumi Naidoo is the executive director of Greenpeace International, the largest independent direct-action environmental organization in the world. Under his leadership, Greenpeace convinced Unilever and Coca-Cola to discontinue the use of HFC gases, persuaded Nestle to stop buying palm oil Continue reading
  7. Meet the Rust-Belt Populist Who Wants to Be Pennsylvania’s Next Senator John Fetterman. (Photo courtesy of Fetterman for Senate)
    2 Feb 2016 … John Fetterman, 46, has served as mayor of the hardscrabble Pittsburgh suburb of Braddock for over a decade. His tattoos (of the town’s zip code and the dates of its most recent murders) and his stature (nearly 7 feet) have Continue reading
  8. Why Do So Many Young Americans Misunderstand Vaccination? In 1954, 1.8 million children participated in the Salk polio vaccine trials. (Photo: March of Dimes)
    2 Feb 2015 … Dr. Jonas Salk's discovery of a polio vaccine was supported by a nation-wide commitment to ending the disease. Today, measles is making a comeback as some parents exclude their children from vaccinations. Continue reading
  9. Morning Reads: White Supremacists Shout ‘Heil Victory’ in DC; Police Crack Down on Dakota Pipeline Protesters (L-R) Panelists Peter Brimelow, Jared Taylor, Kevin MacDonald, self-named "Millenial Woes" and Richard Spencer take questions at a conference in Washington, DC, hosted by the white nationalist National Policy Institute on Saturday, November 19, 2016. (Photo by Linda Davidson/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
    11 Nov 2016 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at BillMoyers.com HQ... Continue reading
  10. Will the Immigration Bill Help Migrant Farmworkers?
    7 Jul 2013 … Migrant farmworkers are among the most marginalized people in the country. Will they be helped by the proposed immigration bill? Continue reading