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  1. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on the Urgency of Fighting Against the Racist Right-Wing Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor delivering the keynote commencement speech at Hampshire College's commencement ceremony on May 20, 2017. (Screenshot from YouTube)
    10 Oct 2017 … Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is an assistant professor at the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. After Taylor called Donald Trump “a racist, sexist megalomaniac” at a commencement speech earlier this year, she received several deaths threats, leading her to Continue reading
  2. La Guardia’s the Name and Boy, Could We Use Him Now New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt share a laugh together, circa 1944. (Photo by Keystone Features/Getty Images)
    10 Oct 2016 … One of the most awkward interviews I ever conducted in my life was with Marie La Guardia, widow of the late three-term mayor of New York City, the legendary Fiorello H. La Guardia. She was 86 at the time. I Continue reading
  3. Business Is Hyper-Organized. Shouldn’t Workers Be, Too?
    1 Jan 2014 … Powerful business groups are mounting an aggressive campaign against worker advocacy groups, which have become better organized in recent years. Continue reading
  4. Bill Moyers Essay: What’s the Truth Behind the Sunny New Unemployment Numbers? Ronald Reagan gives a televised address from the Oval Office, outlining his plan for Tax Reduction Legislation in July 1981.
    1 Jan 1984 … Bill tells the story of Ron Bricker, an out-of-work man who asked President Reagan for help finding a job, only to end up making less than he did on unemployment. Continue reading
  5. Margaret Flowers — The American Dream
    6 Jun 2017 … This is the time for a strong offense, because the only way we will achieve a transition to a clean energy economy, peace, and fulfillment of our human rights is by building people power to overcome those who profit from Continue reading
  6. The Party’s Over Balloons fall after Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump spoke and accepted the party nomination on the last day of the Republican National Convention on July 21, 2016, in Cleveland. (Photo by Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images)
    7 Jul 2020 … Advisors noted that Trump was paying close attention to leading Republicans backing out of the convention, and was worried attendance would be thin. Cancelling because of the pandemic let him stake out a leadership position on an issue where polling Continue reading
  7. Former Goldman Sachs Director Convicted of Insider Trading Rajat Gupta leaves federal court in New York sentenced to 2 years in prison for insider trading. Left is Gupta's attorney, Gary Naftalis. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
    10 Oct 2012 … Wednesday was a big day for government prosecutors cracking down on bankers. In addition to the Bank of America lawsuit, former Goldman Sachs director Rajat K. Gupta was sentenced to two years in prison and fined $5 million for insider Continue reading
  8. Activists to Watch: Deepak Bhargava
    10 Oct 2013 … Historian Peter Dreier explains why Bhargava is a part of a new wave of grass-roots activists changing America. Continue reading
  9. Morning Reads: Don’t Panic Over Ebola; GOPers Kill Probes Into Illegal Dark Money A medical worker from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, researchers who are working on the Ebola outbreak in Uganda, works at their laboratory in Entebbe 42kms (29 miles) from the capital Kampala Thursday Aug. 2, 2012. The latest Ebola outbreak in Uganda has dimmed hopes of a successful year for the country's growing tourism industry, government officials and tour operators said as tourists began to cancel trips amid rising cases of the deadly disease in the East African country. However the CDC team leader in Uganda says there is no cause of alarm since the disease is now under control. (AP Photo/Stephen Wandera)
    8 Aug 2014 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at Moyers & Company HQ... Continue reading
  10. Are We Heading Towards a Social Mobility Cliff?
    7 Jul 2012 … A new Pew report shows that Americans are still faring better than their parents, but another study says we're heading towards an impending cliff. Continue reading