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  1. BillMoyers.com’s Most Popular Features of 2013 Illustrations by Joe Fournier
    12 Dec 2013 … A roundup of readers' favorite posts on our site this year. Continue reading
  2. A Conversation with Ronald Reagan Reagan and Bill 1992
    5 May 1979 … Bill Moyers talks with former governor of California and undeclared candidate for president, Ronald Reagan, at his ranch in California. Reagan talks about wanting to become president, his parents and upbringing, his early support of New Deal politics and subsequent Continue reading
  3. Fast Food Pulls a Fast One Three NJ Taco Bell restaurants linked to E Coli outbreak (AP Photo)
    4 Apr 2014 … Our tax dollars are subsidizing both the fast-food workers who need the help and the companies' CEOs who don’t. Continue reading
  4. A Primer on the Nationwide Prisoners’ Strike The joint resolution proposing the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified December 6, 1865, and abolished slavery, except as punishment for a crime. (National Archives via The Marshall Project)
    9 Sep 2016 … On Sept. 9, prisoners around the country staged a coordinated strike to mark the 45th anniversary of the bloody uprising at Attica prison in New York. According to strike organizers, more than 24,000 inmates in at least 12 states did Continue reading
  5. Morning Reads: Germany Shuts Border, Jeremy Corbyn New Labour Head, Ben Carson Gets Lesson from Jerry Brown To huge applause, Jeremy Corbyn made his first public speech at the rally in Parliament Square, just hours after being elected Leader of the Labour Party. Here he is, back stage at the demo.
    9 Sep 2015 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at BillMoyers.com HQ… Continue reading
  6. Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala on Third-Party Politics
    9 Sep 2012 … The Green Party candidates for president and vice president talk about the impact of independent thought on politics and democracy. Continue reading
  7. The One Percent Are Cheating Us Out of a Quarter-Trillion Dollars in Taxes Every Year Internal Revenue Service building
    7 Jul 2020 … The problem here isn’t that we lack the knowledge to fix things — the problem is our political system. Continue reading
  8. A Force Unto Itself: A Military Leviathan Has Emerged as America’s 51st and Most Powerful State Members of a private security company pose on the rooftop of a house in Baghdad, 18 September 2007. Iraq declared today it will review the operations of all security firms working in the war-ravaged country following a deadly shootout involving private US contractor Blackwater. AFP PHOTO/PATRICK BAZ (Photo credit should read PATRICK BAZ/AFP/Getty Images)
    3 Mar 2016 … In the decades since the draft ended in 1973, a strange new military has emerged in the United States. Think of it, if you will, as a post-democratic force that prides itself on its warrior ethos rather than the old-fashioned Continue reading
  9. We’ll Need More Vaccines in a Warming World Child getting vaccinated
    2 Feb 2015 … Vaccines protect vulnerable populations from diseases that will be made worse by climate change, especially in developing nations. Continue reading
  10. Book Excerpt: “The John Carlos Story”
    9 Sep 2013 … In this excerpt from The John Carlos Story, the bronze-medal winner recounts what went through his mind before his racial protest at the 1968 Olympic Games. Continue reading