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  1. America at War Since 9/11 Now that our democratic connection to the wars fought in our name has receded one more step from our real lives, isn’t it about time to ask some questions about the very nature of reality and of those wars? (Photo by DVIDSHUB | Flickr CC 2.0)
    6 Jun 2017 … The headlines arrive in my inbox day after day: “US-led airstrikes in Syria killed hundreds of civilians, UN panel says.” “Pentagon wants to declare more parts of world as temporary battlefields.” “The US was supposed to leave Afghanistan by 2017. Continue reading
  2. Morning Reads: Ebola in US; Are Syrian Civilians Expendable? Dr. James LeDuc with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention is silhouetted in front of a screen showing a map of Ebola outbreak areas in Africa at the start of the 49th Annual Conference for the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Sunday, Oct. 29, 2000, in Houston. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)
    10 Oct 2014 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at Moyers & Company HQ... Continue reading
  3. This Night of Calm Before the Storm
    11 Nov 2020 … The next three days will bring the culmination of the 2020 election season, as those of us who have not already cast our ballots will show up on Tuesday to vote in our local, state, and national elections around the Continue reading
  4. How Ferguson Uses Cops and the Courts to Prey on Its Residents Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson is surrounded by his officers as he leaves a news conference in Forestwood Park on Friday, Aug. 15, 2014. Jackson took questions in the quiet park after earlier identifying Darren Wilson as the officer who shot Michael Brown. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Robert Cohen)
    3 Mar 2015 … The DoJ report traces the pattern of racial bias from traffic stops to arrests to the courtroom and, finally, to a cycle of incarceration and indebtedness. Continue reading
  5. Clearing the Air: Misguided EPA Priorities and the Politics of Environmental Policy Copenhagen Power Stations at dusk
    9 Sep 2003 … Christine Todd Whitman recounts the controversies that dogged her tenure as head of the EPA, and National Environmental Trust's Philip Clapp discusses the influence of the oil and nuclear industries. Continue reading
  6. ‘The Pivotal Role of Public Television’, November 16, 2011
    11 Nov 2011 … Excerpted from a November 10, 2011 keynote speech Bill Moyers delivered at American Public Television's annual conference. Continue reading
  7. Jeanette Winterson and Will Power on Changing Our Fates
    7 Jul 2006 … A writer and rapper contemplate if we have the power to rule our own destinies. Continue reading
  8. The Trump Administration Will Always Side with Corporations Over Labor Labor Day parade, Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by B.C. Lorio/ flickr CC 2.0)
    9 Sep 2017 … It’s no secret that the Trump administration is corporation-friendly to a fault. For all the talk of the underserved coal miners and workers whose jobs have been stolen by free trade agreements or China, the Oval Office has not been Continue reading
  9. The American Rescue Plan May Be the Most Crucial Legislation in Decades
    3 Mar 2021 … It is hard to overestimate the importance of this measure both for the present moment and as a sign of the direction in which the Democrats in charge of the United States hope to take the nation. Continue reading
  10. Morning Reads: Liberal Gun Clubs; GOP Civil War Flares Up in Ohio
    1 Jan 2014 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading this morning at Moyers & Company HQ... Continue reading