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  1. Trump’s Bid to Pit Black and Brown Workers Against Each Other Kenya Battle, 17, a junior at Dunbar High School in Northwest Washington, DC, stands outside of the Supreme Court as the justices heard oral arguments in Fisher v. University of Texas case on Oct. 10, 2012. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
    8 Aug 2017 … President Trump has resurrected an old canard in his effort to sell a new effort to restrict immigration into the United States. The legislation he backs, he said at a White House ceremony, was necessary in part to protect “minority Continue reading
  2. Updates on Two American Pastimes: Baseball and Insider Trading Henry Rivera sells peanuts during the Los Angeles Dodgers' Opening Day baseball game against the San Francisco Giants at Dodger Stadium, Monday, April 1, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
    7 Jul 2014 … Seasonal concession workers at AT&T Park finally got the contract they wanted and more about the Obamacare inside information that may have been illegally leaked by a Capitol Hill staffer to the SEC. Continue reading
  3. How Voter-ID Laws Affect Women of Color
    11 Nov 2014 … For women in the low-wage workforce — approximately two-thirds of whom are women of color — the time and cost of acquiring a photo ID are real barriers. Continue reading
  4. Unsanitized: The Return of Checks Checks Checks
    12 Dec 2020 … With three days to go before government funding expires, the leadership in the House and Senate finally got in a room together to discuss a year-end deal that packages an omnibus spending bill and coronavirus aid. And what progressives are fighting for in Continue reading
  5. Morning Reads: Right Outraged at Budget Deal; Pope Francis Wins
    12 Dec 2013 … A roundup of stories we're reading this morning at Moyers & Company HQ... Continue reading
  6. Dispatch From Baltimore: Praying for Peace, Living Another Reality Police move a protester back, Monday, April 27, 2015, following the funeral of Freddie Gray in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
    4 Apr 2015 … The emotional distance between Freddie Gray’s moving funeral and the chaos that followed isn’t as wide as it may seem. Continue reading
  7. Cities Go Rogue Against Trump and the Radical Right On February 27, 2017, about 1,000 protesters gathered to denounce Donald Trump and demand Minneapolis defend Muslims, accept immigrants, welcome refugees and support workers. They called on the Minneapolis government to expand sanctuary city protections for immigrants and pass a $15 per hour minimum wage for all workers. (Photo: Fibonacci Blue, Flickr CC 2.0)
    3 Mar 2017 … On Jan. 25, President Donald Trump signed an executive order promising to strip funding from the so-called sanctuary cities that have vowed to defy his plan to deport millions of undocumented immigrants. Whether and how the order can be enforced Continue reading
  8. We Supported Their Dictators, Led the Failed ‘War on Drugs’ and Now Deny Them Refuge Migrants seeking asylum in the United States await near the US-Mexico border at El Chaparral crossing in Tijuana, Mexico on May 7, 2017. (Photo by Guillermo Arias /AFP/Getty Images)
    11 Nov 2017 … President Donald Trump has tied his executive order giving Congress six months to “fix” DACA to constructing a wall between the US and Mexico as well as a rapid and massive deportation of unaccompanied children and families entering the US Continue reading
  9. Missing in the American Media: Working People Lena Dunham in HBO's 'Girls' (Photo: Courtesy of HBO)
    9 Sep 2014 … Corporate flacks and entitled millennials get plenty of TV airtime. Working Americans, not so much. Continue reading
  10. Wendell Potter and Marcia Angell on Health Care Reform
    3 Mar 2010 … Bill Moyers sits down with former insurance executive turned public health advocate Wendell Potter, who argues that all is not lost in the healthcare bill and details what he likes about the legislation. And single-payer advocate Marcia Angell explains why Continue reading