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  1. It’s Worse Than You Think: How the Party of Lincoln Suppresses Black Votes President Lincoln and General George B. McClellan in the general's tent near the Antietam battlefield, October 3, 1862. (Image: Alexander Gardner)
    9 Sep 2014 … The GOP, facing demographic headwinds, is rewriting laws to maintain its viability. Continue reading
  2. Hidden Assets: The World of Tax Evasion and The Last Stop: Inside Foster Care Photo of tax return and US treasury check
    7 Jul 2002 … NOW looks into the many Americans who avoid paying their rightful share of taxes, sometimes with the help of the world's biggest banks. And a special report shows a residential treatment center as it tried to heal some of our Continue reading
  3. Environmental Activist: Progress Seen in Clean Energy, but “Climate Gap” Largely Ignored
    1 Jan 2014 … Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins says transitions to cleaner energy sources are good signs of progress, but the toll climate change takes on the poor remains virtually ignored. Continue reading
  4. Morning Reads: Right-Wing Militia in Ferguson, Hillary Meets #BlackLivesMatter, Jeb on Iraq Scenes from Ferguson - Black Lives Matter protestors and Oathkeeper militia
    8 Aug 2015 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at BillMoyers.com HQ… Continue reading
  5. Trump and Trade An abandoned steel mill near Detroit. This factory is just shy of a mile long from end to end. (Jonathan Graeber / Flickr CC 2.0)
    5 May 2017 … If you want to understand why Donald Trump has been changing his position on trade, one place to start is pork. Continue reading
  6. Ronald Reagan, D-Day Anniversaries and the Suppression of Memory U.S. President Ronald Reagan and his wife, first lady Nancy Reagan, walk past the graves at Normandy American Cemetary in Normandy, France, June 6, 1984. The American president and first lady are attending the 40th anniversary of the allied invasion of 1944. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
    6 Jun 2014 … The president sought to selectively remember and rewrite the legacy of Roosevelt and the greatest generation right up to his last days in office. Continue reading
  7. Americans Embrace Pioneer Roots as Food Supply Falters Chard in a victory garden. "When I pluck my own kale leaves and feel connected to the larger urban farming community, all of us eating something out of our own yards, I’m sometimes reminded of the victory gardens of the World War II era," writes Frida Berrigan. (Photo by mercedesfromtheeighties/ flickr CC 2.0)
    6 Jun 2020 … As the COVID-19 pandemic exposes another area of vulnerability — the U.S. food supply, Americans find innovative ways to keep themselves and their communities fed. Continue reading
  8. Morning Reads: Walmart’s Worst Nightmare and Pensions for Dogs!
    11 Nov 2013 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading this morning at Moyers & Company HQ... Continue reading
  9. The Second American Revolution, Part Two Brown vs. Board of Education
    4 Apr 1984 … 1954 was a clarifying point of convergence in American history. Among other things, it was the year that brought the Supreme Court’s decision to outlaw racial segregation in the schools. Bill Moyers, Ossie Davis, and Ruby Dee tell the story Continue reading
  10. Now’s Your Chance, President-Elect Trump As a Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump delivered an address to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference in Washington, DC in March. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
    11 Nov 2016 … On Monday, less than a week after Donald Trump won the presidency, I received a piece of anti-Semitic hate mail. It was addressed to me personally, at my home, where I live with my wife and two daughters, aged 3 Continue reading