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  1. Fixing Washington’s Biggest Problem Represent.Us's dollar bill costumes will be used during the K Street 5K this Saturday. (credit: Represent.Us)
    4 Apr 2013 … When it comes to reforming Washington, money in politics is the issue that trumps all others. Activist Josh Silver has some ideas on how to fix our coin-operated political system. Continue reading
  2. One Man, One Vote — A Dream Under Threat Gary May. Credit: Dale Robbins.
    7 Jul 2013 … Dr. King’s “I Have A Dream” speech, presented so eloquently during the March on Washington, has gone largely unfulfilled as we look at America 50 years later. To be sure, “the shackles of segregation” in the South that King fought Continue reading
  3. While We Were Distancing Person walking alone in a hallway
    5 May 2020 … BillMoyers.com brings you the news you need to know — some of it good, some of it outrageous, all of it important — that’s been covered up by COVID-19. Continue reading
  4. Bharati Mukherjee Bharati Mukherjee
    6 Jun 1990 … Bharati Mukherjee, an award-winning novelist and writer, calls America "a stage for transformation" — not only for herself, but also for her fellow immigrants. Continue reading
  5. Public Housing Can Be Good for Kids. But There Isn’t Enough of It. Children ride their scooters in Woodland Terrace, a public housing complex in Southeast Washington on Aug. 3, 2015. (Photo by Evelyn Hockstein for The Washington Post via Getty Images)
    11 Nov 2016 … A new report finds that stability in a child's living situation makes a difference in how they do in school and in their emotional development. Continue reading
  6. Morning Reads: Pope Francis May Ease Divorce Rules; Judge Deals Blow to Keystone In this photo provided Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013 by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis has his picture taken inside St. Peter's Basilica with youths from the Italian Diocese of Piacenza and Bobbio who came to Rome for a pilgrimage, at the Vatican, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013.
    2 Feb 2014 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading this morning at Moyers & Company HQ. Continue reading
  7. Corruption Is as Bad in the US as in Developing Countries
    11 Nov 2015 … Living in America sometimes resembles taking part in a Ponzi scheme, and its likely to get worse before it gets better. Continue reading
  8. Filmmaker David Puttnam (Part One) Sir Richard Attenborough, David Puttnam and Bob Geldof at the BAFTA Film Awards in London, 1988 (Rex Features via AP Images)
    9 Sep 1988 … A conversation with the filmmaker behind The Killing Fields, The Mission and Chariots of Fire explains how he sees American movies as the reflection of a nation at odds with itself. Continue reading
  9. How Did Democrats Become the Party of Elites? Donkey (Photo by Georgia Democrats/ flickr CC 2.0)
    7 Jul 2017 … What's most toxic in American politics today — as it has been throughout our history — is to become the party associated with domineering overlords and supercilious elites who seem to enjoy wielding power over the rest of us. Continue reading
  10. Unsanitized: No Double Dip Recession for the Millions in Depression
    11 Nov 2020 … The pandemic has supercharged inequality. Millions of people suffering aren’t just getting the cold shoulder from Congress; they’re about to get dumped off the “COVID cliff” — a number of relief policies that expire at the end of December. Continue reading