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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. What Has Capitalism Done for Us Lately?
    3 Mar 2013 … Bill takes a close look at avarice, banks, and capitalism -- the ABCs of economic inequality -- with insight from Sheila Bair and Richard Wolff. Continue reading
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. Does This Movie Capture the National Mood? Chris Pine and Ben Foster star as brothers Toby and Tanner in Hell or High Water. (CBS Films)
    8 Aug 2016 … Political reporters and pundits this election season have confessed to being flummoxed by the Donald Trump groundswell, which has led to head-scratching, soul-searching and navel-gazing as they try to figure out just what it is that Trump has been tapping Continue reading
  8. Trumpcare Will Make the Opioid Crisis Worse President Donald Trump looks to House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) and other House lawmakers in the Rose Garden after the House pushed through a health care bill, at the White House in Washington, DC on May 4, 2017. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
    5 May 2017 … In the midst of the most devastating drug epidemic in US history, the legislation could disrupt addiction coverage for millions of Americans. Continue reading
  9. Clip: Why a Nobel Prize-winning Economist Became an Economist Joseph E. Stiglitz
    6 Jun 2014 … In this clip, Joseph E. Stiglitz talks about how growing up in Gary, Indiana inspired him to become an economist. Continue reading
  10. Heather McGhee
    2 Feb 2012 … Heather McGhee is the Director of the Washington office of Demos, a New York-based non-partisan research and advocacy organization that focuses on economic equality, democratic participation, and strengthening the public sector in an effort to find public solutions to shared Continue reading