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  1. We Must Out-Educate and Out-Innovate Other Nations Diane Ravitch; Courtesy of Thirteen.org
    2 Feb 2013 … My fellow Americans, I have said in previous addresses on this occasion that the key to our future success is to make sure that the education we provide our young people is the best in the world. I have said Continue reading
  2. Morning Reads: Senate Nears Deal but House Republicans Revolt
    10 Oct 2013 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at Moyers & Company this morning. Continue reading
  3. North Carolina’s Moral Monday Movement Kicks Off 2014 With a Massive Rally in Raleigh The stage at the inaugural 2014 Moral Mondays protest in Raleigh, North Carolina. Photo by Ari Berman.
    2 Feb 2014 … Activists hold the largest civil rights rally in the South since the Selma to Montgomery march in 1965. Continue reading
  4. Why the Paris Climate Summit Is Also a Peace Conference Demonstrators make their way down Sixth Avenue in New York during the People's Climate March Sunday, Sept. 21, 2014. The march, along with similar gatherings scheduled in other cities worldwide, comes two days before the United Nations Climate Summit, where more than 120 world leaders will convene for a meeting aimed at galvanizing political will for a new global climate treaty by the end of 2015. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)
    11 Nov 2015 … Climate change won't just disrupt natural systems, it will spark new human conflicts over resources. Continue reading
  5. Buying Access in Public Schools, Humans’ Capacity for Violence, Interview with Monica Patton School bus
    10 Oct 2002 … This episode considers whether our schools should be helping companies sell products to our kids, and tries to understand the horror and violence that is an undeniable part of the human experience. Continue reading
  6. The Republic of Rogue Island Kings County Court House (now a public library) where Rhode Island voted against ratifying the Constitution in 1790. (Photo by Wikimedia Commons)
    7 Jul 2017 … When delegates from the United States met at Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 to reform their constitution, one state went unrepresented. Rhode Island — the smallest and least populous of the 13 rebel colonies — was undergoing its own Continue reading
  7. Sister Simone Campbell on What Drives ‘Nuns on the Bus’ Sister Simone Campbell waves as she steps off the bus in Ames, Iowa, June 2012 (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
    6 Jun 2012 … Sister Simone Campbell talks about their mission and its connection to Catholicism. Continue reading
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. ‘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