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  1. Time or Money? U.S. Worker’s Dilemma. Steven Brill on America post-9/11.
    4 Apr 2003 … Is a new bill in Congress putting corporate profits over workers’ rights? NOW examines the future of working overtime. Sponsors of the new bill in Congress say their legislation will give people the choice they’ve wanted: get paid for working Continue reading
  2. Morning Reads: Obamacare Is Probably Safe; Tea Partiers Then and Now Phoenix Arizona, USA, April, 2009: Tea Party attendee protests government policies with homemade sign. Courtesy: iStock
    7 Jul 2014 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at Moyers & Company HQ... Continue reading
  3. Ebola Fearmongering: The Right’s New Dog Whistle A screenshot from MSNBC coverage of a House hearing on Ebola in which CDC director Tom Frieden expressed concern about "porous borders" in Africa.
    10 Oct 2014 … Why are so few decrying the racial elements in today’s scare tactics? Continue reading
  4. Unsanitized: The Precarious State Unemployment Systems
    12 Dec 2020 … Plus, another bipartisan gang pitching a probably fruitless deal. Continue reading
  5. Trump and the Dance to the Right Jean-Marie Le Pen
    5 May 2016 … Donald Trump’s supporters may say they want to “make America great again.” Yet they are just the American version of the xenophopic tendencies that have surfaced in European politics. In some ways, this American right-wing is even more dangerous than Continue reading
  6. Morning Reads: Liz Warren Hits Wall Street Dems Hard; Does ALEC Want to Kill the Planet?
    12 Dec 2013 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading this morning at Moyers & Company HQ... Continue reading
  7. Plutocracy the First Time Around Haymarket affair
    4 Apr 2015 … The first Gilded Age drove Americans into the streets of our land as they refused to accept that unbridled capitalism was their fate. Continue reading
  8. Swirl Like A Leaf: Jimmy Santiago Baca, Marilyn Chin and Robert Bly Swirl like a leaf
    5 May 1995 … Expressions of rage and forgiveness by Jimmy Santiago Baca, of identity and duality by Marilyn Chin, and of aging and wisdom by Robert Bly. Continue reading
  9. Behind the Kitchen Door: Serving Food While Sick women protesting for sick days
    4 Apr 2014 … The vast majority of restaurants across the country pressure their employees to work while sick or injured, writes activist Saru Jayaraman in this book excerpt. Continue reading
  10. What Inspired Robert F. Kennedy’s Fight Against Hunger
    6 Jun 2012 … See photo depictions of life for poor African Americans in rural Mississippi in the late 1960s. Continue reading