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  1. Pope Francis Confronts Right-Wing Media Vitriol Screenshot from Pope coverage on Lou Dobbs show.
    9 Sep 2015 … If you don't watch Fox News or listen to right-wing radio, you probably aren't aware of the negative coverage the pope and his message are receiving this week. Media Matters compiled the video. Continue reading
  2. A Conversation with Alice Walker Alice Walker
    6 Jun 2004 … A leading voice among American writers, Alice Walker has published books of influential poetry, novels, short stories, essays, and criticism. In this program, Ms. Walker talks with Bill Moyers about a range of subjects, including the ways in which her Continue reading
  3. America’s Real Red Scare US and Russian flags wave in the wind upon US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's arrival in Moscow on April 11, 2017. (Photo by Gleb Schelkunov/Kommersant via Getty Images)
    6 Jun 2017 … Whatever Trump campaign officials, Russian oligarchs or Vladimir Putin himself did or didn’t do, America’s Soviet problem is all around us: a creeping (and creepy) version of authoritarianism that anyone who lived through the Cold War years should recognize. It Continue reading
  4. The Failed Promise of “Objective” Political Reporting
    8 Aug 2020 … What if the mainstream, reality-based media armed its audience with facts as emphatically and effectively as Fox News arms its audience with misinformation? What if the New York Times aggressively advocated for the truth, rather than just putting it out Continue reading
  5. America’s New Working Class Demands Respect NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 10: Low wage workers and supporters protest for a $15 an hour minimum wage on November 10, 2015 in New York, United States. In what organizers are calling a National Day of Action for $15 and hour minimum wage, thousands of people took to the streets across the country to stage protests in front of businesses that are paying some of their workers the minimum wage. Home care workers, employees in retail and fast food restaurants say that the current minimum is not a living wage. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
    4 Apr 2016 … My father was a machinist at a steel factory for 29 years. A white male who wore a hard hat to work, carried his lunch in a pail and washed his dark blue uniform at the end of every day, Continue reading
  6. What Ben Carson Should Learn About Housing Segregation HUD Secretary nominee Ben Carson waits for his meeting with incoming Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee chairman Sen. Mike Crapo (R-ID). (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
    12 Dec 2016 … President-elect Donald Trump proposes to nominate Ben Carson to head the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Mr. Carson has expressed opposition to the Obama administration’s new HUD requirement that cities and suburbs develop plans to end their segregation Continue reading
  7. Activists to Watch: Aaron Bartley Aaron Bartley rallies for PUSH's energy efficiency campaign in Buffalo, New York
    10 Oct 2013 … Historian Peter Dreier explains why Bartley is a part of a new wave of grassroots activists changing America. Continue reading
  8. More Than 4,000 Black People Were Lynched in the South. Where Are Their Monuments? A scene from 'Abbeville,' a video about the commemoration of a lynching that happened in South Carolina 100 years ago.
    8 Aug 2017 … Recent events in Charlottesville have renewed the debate around whether to take down Confederate memorials and statues, but the latest short film from the Equal Justice Institute’s Lynching in America project shows that much more is needed to truly confront Continue reading
  9. Dividing the Spoils
    11 Nov 2014 … On Capitol Hill, it's payback time for the wealthy donors who paid for the big victory. Continue reading
  10. Most Underreported Stories of 2013 Plant Explosion Investigation
    12 Dec 2013 … As 2013 comes to an end, we asked editors, journalists and friends of BillMoyers.com: What story deserved more attention this year? Continue reading