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  1. Morning Reads: Journos, Pols Arrested in Ferguson; Yazidis Escape Mountain Siege A man watches as police walk through a cloud of smoke during a clash with protesters Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. Protests in the St. Louis suburb rocked by racial unrest since a white police officer shot an unarmed black teenager to death turned violent Wednesday night, with people lobbing Molotov cocktails at police who responded with smoke bombs and tear gas to disperse the crowd. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
    8 Aug 2014 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at Moyers & Company HQ... Continue reading
  2. The Story Behind the Story of Those Huge Corporate Tax Cuts Capitol Hill by night, August 11, 2012. (Image: Flickr/ Paul Arps)
    12 Dec 2014 … Congress has extended these give-aways for years without any public attention. Continue reading
  3. Why We Fail When We Try to Talk About Race in America About 2,000 New Yorkers marched in Manhattan, bringing traffic to a halt for hours in a demonstration demanding police accountability and remembering Delrawn Small, Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, the three men recently shot dead by police. (Photo by Erik Mcgregor/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
    7 Jul 2016 … Conversations about race in the United States fall short of their stated aims. We declare, usually after some horrific event, that Americans need to have a hard talk about racism. Politicians and pundits convene town hall meetings. Television and radio Continue reading
  4. Dean Baker: Main Street’s Economic Pain Is a Result of a Policy Failure
    12 Dec 2013 … Economists Dean Baker and Jared Bernstein have written a new book about how to cure what ails the American economy. Continue reading
  5. Trump’s Proposed Military Buildup: Rich Man’s War, Poor Man’s Fight Afghanistan war veteran and conscientious objector Rory Fanning speaks in Japan on a Veterans for Peace trip in 2016. (Photo by Yoshiaki Kawakami)
    3 Mar 2017 … Sarah Jaffe speaks with Afghanistan war veteran and conscientious objector Rory Fanning about Trump's "alarming" plans for the military, the roles that veterans and athletes can play in movements for change and the long tradition of imperialism in the US. Continue reading
  6. An Interview With Bill Moyers Bill Moyers at Public Affairs Television
    5 May 2014 … Bill Moyers speaks about his life, his career, LBJ and his views about contemporary journalism and politics. Continue reading
  7. Why Are Walmart Billionaires Bankrolling Phony School ‘Reform’ In LA?
    3 Mar 2013 … The Waltons have given more than $1 billion to organizations and candidates who support school privatization. Continue reading
  8. Richard Rodriguez (Part Two) Richard Rodriguez
    10 Oct 1990 … Part II of an discussion between acclaimed journalist and essayist Richard Rodriguez and Bill Moyers. They speak more about how Rodriguez writes about the intersection of his personal life with some of the most vexing cultural and political problems facing Continue reading
  9. The Ultimate ‘Bad Hombre’ Protestors carrying pinata likeness of Donald Trump.
    10 Oct 2016 … Donald Trump’s disdain for undocumented people bubbled over again during the last presidential debate of 2016. Is he so intent on Trump TV that he wants to expand Hillary Clinton’s edge with the nation’s 27 million eligible Latino voters? Asked Continue reading
  10. American Culture Has Become More Open, International and Diverse. Trump’s Budget Would Reverse That. Supporters of New York City's cultural institutions and programs hold a rally on the steps of City Hall to denounce cuts to funding for the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities contained in the current proposed federal budget platform. (Photo by Albin Lohr-Jones/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
    6 Jun 2017 … The Trump administration’s proposed 2018 budget, which prioritizes defense and national-security spending above all else, would deal crippling blows to government-funded institutions in the arts and humanities and leading American organizations that foster international dialogue and understanding of global affairs Continue reading