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  1. Paying CEOs Top Dollar for Poor Performance
    8 Aug 2013 … A study looked at high-earning CEOs performances over the past 20 years and found that compensation isn't at all reflective of a job well done. Continue reading
  2. The Treason of the Senate
    12 Dec 2014 … Read an excerpt from a 1906 Cosmopolitan exposé condemning rich donors who foot the bills for political parties and “manipulate the prosperity produced by all, so that it heaps up riches for the few.” Sound familiar? Continue reading
  3. The Average Black Family Would Need 228 Years to Build the Wealth of a White Family Today People wait in a several-blocks-long line to receive food and gifts at the "A Miracle in Motown" event, part of a nationwide program to help working poor and disadvantaged families on Dec. 18, 2008 in Detroit. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
    8 Aug 2016 … If current economic trends continue, the average black household will need 228 years to accumulate as much wealth as their white counterparts hold today. For the average Latino family, it will take 84 years. Absent significant policy interventions, or a Continue reading
  4. Justice For Sale (Update) A gavel replica and law books are shown in the office of California Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald George at his office in San Francisco, Wednesday, July 14, 2010. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
    2 Feb 2010 … Bill Moyers Journal takes a hard look at how campaign cash in judicial races may sway America's courts. The Journal revisits the 1999 FRONTLINE special Justice for Sale which looked at the growing concern — even among Supreme Court justices Continue reading
  5. The Right-Wing Machine Behind The Curtain Former Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC), president of the Heritage Foundation, delivers opening remarks during the Heritage Action for America's second annual Conservative Policy Summit at the Heritage Foundation in Washington on Jan. 12, 2015. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
    4 Apr 2017 … The mood was jubilant two days after the November 2016 election at a Washington, DC, panel co-hosted by two powerhouse conservative think tanks — the American Enterprise Institute and the Heritage Foundation. Continue reading
  6. Morning Reads: CIA’s Damaging Secrecy; Darrell Issa Torpedoes GOP’s Benghazi Spin A view near the entrance to the McLean, Va., headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency is seen Friday Oct. 26, 2001. (AP Photo/Stephen J. Boitano)
    5 May 2014 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at Moyers & Company HQ... Continue reading
  7. Dr. King’s ‘Two Americas’ Truer Now than Ever
    4 Apr 2013 … In 1967, the civil rights leader spoke of a society in which the chasm between rich and poor is tragically wide and deep. Sound familiar? Continue reading
  8. No, the Coronavirus is not an “Equalizer”
    4 Apr 2020 … Experts say that the nation’s unwillingness to publicly track the virus by race could obscure a crucial underlying reality: It’s quite likely that a disproportionate number of those who die of coronavirus will be black, reports ProPublica. Continue reading
  9. The Aftermath: A Problematic ‘Victory’ Abraham Lincoln takes the oath of office as the 16th president of the United States administered by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on March 4, 1861. (AP Photo)
    10 Oct 2013 … Thanks to an eleventh-hour settlement the US has supposedly escaped fiscal doomsday, but historian Bernard Weisberger writes that it feels more like a stay of execution than the end of a crisis. Continue reading
  10. Memo to the Next President: Don’t Forget the Working Class Construction worker on scaffolding in NYC
    11 Nov 2016 … At the end of most US presidential elections, most Americans are ready to see the last of campaign ads, social media commentaries and tension-fraught news coverage. That’s even more true this year. But more than in most recent elections, we Continue reading