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  1. How Is Citizens United Ruining Democracy and How Can We Stop It? (Photo: DonkeyHotey/Flickr)
    1 Jan 2015 … Five years after Citizens United, outside spending on elections is totally out of control. Here's an enraging and inspiring rundown of the current state of election spending and some ideas to improve things. Continue reading
  2. Tobacco Traffic: Cigarette Smuggling cigarettes
    4 Apr 2002 … In this episode, producers investigate whether Big Tobacco companies have grown so powerful they can disregard international law. Continue reading
  3. Bernie Sanders: ‘The Nation’ Interview Katrina vanden Heuvel, John Nichols and Sen. Bernie Sanders in Washington, DC, Sept. 14, 2016. (Photo by Natalie Fertig/The Nation)
    9 Sep 2016 … Bernie Sanders is still campaigning for the political revolution. He’s protesting with Native Americans against the Dakota Access pipeline, championing the Working Families Party, and hitting the trail for antimonopoly congressional candidate Zephyr Teachout. Sanders continues to draw big crowds Continue reading
  4. Morning Reads: Members of Congress Fleeing in Droves; Glenn Greenwald’s Soft Side
    1 Jan 2014 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading this morning at Moyers & Company HQ. Continue reading
  5. Trump’s Education Budget Feeds School Privatization at the Expense of Students President Donald Trump with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos during an event for School Choice in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on May 3, 2017. (Photo by Aaron P. Bernstein/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
    5 May 2017 … The vision of “education reform” coming from the Trump administration and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos entails cutting direct aid to students, especially those from low-income families, in order to expand the private sector’s financial footprint in education. Continue reading
  6. In Other News: The Arctic is Melting — Enough Said On July 12, 2011, crew from the US Coast Guard Cutter Healy retrieved a canister dropped by parachute from a C-130, which brought supplies for some mid-mission fixes. The ICESCAPE mission, or "Impacts of Climate on Ecosystems and Chemistry of the Arctic Pacific Environment," is NASA's two-year shipborne investigation to study how changing conditions in the Arctic affect the ocean's chemistry and ecosystems. (Photo by NASA/Kathryn Hansen/ flickr CC 2.0)
    6 Jun 2020 … In Other News: Trump’s Biggest Conflict of Interest To Date? Reporting you might have missed. Continue reading
  7. Most of Those Outraged by Obamacare Enjoy Big Taxpayer Subsidies Themselves Photo of tax return and US treasury check
    11 Nov 2013 … Americans subsidize each other all the time and the biggest beneficiaries are the middle class and the wealthy. Continue reading
  8. The 2016 Election Exposed Deep-Seated Racism. Where Do We Go From Here? A "No Racism" sign and a "Trump Pence" poster at a Trump campaign rally
    11 Nov 2016 … This wasn’t an election. It was an exposure. That was a common thread of the 2016 Facing Race conference in Atlanta, Georgia, where more than 2,000 activists, community organizers and journalists from across the country gathered for two-and-a-half days to Continue reading
  9. ‘Life on the Plantation’, January 12, 2007
    1 Jan 2007 … Bill delivered this speech to the Media Reform Conference in Memphis, Tennessee on January 12, 2007. Continue reading
  10. White Supremacist Chaos in Charlottesville Is Just the Beginning Counterprotesters gathered in the streets of downtown Charlottesville on Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017 to stand against the "Unite the Right" rally, which was later cancelled by police. (Photo by Adele Stan)
    8 Aug 2017 … Arriving in downtown Charlottesville about a half-hour before the scheduled noon start time for the Unite the Right rally on Saturday, it was clear that violence was inevitable. I rode past a throng of men with semiautomatic rifles slung across Continue reading