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  1. The State of Abortion, 40 Years After Roe v. Wade (Guttmacher Institute)
    1 Jan 2013 … To mark the 40th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision on Jan. 22, 2013, the Guttmacher Institute — a sexual and reproductive health policy nonprofit — has created five infographics on the state of abortion in Continue reading
  2. An Optimist for Our Times
    4 Apr 2012 … Bill Moyers and Angela Blackwell explore reasons for hope in a period of social and economic distress. Continue reading
  3. Morning Reads: A Gruesome Terror Attack That Went Unnoticed People gather at the scene of a car bomb explosion, at the central market, in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Tuesday, July 1, 2014. A car bomb exploded in a market in Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri on Tuesday morning, and dozens of people are feared dead, witnesses said. They immediately blamed Boko Haram, the Islamic extremist group whose birthplace is Maiduguri and which is accused of a series of recent bomb attacks in the West African nation. (AP Photo/Jossy Ola)
    1 Jan 2015 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at Moyers & Company HQ... Continue reading
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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