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  1. The American War Machine Is Already on the Death March Across the African Continent Ughanaian Armed Forces Cpl. Kingsley Anyeala explains rope climbing techniques to US Army Spc. Jake Burley from the 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division during United Accord 2017 at the Jungle Warfare School in Achiase military base, Akim Oda, Ghana, on May 20, 2017. The Jungle Warfare School is a series of situational training exercises designed to train participants in counter-insurgency and internal security operations. (Photo by Spc. Victor Perez Vargas | US Army Africa | Flickr CC 2.0)
    10 Oct 2017 … On Oct. 4, US military personnel were on their way back to their forward operating base in Niger. They had been on a reconnaissance mission to the village of Tongo Tongo, near Niger’s border with Mali. US Joint Chiefs Chairman Continue reading
  2. Americans Like Obamacare — Just Don’t Call it “Obamacare” Holding a sign saying "We Love ObamaCare" supporters of health care reform rally in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, Tuesday, March 27, 2012, as the court continued hearing arguments on the health care law signed by President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
    9 Sep 2014 … Another poll shows that opinions of the law continue to be skewed by partisanship. Continue reading
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. Poet Kyle Dargan on the Affluence and Austerity of DC
    4 Apr 2013 … Poet Kyle Dargan talks about his efforts to reconcile his disparate cultural environments through poetry. Continue reading
  7. Why Does Essential Work Pay So Little and Cost So Much?
    7 Jul 2020 … The pandemic has exposed certain deep and unexamined assumptions about the nature and value of work in the United States. Continue reading
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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