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  1. Morning Reads: Liz Warren Hits Wall Street Dems Hard; Does ALEC Want to Kill the Planet?
    12 Dec 2013 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading this morning at Moyers & Company HQ... Continue reading
  2. Plutocracy the First Time Around Haymarket affair
    4 Apr 2015 … The first Gilded Age drove Americans into the streets of our land as they refused to accept that unbridled capitalism was their fate. Continue reading
  3. Swirl Like A Leaf: Jimmy Santiago Baca, Marilyn Chin and Robert Bly Swirl like a leaf
    5 May 1995 … Expressions of rage and forgiveness by Jimmy Santiago Baca, of identity and duality by Marilyn Chin, and of aging and wisdom by Robert Bly. Continue reading
  4. Behind the Kitchen Door: Serving Food While Sick women protesting for sick days
    4 Apr 2014 … The vast majority of restaurants across the country pressure their employees to work while sick or injured, writes activist Saru Jayaraman in this book excerpt. Continue reading
  5. What Inspired Robert F. Kennedy’s Fight Against Hunger
    6 Jun 2012 … See photo depictions of life for poor African Americans in rural Mississippi in the late 1960s. Continue reading
  6. Last-Ditch Effort By Republicans to Replace ACA: What You Need to Know Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) speaks as (left to right) Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY), Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Sen. John Thune (R-SD), and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) during a news briefing after the weekly Senate Republican policy luncheon at the Capitol in Washington, DC on Sept. 19, 2017. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
    9 Sep 2017 … Republican efforts in Congress to “repeal and replace” the federal Affordable Care Act are back from the dead. Again. Continue reading
  7. Bank of America Settlement and the Need for Legal Aid Lawyers FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2009 file photo, a Bank of America branch office is shown in New York. The Bank of America said Tuesday, June 29, 2011 it will pay $8.5 billion to settle with investors over housing crash claims. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)
    8 Aug 2014 … Last week, the bank agreed to a record-setting $16.65 billion settlement for selling toxic mortgage securities during the housing boom. The deal includes $30 million for legal aid programs, but it's not enough. Continue reading
  8. 10 Great 2014 Social Justice Documentary Films
    12 Dec 2014 … In this day and age, the best documentary directors don’t lead with the issue, they focus on story and let the social relevance emerge from the narrative. Continue reading
  9. The Candidates’ Battle for America’s Middle Class Trump and Clinton are making a pitch for the votes of an activist middle class. (Hollywata/Flickr cc 2.0)
    8 Aug 2016 … If Donald Trump can get over his nonsense about President Obama being the “Founder” of ISIS and his hassling Gold Star families and fellow Republicans, Campaign 2016 can get to America’s core issue — economic inequality and the rival pitches Continue reading
  10. Morning Reads: Governors’ Dark Money; Is the War on Terror Ending?
    1 Jan 2014 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading this morning at Moyers & Company HQ. Continue reading