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  1. Five Facts You Should Know About the Hyde Amendment Henry Hyde
    1 Jan 2013 … Learn key points about the law that prevents federal programs from funding abortion. Continue reading
  2. What Would Howard Zinn Say?
    7 Jul 2017 … Historian and activist Howard Zinn died in 2010, and the progressive world greatly misses his spirit and guidance. One wonders what he'd have to say about America today — one in which senators create legislation in secret and a president Continue reading
  3. Chevron’s “Company Town” Fights Back: An Interview with Gayle McLaughlin Mayor Gayle McLaughlin and community prior to big vote on eminent domain to save homes. (Credit: Office of Mayor Gayle McLaughlin)
    10 Oct 2014 … The oil giant’s spending millions to defeat Mayor Gayle McLaughlin and her slate of progressive candidates in the small city of Richmond, California. Continue reading
  4. The Best Journalism of 2020: Covering the Pandemic
    12 Dec 2020 … Throughout this year, we’ve relied on journalism to make sense of it all—especially as the virus’s spread frequently outpaced our abilities to comprehend and respond to it. Continue reading
  5. Criminalizing Dissent and Harvesting Votes in California’s Central Valley Brenna Bell, center, with the Miami Activist Defense, is arrested by Miami-Dade Police officers after she and others refused to disperse in front of the Miami-Dade County Jail Friday, Nov. 21, 2003 in Miami. More than 30 people were arrested after demanding the release of demonstrators that had been arrested during Thursdays skirmishes between hundreds of anti-globalization activists and police. Protesters say the proposed free trade zone will siphon thousands of jobs to other countries, reduce workers' rights by exploiting cheap labor and harm the environment. (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)
    2 Feb 2004 … In an increasingly security-conscious America, is the government taking aim at our civil liberties? And unlikely allies in the fight to protect a California community. Continue reading
  6. Morning Reads: Trump Plans to Slash EPA, State Department Budgets; Pruitt Used a Private Email Account for Government Business President Donald Trump discusses the federal budget in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on February 22, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images)
    2 Feb 2017 … A roundup of stories we're reading at BillMoyers.com HQ... Continue reading
  7. Capitalism’s ‘Sacrifice Zones’
    7 Jul 2012 … Bill and journalist Chris Hedges talk about parts of America "that have been destroyed for quarterly profit." Continue reading
  8. How Puerto Rico Recovered Before Residents wade through flood waters at their home days after Hurricane Maria made landfall, on Sept. 22, 2017 in Loiza, Puerto Rico. Many on the island have lost power, running water and cell phone service after Hurricane Maria, a category 4 hurricane, passed through. (Photo by Alex Wroblewski/Getty Images)
    9 Sep 2017 … In the aftermath of the Great Depression, Puerto Rico was rebuilding in more ways than one. Aside from dealing with the impacts of a global financial crisis, the island had recently been battered by two massive storms: San Felipe II Continue reading
  9. What Pope Francis Would Say to Obama: Let Workers Unionize
    9 Sep 2014 … One way Obama can address the issue of income inequality is by giving low-wage federal workers the right to organize and bargain for fair working conditions. Continue reading
  10. Ending Hunger in America Family using the Feeding America program
    7 Jul 2012 … Over the past year-and-a-half, many guests have visited the Moyers & Company studio to talk about the impact of growing economic inequality in America, and the shrinking government programs that serve the poor. Here are five ways that you can Continue reading