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  1. Morning Reads: Buffett Buys Wind Power; Little Upward Mobility in the South
    12 Dec 2013 … A roundup of stories we're reading this morning at Moyers & Company HQ... Continue reading
  2. Diversity Is the Lifeline for the Future of the Climate Movement People's Climate March 2014 NYC (Photo: South Bend Voice/flickr CC 2.0)
    5 May 2015 … We have a lot of work to do, but the scale and diversity of the People’s Climate March gives me hope that together, we can build a new world. Continue reading
  3. The Trump Administration Is Confused About Meals on Wheels. My Grandma Could Teach Them A Thing or Two. Meals On Wheels of San Francisco driver Jim Fleming delivers meals to Yvonne Jarkowski on Feb. 27, 2013 in San Francisco. Programs for the poor like Meals On Wheels, which delivers meals to homebound seniors, could be affected if $85 billion in federal spending cuts come down due to sequestration. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
    3 Mar 2017 … Last week, White House budget director Mick Mulvaney defended the Trump administration’s proposal to cut funding for Meals on Wheels by arguing that the program is “just not showing any results.” Continue reading
  4. How Bill Clinton’s Welfare “Reform” Created a System Rife With Racial Biases President Clinton shakes hands with Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole of Kansas and Vice President Gore shakes hands with House Speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia during their Oval Office meeting Tuesday Dec. 19, 1995 to discuss the federal budget impasse. Budget talks collapsed Wednesday after President Clinton scuttled an Oval office meeting with Republican leaders and accused "the most extreme" House Republicans of reneging on a deal that could have ended the government's partial shutdown. (AP Photo/White House)
    5 May 2014 … A ten-year study of the aftermath of one of Clinton's signature achievements revealed some surprising results. Continue reading
  5. Jacob Needleman Jacob Needleman
    6 Jun 1990 … Bill Moyers talks with philosopher Jacob Needleman about his new study of the role of money in our culture. Needleman discusses how there has always been greed, avarice and people wanting more than they need. However cultures have always wanted Continue reading
  6. What We Didn’t Hear At the Debate Fast Food Workers Stage Nationwide Protest in front of McDonalds
    10 Oct 2016 … In a debate that will be most remembered for Donald Trump's diss of democracy, there was little said about the anxieties that appear to be undermining it. Big questions about the old economy and new economy were not addressed. Here Continue reading
  7. Pope Francis Embraced the Most Subversive Voices in Modern American Catholicism 'Much as the legacies and lives of Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks have been historically revised and sanitized,' explains Scahill, 'so too are the lives of Dorothy Day and Thomas Merton.' (Photo: Archive/via miriampawel.com)
    10 Oct 2015 … Holding up these two radical, pacifist, militantly anti-war Catholics as role models was a remarkable act by Pope Francis. Continue reading
  8. Is Trump Launching a New World Order? President Donald Trump and Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud attend the Arabic Islamic American Summit at King Abdul Aziz International Conference Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on May 21, 2017. (Photo by Bandar Algaloud / Saudi Kingdom Council / Handout/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
    6 Jun 2017 … That Donald Trump is a grand disruptor when it comes to international affairs is now a commonplace observation in the establishment media. By snubbing NATO and withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement, we’ve been told, President Trump is dismantling the Continue reading
  9. Segment: Thomas Cahill on the People’s Pope
    12 Dec 2013 … Bill talks to best-selling author Thomas Cahill about why Pope Francis has conservatives up in arms. Continue reading
  10. Panama Papers Offer More Evidence That Free Trade Isn’t Really Free (L-R) Vernon Jordan, former US President Bill Clinton, Ron Kirk and US President Barack Obama walk off a green while golfing at Farm Neck Golf Club August 15, 2015, in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts on Martha's Vineyard. (Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)
    4 Apr 2016 … You might wonder what the connection is between a friendly game of golf last summer in Martha’s Vineyard and the Panama Papers. Read on. As anyone who hasn’t been in a cave – or otherwise away from the Internet — Continue reading