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  1. Robert Reich: Four Big Conservative Lies About Inequality Fast food workers announce a global protest for a higher minimum wage outside a McDonald's restaurant in Manhattan on May 7, 2014. (BillMoyers.com/Neha Tara Mehta)
    5 May 2014 … The truth is, America’s lurch toward widening inequality can be reversed. But doing so will require bold political steps. Continue reading
  2. Preventing Crime Before It Happens
    1 Jan 2013 … No other city comes close to matching New York’s crime-fighting success, which has lasted twice as long and has been twice as deep as the national average. The cause of that crime drop is the intense, data-driven style of policing Continue reading
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. It’s Time to Talk About the Class Divide Among Women Home health care workers hold signs at a rally in support of a minimum wage increase in New York on April 15, 2015. (Photo by Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
    12 Dec 2016 … If you’re like me, you’re still processing what it means to live in a Trump-led America. We are still grieving. We’re desperate to find someone or something to blame, and there’s plenty of blame to go around. Continue reading
  10. Paul Ryan and the Secret Lives of Inner-City Black Males Rachel Noerdlinger and her son Khari, 14, sit at the edge of the Hudson River near their home in Edgewater, N.J., on Tuesday, June 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
    3 Mar 2014 … The Atlantic's Ta-Nehisi Coates separates reality from fiction. Continue reading