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  1. The First Post-Middle-Class Election The crowds reacts as they watch montiors waiting for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton during her primary night event at the Duggal Greenhouse, Brooklyn Navy Yard, June, 7, 2016 in New York. / AFP / TIMOTHY A. CLARY (Photo credit should read TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)
    7 Jul 2016 … Two years ago, a pollster for Democratic candidates told me he’d begun advising his clients to cease emphasizing “the middle class” when speaking of those Americans whose interests they were defending. Many Americans who once thought of themselves as middle-class, Continue reading
  2. One Person, One Vote? Watching the Democrats Change Metaphors. Preemptive Democracy. Close view of a collection of VOTE badges. 3D render with HDRI lighting and raytraced textures.
    7 Jul 2004 … This 2004 NOW episode looked at whether America was at risk for a repeat of the 2000 election debacle, and considered Democrats' struggle to determine how America should act in a post-9/11 world. Continue reading
  3. Why Immigrants in California Are Canceling Their Food Stamps One week of food for a family of four on food stamps in California. (Photo by Alameda County Community Food Bank/ flickr CC 2.0)
    3 Mar 2017 … What if you had to make a choice between hunger or deportation? As the Trump era unfolds in California, fear of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement crackdown is disrupting the daily lives of immigrants and their families. In a state Continue reading
  4. Morning Reads: ALEC vs. the Environment; Open Carry Extremists Terrify Innocent Bystanders
    5 May 2014 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at Moyers & Company HQ... Continue reading
  5. Mass Incarceration and the New Jim Crow (AP Photo/David Goldman)
    2 Feb 2013 … In the latest installment of his excellent New York Times series, Time and Punishment, John Tierney writes that mass incarceration trends of the past 30 years may have done more to harm crime-ridden communities and their residents than help them. Continue reading
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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