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  1. Environmental Activist: Progress Seen in Clean Energy, but “Climate Gap” Largely Ignored
    1 Jan 2014 … Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins says transitions to cleaner energy sources are good signs of progress, but the toll climate change takes on the poor remains virtually ignored. Continue reading
  2. How Trump Could Spend $1 Trillion to Fix America If He Knew What He Was Doing We need to give people a wide range of transportation options, says Lynn Richards of Congress for New Urbanism. (Photo by KIDKUTSMEDIA/ flickr CC 2.0)
    5 May 2017 … Infrastructure! We’ve really got your attention now, right? Here’s the thing, though: It’s what makes modern life possible. Showers, cellphones, pizza delivery, toilets — all those fail without infrastructure. Much of what we’ve got now is old, dangerous and needs Continue reading
  3. Americans Embrace Pioneer Roots as Food Supply Falters Chard in a victory garden. "When I pluck my own kale leaves and feel connected to the larger urban farming community, all of us eating something out of our own yards, I’m sometimes reminded of the victory gardens of the World War II era," writes Frida Berrigan. (Photo by mercedesfromtheeighties/ flickr CC 2.0)
    6 Jun 2020 … As the COVID-19 pandemic exposes another area of vulnerability — the U.S. food supply, Americans find innovative ways to keep themselves and their communities fed. Continue reading
  4. Morning Reads: Walmart’s Worst Nightmare and Pensions for Dogs!
    11 Nov 2013 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading this morning at Moyers & Company HQ... Continue reading
  5. The Second American Revolution, Part Two Brown vs. Board of Education
    4 Apr 1984 … 1954 was a clarifying point of convergence in American history. Among other things, it was the year that brought the Supreme Court’s decision to outlaw racial segregation in the schools. Bill Moyers, Ossie Davis, and Ruby Dee tell the story Continue reading
  6. Now’s Your Chance, President-Elect Trump As a Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump delivered an address to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference in Washington, DC in March. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
    11 Nov 2016 … On Monday, less than a week after Donald Trump won the presidency, I received a piece of anti-Semitic hate mail. It was addressed to me personally, at my home, where I live with my wife and two daughters, aged 3 Continue reading
  7. Ep. 4: Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth — ‘Sacrifice and Bliss’ Joseph Campbell Headshot 2
    6 Jun 1988 … Bill Moyers and Joseph Campbell discuss where heroism can be witnessed in modern society. Continue reading
  8. Trump’s Bid to Pit Black and Brown Workers Against Each Other Kenya Battle, 17, a junior at Dunbar High School in Northwest Washington, DC, stands outside of the Supreme Court as the justices heard oral arguments in Fisher v. University of Texas case on Oct. 10, 2012. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
    8 Aug 2017 … President Trump has resurrected an old canard in his effort to sell a new effort to restrict immigration into the United States. The legislation he backs, he said at a White House ceremony, was necessary in part to protect “minority Continue reading
  9. Updates on Two American Pastimes: Baseball and Insider Trading Henry Rivera sells peanuts during the Los Angeles Dodgers' Opening Day baseball game against the San Francisco Giants at Dodger Stadium, Monday, April 1, 2013, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
    7 Jul 2014 … Seasonal concession workers at AT&T Park finally got the contract they wanted and more about the Obamacare inside information that may have been illegally leaked by a Capitol Hill staffer to the SEC. Continue reading
  10. How Voter-ID Laws Affect Women of Color
    11 Nov 2014 … For women in the low-wage workforce — approximately two-thirds of whom are women of color — the time and cost of acquiring a photo ID are real barriers. Continue reading