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  1. Personal Wealth: A Nation of Extremes, And a Congress, Too
    11 Nov 2015 … Wealth inequality in the United States is pervasive — so much so that it’s apparent even in Congress. Continue reading
  2. The Latino Electorate in Nine Charts
    10 Oct 2012 … Get a statistical snapshot of Hispanic America and the issues Latinos consider important when choosing a president. Continue reading
  3. Let’s Be Brazil
    6 Jun 2013 … This post first appeared in The Jewish Journal.  I have outrage envy. For nearly two weeks, more than a million citizens across Brazil have taken to the streets to protest political corruption, economic injustice, poor health care, inadequate schools, lousy Continue reading
  4. Call and Promise Abraham departs to Canaan
    11 Nov 1996 … When God chooses Abraham to found a dynasty, how does Abraham react? Scholar Robert Alter; law professor Azizah Y. al-Hibri; novelist Bharati Mukherjee; community activist Eugene Rivers III; theologians Lewis B. Smedes and Burton L. Visotzky; and playwright-composer Elizabeth Swados Continue reading
  5. My Sister Served in the Army. The Biggest Threat to Her Survival is Congress. Military service men and women and military academies join veterans for New York City's annual Veteran's Day parade up Fifth Avenue in Manhattan on Nov. 11, 2016. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)
    9 Sep 2017 … My older sister, Lynn, was always getting into trouble when we were kids. I was the goody two-shoes in the family, but if I did ever get myself in trouble, she’d get in even more trouble to help me out. Continue reading
  6. Donald Trump and the Plague of Atomization in a Neoliberal Age Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to potential supporters at a campaign stop in Urbandale, Iowa on Jan. 15, 2016. (Photo by Steve Pope/Getty Images)
    8 Aug 2016 … Donald Trump lowered the bar even further by attacking the Muslim parents of US Army Captain Humayan Khan, who was killed in 2004 by a suicide bomber while he was trying to save the lives of the men in his Continue reading
  7. America is Not a Post-Racial Society
    6 Jun 2013 … The Court went outrageously wrong in assuming we have become a post-racial America that no longer needs to be bound by the legal protections that have preserved the electoral process for nearly a half-century. Indeed, discrimination still happens, and it’s Continue reading
  8. A Historian Speaks to the Current Moment https://billmoyers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/AP837205498681.jpg
    3 Mar 2020 … It is time, fellow Americans, to remember the warning of the great journalist Edward R. Murrow: “A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.” Let us together become the coalition of generations that closes the gates to the Continue reading
  9. Five Trends Shaping America in 2016 MINNEAPOLIS, MN - NOVEMBER 20: (Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)
    1 Jan 2016 … The folks at the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan “fact tank” that analyzes pretty much every important aspect of American life, enumerated some of their key takeaways from all of the many studies they had conducted over the course of Continue reading
  10. Mitt’s Mississippi Disconnect Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney shakes hands during a campaign stop at the Port of Pascagoula, Miss. March 2012. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
    3 Mar 2012 … Mitt Romney says we'd be "a lot better off" if Washington took governmental lessons from... the poorest state in America. Come again? Continue reading