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  1. Eight Policies That Could Make Obama’s Promise of ‘Opportunity for All’ a Reality Barack Obama, Joe Biden, John Boehner, SOTU 2014
    1 Jan 2014 … While the president outlined important steps forward in his State of the Union, bolder solutions are needed. Continue reading
  2. Take Me Out to the Ball Game — But Pay Me a Living Wage Pregame festivities are shown at AT&T Park before the final game of the World Baseball Classic between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic in San Francisco, Tuesday, March 19, 2013. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
    6 Jun 2013 … Michael Winship explains how even when baseball players, owners and stadiums win, hard-working concession workers lose. Continue reading
  3. Morning Reads: Paul Ryan’s Fuzzy Math and Some Movement on Gitmo
    11 Nov 2013 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading this morning at Moyers & Company HQ... Continue reading
  4. Michelle Alexander Speaks Out on “The New Jim Crow” Legal scholar and author Michelle Alexander speaks at New York’s Union Theological Seminary on March 4, 2015.
    3 Mar 2015 … The legal scholar spoke at New York's Union Theological Seminary and encouraged people "to explore the meaning of race and justice at a particularly critical moment in our nation's history." Continue reading
  5. The End of Journalism or a New Beginning? Newspaper newsroom, April 26, 1966. (Photo by Jerry Engel/New York Post Archives / (c) NYP Holdings, Inc. via Getty Images)
    12 Dec 2016 … If our first fake news election turns out to mark the end of democracy as we know it, I think I can pretty precisely date when the end began. More than 20 years ago, I and a bunch of other Continue reading
  6. Goodbye to All That Democracy A demonstrator holds a "99%" sign as hundreds of people stage a protest in Hollywood, California on Jan. 25, 2012 against "corporate tax dodgers," namely FedEx. The demonstrators included unemployed workers, community groups, and Occupy LA activists. (Photo by Joe Klamar/AFP/Getty Images)
    9 Sep 2017 … There ought to be a German word for the unpleasant feeling that comes when one’s dire predictions come true. Schmerz-Prognose: pain in premonition. Something like that feeling likely overcame Vanderbilt law professor Ganesh Sitaraman at around 10 p.m. on Nov. 8, Continue reading
  7. Why Is it so Controversial to Help Poor Mothers Afford Diapers? Jennifer Donald whose family receives money from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program also know as food stamps, eats dinner with her sons David, 6, left, and Donovan, 4, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
    8 Aug 2014 … Imagine you’re a single mother working a minimum-wage job with a toddler at home. When your diaper supply runs out mid-month, where can you turn to help you afford that incredibly basic necessity? Not SNAP, nor WIC, nor most other Continue reading
  8. Obama Awards Bayard Rustin the Presidential Medal of Freedom Civil rights leader Bayard Rustin is shown in his Park Avenue South office in New York City, in April 1969. (AP Photo/A. Camerano)
    8 Aug 2013 … The White House announced this week that Rustin, the trailblazing civil rights activist, will be posthumously awarded the highest civilian award in the U.S. Peter Dreier writes that the timing couldn't be better. Continue reading
  9. Biden Backs the Freedom to Unionize Participants seen holding signs and marching on a picket line at the protest. Members of the Workers Assembly Against Racism gathered across from Jeff Bezos-owned Whole Foods Market in Union Square South for a nation-wide solidarity event with the unionizing Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama. (Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)
    3 Mar 2021 … Biden’s vocal defense of working Americans has the potential to rally struggling workers to the Democrats more firmly than they have rallied for decades. Continue reading
  10. Resignation Letter from US Foreign Service Officer Matthew P. Hoh
    10 Oct 2014 … "I fail to see the value or the worth in continued US casualties or expenditures of resources in support of the Afghan government in what is, truly, a 35-year old civil war." Continue reading