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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. America: What Went Wrong? (Part One) The Philadelphia Inquirer, America, economy
    4 Apr 1992 … This program provides a powerful examination of the forces contributing to the dismantling of the American economy. The program is based on the research of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele. Continue reading
  8. Totalitarian Paranoia in the Post-Orwellian Surveillance State A TV screen shows a news report of Edward Snowden at a shopping mall in Hong Kong Sunday, June 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)
    2 Feb 2014 … What will it take to change a democracy driven by fear? Continue reading
  9. Now White People Are Dying From Our Terrible Economic Policies, Too
    11 Nov 2015 … As the “middle class” hollows out, whites who started life under relatively promising circumstances are finally seeing the floor fall out under them. Continue reading
  10. Where Have All the Children Gone? Alia and Basma, both 12, tackle a math question at a temporary school in northern Lebanon, set up by UNICEF and Lebanese NGO Beyond Association with the help of UK aid. (Photo by DFID - UK Department for International Development | Flickr CC 2.0)
    7 Jul 2017 … “This is a war against normal life.” So said CNN correspondent Clarissa Ward, describing the situation at this moment in Syria, as well as in other parts of the Middle East. It was one of those remarks that should wake you up Continue reading