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  1. Not Your Grandma’s Civil Rights Strategy On March 8, 2015, Marchers retraced the steps of those who marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 50 years before over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. (Photo by Jessica Rinaldi/,em>The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
    3 Mar 2017 … On a glorious afternoon in August 1963, after the massive March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom wrapped up on the national mall, President John F. Kennedy, prodded by Attorney General Robert Kennedy, welcomed John Lewis, Martin Luther King Jr., Continue reading
  2. 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
  3. We Are Out of Time: We Need to Take a Leap One of the Expedition 40 crew members onboard the International Space Station captured this oblique image of Typhoon Halong at 09:37:54 GMT on Aug. 5, 2014. The orbital outpost was at a position 225 miles above Earth over a point located at 14.2 degrees north latitude and 128.7 degrees east longitude.
    12 Dec 2015 … We need to paint a picture of what life could be like inside those scientific red lines, life within the limits imposed on us by nature. And that life needs to be not just better than a future of climate Continue reading
  4. Your Turn: The State of the Union Barack Obama, Joe Biden, John Boehner, SOTU 2014
    1 Jan 2014 … Close to 3,000 people weighed in on the Bill Moyers Facebook page with comments on President Obama's speech last night. Here's what they had to say. Continue reading
  5. ‘Be Joyful, Though You Have Considered the Facts’
    10 Oct 2015 … The new documentary based on Naomi Klein's book is in theaters and filmmaker Avi Lewis shares his thoughts on climate, capitalism and credible hope. Continue reading
  6. Maybe This Is the Article That Will Convince You Not to Cut Medicaid Rally in Support of the Affordable Care Act at the White House on Feb. 25, 2017. (Photo by Ted Eytan/ flickr CC 2.0)
    6 Jun 2017 … The Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, made it possible for my sister to live as a single mom with a chronic illness. It qualified her for Medicaid coverage in Montana. It ensured that she would not be discriminated against in Continue reading
  7. Twenty-First-Century Energy Wars Oil wells on fire in southern Iraq as British Tanks drive past, March 23, 2003. (Press Association via AP Images)
    7 Jul 2014 … Global conflicts are increasingly fueled by the desire for oil and natural gas -- and the funds they generate. Continue reading
  8. Robin Lindley Talks with Historian Adam Domby about The False Cause
    9 Sep 2020 … Adam Domby, an award-winning historian and specialist on the Civil War and Reconstruction, examines the role of lies and exaggeration in the Lost Cause narratives and their celebration of white supremacy in his timely and groundbreaking new book The False Cause: Continue reading
  9. What I Learned From My March With Democracy Spring Lappé addresses a crowd gathered for the Democracy Spring mobilization in Washington, DC. (Photo: Democracy Spring)
    4 Apr 2016 … Yesterday was the most important day of my life. I walked up to the Capitol building and sat on the steps with more than 400 people. When asked to move, we refused and were arrested. We committed nonviolent civil disobedience Continue reading
  10. The War on Medicaid Is Moving to the States Mary Mayhew, commissioner of Maine's Dept. of Health & Human Services (left) and Gov. Paul LePage answer questions during a news conference to announce changes to the MaineCare system in Augusta, Maine, on Dec. 6, 2011. (Photo by Joe Phelan/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)
    9 Sep 2017 … In the early 1960s, as the Kennedy and Johnson administrations worked to enact Medicare and Medicaid, then-actor Ronald Reagan was a spokesman for the American Medical Association. He made a recording that warned of the dangers of the legislation — Continue reading