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  1. A National Day of Thanksgiving Like Lincoln, FDR and Dr. King, we liberals and progressives have got to remind our fellow citizens who we have been, who we are and of what we are capable, writes historian Harvey J. Kaye. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
    11 Nov 2020 … Rather than being unprecedented, though, this year of hardship and political strife brings us closer to the first national Thanksgiving than any more normal year. Continue reading
  2. Women Becoming More Politically Engaged Since Trump’s Win Hillary Clinton delivers a keynote address during the 28th Annual Professional Business Women of California conference on March 28, 2017 in San Francisco. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
    3 Mar 2017 … In one of her first public appearances since she lost the presidential election, Hillary Clinton took to the stage at a San Francisco conference for businesswomen on Tuesday, encouraging women to “get in the arena” and run for higher office. Continue reading
  3. The White House Naughty and Nice List
    12 Dec 2020 … Trump stands in front of the long-fought relief bill and issues some controversial pardons. Continue reading
  4. Deep in the Tell-Tale Heart of the Texas GOP Rick Perry at the Texas GOP convention in 2014
    7 Jul 2014 … In its official 2014 platform for Texas, the GOP has gone for the chimerical bucket list of the extreme right instead of trying out real solutions to address real problems. Continue reading
  5. Unsanitized: The Iron Law of Institutions Once word of the vote to gut the Office of Congressional Ethics leaked out, phone calls, emails and social media recriminations from all points of the political spectrum began flooding the House of Representatives. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
    10 Oct 2020 … Mitch McConnell wants to retain power personally, and is thinking past the upcoming loss of power for the party. Continue reading
  6. Jonathan Swift’s America Activists gathered near Brooklyn Borough Hall, where the staged a rally and symbolic "die-in" in opposition to the repeal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and its replacement by Republican-authored legislation currently under proposal in the US House of Representatives. (Photo by Albin Lohr-Jones/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
    3 Mar 2017 … In 1729 writer/satirist Jonathan Swift penned an essay directed toward the English upper class suggesting a solution for how to prevent the children of poor people in Ireland from being a burden to the country and empire and “for making Continue reading
  7. How Corporate America Shut the Courthouse Doors to Average People The Supreme Court Building in Washington. June 2012 (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
    7 Jul 2014 … Here's how corporations became people you can't sue. Continue reading
  8. Science for Sale? Drug Companies and Ad Agencies; The Cuban Missile Crisis and Iraq; Bob Moses’ Algebra Project
    11 Nov 2002 … As drug costs increase, are advertising agencies influencing the research behind your medication? And at one Mississippi high school, a former civil rights activist is using math to change his students' lives. Continue reading
  9. Trump Leads the Religious Right to the Promised Land In a tweet last night, President Donald Trump posted this picture and wrote that the prayer circle occurred after he announced his nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court.
    2 Feb 2017 … It’s been a heady two weeks for right-wing Christian evangelicals. Never before has a president of the United States — not Reagan or either of the Bushes — delivered so much of their agenda in such short order as Donald Trump Continue reading
  10. Morning Reads: BBC Rejects False “Balance”; CA Immigration War Turns Ugly A demonstrator that opposes illegal immigration, left, shouts at immigration supporters, Friday, July 4, 2014, outside a U.S. Border Patrol station in Murrieta, Calif. Demonstrators on both sides of the immigration debate had gathered where the agency was foiled earlier this week in an attempt to bus in and process some of the immigrants who have flooded the Texas border with Mexico. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
    7 Jul 2014 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at Moyers & Company HQ... Continue reading