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  1. A Black Man Brought 3 Forms of ID to the Polls in Wisconsin. He Still Couldn’t Vote. Voters take to the polls at Milwaukee City Hall April 5, 2016 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Photo by Darren Hauck/Getty Images)
    4 Apr 2016 … Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker said his state’s strict new voter-ID requirement worked “just fine” in the April 5 primary, but thousands of Wisconsinites were unable to cast a ballot because of the new law. One of them was Eddie Lee Continue reading
  2. Today’s Must Reads – May 14, 2012 Bella Abzug smiles as she holds up her ERA sign in a pro-equal rights demonstration on New York's Fifth Avenue. August 1980. (AP Photo)
    5 May 2012 … The Human Disaster of Unemployment: “While older workers are less likely to be laid off than younger workers, they are about half as likely to be rehired. One result is that older workers have seen the largest proportionate increase in Continue reading
  3. Unsanitized: Populist Moment Reappears Amid Tyson Gambling Scandal
    11 Nov 2020 … Joe Biden has his chance at a populist, pro-worker statement during his transition. Continue reading
  4. Morning Reads: GOP to Authorize Real War Over Benghazi; Donald Sterling Is Fighting Mad Fox News still (Benghazi coverage)
    5 May 2014 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at Moyers & Company HQ... Continue reading
  5. Ronald Dworkin: The Changing Story Ronald Dworkin
    5 May 1987 … According to scholar Ronald Dworkin, the Constitution shapes the public debate over issues such as AIDS prevention, pornography, and racial discrimination. Continue reading
  6. Please Stay Behind the Yellow Line
    9 Sep 2020 … Today is the nineteenth anniversary of the terrorist attack that killed almost 3000 of us on this date in 2001. It feels wrong to write about daily news today and yet, as we approach 200,000 dead from a mismanaged pandemic Continue reading
  7. The Hijacked Brain Addiction
    3 Mar 1998 … Speaking with neuroscientists and addicts themselves, Bill Moyers attempts to unravel the mysteries of the addicted mind. Bill goes into the laboratory to follow researchers engaged in charting an "image of desire" in the brain. Continue reading
  8. So Long, Farewell
    1 Jan 2021 … On January 20, 2017, Trump took the oath of office and gave his “American Carnage” speech describing America as a hellscape, and we were off to the races. Continue reading
  9. The Best Journalism of 2020: Covering the Pandemic
    12 Dec 2020 … Throughout this year, we’ve relied on journalism to make sense of it all—especially as the virus’s spread frequently outpaced our abilities to comprehend and respond to it. Continue reading
  10. The Other NRA
    8 Aug 2013 … How the insidiously powerful restaurant lobby has fought mandatory earned sick leave policies and managed to keep the minimum wage for restaurant workers the same for over 20 years. Continue reading