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‘Veil of Secrecy’ and New York’s Crusading Attorney General Eliot Spitzer
12 Dec 2003 … An investigation into how diminished government transparency leaves the public — and democracy — at risk, and conversations with Pulitzer winner Dorothy Rabinowitz and NY Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. Continue reading
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How Does the Past Look From Here?
10 Oct 2020 … It feels like a really strange time, as if we had been hit by a truck and pushed off the road of normality. Looking back over the history of the United States, it is a strange time. Continue reading
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Demilitarizing Our Democracy
1 Jan 2021 … At a time of acute concern about the health of our democracy, any such rethinking must, among other things, focus on strengthening the authority of civilians and civilian institutions over the military in an American world where almost the only Continue reading
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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
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A Black Man Brought 3 Forms of ID to the Polls in Wisconsin. He Still Couldn’t Vote.
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
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Today’s Must Reads – May 14, 2012
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
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Ronald Dworkin: The Changing Story
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
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Morning Reads: GOP to Authorize Real War Over Benghazi; Donald Sterling Is Fighting Mad
5 May 2014 … A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at Moyers & Company HQ... Continue reading
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The Hijacked Brain
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
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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