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During these trying days of social distancing, self-isolating and quarantines, days rife with fear and anxiety, my colleagues and I thought you might like some company. So each day we will be introducing you to poets we have met over the years. The only contagion they will expose you to is a measure of joy, reflection and meditation brought on by “the best words in the best order.” Enjoy. —Bill Moyers

Whatever bipartisanship that once existed between the Democratic and Republican parties has, for now at least, all but vanished – the victim of extremist rhetoric from the right and a gerrymandering of representation that has created few places where there’s any real competition between the two parties. Yet it’s crucial that we understand both conservative and liberal ideologies if there’s to be any hope of cooperation or progress. We have tried to give exposure to ...

The most destructive influence on American democracy is the way in which we have allowed big money to buy our government and politics. With such Supreme Court decisions as Citizens United and McCutcheon, we have unleashed a tidal wave of cash – much of it anonymous and without limit – to all but drown out the voice of the people. In this collection of conversations, commentary and articles, we present the evidence of how deeply ...

Despite the denials of naysayers convinced somehow that human-generated climate change does not exist, evidence of global warming, melting icecaps, rising seas, severe weather and ravishing drought mounts on a daily basis. Over the years, Bill Moyers has spoken with scientists, skeptics, evangelists and activists on the reality of a planet plagued by a dangerous and possibly fatal fever that can only be relieved by reducing our consumption of fossil fuels, seeking alternative energies and ...

“The tug of war between reason and faith is the undercurrent of our society in what some see as a fundamentalist era," Bill Moyers has said. “It's an ancient conflict, a long-running argument, but with all the fear, violence, and intolerance that grip our times, we have to come to terms with the fact that it must be reason and faith, not reason versus faith. Otherwise, we would tear our society apart." This is a ...

In 1971, Bill Moyers published his first book, Listening to America: A Traveler Rediscovers His Country. In it, he journeyed 13,000 miles around the United States, a journalist recording his impressions of memorable people, places and events he met or saw along the way. “Most people want to be generous," he wrote. “They expect their nation to have visions of justice even if they themselves act unjustly. They expect from their country an ethos, an ...