September 22, 2020Chayes has a new book — ON CORRUPTION IN AMERICA: AND WHAT IS AT STAKE
September 18, 2020Bill Moyers sit down with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to discuss the most pressing global issues faced by present-day women leaders. Continue reading
September 16, 2020Leading media critic tells Bill Moyers why Presidents lie – and guess who’s the worst.
September 11, 2020One of America’s leading trial lawyers has taken Donald Trump to court, to stop what he describes as a conspiracy by the president, the postmaster general, and the Postal Service itself to rig the coming election. Continue reading
August 19, 2020What’s behind the Trump administration’s drive to kill off the post service? Expert Lisa Graves says the move began in earnest in the early 1970s. That’s when billionaire Charles Koch began to turn his money and effort toward privatization of the USPS — he is using the Koch empire to push his political agenda to this day, when the postal service is ripe for taking. Continue reading
July 30, 2020Yes, the Civil War brought an end to the slave order of the South and the rule of the plantation oligarchs who embodied white supremacy. But the Northern victory was short lived — Southern ideals spread quickly to the West. It's all about America’s ongoing battle between oligarchy and democracy.
July 29, 2020A year ago, historian Heather Cox Richardson started writing small essays on the history behind the headlines and posting them to her Facebook page as LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN. Today, over half a million readers (and counting) click on her dispatches each day.
July 16, 2020Bill Moyers talks with Legal Contributor Steven Harper.
July 11, 2020Bill Moyers talks with Bill T. Jones, the artistic giant who revolutionized modern dance. The son of migrant farm workers in the South – the 10th of 12 children – Jones grew up to win two Tony Awards, receive the National Medal of Art and a MacArthur Genius Fellowship and to be honored by the Kennedy Center. Continue reading
July 3, 2020Bill Moyers talked with Rebecca Gordon, a professor of ethics, about the 4th of July, the Movement for Black Lives and what she’s hearing from her students who are ready for change. Continue reading
This time is a crucial one in defending and defining democracy. As Americans face the COVID-19 and climate change crises, we’re also facing another one. Democracy is under threat and we need to talk about it in order to save it.
Bill Moyers has a new podcast that cuts through all the noise to get at the heart of what we need to be discussing as a country. “On Democracy” will take a look at all the threats our democracy is facing — voter suppression, dark money, corporate power, inequality, dwindling faith in our institutions — and talk to the people with the best ideas for saving it.
