April 8, 2020This week: Voting rights. The Republican Party “would rather try to keep people from voting than lose,” David Daley tells Bill. Daley is a reporter who has written extensively about gerrymandering and voting rights — and fired up a generation of activists fighting for free and fair elections.
April 1, 2020This Week: The CARES Act. Bill Moyers talks with Neal Barofsky, former TARP investigator general, about how he would safeguard the two trillion dollar government program to rescue an economy crippled from the coronavirus. “There’s going to be scandal…there’s going to be fraud.”
March 22, 2020Stacking the Courts. Supreme Court watcher and podcaster Dahlia Lithwick tells Bill, “This is happening almost in the dark of night... There is this stealth attack on government agencies and their ability to regulate themselves. It is happening at the U.S. Supreme Court under our noses.”
March 3, 2020Bill talks to psychiatrist and author Robert Jay Lifton about Trump, lies and dueling realities. “It’s a kind of purity of a single authoritarian person who claims to have nobility and claims that he alone and no one else can save the country. And by implication, the world. It’s pure megalomania,” Lifton says.
February 12, 2020This week: “The Notorious RGB” A Supreme Court Justice for 27 years now, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has also become a cultural icon who regularly attracts huge crowds to her public appearances. They packed the house at Union where she talked about her career and the current state of SCOTUS.
February 4, 2020This week: Impeachment and the Constitution. Lawyer Steven Harper has been following the Russian-Trump story from the very beginning, since before the election. He talks with Bill about what’s next.
January 10, 2020Military historian Andrew Bacevich and Bill discuss America's role in the world in the 21st century and what exactly does it mean to be an American after the Cold War?
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.
