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As the saying goes, they (the 1 percent at the top) only call it class warfare when the rest of us (the 99 percent) are fighting back. Since the economic meltdown of 2008’s Great Recession and the Occupy movement of protest and action, the specter of vast, ever-expanding income inequality across the planet has been countered by a growing awareness among the rest of us of the gravity of the problem, its disastrous implications for ...

“The power of the word," Bill Moyers has said, “is to create a world of thought and emotion that you and I can share, if only we learn to listen." While many associate Bill with his probing documentary reports, commentaries, and interviews with advocates and experts, it’s his conversations with writers, particularly poets, and their readings of their own poetry and prose -- that have introduced millions of viewers to compelling works and their individual ...

America has the highest incarceration rate of any nation, with almost 25 percent of the world’s prisoners. Statistically, nearly one in 100 Americans is doing time, and, according to the prison reform group, The Sentencing Project, “More than 60% of the people in prison are now racial and ethnic minorities. For Black males in their thirties, 1 in every 10 is in prison or jail on any given day. These trends have been intensified by ...

Slavery is our nation’s original sin; the treatment of people of color a blot on the history of a country “conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." Here, a variety of Moyers conversations with Michelle Alexander, Bryan Stevenson, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Maya Angelou, David Simon, and others offer a useful primer on the history of racism in the United States and its continuing impact.

As Bill Moyers often has said, "News is what people want to keep hidden. Everything else is publicity." Throughout his journalism career, Bill and his team have investigated how all too often our government has tried to conceal its most dubious and even illegal actions behind an obfuscating fogbank of bureaucracy, diversion, prevarication and secrecy. Whatever you think our officials are doing, they’re usually doing something worse. From the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 ...

The judiciary is in some ways the most crucial of the three branches of American government, the ultimate arbiter interpreting the fairness of our legislation and the actions of the chief executive. But like the other two branches, the courts, too, have also been unduly influenced by the riches of corporations and the wealthy few, handing down decisions that don’t always deliver justice but favor the elite at the top and treat unequally those at ...

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