Democracy in America has been a series of narrow escapes. We may be running out of luck, and no one is coming to save us. For that, we have only ourselves.
August 24, 2017The Russian president's claims of "historical victimhood" in World War II try to justify his country’s present-day destructive behavior.
January 25, 2017Hitler was the first to describe the technique of telling a lie so often that people believed it. He called it the “Big Lie.”
January 22, 2017Bill recommends reading this essay by a retired professor who writes that in order to save democracy from its greatest challenge, we must continue marching.
June 11, 1989 | A Second LookBill Moyers traces the childhoods and early careers of FDR and Hitler and illustrates the paths by which they rose to respective pinnacles of power.
May 9, 1984 | A Walk Through the 20th CenturyTwo motion picture experts -- Frank Capra and Fritz Hippler -- on the war they waged through film.
