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  • Moyers on Democracy
    Free Speech. Really?
    December 23, 2020
    | BILLMOYERS.COM TEAM
    Bill Moyers talks with Ellis Cose.
  • Health & Science
    Do I Have to Have That Vaccine?
    November 30, 2020
    | Heather Butts

    If approved, the vaccine could be in use by mid-to-late December 2020. But what about people who choose not to get the vaccine? What about people who have religious beliefs that are not in concert with vaccination? Does a vaccine override personal and civil liberties? 

  • Letters From an American
    I Read it in the Post
    October 15, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    Democrats have hammered home that putting Barrett on the court at this moment is an extraordinary power grab, and voters seem to agree. Turning attention away from the hearings would be useful for the Republicans when voters are on their way to the polls.

  • Justice
    How A New Supreme Court Could Forever Change America
    September 23, 2020
    | David Sirota
    “A Trump appointment will very much solidify the power of corporations and businesses on the Supreme Court."
  • Moyers on Democracy
    SEPTEMBER 18, 2020: JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBURG HAS DIED
    September 18, 2020

    Bill Moyers sit down with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to discuss the most pressing global issues faced by present-day women leaders.

  • Civil Liberties
    Advocates Sue Trump Administration Over Mass Border Expulsions
    June 11, 2020
    | Dara Lind

    Advocacy organizations have sued the Trump administration to stop a 16-year-old boy from being summarily sent back to Honduras after he crossed into the U.S. last week to join his father. It’s the first challenge to the Trump administration’s policy of mass expulsions of border-crossers, under which nearly 45,000 migrants — including 2,000 children — have been pushed out of the U.S.

  • For the Record
    We Hold This Truth to Be Self-Evident: It’s Happening Before Our Very Eyes
    June 5, 2020
    | Bill Moyers

    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.

  • Letters From an American
    What Happens When Our President Declares He Needs to Dominate the Battle Space?
    June 1, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    Is Our Nation a Battleground Where There Will Be Winners and Losers?
  • Civil Liberties
    Fifty Years Later, the Gunfire at Kent State Still Echoes Through America
    May 5, 2020
    | Michael Winship
    Today’s pandemic alters our tradition of protest and dissent.
  • Civil Liberties
    Big Ban on Campus
    November 16, 2017
    | Colleen Flaherty
    Professors are often lightning rods, but many see a new menace to academic freedom in recent physical threats against faculty members who speak out on race and other issues.


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