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  • Democracy & Government
    Outrage as Trump Crony Now Heading USPS Moves to Slow Mail Delivery
    July 17, 2020
    | Jake Johnson

    With the USPS at risk of completely running out of cash by the end of September without an infusion of emergency funding, postal workers and members of Congress have warned that the Trump administration could attempt to exploit the agency's financial struggles to advance the longstanding right-wing goal of privatizing USPS.

  • Democracy & Government
    Republicans Devote $20m to Efforts to Restrict Voting
    June 15, 2020
    | Sam Levine

    Donald Trump’s campaign and the GOP are pumping millions of dollars into efforts to restrict voting and aggressively fight Democratic efforts to make it easier to cast a ballot during the Covid-19 pandemic.

  • Moyers on Democracy
    Watch Bill Moyers and Christiane Amanpour: 'Truth is the Oxygen of Democracy'
    June 10, 2020

    "Democracy was dying of too many lies long before this murder," Moyers tells Amanpour. "Unless we see the truth and act on it, we are going to run out of oxygen."

  • Democracy & Government
    A Chronicle of a Lost Decade Foretold
    June 1, 2020

    Many on the left still cling to the hope that the COVID-19 crisis will translate into the use of state power on behalf of the powerless. But those in authority have never hesitated to harness government intervention to the preservation of oligarchy, and a pandemic alone won't change that.

  • Letters From an American
    The Lights Are Off in the White House
    May 31, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    In all this confusion, it feels like the lines are becoming clearer between those determined to reclaim fairness and equality before the law in America, and those determined to destroy civil society altogether.
  • Moyers on Democracy
    What America Could Have Been
    May 25, 2020
    | Jeremy Gerard

    The coronavirus epidemic will have a lasting worldwide impact, to be sure, but it will have a unique native social impact as well, one equal to those brought about by the upheavals of the 1960s and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Already it’s changed the way we see ourselves, and our nationhood.

  • Democracy & Government
    A Historian Speaks to the Current Moment
    March 14, 2020
    | Bernard Weisberger

    It is time, fellow Americans, to remember the warning of the great journalist Edward R. Murrow: “A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.” Let us together become the coalition of generations that closes the gates to the wolves ready to devour our freedoms.

  • Editor's Desk
    Bill Moyers Responds: What Would Joseph Campbell Think?
    February 11, 2020
    | Bill Moyers

    A Facebook member responded to our recent post Bill Moyers and Steve Harper on Lawyers, Liars and Trump on Trial with a question: Bill Moyers responds: I don’t know what in particular Joseph Campbell would say about our situation today. But I can imagine him lamenting, as he did when we talked some 30 years ago, our failure “to admit within ourselves the carnivorous, lecherous fever that is endemic to human nature.” Malevolent greed was on the ...

  • Activism
    A 15-Point Guide to Surviving Authoritarianism
    December 15, 2017
    | Kali Holloway and Martin Mycielski
    Rule #1: Always think critically and fight ignorance with facts.
  • Democracy & Government
    Why the Trump Era Won't Pass Without Serious Damage to America
    December 13, 2017
    | Neal Gabler
    Conservatism has turned itself into a civic religion and columnist Neal Gabler fears the damages wrought in the Trump era will be permanent and lasting.


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