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  • Media
    'Sometimes to Tell the Truth, You Have to Take a Stand'
    January 22, 2021
    | Ti-Hua Chang
    These words from legendary CBS producer Fred Friendly are on the mind of a former student.
  • 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.

  • Media
    Once More, With Feeling   
    August 9, 2016
    | Todd Gitlin
    One of our regular media critics takes a look back and forward at the extended farce known as the presidential campaign.
  • Democracy & Government
    Trump, His Virus and the Dark Age of Unreason
    June 16, 2016
    | Bill Moyers and Michael Winship
    He's the latest in a long line of American demagogues but has come closest to the White House. That makes him the most dangerous of them all.
  • Health & Science
    Dr. Billionaire, Meet Dr. Salk
    May 11, 2016
    | Sam Pizzigati
    History shows us that brilliant doctors don't need the incentive of fabulous riches in order to achieve medical breakthroughs.
  • Democracy & Government
    When the Poetry of Campaigning Becomes a Cheesy, Dirty Limerick
    March 3, 2016
    | Michael Winship
    Political rhetoric in the GOP has degenerated into name-calling and petty insults.
  • Fighting for Farmworkers
    July 19, 2013 | Moyers & Company
    Baldemar Velásquez talks about the ongoing David vs. Goliath struggles to ensure fairness for American farmworkers.
  • Watch 'Harvest of Shame'
    July 19, 2013
    | John Light
    Edward R. Murrow's 1960 documentary on migrant workers is just as powerful -- and relevant -- today.
  • Watch: West, Murrow, McCarthy
    April 27, 2012
    | Lauren Feeney
    Watch extended versions of the Allen West, Edward Murrow, and Joseph McCarthy clips Bill shared in his essay.
  • Bill Moyers Remembers Mike Wallace
    April 8, 2012
    | Bill Moyers
    Bill says of his late friend and colleague: "He put spine into broadcast reporting, and by his example mentored the lot of us."


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