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  • Letters From an American
    "Twelve More Years!"
    August 25, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    The Republicans attacked the Democratic National Convention as negative and dark, and promised that they would share an optimistic, uplifting vision of America. Instead, the Republicans presented a dark fantasy vision of a hellscape where Democrats want to turn America into a war zone.

  • Letters From an American
    Just Another Friday Night News Dump
    August 8, 2020

    America’s top news continues to touch on the upcoming election. The Friday night news dump was about the United States Postal Service. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, a Trump loyalist, has recently created new rules for the agency that have dramatically slowed the delivery of mail just as mail-in voting for 2020 has begun. Today, DeJoy overhauled the USPS, releasing a new organizational chart that displaces postal executives with decades of experience and concentrates power in DeJoy ...

  • Faith & Reason
    The Moral Challenge Bernie Sanders Brought to the House Falwell Built
    September 15, 2015
    | Isaiah J. Poole
    On Monday, Sanders went to a pillar of the religious right – Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va. – to make the case that fighting for economic justice is a moral undertaking.
  • Bill Moyers on the Rise of the Religious Right
    August 31, 2012
    | BillMoyers.com Staff
    Watch classic clips from Bill's past reporting on the influence of conservative Christians in American Politics
  • Timeline: Religion and the Republican Platform
    August 31, 2012
    | Lauren Feeney
    Watch the GOP platform grow from 1972 -- when the party platform didn't contain one reference to God -- to today.
  • Democracy & Government
    Who's Telling the Truth About Jeremiah Wright?
    May 2, 2008 | Bill Moyers Journal
    Bill Moyers responds to the critics of his interview with the polarizing pastor, Jeremiah Wright.
  • Faith & Reason
    Whose God? A Roundtable Discussion on the State of Faith in the 21st Century
    January 3, 2003 | Updated March 20, 2015 | NOW
    If human history is replete with people committing atrocities against one another in the name of God, is our democracy strong enough to remedy these tendencies?
  • Faith & Reason
    Reverend F. Forrester Church on the Separation of Church and State
    October 5, 1988 | A World of Ideas
    The liberal religious leader talks about why even the faithful should cultivate doubts, how to question our virtues, and what we'd learn from an evening with Jerry Falwell.
  • War & Peace
    Bill Moyers Essay: Jerry Falwell's Criticism of Desmond Tutu
    August 21, 1985 | Bill Moyers Commentaries
    Bill Moyers reflects on Jerry Falwell's criticism of the Nobel Peace prize-winning Archbishop Desmond Tutu.


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