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    Electoral Grieving: Between Misery and the Sun
    November 15, 2016
    | Neal Gabler
    Look to the sun and not just the misery...and then get ready for the struggle that lies ahead.
  • Inequality
    The Antipoverty President of My Dreams
    October 25, 2016
    | Greg Kaufmann
    For too long we have been failing to fight together for what we know will work to ensure that everyone has a shot at the American Dream.
  • Democracy & Government
    The Ghosts of '68 Haunt the Election of 2016
    May 12, 2016
    | Michael Winship
    A slender, long-forgotten work of fiction foresees the rage and frustration of Donald Trump's America.
  • 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.
  • History
    50 Years Later: Why We Must Remember Freedom Summer
    July 10, 2014
    | Peter Edelman
    We must remember the courage of the people of Mississippi and other Jim Crow states and that the civil rights movement was an endeavor of white and black bonding.
  • Peter Edelman on Waging Another War on Poverty
    January 14, 2014
    Bill discusses our country's most successful effort to cut poverty with another veteran of that fight, Peter Edelman, who is today one of the leading experts on poverty.
  • Turning Points of the Civil Rights Era
    July 25, 2013
    | BillMoyers.com Staff
    Learn about fifteen important events in the 1950s and 1960s that changed the course of the fight for racial equality in America.
  • Peter Edelman on Fighting Poverty
    June 22, 2012 | Moyers & Company
    Bill talks with the author and advocate about continuing efforts to fight poverty, and how to keep the needs of the poor on the American political agenda.
  • Why the War on Poverty was Fought
    June 22, 2012
    | Lauren Feeney
    In 1967, Sen. Robert Kennedy traveled to rural Mississippi to check on the progress of the War on Poverty and was "deeply moved and outraged" by what he saw there.


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