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  • Morning Reads: Hunger-Striking CO Prisoners Force Fed; Sad State of US Democracy
    February 28, 2014
    A roundup of some of the stories we're reading this morning at Moyers & Company HQ...
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    The Dog Whistle Politics of Race
    February 28, 2014 | Moyers & Company
    Ian Haney López tells Bill that dog whistle politics is “the dark magic” by which middle-class voters have been seduced to vote against their own economic interests.
  • 6 Case Studies in Dog Whistle Politics
    February 28, 2014
    Ian Haney López highlights six political ads from the last three decades that used racially coded language to help a candidate get elected.
  • Dog Whistle Politics: What if Only White People Voted?
    February 28, 2014
    | Joshua Holland
    The GOP's Southern Strategy has yielded some success, but ultimately race is just a single variable.
  • On the Money: A New Gilded Age
    February 27, 2014
    | Gail Ablow
    Our weekly roundup of key money and politics reporting. This week: Behind the scenes of a $45.2 billion telecom merger, wealthy brothers aiming big in politics and more.
  • How 'Unintended Consequences' Can Lead to Poverty
    February 27, 2014
    One doesn't think much about suspended driver's licenses, but one lawmaker says they can have a snowball effect.
  • Clip: Were Romney’s “47 Percent” Remarks Racist?
    February 27, 2014
    Author and legal scholar Ian Haney López says Mitt Romney's infamous statement played into existing racial biases and was "the narrative that his audience wants to hear."
  • Clip: Ronald Reagan's Racially Tinged Stump Speeches
    February 27, 2014
    In this video clip, Ian Haney López recalls how "the great communicator" used racial tensions to sway middle-class white Americans to vote for policies not in their self-interest.
  • Morning Reads: Big LGBT Wins; Did the Army Spy on Antiwar Activists?
    February 27, 2014
    A roundup of some of the stories we're reading this morning at Moyers & Company HQ...
  • Why the Tea Party’s Hold Persists
    February 27, 2014
    | Theda Skocpol
    Even as most Americans have figured out that they do not like the tea party, its clout has grown in Washington and state capitals, writes Theda Skocpol.


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