A roundup of stories we're reading this morning at Moyers & Company HQ...

A new report from the DOJ’s Office of the Inspector General finds that mass incarceration is draining public funds from other priorities.

After months of negotiations, back-up dancers for the pop star have a union contract, which activists hope could become an industry standard.

This grim Newtown anniversary reminded us of the moment when Charlton Heston made his boast that gun control advocates would have to pry his rifle from his “cold, dead hands.”

A roundup of stories we're reading this morning at Moyers & Company HQ...

After two years of writing about poverty for BillMoyers.com and The Nation magazine, Greg Kaufmann is signing off to go fight on the front lines.

Bill discusses the work of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, which has just released a moving video urging viewers to speak out against firearms violence.

Did violent video games play a role in preparing Adam Lanza to commit mass murder? One year after Newtown, Bill explores violence in America with the preeminent cultural historian Richard Slotkin.

As the anniversary of the Newtown tragedy approaches, Bill speaks with cultural historian Richard Slotkin about violence in America. Plus, a Moyers essay on our gun culture.

Bill reflects on the class struggles he observed in the small East Texas town he grew up in and the modern-day class war waged by the wealthy on our democracy.