Hundreds of ordinary people are contributing to a crowdsourced effort to measure radiation levels in the Fukushima fallout zone.

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

Forget Congress: The real action after Newtown was in 40 states -- from assault weapon bans to "volunteer emergency security forces" for K-12 schools.

Across America, local governments are taking steps that will make retirement for ex-public employees much harsher.

According to one study, defense contractors cost almost three times as much as government workers.

There's no tougher ground for building an environmental-justice movement than the Appalachian counties of central Pennsylvania.

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

The globalization of American labor practices is hurting European workers' economic security.

The trouble with making “functional” government the great aspiration of America is that a smoothly operating Congress is not necessarily moral, humane or even economically smart.

Longstanding political and philosophical differences over the role the government should play in our economy continue to divide Democrats.