• Home
  • Podcast
  • Latest Stories
  • Watch Video
  • Essays
  • Books
  • Career Timeline
  • Contact Us
BillMoyers.com
  • Video
  • Shows
  • Essays
  • Books
  • Podcasts
  • BILLMOYERS.COM is taking a break. Explore the archive.
#wildfires
  • Environment
    Climate Change and the Black Vote
    October 6, 2020
    | Charles Ellison

    When climate catastrophes strike in the United States, it is the nation’s Black people that are hit the hardest – while lacking the resources and social mobility to confront them.

  • Letters From an American
    Please Stay Behind the Yellow Line
    September 12, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    Today is the nineteenth anniversary of the terrorist attack that killed almost 3000 of us on this date in 2001. It feels wrong to write about daily news today and yet, as we approach 200,000 dead from a mismanaged pandemic and face unprecedented assaults on our national government, it also feels wrong not to.

  • Letters From an American
    Bob Woodward Has Another Scoop: It is NOT Good for the President
    September 10, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    Over the course of 18 interviews, Trump spoke for nine hours to journalist Bob Woodward. He had apparently been angry at his aides for shielding him from Woodward before the journalist published his book Fury in 2018, thinking he could charm Woodward into presenting him in a better light, as he had shaped coverage of himself in the tabloids in New York City in the 1980s and 1990s. Trump was wrong.

  • Letters From an American
    SOS USA
    August 27, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson
    Natural, social and political turmoil at record levels
  • Letters From an American
    A Relatively Calm Day… At Least in Politics
    August 22, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    August 21, 2020 After the cascade of news in the past several days and the Democratic National Convention, today was a relatively calm day… at least in politics. There are, though, some important stories. The first is getting less play than it should: the nation has lately been hit by a series of environmental catastrophes. California is in the midst of a brutal heat wave, and has been hit by 560 fires, many of them sparked by lightning. ...

  • Environment
    We Have Just One Decade to Turn Back the Worst of Climate Change
    August 7, 2020
    | Peter Goldmark
    Here's how philanthropy can lead the way.
  • Environment
    The Climate Emergency Won't Wait for the Press to Play Catch-Up
    July 7, 2020
    | Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope

    Only after the work of covering the disaster is done will news outlets perhaps take a moment to examine why all this is happening—why these disasters are occurring, again and again, all over the world, with increased frequency and ferocity.

  • Democracy & Government
    The President Plays with Matches
    December 19, 2017
    | Rebecca Gordon
    The whole world burns while Trump satisfies his ego and his need for attention.
  • Fire at World's End
    August 5, 2015
    | Subhankar Banerjee
    The wettest rainforest in the continental United States had gone up in flames and the smoke was so thick, so blanketing, that you could see it miles away.
  • Morning Reads: Don't Panic Over Ebola; GOPers Kill Probes Into Illegal Dark Money
    August 5, 2014
    A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at Moyers & Company HQ...


House Ads

Subscribe to Our Newsletters

Weekly Dispatches Daily Reads
  • Home
  • Posts
  • Timeline
  • Video
  • Get Involved
  • About

© 2025 Doctoroff Media Group LLC

Terms of Service | Privacy Policy