Bill revisits a conversation with political scientists Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson that explains how Washington and big business colluded to make the rich richer and abandoned the rest of us.

An heir to Alexis de Tocqueville's tradition of analytic history, economist Thomas Piketty has a message that could not be more different.

Moyers & Company caught up with the Yale political scientist to get his take on recent events.

Browse selected books by Moyers & Company guests, and let us know which ones moved and inspired you.

In this encore presentation, Bill Moyers investigates America’s economic disparity -- how it happened and who’s to blame.

Bill Moyers explores how America's vast inequality didn't just happen, it's been politically engineered.

What purposeful political acts created and sustained the huge gap between the super-rich and the rest of America?

Read the first chaper of Hacker and Pierson's book