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  • Pure Pete Seeger
    In these clips from interviews with Bill Moyers, Seeger discusses dissent, environmentalism and his hope for a better world.
  • Maya Angelou on Facing Evil
    In this second of two programs celebrating the life and work of the late writer, Bill Moyers revisits a 1988 conference on evil.
  • Keeping Faith in Democracy
    Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson talks to Bill about what the title character of her new book Lila, says about the state of democracy in America.
  • Arts & Culture
    Watch FAST-FORWARD: LOOK INTO YOUR FUTURE
    March 23, 2021
    | BillMoyers.com Staff

    If you could see your future, what would you change? A new documentary by Twin Cities PBS seeks to find out.

  • Lessons Unlearned
    How Spanish Can Help Us Survive Viral Times
    February 15, 2021
    | Ariel Dorfman
    A Journey into the Heart of a Language We Need Now More Than Ever
  • Arts & Culture
    Hal Holbrook Remembered
    February 2, 2021
    | BILLMOYERS.COM TEAM

    Actor Hal Holbrook died on January 23, 2021 at the age of 95.  Bill talked with Holbrook in 2004 on NOW with Bill Moyers. They spoke about Holbrook's famed stage performance as Mark Twain.

  • Moyers on Democracy
    PODCAST: Bill Moyers and Heather Cox Richardson
    January 7, 2021
    | BILLMOYERS.COM TEAM
    The Day the Confederate Flag Flew in the United States Capitol.
  • Arts & Culture
    Jazz Music Is the Perfect Metaphor for Democracy
    October 12, 2020
    | Theresa Riley
    Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis plays America's "unofficial anthem” — Amazing Grace — and explains how listening, improvisation and a flexible framework are essential elements of both jazz and democracy.
  • 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. ...

  • Poets & Writers
    A Poet a Day: Carolyn Forché
    July 24, 2020
    “A Poem for Maya”
  • Poets & Writers
    A Poet a Day: Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
    July 22, 2020
    "Riding Into California"
  • Poets & Writers
    A Poet a Day: Jim Haba
    July 17, 2020
    "In a Time of Confusion"
  • Poets & Writers
    A Poet a Day: Li-Young Lee
    July 16, 2020
    "The Burning One"


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