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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.
  • 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"
  • Moyers on Democracy
    Bill T. Jones Talks With Bill Moyers about Race and Revolution, George Floyd and A Cabin Boy Named Pip
    July 11, 2020

    Bill Moyers talks with Bill T. Jones, the artistic giant who revolutionized modern dance. The son of migrant farm workers in the South – the 10th of 12 children – Jones grew up to win two Tony Awards, receive the National Medal of Art and a MacArthur Genius Fellowship and to be honored by the Kennedy Center.

  • Poets & Writers
    A Poet a Day: Amiri Baraka
    July 3, 2020
    The Why's and the Wise
  • Poets & Writers
    A Poet a Day: Danez Smith Reads Langston Hughes
    July 2, 2020
    "Let America Be America Again"


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