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EDITORS' PICKS

  • 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.
  • Poets & Writers
    Maya Angelou on the Story of Black Womanhood
    May 29, 2014 | Updated June 2, 2014
    | Theresa Riley
    In this clip from a 1973 interview, Bill Moyers asks Maya Angelou, who died last week, about the burgeoning women’s liberation movement and what it means to her.
  • Folk Music and Movements: The Tradition Continues
    May 28, 2014
    | Peter Dreier and Dick Flacks
    For over a century, American activists have employed folk music as an instrument of change.
  • Why Independent Artists Should Care About Net Neutrality
    May 13, 2014
    | Astra Taylor
    A fight that many creators don't know is unfolding should be of paramount concern.
  • Sherman Alexie's Young Adult Novel Pulled From Curriculum in Idaho Schools
    April 8, 2014
    | John Light
    His award winning novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, is one of the most banned books in America.
  • What You Can Do to Support Public Schools
    March 28, 2014
    We asked Diane Ravitch what she hopes viewers will do after watching the show this week.
  • Forget House of Cards -- TV Dramas Can't Capture the Real World of Politics
    February 25, 2014
    | Mike Lofgren
    "Truth is always stranger than fiction," notes this week's guest, Mike Lofgren. "It is also more urgently connected to the information we need to know to live as citizens. Yet fiction is more compelling."
  • You Say You Want a Revolution?
    February 8, 2014
    | Michael Winship
    Our senior writer reflects on the transformative British band's first visit to America.
  • Pure Pete Seeger
    January 31, 2014 | Updated January 27, 2016
    In these clips from interviews with Bill Moyers, Seeger discusses dissent, environmentalism and his hope for a better world.
  • David Simon: "There Are Two Americas"
    January 30, 2014
    In a speech delivered last year in Australia, the journalist and creator of The Wire said America is "utterly schizophrenic" when it comes to our society, economy and politics.
  • Bombshell New Book Argues That Capitalism and Democracy Don't Mix
    January 30, 2014
    Thomas Picketty's book is expected to set off a firestorm in our economic discourse.


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