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  • Democracy & Government
    How the American Century Ends
    June 19, 2020
    | Tom Engelhardt

    We are deep in the age of disappointment on (as Donald Trump has only accentuated) an increasingly disposable planet.

  • Inequality
    Just Saying “Systemic Racism” Doesn’t Expose Systemic Racism
    June 18, 2020
    | Jeff Cohen

    Let us name the system: "racial capitalism."

  • Moyers on Democracy
    Watch Bill Moyers Speak at Juneteenth Celebration: 'Tell the Truth, Tell the Story and Sing'
    June 17, 2020
    America’s Other Independence Day
  • Poets & Writers
    A Poet a Day: Rita Dove Reads Countee Cullen
    June 16, 2020
    "Incident"
  • Letters From an American
    Everything Has Changed, But Nothing Has Changed...
    June 7, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    In the past two weeks, everything has changed… and nothing has changed. Two weeks ago tonight, 46-year-old Minneapolis man George Floyd was alive, going through his Sunday night as any one of us do, unaware—as we all are—of what the next day would bring.

  • Economy & Work
    The Great Depression, Coronavirus Style
    May 28, 2020
    | Nomi Prins

    Many economists believe that a recession is already underway. So do millions of Americans struggling with bills and job losses. While the world has certainly experienced its share of staggering jolts in the past, this cycle of events is likely to prove unparalleled.

  • History
    Fighting for the Four Freedoms
    May 21, 2020 | Updated January 5, 2016 | Moyers & Company
    Historian Harvey J. Kaye talks to Bill about why FDR's “Four Freedoms” are more important now than ever.
  • Poets & Writers
    A Poet a Day: Three Love Poems by Rumi
    May 13, 2020
    Read by poet and translator Coleman Barks
  • Civil Liberties
    Fifty Years Later, the Gunfire at Kent State Still Echoes Through America
    May 5, 2020
    | Michael Winship
    Today’s pandemic alters our tradition of protest and dissent.
  • Democracy & Government
    A Historian Speaks to the Current Moment
    March 14, 2020
    | Bernard Weisberger

    It is time, fellow Americans, to remember the warning of the great journalist Edward R. Murrow: “A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.” Let us together become the coalition of generations that closes the gates to the wolves ready to devour our freedoms.



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