Senators Max Baucus and Orrin Hatch want to shield authors of toxic tax giveaways from the public view.

David Sirota explains how private contractors like Booz Allen bankroll Congress and control the debate about security, surveillance and privacy.

David Sirota argues that the national intelligence director has become "the embodiment of perjury before Congress."

Chris Hedges writes that we must either defy the corporate state or accept our extinction as a species. He believes rebellion is the only way to remain fully human.

From "Romnesia" to "Right to Work," linguist Geoffrey Nunberg decodes political buzzwords of 2012, including his pick for Word of the Year.

The lawyer behind the Supreme Court victory outlawing mandatory life imprisonment of minors explains how age and race influence criminal justice.

In this 2011 speech, Bill Moyers traces the history of the 40-year crusade by the rich against the institutions, ideas, and laws that helped create America’s iconic middle class

Judge Richard Goldstone discusses his work investigating war crimes and spreading justice across the world with Bill Moyers.

This edition of the Journal featured excerpts from a powerful and important film, "Torturing Democracy," by one of America's outstanding documentary reporters, Sherry Jones.

Bill Moyers discusses the torture memos from the Bush administration’s Office of Legal Counsel with a veteran reporter and chairman of the American Freedom Agenda.