At 22, working for the non-profit organization Demos in New York, Heather McGhee plunged into the fight for debt reform, then tackled Wall Street corruption and consumer protection, and wound up president of Demos, leading its campaign against political and economic inequality. Heather McGhee decided to change the world, or at least try. Her new book is THE SUM OF US.
November 14, 2020Bill Moyers talks with two of the country’s most experienced lawyers in election litigation.
November 9, 2020This isn’t who we are? What if it is? Let us not underestimate for even a moment the impact of Joe Biden’s victory. This, we were told, has been the most important American election since 1864, and that was no hyperbole. So why did this still feel like a loss for so many, at least initially.
November 8, 2020After four years of running in place, November 2016 seems like a lifetime ago. The United States of 2020 is a very different place, at once more devastated and more hopeful than at least we were a mere four years ago.
November 7, 2020Plus, markets sense doom in state and local governments.
November 6, 2020It means a smaller set of relief, unfortunately, though that’s better than gridlock.
October 28, 2020Bill Moyers talk with John Bonifaz and Ben Clements of Free Speech for People
October 28, 2020This already blows away the 47 million who voted early in 2016, with a week and a day to go. And that tells you approximately nothing about the outcome of the presidential election or any other race on the ballot.
October 26, 2020Moyers on Democracy takes a look at a new generation of judges.
October 22, 2020The CARES Act delayed a reckoning that those economically affected by the pandemic should never have had to face. But that reckoning is finally here.
