Stories by Bill Moyers
Veteran journalist Bill Moyers is the host of the upcoming show “Moyers & Company,” premiering January 2012. More at www.billmoyers.com.
Posted on Feb 5, 2012, Source: Moyers & Company
Bill Moyers explains what we need to know about community activist Saul Alinsky, and why Newt Gingrich might be so afraid of him.
Posted on Feb 2, 2012, Source: Moyers & Company
Here are some important movies and documentaries that try to make sense of the financial collapse.
Posted on Jan 30, 2012, Source: AlterNet
It may be bleak on Main Street, but Wall Street's partying like it's 2006.
Posted on Jan 23, 2012, Source: Moyers & Company
We’ve already made our choice for the best headline of the year, so far: “Citigroup Replaces JPMorgan as White House Chief of Staff.”
Posted on Jan 22, 2012, Source: Moyers & Company
Bill Moyers talks to President Reagan's former budget director and to Gretchen Morgenson of the New York Times about the way Wall Street runs Washington.
Posted on Jan 17, 2012, Source: BillMoyers.com
While police have cleared many Occupy encampments, a collective cry, loud and clear, has gone up from countless voices across the country: Enough's enough.
Posted on Jan 15, 2012, Source: TruthOut.org
Bill Moyers and Michael Winship ponder the question at the heart of Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land"--what kind of America do we want?
Posted on Jan 12, 2012, Source: AlterNet
I'm coming back because in tumultuous times like these I relish the company of people who try to make sense of the tumult.
Posted on Dec 11, 2011, Source: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Bill Moyers reminds us that repairing American democracy begins with reasserting that corporations do not have the same constitutional rights as citizens.
Posted on Nov 2, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Americans have learned the hard way that when rich organizations and wealthy individuals shower Washington with millions in campaign contributions, they get what they want.
Posted on Mar 18, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Public media is essential to American life -- without public radio, the reactionaries among us will hold a monopoly on the airwaves.
Posted on Mar 11, 2011, Source: TruthOut.org
Consider an America without public media. Consider a society where the distortions and dissembling would go unchallenged, where fact-based reporting is eliminated.
Posted on Feb 14, 2011, Source: AlterNet
Many people inhabit a closed belief system on whose door they have hung the "Do Not Disturb" sign.
Posted on Nov 2, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Moyers: "If you go and do the right thing NOW, and you do it long enough good things will happen -- something's gonna happen."
Posted on May 2, 2010, Source: Bill Moyers Journal
"We need a lot more agitation. [T]hat's the only thing that succeeds from a progressive side in changing politics in America."
Posted on Apr 23, 2010, Source: Bill Moyers Journal
Moyers and economists James Kwak and Simon Johnson wonder whether the financial powers are more profitable, and more resistant to regulation than ever.
Posted on Apr 16, 2010, Source: AlterNet
The Wall Street banks are the new American oligarchy -- but the Tea Party crowd can't seem to see it.
Posted on Apr 12, 2010, Source: Bill Moyers Journal
We are losing lives for no purpose. The perpetuation of this unnecessary war exacerbates the problems in the Islamic world.
Posted on Mar 28, 2010, Source: Bill Moyers Journal
So we got health care reform last week -- but it's a far cry from reformation. For all their gnashing of teeth, the insurance companies still make out like bandits.
Posted on Feb 1, 2010, Source: Bill Moyers Journal
Richard Trumka, head of the AFL-CIO and Bill Moyers discuss the drastic steps Obama must take to quell the frustration and anger over joblessness.
Posted on Jan 27, 2010, Source: Bill Moyers Journal
Despite what Pat Robertson and David Brooks tell you, Haiti's devastation is the product of Western domination -- not regressive social norms or Satanism.
Posted on Jan 19, 2010, Source: Bill Moyers Journal
Bill Moyers interviews Thomas Frank on how our short attention span has allowed conservatives to escape blame for their role in the economic meltdown.
Posted on Dec 21, 2009, Source: Bill Moyers Journal
Could a crushing defeat on health reform teach Democrats to stop prioritizing corporate interests?
Posted on Dec 15, 2009, Source: Bill Moyers Journal
Zinn: "Democracy doesn't come from the top. It comes from the bottom. Democracy is not what governments do. It's what people do."
Posted on Dec 11, 2009, Source: Bill Moyers Journal
The Nobel Committee said Obama won the prize for his respect of international law and his efforts at disarmament, yet he won't even sign on to end a barbaric weapon.
Posted on Dec 1, 2009, Source: Bill Moyers Journal
A fascinating and wide-ranging discussion with Jane Goodall on what chimps tell us about human beings and what we must do to save these animals from extinction.
Posted on Nov 20, 2009, Source: Bill Moyers Journal
Recognition of human rights expert Richard Goldston's investigation is essential to the peace process in Israel and Palestine -- and the Congress is trying to demonize it.
Posted on Nov 2, 2009, Source: Bill Moyers Journal
Until we realize that our system itself is untenable, we'll be doomed to economic meltdowns.
Posted on Oct 20, 2009, Source: Bill Moyers Journal
An interview with Mark Danner, whose new book, Stripping Bare the Body, explores the strange notion of a democratic empire and the wars it wages.
Posted on Oct 12, 2009, Source: Bill Moyers Journal
Moyers interviews Rep. Marcy Kaptur, a hero of Michael Moore's latest documentary, and former IMF head Simon Johnson on Wall Street's purchase of our democracy.
Posted on Sep 21, 2009, Source: Bill Moyers Journal
Intellectual conservatism is dead. And the angriest, most intellectually bankrupt elements have taken over the movement.
Posted on Sep 7, 2009, Source: Bill Moyers Journal
This health care thing is make or break for your leadership, but for us, it's life and death. No more Mr. Nice Guy, Mr. President.
Posted on Sep 1, 2009, Source: Bill Moyers Journal
Bill Moyers teams up with financial journalist Maggie Mahar and Academy Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney to bring you the truth about America's health-care system.
Posted on Jul 27, 2009, Source: AlterNet
As Republicans fire away on health reform, big business is stepping up attacks too, lobbying and advertising guns blazing.
Posted on Jul 12, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Insiders in Washington are going to keep dealing themselves winning hands until we decide that it isn't allowed.
Posted on Jun 13, 2009, Source: AlterNet
We talk about violence committed in the name of bigotry or religion. But what about the deadly firepower available to the killers?
Posted on Jun 9, 2009, Source: Bill Moyers Journal
Journalist Jeremy Scahill warns against the growing power of corporate private armies and the "disintegration of the nation state apparatus."
Posted on May 24, 2009, Source: AlterNet
The health care industry has spent $134 million on lobbying this year to keep its profits high and public health in the shadows.
Posted on Apr 21, 2009, Source: Bill Moyers Journal
HBO's critically-acclaimed "The Wire" creator David Simon talks about inner-city crime and politics, storytelling and the future of journalism.
Posted on Apr 6, 2009, Source: Bill Moyers Journal
One of America's top bank fraud experts explains the financial industry's "liar's loans" and wholesale greed that got us in this mess.
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