Stories by Bill Moyers
Bill Moyers is the host of Bill Moyers Journal on PBS.
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 Feb 1, 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 27, 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 Jan 19, 2010, Source: Bill Moyers Journal
Could a crushing defeat on health reform teach Democrats to stop prioritizing corporate interests?
Posted on Dec 21, 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 15, 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 11, 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 Dec 1, 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 20, 2009, Source: Bill Moyers Journal
Until we realize that our system itself is untenable, we'll be doomed to economic meltdowns.
Posted on Nov 2, 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 20, 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 Oct 12, 2009, Source: Bill Moyers Journal
Intellectual conservatism is dead. And the angriest, most intellectually bankrupt elements have taken over the movement.
Posted on Sep 21, 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 7, 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 Sep 1, 2009, Source: Bill Moyers Journal
As Republicans fire away on health reform, big business is stepping up attacks too, lobbying and advertising guns blazing.
Posted on Jul 27, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Insiders in Washington are going to keep dealing themselves winning hands until we decide that it isn't allowed.
Posted on Jul 12, 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 13, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Journalist Jeremy Scahill warns against the growing power of corporate private armies and the "disintegration of the nation state apparatus."
Posted on Jun 9, 2009, Source: Bill Moyers Journal
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 May 24, 2009, Source: AlterNet
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 21, 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.
Posted on Apr 6, 2009, Source: Bill Moyers Journal
What needs to be done to protect the American taxpayer from the next round of multi-hundred billion dollar layoffs.
Posted on Mar 4, 2009, Source: Bill Moyers Journal
Can change happen when the usual suspects are piling up money like sandbags against the public's clamor for a better deal? We'll find out.
Posted on Nov 3, 2008, Source: Bill Moyers Journal
The execs who got us into our current mess are still pulling in the lucre.
Posted on Sep 23, 2008, Source: Campaign for America's Future
Author Bill Greider explains to Moyers that the magic of the "free market" is coming to a close.
Posted on Jul 22, 2008, Source: Bill Moyers Journal
Follow the money -- it goes from your gas tank to the wine bars and steak houses of DC, where the payoffs from big business to politicians go down.
Posted on Jul 21, 2008, Source: Bill Moyers Journal
Oh, no, they told us, Iraq isn't a war about oil. That's cynical and simplistic, they said. It's about terror and al-Qaeda and toppling a dictator.
Posted on Jul 5, 2008, Source: Bill Moyers Journal
The legendary journalist electrifies packed crowd at National Conference for Media Reform.
Posted on Jun 7, 2008, Source: Free Press
For all of America's shortcomings, we keep telling ourselves, "The system works." Now all bets are off.
Posted on May 17, 2008, Source: Doubleday
White preachers are given leeway in politics that Jeremiah Wright wasn't.
Posted on May 3, 2008, Source: Bill Moyers Journal
Moyers: Journalists' "deeper mission is to uncover the news that powerful people would prefer to keep hidden."
Posted on Apr 10, 2008, Source: The Nation Institute
"When Roosevelt was President, my father knew he had a friend in the White House. We should rekindle that spirit," Moyers says.
Posted on Nov 22, 2007, Source: TheNation.com
When it comes to money and power, Rupert Murdoch is carnivorous: all appetite and no taste. He'll eat anything in his path.
Posted on Jun 30, 2007, Source: Bill Moyers Journal
Corporate media are looking to use the "free market" to add the internet to their empire. But we can't let them dominate the 'net and undermine our democracy.
Posted on Oct 18, 2006, Source: TomPaine.com
Unless we choose to renew our commitment to America's deepest values, the day will come when we no longer recognize the country we love.
Posted on Mar 24, 2006, Source: AlterNet
The Abramoff and DeLay corruption scandals make it clear that now more than ever we need publically financed elections.
Posted on Feb 27, 2006, Source: AlterNet
Moyers addresses the Bush administration's obsession with secrecy and its bullying and manipulation of PBS.
Posted on Dec 16, 2005, Source: AlterNet
The notion of spiritual freedom is at risk, and the fourth observance of the terrorist attacks of 9/11 is an appropriate time to think about it.
Posted on Sep 10, 2005, Source: AlterNet
Washington is a divided city -- not between north and south as in Lincoln's time, but between those who can buy all the government they want and those who can't even afford a seat in the bleachers.
Posted on Jun 6, 2005, Source: AlterNet
In this highly anticipated speech the veteran public broadcaster takes on the PBS coup and its right-wing engineers who are 'squealing like a stuck pig.'
Posted on May 17, 2005, Source: AlterNet
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