Stories by Bill Moyers
Veteran journalist Bill Moyers is the host of “Moyers & Company,” airing weekly on public television. Check your local listings. More at www.billmoyers.com
Posted on Apr 26, 2012, Source: BillMoyers.com
Tea Party favorite Allen West was asked at a local gathering how many of his fellow members of Congress are “card-carrying Marxists or International Socialists.”
Posted on Apr 18, 2012, Source: BillMoyers.com
The new rule would require the ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox affiliates in the top 50 markets to make their files on political advertising available on line immediately.
Posted on Apr 12, 2012, Source: BillMoyers.com
Former allies are turning on the president now that he wants to close gaping tax loopholes for the 1 percent.
Posted on Apr 6, 2012, Source: BillMoyers.com
Special interests spread money like manure on the campaign trails of key members of Congress.
Posted on Apr 2, 2012, Source: AlterNet
Bill Moyers talks with activists about an initiative to open Americans' eyes about income inequality.
Posted on Mar 30, 2012, Source: BillMoyers.com
It's a business that values the almighty dollar over public service. Let's change that.
Posted on Mar 23, 2012, Source: BillMoyers.com
The creativity and unique visions of life captured by independent producers, journalists and filmmakers deserve the best possible platform on public television.
Posted on Feb 29, 2012, Source: BillMoyers.com
Parents are increasingly opting out of vaccinating their kids. Here's why that's dangerous for the world.
Posted on Feb 22, 2012, Source: Moyers & Company
Bill Moyers talks with media critic Kathleen Hall Jamieson about money in politics, the media's missteps and the way the GOP's jeers shape debate results.
Posted on Feb 16, 2012, Source: BillMoyers.com
Obama's contraception compromise is a rare practical solution to America's perennial church-state tensions.
Posted on Feb 14, 2012, Source: BillMoyers.com
The race for the White House may cost more than two billion dollars. What’s getting trampled into dust are the voices of people who aren't rich.
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.
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