Stories by Bill Moyers

Moyers speaks with two leading political observers about race and economic inequality in America.

On this week’s Moyers & Company Bill is joined by two veteran journalists to discuss how the super-rich have willfully confused their self-interest with America’s interest.

There are two more presidential debates. They will be yet another hoax unless someone asks “Why are we killing the kids that don’t need to die?”

Mitt's clandestine video grabbed all the attention this week, but money -- much of it dark -- rules both campaigns.

Bill Moyers talks with Mike Lofgren, a long-time Republican who describes the modern dysfunction of both the Republican and Democratic parties.

Why don't we hear Obama speak about poor people?

There are some 300 million guns in the United States, one in four adult Americans owns at least one and most of them are men.

The ideal of equality Jefferson proclaimed, he also betrayed. And that's how Jefferson came to embody the oldest and longest war of all -- the war between the self and the truth.

When it comes to the vast, corrupting influence of money in politics, historian Thomas Frank has sounded the alarm loudly and often.

If we really want to honor the Americans who gave their lives fighting for their country, we must redouble our efforts to make sure we’re worthy of their sacrifice.

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.

Special interests spread money like manure on the campaign trails of key members of Congress.

It's a business that values the almighty dollar over public service. Let's change that.

Parents are increasingly opting out of vaccinating their kids. Here's why that's dangerous for the world.

Obama's contraception compromise is a rare practical solution to America's perennial church-state tensions.

Bill Moyers explains what we need to know about community activist Saul Alinsky, and why Newt Gingrich might be so afraid of him.

It may be bleak on Main Street, but Wall Street's partying like it's 2006.

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.

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?