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 subscribe to Bill Moyers's feed

Posted on: Jul 29, 2013, Source: BillMoyers.com

“To look out and see the best of America convinced me more than anything else that this is the product, this is the work of the movement,” Civil Rights Leader Lewis tells Moyers.

Posted on: Jul 13, 2013, Source: Bill Moyers

So-called "ag-gag" laws have been passed in several states.

Posted on: Jun 22, 2013, Source: BillMoyers.com

In state legislatures around the country, boilerplate ALEC legislation that dilutes collective bargaining rights, blocks Americans from voting, and limits corporate liability is passing without the public knowing who’s behind it.

Posted on: May 26, 2013, Source: Bill Moyers

Tim DeChristopher bid at auction for drilling rights to protect 150,000 acres of Utah's wilderness -- and paid the price.

Posted on: May 20, 2013, Source: BillMoyers.com

As long as there are insufficient checks and balances on big business and its powerful lobbies, we are at their mercy.

Posted on: May 10, 2013, Source: BillMoyers.com

Drop your weapons and celebrate that we live in a country where peaceful change is still possible.

Posted on: Apr 27, 2013, Source: BillMoyers.com

Columnist Glenn Greenwald explains what the Boston bombings and U.S. se of government power.

Posted on: Apr 26, 2013, Source: BillMoyers.com

Failed gun control legislation and a fertilizer plant explosion reveal how poisoned by big money our government is.

Posted on: Apr 20, 2013, Source: BillMoyers.com

With government captured by the very industries it’s supposed to regulate, the time for direct action is now.

Posted on: Apr 12, 2013, Source: BillMoyers.com

"A petty, narcissistic, pridefully ignorant politics has come to dominate and paralyze our government."

Posted on: Apr 11, 2013, Source: BillMoyers.com

The Reverend dreamed of economic equality and happiness for ALL.

Posted on: Apr 6, 2013, Source: BillMoyers.com

A discussion on King’s vision of economic justice, and how so little has changed for America’s most oppressed.

Posted on: Mar 24, 2013, Source: Moyers & Company

Culture change in the financial world may be coming, but not fast enough says banking expert Shelia Blair.

Posted on: Mar 19, 2013, Source: Moyers & Company

Global warming is a planetary emergency on that should be on every politician’s mind, so why are any of us still silent? And what can we do about it?

Posted on: Feb 26, 2013, Source: Moyers & Company

It’s a wonder all of Washington doesn’t lie prostrate in the streets, overcome by vertigo from all the spinning back and forth.

Posted on: Feb 23, 2013, Source: BillMoyers.com

The public rescued the One Percenters after the financial crisis and now their wealth is skyrocketing once again. But what about the rest of us?

Posted on: Feb 13, 2013, Source: BillMoyers.com

Each innocent killed by drone attacks is a victim of hubris.

Posted on: Feb 12, 2013, Source: BillMoyers.com

Drone warfare says a lot about the society that perpetrates it.

Posted on: Feb 9, 2013, Source: BillMoyers.com

Americans are getting bilked for second class internet access.

Posted on: Feb 2, 2013, Source: BillMoyers.com

As Zero Dark Thirty has triggered a debate over torture, hopefully John Brennan's confirmation hearings raise drone critics.

Posted on: Feb 1, 2013, Source: BillMoyers.com

"The rule of law isn’t really the rule of law if it doesn’t apply equally to everybody," Taibbi tells Moyers.

Posted on: Jan 25, 2013, Source: BillMoyers.com

An eleventh-hour loophole in the "fiscal cliff" deal confirms our worst suspicions about how Congress operates.

Posted on: Jan 17, 2013, Source: BillMoyers.com

It's time to reform the filibuster -- one of the biggest obstacles to the public interest in our government.

Posted on: Jan 12, 2013, Source: BillMoyers.com

They’re privately protecting their interests as they publicly urge austerity on everyone else.

Posted on: Jan 11, 2013, Source: BillMoyers.com

"I probably have more influence doing what I do now than I would if I were inside trying to do the court power games that come with any White House...," Krugman said on "Moyers & Company."

Posted on: Jan 4, 2013, Source: BillMoyers.com

Even life and death are measured by profit margins, so the organization's cure for gun violence shouldn't surprise.

Posted on: Dec 20, 2012, Source: BillMoyers.com

"Democracy aims for a moral order as just as possible — which means laws that protect the weak, and not just the strong."

Posted on: Dec 14, 2012, Source: BillMoyers.com

The revolving door can be deadly.

Posted on: Dec 5, 2012, Source: BillMoyers.com

An outrageous media consolidation scandal is in the works.

Posted on: Nov 16, 2012, Source: BillMoyers.com

Klein explains to Moyers why we've got to "dream big."

Posted on: Nov 12, 2012, Source: BillMoyers.com

Bill Moyers gets post-election insight from veteran journalist James Fallows.

Posted on: Nov 9, 2012, Source: BillMoyers.com

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

Posted on: Oct 19, 2012, Source: BillMoyers.com

Moyers, Matt Taibbi and Chrystia Freeland explain how the plutocrats have willfully confused their self-interest with America’s interest.

Posted on: Oct 19, 2012, Source: Moyers & Company

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.

Posted on: Oct 15, 2012, Source: BillMoyers.com

There’s a movement afoot to punish judges for decisions that offend political partisans.

Posted on: Oct 10, 2012, Source: BillMoyers.com

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?”

Posted on: Sep 27, 2012, Source: BillMoyers.com

A special report from the legendary veteran journalist on the American Legislative Exchange Council.

Posted on: Sep 23, 2012, Source: Moyers & Company

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

Posted on: Sep 16, 2012, Source: Moyers & Company

If you want to see the personification of how the Citizens United decision is playing out in this campaign, look no further than Karl Rove.

Posted on: Sep 5, 2012, Source: BillMoyers.com

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

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