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

Where Is the Outrage over Money in Politics?

Posted on: Aug 30, 2012, Source: Bill Moyers

As the Republican National Convention roars on, the real outrage is happening behind closed doors--and no one is talking about it.

Bill Moyers: How America Forgot Its Poor

Posted on: Aug 24, 2012, Source: BillMoyers.com

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

Bill Moyers and Chris Hedges: How Whole Regions of America Have Been Destroyed in the Name of Quarterly Profits

Posted on: Jul 21, 2012, Source: Bill Moyers

Hedges discusses his new book with Moyers and the totally unchecked corporate power that is destroying our democracy.

Colorado Shootings: Latest Evidence That America Is Poisoned by the NRA's Dark Gun Culture

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

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.

There's No Hiding It: Citizens United Wasn't About "Speech" -- It Was About Takeover of American Democracy

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

Three things don’t go together: Money. Secrecy. Democracy. That’s the nub of the matter.

Celebrating an Unfinished Revolution on the Fourth of July

Posted on: Jul 3, 2012, Source: The Smirking Chimp

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.

Matt Taibbi and Yves Smith: How the Wall Street Mafia Holds America -- and the World -- Hostage

Posted on: Jun 25, 2012, Source: BillMoyers.com

Yves Smith and Matt Taibbi join Bill Moyers to discuss our criminal global financial system.

Bill Moyers: Thomas Frank and Mother Jones on the Vast, Corrupting Power of Money in Politics

Posted on: Jun 21, 2012, Source: BillMoyers.com

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

Moyers: How the 1% Is Buying Our Democracy

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

A handful of very rich people plan to buy our elections. What happened to our democracy?

Bill Moyers: When Will Americans Face the Horrific Truth? We're a Nation of Torturers

Posted on: May 25, 2012, Source: BillMoyers.com

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.

Bill Moyers: The Ghost of Joe McCarthy in Today's Republican Party

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.”

Moyers: Media Giants Fight Proposal That Could Shed Light on Who's Buying Our Elections

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.

Moyers: Wall Street's Massive Freak Out When Asked to Pay Their Fair Share

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.

Wall Street Attack: Big Banks Shower Congress With Money to Water Down Reform

Posted on: Apr 6, 2012, Source: BillMoyers.com

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

Standing Up For Democracy: How Activists Are Fighting Injustice in America Today

Posted on: Apr 2, 2012, Source: AlterNet

Bill Moyers talks with activists about an initiative to open Americans' eyes about income inequality.

Big Media Is Raking in Billions on Political Ads -- Here's a Way to Take Back the Airwaves That Belong to All of Us

Posted on: Mar 30, 2012, Source: BillMoyers.com

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

Moyers: PBS Must Return Hard-Hitting Documentaries to Prime Time

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.

Moyers: How Fear of Science Can Destroy Us

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.

Moyers: How Money and the Media Are Shaping the 2012 Elections (And Why You Should be Watching the Fox News Debates)

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.

Moyers: Why Religion Should Not Dictate Our Politics

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

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

Moyers: Meet the Shameless Plutocrats Choking What's Left of Our Democracy

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.

Bill Moyers: Newt's Strange Obsession with Saul Alinsky

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.

Bill Moyers: 6 Movies You Have to See About the Financial Crisis

Posted on: Feb 2, 2012, Source: Moyers & Company

Here are some important movies and documentaries that try to make sense of the financial collapse.

Inside the Bacchanalian Wall Street Fraternity Party of Billionaire Bankers and Hedge Fund Predators

Posted on: Jan 30, 2012, Source: AlterNet

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

Obama's Favorite Wall Streeters

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.”

How Big Money Bought Our Democracy, Corrupted Both Parties, and Set Us Up for Another Financial Crisis

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.

America Has Woken Up to the Reality: Inequality Matters

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.

Is This Land Made for You and Me--or The Super-Rich?

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?

Bill Moyers: Why I am Returning to the Air

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.

Moyers: Why 'We The People' Must Triumph Over Corporate Power

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.

Bill Moyers: Our Politicians Are Money Launderers Not Too Different from Tony Soprano

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.

Moyers and Winship: We Can't Let an Amateur Right-Wing Smear Campaign Destroy NPR

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.

In Defense of NPR

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.

Bill Moyers: America Can't Deal With Reality -- We Must Be Exposed to the Truth, Even If It Hurts

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.

Bill Moyers: Howard Zinn Taught Us That It's OK If We Face Mission Impossible

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."

Bill Moyers TV Farewell with Hightower -- The Fight of Our Lives: The Populist Battle with Corporate Power

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."

Moyers: Six Banks Control 60% of Gross National Product -- Is the U.S. at the Mercy of an Unstoppable Oligarchy?

Posted on: Apr 22, 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.

The Tea Party Crowd Needs to Wake Up to Who the Real Villains Are

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.

Moyers: Obama's Bad Gamble on Afghanistan -- 100,000 Soldiers Used as Chips for a Bet the US Can't Win

Posted on: Apr 11, 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.

Bill Moyers: The Health Bill Is a Bonanza for the Insurance Industry and Other Monied Interests

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.

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