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Occupiers in Conservative Texas City Have Support of Mayor, Some Tea Partiers (2)
Although protesters have been driven from their peaceful occupations of almost every location across the nation, including Wall Street, Los Angeles, UC Davis and Oakland, they have managed to …

Who Are the Millennials?: Bill Moyers Interview With Heather McGhee
Heather McGhee. (Photo: Moyers & Co.) While Republicans are still fighting the culture wars primary by primary, and caucus by caucus, President Obama is campaigning rather feverishly …

The GOP’s Racial Politics
From the subtle to the sickening, this Republican primary season has seen a normalizing of racist and racially-coded language. It was not so long ago that the chairman of …

Bill Moyers | How Can Ordinary People Fight Citizens United? (2)
Ask Bill: How can ordinary people help to overturn or nullify the Citizen United Decision? from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo.

“He Says One Thing and Does Another”: Ralph Nader Responds to Obama’s State of the Union Address
Responding to President Obama’s State of the Union address, longtime consumer advocate and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader says Obama’s criticism of income inequality and Wall Street excess fail …

David Stockman on Crony Capitalism
TRANSCRIPT: BILL MOYERS: Welcome. This week we’re continuing our exploration of Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer and Turned its Back on the Middle Class. …

Ex-FCC Commissioner Michael Copps on Media Consolidation, Broadband Expansion, Threats to Journalism (2)
Michael Copps served two terms with the Federal Communications Commission. Now the staunch supporter of an open internet and opponent of media consolidation has retired. In a wide-ranging discussion, …

Bill Moyers on Democracy (2)
Also see: Bill Moyers: He’s Back, Just as Curious as Ever

Dysfunctional Banking Sector Helps Keep Iraq in Economic Shambles
Roy Gutman, McClatchy Newspapers Baghdad - The shelves are packed with imported goods at Baghdad's thriving Warda supermarket, and customers can barely move their shopping carts in the narrow …

“Every Man for Himself”: A Destructive Oversimplification in a Complex World
Peter Gumpert, Truthout The Current State of Affairs