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Moyers and Company
Under the editorial direction of Bill Moyers, the non-profit, award-winning Moyers & Company offer independent news and commentary covering elections, money and politics, inequality, climate change, voting rights, the media and more.
Hurricane Sandy One Year Later: Lessons Learned and Unlearned
One year ago today, Hurricane Sandy hit New York City - and most of the Eastern Seaboard - like a freight train.
The Great American Ripoff: The High Cost of Low Taxes
The American people pay a similar amount for social services as citizens of European countries with supposedly lavish social safety nets.
An Oasis in a Food Desert
America's first nonprofit grocery store is bringing fresh and affordable fruits, vegetables, meat and dairy to Chester, Pa.
Why JPMorgan May Be Getting Off Easy
Last Friday JPMorgan Chase reached a tentative $13 billion settlement with federal prosecutors for its alleged manipulation of mortgage securities, which helped trigger the Great Recession.
Peter Dreier on a New Generation of Activists
Historian Peter Dreier shares why heu2019s optimistic about Americau2019s future, including dynamic grass-roots initiatives around the country and, believe it or not, the radical politics of Dr. Seuss.
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19 Young Activists Changing America
These activists know that the radical ideas of one generation are often the common-sense ideas of the next: They are practical idealists.
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Bill Moyers and Michael Winship | The Lies That Will Kill America
As mainstream media continues to defend big banks like JP Morgan Chase, they hurt the people left most vulnerable after the economic crisis, the American people.
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Will Every State Eventually Expand Medicaid?
The question of whether red state Republicans' poor constituents are eventually covered under the lawu2019s Medicaid expansion may ultimately come down to state budget realities.
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Healthcare.gov Debacle: Spare Some Blame for Bush and Clinton
Reinventing government by gutting it doesnu2019t appear to have lived up to its promise.
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Politicians’ Extortion Racket?
Some politicians are involved in a type of “legal extortion” to get their hands on cash, with terms like the “tollbooth” and “milker bills” describing some of these practices.