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

Moyers/Winship: Corporate Greed Is Poisoning America — Literally

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.

We Can't Let Hatred and Gun Paranoia Silence Our Great Democracy

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.

Bill Moyers & Glenn Greenwald on the High Cost of Government Secrecy

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

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

How We Ended Up with the Worst Congress Money Can Buy

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.

Bill Moyers: A Mother's War Against Toxic Trespassers

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.

Bill Moyers: We Are Living in the United States of Inequality

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

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

Martin Luther King's Greatest Dream Has Been Obscured by the Marble Monuments We've Erected to Him

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

The Reverend dreamed of economic equality and happiness for ALL.

Moyers: Imagine If America Had Adopted Martin Luther King's Economic Dream

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.

Bill Moyers: Are the Monster Banks on the Verge of Unleashing Fresh Economic Disaster?

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.

Bill Moyers: Why Are We Giving the Silent Treatment to the Crisis Which Could Make All Others Irrelevant?

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?

Moyers & Winship: Here's an Idea -- Let's Tax the Earnings of Politicians Turned Lobbyists

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.

Moyers: Rampant Capitalism Has Created a Social Disaster -- How Do We Right the Ship?

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?

America's Outrageous Imperial Drone Warfare

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

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

Bill Moyers: When We Kill Without Caring

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

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

Bill Moyers: Why U.S. Internet Access is Slow, Costly and Unfair

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

Americans are getting bilked for second class internet access.

Barack Obama, Drone Ranger

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.

Bill Moyers and Matt Taibbi: Everyone Pays If the Banksters Don't Go to Jail

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.

Big Pharma Buys Off The Senate

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.

Bill Moyers: We Must Fix the Senate

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.

The Shady Inside Deals That Are Protecting Goldman Sachs at Your Expense

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

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

Paul Krugman Talks to Bill Moyers About How to Speed Recovery -- And Why He Doesn't Want to Run the Treasury

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."

Bill Moyers and Michael Winship: We’d All Be Packing Heat If the NRA Had Its Way

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.

Bill Moyers: Remember The Victims of Sandy Hook, and Reject the Violence

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."

Bill Moyers: Washington's Corruption Is Hazardous to Our Health

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

The revolving door can be deadly.

Bill Moyers: FCC May Give Murdoch a Very Merry Christmas - Two of the Last Big Newspapers in America

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

An outrageous media consolidation scandal is in the works.

Bill Moyers & Naomi Klein: How Climate Change Is an Historic Opportunity for Progressives

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

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

Hopes for Obama's Second Term

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

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

Bill Moyers: What Election 2012 Reveals About America and Its Shifting Racial Faultlines

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

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

Bill Moyers: The Plutocracy Will Go to Extremes to Keep the 1% in Control

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.

Bill Moyers: Matt Taibbi and Chrystia Freeland to Take on America's Plutocrats

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.

Moyers: How Corporations and Right-Wing Groups Take Aim at Judges Whose Rulings They Dislike

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

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

Bill Moyers: We Are Killing American Kids -- Will Someone Ask Romney and Obama About That?

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?”

Bill Moyers Exposes the Stranglehold the Corporate & Right-Wing Alliance Has on Our Democracy

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

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

Democracy for Sale

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.

The Continuing Power of Karl Rove

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.

Former GOPer: How Republicans Went Crazy, Dems Lost Their Mojo, and the Middle Class Got Shafted

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.

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.

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