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The Business of Poverty from 2021-10-29T16:59:55.167856
As more companies view low-income Americans as opportunities for profit, the "poverty business" is booming. BIll MOYERS JOURNAl and EXPOSE: AMERICA'S INVESTIGATIVE REPORTS follow a team of BUSINESS...
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Capitol Crimes from 2021-10-29T16:59:54.866502
With disgraced lobbyist back in the news and on the big screen in Alex Gibney's new film, CASINO JACK, we re-present Bill Moyers 2006 in-depth exploration of Abramoff and his Washington world. CAPI...
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A Working Class Renaissance? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Bill Moyers sits down with United Steelworkers' International President leo Gerard to discuss seeking economic justice for workers in the middle of an economic crisis and how he sees the future of ...
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Politics, the Economy and the Media. from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The JOURNAl takes an in-depth look at the news of the week to sort out the media-frenzied hype from the facts the public needs to know. Factcheck.org's Kathleen Hall Jamieson and ON THE MEDIA's Bro...
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MOYERS DIGITAl ARCHIVE: Bill Moyers talks with Thomas Frank, 2004 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In this selection from the MOYERS DITIGAl ARCHIVE, Bill Moyers talks with Thomas Frank, 2004. Check online at http://www.pbs.org/moyers for a 2008 special web-only conversation between Frank and Mo...
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Populism, Social Change and Our World from 2010-04-30T10:00
In this special one and half hour edition of Bill Moyers Journal, The Journal travels to Iowa where one group has been helping ordinary citizens fight for change for more than three decades. And, B...
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Bank Reform and Net Neutrality from 2010-04-23T10:00
The Internet has transformed business, politics, and culture – but will a corporate agenda kill freedom of the Web? With radio and television dominated by mega-corporations, more and more Americans...
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Achieving Financial Reform from 2010-04-16T10:00
How did Big Finance grow so powerful that its hijinks nearly brought down the global economy – and what hope is there for real reform with Washington politicians on Wall Street's payroll? Bill Moy...
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Louise Erdrich from 2010-04-09T10:00
Renowned for her mastery of multiple genres - including thirteen novels, poetry, children's literature, and a memoir of early motherhood - Louise Erdrich discusses how her Native American heritage ...
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Michelle Alexander and Bryan Stevenson from 2010-04-02T10:00
In the months before his death, Dr. Martin luther King Jr. had expanded his focus on racial justice to include reducing economic inequality. On this week's 42nd anniversary of King's assassination,...
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Is it Reform Yet? from 2010-03-26T10:00
Eighteen months after the economic meltdown, and following successful drives for stimulus and health reform legislation, why has Washington been unable to deliver serious financial reform and rein ...
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John Sexton from 2010-03-12T10:00
Bill Moyers sits down with NYU president and modern renaissance man John Sexton for a wide-ranging conversation about God, baseball, and the importance of thoughtful discourse in society. Previous...
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The Case for Same-Sex Marriage from 2010-02-26T10:00
Once adversaries in 2000's Bush v. Gore Supreme Court case, now two of the nation's premier lawyers -- one conservative and one liberal -- have teamed up to make the constitutional case for same-se...
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Buying America's courts? from 2010-02-19T10:00
As two-thirds of American voters oppose the Supreme Courts decision in Citizens United v. FEC, Bill Moyers Journal takes a hard look at how campaign cash in judicial races may sway America's courts...
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After Citizen's United from 2010-02-05T10:00
In the wake of a controversial Supreme Court decision giving corporations and unions more freedom to spend on elections, many federal and state lawmakers are hoping to curb Citizens United V. FEC's...
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The State of the Union and Campaign Finance from 2010-01-29T10:00
Are America's elections now up for sale? The JOURNAl explores what the Supreme Court's decision means for campaign finance reform and the future of our democracy with progressive legal experts Moni...
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Obama's First Year from 2010-01-22T10:00
The JOURNAl assesses Obama's first year as President in the wake of Democrats' defeat in Massachusetts' special election for Senate with Princeton politics and African American studies professor Me...
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Greg Mortenson and Thomas Frank from 2010-01-15T10:00
America has committed more money and more troops to Afghanistan, but Greg Mortenson, the bestselling author of THREE CUPS OF TEA argues that there's a better path to peace: building schools and nur...
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Big Money and Big Politics from 2010-01-08T10:00
MOTHER JONES journalists David Corn and Kevin Drum offer a hard look at the obstacles to real reform of the financial industry. And, a Bill Moyers essay.
Bill T. Jones from 2009-12-25T10:00
At the close of lincoln's bicentennial year, Bill Moyers Journal takes a unique look at the 16th President. Moyers speaks with critically acclaimed choreographer Bill T. Jones about his creative pr...
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Robert Kuttner and Matt Taibbi from 2009-12-18T10:00
Amidst fading hopes for real reform on issues ranging from high finance to health care, economist Robert Kuttner and journalist Matt Taibbi join Bill Moyers to discuss Wall Street's power over the ...
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Historian Howard Zinn from 2009-12-11T10:00
Renowned historian Howard Zinn has chronicled centuries of people's struggles against oppression. He joins Bill Moyers to discuss the voices of today's people - facing big interests' outsized influ...
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Director Oliver Stone from 2009-12-04T10:00
Veteran Oliver Stone came back from Vietnam a changed man. Now, with four films on the Vietnam War under his belt –Platoon (1986), Born on the Fourth of July (1989), Heaven & Earth (1993), and Pin...
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Dr. Jane Goodall from 2009-11-27T10:00
Dr. Jane Goodall. Despite dire warnings for our endangered planet, Jane Goodall says all is not yet lost - we can change course if we act now. And, the Jane Goodall institute's global youth program...
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lBJ's Path to War from 2009-11-20T10:00
As President Obama prepares to announce how many more troops he will send to Afghanistan, Bill Moyers remembers the presidency of lyndon Johnson and the agonizing decisions that escalated America's...
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Anna Deavere Smith from 2009-11-13T10:00
While politicians and the media war over "the public option" and "bending the cost curve," acclaimed actress-playwright Anna Deavere Smith and her one-woman play "lET ME DOWN EASY" give voice to qu...
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Economic recovery in review from 2009-10-30T10:00
The Dow's up, but why are Main Street Americans still reeling from last year's economic collapse? With Americans still facing rising unemployment, foreclosures, and declining property values, reno...
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Judge Richard Goldstone. from 2009-10-23T10:00
Bill Moyers talks with Judge Richard Goldstone, who headed up the controversial UN Human Rights Council investigation into the fighting in Gaza between Israel and Hamas. And Bill Moyers remembers T...
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Redefining the United States. from 2009-10-16T10:00
Barack Obama was elected on a message of change, promising a new era of diplomacy and international cooperation - but can the President deliver a new vision of America? Reporting from the world's ...
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America's economy reformed? from 2009-10-09T10:00
Just over a year after economic calamity brought promises of reform to Washington, many now say that the recession is nearing an end. But is it business as usual for Wall Street, and have future f...
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Rory Stewart and Kavita Ramdas from 2009-09-25T10:00
Rory Stewart, director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, lays out an alternate strategy for the international community in Afghanistan. And, Kavita Ramdas, president and CEO of Global Fun...
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Sam Tanenhaus; Bill Fletcher and Michael Zweig from 2009-09-18T10:00
Digging deep into the roots and evolution of the American conservative movement, Sam Tanenhaus talks with Bill Moyers about why he believes that conservatism is dead and how it might yet come back ...
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Nancy Youssef and Dr. Jim Yong Kim from 2009-09-11T10:00
The JOURNAl takes a hard look at the state of affairs in ever-divided Afghanistan with McClatchy DC Pentagon correspondent Nancy Youssef. And, global health specialist and Dartmouth College presid...
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Trevor Potter and Floyd Abrams from 2009-09-04T10:00
Next week, the Supreme Court reconvenes early for a special hearing on the constitutionality of campaign finance limits for corporations. To hear the arguments, Bill Moyers sits down with Trevor Po...
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Critical Condition from 2009-08-21T10:00
Bill Moyers Journal presents CRITICAl CONDITION, a film by Roger Weisberg that follows families fighting illness without health coverage. The families discover that being uninsured can cost them t...
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A Conservative Plan for Healthcare? from 2009-08-14T10:00
Conservative journalist David Frum worries that Republicans would only win a failing status quo in their fight to kill health care reform. Bill Moyers sits down with the former special assistant t...
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Sara lawrence-lightfoot from 2009-08-07T10:00
"Change, growth, and new learning" - there's a cultural shift in America, says Sara lawrence-lightfoot. This Friday, Bill Moyers speaks with one of America's leading educators and author of The Thi...
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Debating Health Care Reform from 2009-07-24T10:00
Bill Moyers sits down with Trudy lieberman, director of the health and medical reporting program at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, and Marcia Angell, senior lecturer in social medicine at ...
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The Evolution of God from 2009-07-17T10:00
In his new book, THE EVOlUTION OF GOD, bestselling author Robert Wright examines how the idea of God has changed through history. Wright sits down with Bill Moyers to discuss why he thinks the noti...
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Profits before Patients from 2009-07-10T10:00
With almost 20 years inside the health insurance industry, Wendell Potter saw for-profit insurers hijack our health care system and put profits before patients. Now, he speaks with Bill Moyers abou...
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Faith and Social Justice from 2009-07-03T10:00
Bill Moyers talks to Cornel West, Serene Jones, and Gary Dorrien for a fresh take on what our core ethics and values as a society say about America's politics, policy, and the challenges of balanc...
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W. S. Merwin from 2009-06-26T10:00
On the heels of winning this year's Pulitzer prize for poetry, W.S. Merwin joins Bill Moyers for a wide-ranging conversation about language, his writing process, the natural world, and the insight...
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Women Fight for Peace from 2009-06-19T10:00
Instructed by a dream and organized in prayer, leymah Gbowee and thousands of everyday women in liberia -- both Christians and Muslims alike -- confronted warlords and a corrupt president to succes...
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Robert Reich from 2009-06-12T10:00
As Secretary of labor under President Clinton, Robert Reich successfully implemented a higher minimum wage, the Family and Medical leave act, and fought for sweatshop workers. Now, Reich sits down...
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Politics and the Price of War from 2009-06-05T10:00
From a billion dollars sought for embassies in Pakistan and Afghanistan to May's highest casualties for US forces in Iraq since September, the wars abroad are taking their toll on our nation. Bill...
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Health Care Reform from 2009-05-22T10:00
Washington's abuzz about health care, but why isn't a single-payer plan an option on the table? Bill Moyers speaks with advocate Donna Smith about how our broken system is hurting ordinary America...
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Senator Dick Durbin and Sara lawrence-lightfoot from 2009-05-08T10:00
As the banking stress test results come in, the Journal takes a closer look at money's stranglehold on politics. Bill Moyers speaks with Senator Dick Durbin (D-Il) - who declared last week that ba...
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US Torture and Consequences? from 2009-05-01T10:00
New debate has emerged from the release of the Department of Justice's Office of legal Counsel memos approving extreme measures of interrogation under the Bush administration. But, as the Pre...
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Simon Johnson and Michael Perino from 2009-04-24T10:00
This week, the Senate responded to the growing demand for a new Pecora Hearing, the 1930s investigation into the causes and effects of the Great Depression. ring, the 1930s investigation into the c...
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David Simon from 2009-04-17T10:00
From crime beat reporter for the BAlTIMORE SUN to award-winning screenwriter of HBO's critically-acclaimed The Wire, David Simon talks with Bill Moyers about inner-city crime and politics, storytel...
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lincoln's legend and legacy from 2009-04-10T10:00
Assassinated on Good Friday, Abraham lincoln was transformed from man to martyr and myth. In this special performance edition of Bill Moyers Journal acclaimed actor Sam Waterston and historian Haro...
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Corruption in America's Banks? from 2009-04-03T10:00
The financial industry brought the economy to its knees, but how did they get away with it? With the nation wondering how to hold the bankers accountable, Bill Moyers sits down with Bill Black, th...
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James Thindwa and William Greider from 2009-03-27T10:00
The JOURNAl profiles James Thindwa, whose campaign for economic fairness for working people in Chicago has brought him up against the city's powerful political establishment and corporate giant Wal...
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Marta Pelaez and Mike Davis from 2009-03-20T10:00
With the media buzzing over socialism in the Beltway, Bill Moyers sits down with "old-school socialist" Mike Davis for his critique of the government's response to the economic crisis and how he th...
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Karen Armstrong from 2009-03-13T10:00
With economic, political, and social strife across the globe, prominent religious scholar Karen Armstrong discusses our human commonalities and her work on an international charter for compassion. ...
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John litgow from 2009-03-06T10:00
He's played heroes, villains, saints, sinners, a ballet-dancing elephant, and a space alien, now actor and children's author John lithgow - best known as Dick Solomon from NBC's hit show 3rd Rock f...
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Robert Johnson and John McWhorter from 2009-02-27T10:00
Bill Moyers talks with economist Robert Johnson, who decodes this week's news on the bank bailout, with a hard look at the international ramifications of the plan and a discussion of why nationaliz...
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Robert G. Kaiser and Parker Palmer from 2009-02-20T10:00
Robert G. Kaiser has been following Beltway politics for THE WASHINGTON POST for nearly 50 years. This week on the Journal, Bill Moyers talks with Kaiser about his new book, SO DAMN MUCH MONEY: THE...
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Simon Johnson and Nikki Giovanni from 2009-02-13T10:00
Former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), MIT Sloan School of Management professor and senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, Simon Johnson exam...
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lincoln's legacy and The Future of the Press from 2009-02-06T10:00
As Abraham lincoln's bicentennial birthday approaches, Bill Moyers sits down with historian and lincoln biographer Eric Foner to discuss the legacy and the legend of America's most studied presiden...
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America's Policy on Bombing from 2009-01-30T10:00
On the heels of the American drone attacks on suspected terrorist compounds in Pakistan, Bill Moyers Journal takes a closer look at America's history of and current policy on bombing, explores the ...
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Expectations of the Obama Administration from 2009-01-23T10:00
America saw an historic moment with the inauguration of President Obama, but was it a progressive landmark? Bill Moyers sits down with Columbia law professor and Nation columnist Patricia Williams...
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Simon Schama from 2009-01-16T10:00
Bill Moyers speaks with historian Simon Schama, who spent months traveling across America in the run-up to an historic election to discover what events in our nation's past can tell us about how we...
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John lithgow from 2009-01-02T10:00
He's played heroes, villains, saints, sinners, a ballet-dancing elephant, and a space alien, now actor and children's author John lithgow - best known as Dick Solomon from NBC's hit show 3rd Rock f...
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Journalist Sarah Chayes and NY Gov. David Paterson from 2008-12-19T10:00
As a new administration is set to take over in the White House, Bill Moyers checks in with author Sarah Chayes on the state of affairs in America's other war in Afghanistan. An author and former jo...
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Glenn Greenwald on Returning the Rule of law from 2008-12-12T10:00
Bill Moyers sits down with political commentator and Salon.com blogger Glenn Greenwald who asks: Are we a nation ruled by men or by laws? A former constitutional and civil rights lawyer, Greenwald ...
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Senator Russ Feingold from 2008-12-05T10:00
As one of the most progressive voices in the Senate who also campaigned for President-elect Obama, what does Russ Feingold (D-WI) expect of the next four years? Bill Moyers sits down with the Wisco...
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Michael Pollan's National Food Fight from 2008-11-28T10:00
As Americans gather to give thanks this week, food - quality, quantity, cost - remains a national issue. Bill Moyers Journal takes a hard look at how America's food policies - trade rules, farm su...
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The TIMES Joe Nocera on the bailout; Danger Underground in Texas from 2008-11-21T10:00
BIll MOYERS JOURNAl and EXPOSE: AMERICA'S INVESTIGATIVE REPORTS present an investigative story into tragic accidents resulting from natural gas explosions. The report is part of BlUEPRINT AMERICA, ...
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New President, Same World and Expose; on the JOURNAl: Broken Justice from 2008-11-14T10:00
What will President-elect Obama's promises of change mean for the Middle East? JOURNAl guest host Deborah Amos sits down with Elizabeth Rubin, the Edward R. Murrow press fellow at the Council on Fo...
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Change and a New Administration from 2008-11-07T10:00
A Bill Moyers essay on change and the new administration. And, Bill Moyers sits down with Columbia University professor Eric Foner, who specializes in political and African-American history, and Pa...
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Voting, Politics, and Reforming Washington from 2008-10-31T10:00
The Annenberg School's Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Brown University's Glenn loury on the final days of a historic election cycle. And, can the stranglehold of money on politics be broken? Bill Moyer...
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James K. Galbraith on our Economic Future from 2008-10-24T10:00
Bill Moyers sits down to talk about the economic future with with James K. Galbraith, lloyd Bentsen, Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations at the lBJ School of Public Affairs at the University...
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Voter Fraud, Economy and Campaign Analysis from 2008-10-17T10:00
Bill Moyers sits down with Mark Crispin Miller, professor of Media Ecology in the Department of Culture and Communication at NYU, who has been following voter fraud allegations in his blog News fro...
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George Soros on the financial crisis from 2008-10-10T10:00
Bill Moyers talks with one of the world's most successful investors George Soros about the global capital meltdown, how he saw it coming, and what can be done now. And, Bill Moyers checks in with J...
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Facing the Fallout from 2008-09-19T10:00
Amidst historic economic failures, Bill Moyers Journal takes an in-depth look at what led to the financial meltdown, what it means for American families, and how it will affect voters between now a...
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Rage on the Radio from 2008-09-12T10:00
What happens when America's airwaves fill with hate? Bill Moyers Journal takes a tough look at the hostile industry of "Shock Jock" media with a hard-hitting examination of its effects on our nati...
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Weekend Warriors No More from 2008-09-05T10:00
BIll MOYERS JOURNAl gives viewers an intimate look at how deployments of National Guard troops to Iraq affect the state Governors' ability to swiftly respond to domestic disaster at home and impact...
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Democratic Convention Analysis from 2008-08-29T10:00
What did the Democrats accomplish this week and can they deliver real change while still playing old fashioned Beltway politics? In the historic moment of the first African-American nominee for Pr...
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Middle Class Squeeze from 2008-08-22T10:00
With celebrations set to kick off in Denver for the Democratic National Convention, the JOURNAl travels to Colorado where tough economic times are hitting suburban communities. And, BIll MOYERS JOU...
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Andrew J. Bacevich from 2008-08-15T10:00
Is an imperial presidency destroying what America stands for? Bill Moyers sits down with history and international relations expert and former US Army Colonel Andrew J. Bacevich who identifies thr...
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Mortgage meltdown from 2008-07-18T10:00
BIll MOYERS JOURNAl travels to ground zero of the mortgage meltdown-Cleveland, Ohio. Correspondent Rick Karr takes viewers to Slavic Village, one of the hardest hit neighborhoods in the nation whe...
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Conservative movement woes from 2008-07-11T10:00
Conservatives Mickey Edwards and Ross Douthat discuss why they believe their movement has gone off track during the last eight years and what it means for the Republican Party. Douthat is senior ed...
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Climate Change and Worker Safety from 2008-06-27T10:00
Injury rates reported at America's poultry plants have dropped dramatically in recent years, and so have workplace safety inspections. Are regulators rewarding companies for inaccurate reporting o...
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Racial Inequality. from 2008-06-20T10:00
This week, as many Americans celebrate "Juneteenth," a special day of recognition commemorating the end of slavery in the United States, Bill Moyers Journal examines racial inequality in America th...
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Inequality in America. from 2008-06-13T10:00
While many Americans are working harder for less money and paying more for everyday items like gas and food, the rich are getting richer. Bill Moyers Journal analyzes the growing inequality gap on...
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Media, McClellan and the War. from 2008-06-06T10:00
Bill Moyers on the Democratic Party and its new nominee. Plus, there's nothing new in Scott McClellan's book about the propaganda campaign or the role of the press in selling the war, so why is it ...
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EXPOSE on the Journal: Chemicals in Food and Jeffrey Toobin from 2008-05-23T10:00
A Bill Moyers essay on the recent spate of resignations of executive appointees in Washington. Then, there may be a potentially dangerous chemical leaching into our food from the containers that we...
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Christopher Edley, Jr. and Maria Echaveste, Melody Petersen from 2008-05-16T10:00
A Democratic house divided. Bill Moyers interviews Berkeley law professors Christopher Edley, Jr. and Maria Echaveste - he's for Obama and she's for Clinton. They met working in the Clinton admi...
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California Nurses Assocation and Philippe Sands from 2008-05-09T10:00
Bill Moyers Journal profiles the fight the California Nurses Association (CNA) has been waging over universal healthcare. "There shouldn't be a double standard," says Rose Ann DeMoro, executive di...
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Mission Accomplished: Five Years later from 2008-05-02T10:00
Five years after the President declared the end of major combat operations in Iraq, Bill Moyers interviews Victor S. Navasky and Christopher Cerf about their latest book Mission Accomplished, descr...
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Reverend Jeremiah Wright from 2008-04-25T10:00
Bill Moyers interviews the Reverend Jeremiah Wright in his first broadcast interview with a journalist since he became embroiled in a controversy for his remarks and his relationship with Barack Ob...
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Battle in Sadr City from 2008-04-18T10:00
Just back from being under fire in Sadr City this week, award-winning journalist leila Fadel, Baghdad Bureau Chief for McClatchy, gives viewers on-the-ground analysis of the latest events and close...
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Hunger in America from 2008-04-11T10:00
As food prices go sky high and millions go hungry in America, why are tax dollars being spent on farmers who don't farm? Bill Moyers Journal teams up with the PBS series Expose: America's Investig...
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Hope in the Congo from 2008-04-04T10:00
Bill Moyers Journal takes viewers on the ground in the Democratic Republic of the Congo-a country almost one-fourth the size of the US-to follow aid workers and local relief efforts that are bringi...
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Race and politics from 2008-03-28T10:00
Forty years after race riots in Detroit, Newark, and dozens of other cities stunned the nation, has anything changed? Bill Moyers interviews Newark Mayor Cory Booker for a frontline report on race...
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Casualty of War from 2008-03-21T10:00
Bill Moyers interviews former talk show host Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro on the true cost of war and their documentary, Body of War, depicting the moving story of one veteran dealing with the afte...
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House Committee on Government Oversight, Viewer Mail, Government Secrecy from 2008-03-14T10:00
Bill Moyers Journal goes beyond the rhetoric and examines the reality of waste and abuse of power in Washington with a look at the investigations being conducted by Congress's Committee on Oversigh...
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Christians United for Israel, plus Mickey Edwards and Matt Welch from 2008-03-07T10:00
John McCain has won the GOP nomination. Can he win the hearts and minds of the Christian right? Bill Moyers Journal reports on popular conservative evangelist John Hagee and his controversial endo...
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Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Nell Painter from 2008-02-29T10:00
As Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama make their appeals to lower-income voters in Ohio and Texas, expert on media and politics Kathleen Hall Jamieson analyzes the messages on the campaign trail in t...
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Expose on the Journal: Mr. Heath Goes to Washington from 2008-02-22T10:00
Bill Moyers Journal and the PBS series Expose: America's Investigative Reports offer a hard and fresh look at how earmarks really work. Watch a preview. The broadcast profiles Seattle Times report...
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Government Debt, Susan Jacoby and Photographer lori Grinker from 2008-02-15T10:00
Does America's $9 trillion federal debt mean we are mortgaging our future and jeopardizing individual savings, healthcare, and retirement for generations to come? Bill Moyers gets a reality check ...
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Rev. Samuel Rodriguez and Kathleen Hall Jamieson from 2008-02-08T10:00
One of America's most prominent conservative evangelicals, Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, gives his perspective on the role faith is playing in this campaign season and his take on what's happening with th...
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Government Waste from 2008-02-01T10:00
In the week of the State of the Union address, Bill Moyers Journal goes beyond the rhetoric and examines the reality of waste and abuse of power in Washington with a look at the investigations bein...
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John Grisham from 2008-01-25T10:00
Bill Moyers interviews John Grisham, best-selling author of The Firm, The Pelican Brief, and The Rainmaker, in a far-ranging conversation that gives viewers insight into the beliefs and background ...
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David Cay Johnston, Craig Unger, Harvey J. Kaye from 2008-01-18T10:00
With all the talk of change coming out of the presidential campaigns, can we expect big money to lose its grip on Washington? Bill Moyers interviews NEW YORK TIMES investigative reporter and Pulitz...
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Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Shelby Steele from 2008-01-11T10:00
He won in Iowa and lost in New Hampshire, but what does Obama's candidacy tell us about the politics of race in America? Bill Moyers talks with Shelby Steele, who has written widely on race in Ame...
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Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich from 2008-01-04T10:00
Thousands of media outlets descended on Iowa, erecting a powerful wall of TV cameras and reporters between the voters and candidates. This week on Bill Moyers Journal in two interviews, Bill Moyer...
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Crisis in capitalism? from 2007-12-21T10:00
In the midst of the holiday spending and consumption frenzy, Bill Moyers interviews author Benjamin Barber about how capitalism isn't living up to its potential to serve society. "Capitalism is no...
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Keith Olbermann from 2007-12-14T10:00
What's on Keith Olbermann's mind about the media? This week, as Rupert Murdoch takes over the Wall Street Journal and as the FCC is about to allow more newspapers to expand into the broadcast busi...
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New media and the election from 2007-12-07T10:00
New media is changing the face, pace, and language of the election-what does it mean? Bill Moyers get perspective on the impact of the Web-blogs, YouTube, and social networking-on the election wit...
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Middle East Peace? from 2007-11-30T10:00
In the wake of this week's peace summit in Annapolis, Bill Moyers Journal profiles the politically powerful group Christians United for Israel (CUFI), whose leader Pastor John Hagee wants to bring ...
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Race in America from 2007-11-23T10:00
With the noose and the lynching tree entering the national discussion in the wake of recent news events, Bill Moyers interviews theologian James Cone about how these powerful images relate to the s...
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Katrina recovery woes from 2007-11-16T10:00
Two years after Katrina, casinos, hotels and condos are coming back strong in the hardest hit areas of Mississippi, but tens of thousands of people are still displaced-in limbo with no solution in ...
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Historian Thomas Cahill from 2007-11-09T10:00
Bill Moyers interviews best-selling historian Thomas Cahill in a far ranging interview that takes viewers from the Coliseum in Rome to death row in Texas and examines what our attitudes toward crue...
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Media Consolidation from 2007-11-02T10:00
Big Media is pushing the FCC to relax ownership rules again to give conglomerates more control over what Americans read, see, and hear. What most Americans don't know is that the FCC plans to fast...
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Presidential Power from 2007-10-26T10:00
How far can a President go to defend the nation? Bill Moyers Journal examines the unprecedented Presidential power some say is being amassed by our current Administration and kept secret in the na...
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Examining Blackwater from 2007-10-19T10:00
Blackwater CEO Erik Prince has been on the PR offensive this week, appearing on television to answer questions about his security firm Blackwater and its involvement in the shooting deaths of Iraqi...
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Wall Street Woes, Author Anouar Majid and Honoring Doris lessing from 2007-10-12T10:00
Could we see a repeat of the big stock market crash of '29? This week on Bill Moyers Journal, veteran market watcher Robert Kuttner and Wall Street insider William H. Donaldson give their read of ...
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Bill Moyers Essay: On Amish Grace from 2007-10-05T10:00
A year after the tragic shooting, Bill Moyers looks at what the Amish can teach us about healing.
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Christians for Israel. from 2007-10-05T10:00
As leader of the politically powerful group Christians United for Israel (CUFI), Pastor John Hagee wants to bring millions of Christians together to support Israel. But some say his message is dan...
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Bill Moyers Essay: For the Fallen from 2007-09-28T10:00
Bill Moyers on the fate of the authors of "The War as We Saw It."
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Capitalism in crisis. from 2007-09-28T10:00
Is there a crisis in American capitalism? Investment industry giant John Bogle says that as more and more money managers take control over corporations on Wall Street, Main Street is paying the pr...
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Rachel Carson's legacy. from 2007-09-21T10:00
Forty-five years after the publication of Rachel Carson's landmark book Silent Spring, which launched the modern environmental movement, her disturbing story of how toxic chemicals were poisoning t...
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Domestic Spying, The Terror Presidency from the Inside, Mountaintop Mining from 2007-09-07T10:00
Bill Moyers interviews executive director of the American Civil liberties Union Anthony D. Romero and former Republican Congressman Mickey Edwards about wiretapping and domestic surveillance. And,...
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Poet Robert Bly and Activist Grace lee Boggs from 2007-08-31T10:00
The poetry of Robert Bly has touched on spiritual insights and deep truths about American culture. With more than 30 books, including the National Book Award-winning The light Around the Body, Bly...
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Media power grab? from 2007-08-24T10:00
local news is the heartbeat of democracy, so why is it disappearing from many communities around the nation? Media consolidation isn't widely covered by the mainstream press, but potential changes...
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lessons of Katrina, historian Martin E. Marty, and Bill Moyers on Karl Rove from 2007-08-17T10:00
As the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaches, Bill Moyers gets two views on what the disaster and its aftermath says about American culture and values with Princeton's Melissa Harris-l...
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Author Barbara Ehrenreich on inequality in America, and Critic Clive James on who's worth remembering in the 20th Century from 2007-08-03T10:00
Big deals on Wall Street mean big gains for the wealthy in America, but is it at the expense of the middle class and working familes? Bill Moyers talks to bestselling author Barabara Ehrenreich, wh...
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Al Qaeda and Iraq, Earmarks, and a Bill Moyers Essay on sacrifice from 2007-07-27T10:00
In the wake of
As the Bush administration promotes the idea that al Qaeda is the enemy in Iraq, Bill Moyers Journal analyzes the facts on the ground to explore who the U.S. is really figh...
The Yes Men, Poet Martin Espada, and a Tribute to Sekou Sundiata from 2007-07-20T10:00
In the wake of
The Yes Men - aka Mike Bonanno and
Andy Bichlbaum - who discovered that pranks could get press attention to important issues that would otherwise be ignored. ...
Tough Talk on Impeachment from 2007-07-13T10:00
In the wake of President Bush's commutation of I. lewis 'Scooter' libby's prison sentence, talk of impeachment is gaining steam as a new opinion poll says that nearly half of Americans favor the im...
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Biologist E.O. Wilson and Washington DC's Earth Conservation Corps from 2007-07-06T10:00
Dedicating his life to the exploration of life on Earth, E.O. Wilson is one of the world's foremost authorities on biology. Bill Moyers Journal profiles the author of 25 Books and recipient of two ...
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Financial writer Gretchen Morgenson, GOP stalwart Vic Gold, lori Wallach on trade and Bill Moyers on Rupert Murdoch from 2007-06-29T10:00
With U.S. mortgages entering foreclosure at a record pace, the crisis has far reaching implications, from the financial markets to the financial health of ordinary Americans. For the latest, Bill ...
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HARPER's magazine's Ken Silverstein on foreign lobbying and Imam Zaid Shakir from 2007-06-22T10:00
When Harper's Magazine editor Ken Silverstein went undercover to recruit Washington lobbyists to help improve the image of Turkmenistan, a corrupt foreign government with appalling human rights abu...
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labor leader Andy Stern, Activist Grace lee Boggs and a Bill Moyers Essay from 2007-06-15T10:00
On Wall Street, private equity firms are buying up corporations and turning them around for huge profits. What does it mean for America's workers and for the economic gap between average families ...
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Overpaid Airline Execs? Plus, Christian Parenti and Bishop Jefferts Schori from 2007-06-08T10:00
Beginning to trade on the NYSE last week, Northwest airlines dodged the bankruptcy bullet. But while a $1.4 billion a year cut in labor expenses have ensured lower costs, why are airline executive...
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Cleaning House in Congress and Bob Kerrey on Iraq from 2007-06-01T10:00
Former Democratic senator Bob Kerrey is making his case for a refocused mission in Iraq. The 9/11 Commission member and Vietnam war veteran tells Bill Moyers why having US military forces in Iraq i...
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D-Day Revisited from 2007-05-28T10:00
As America honors heroes who have fought and fallen for their nation, Bill Moyers Journal presents "D-Day Revisited," a special one-hour broadcast which follows a group of World War II veterans bac...
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Maxine Hong Kingston from 2007-05-25T10:00
On Memorial Day weekend, Bill Moyers Journal presents an illuminating interview with Maxine Hong Kingston, acclaimed author of many books including the award-winning The Woman Warrior and her lates...
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Melissa Harris-lacewell on race in America, Bruce Bawer on fundamentalisms, and Rick MacArthur on the trade deal from 2007-05-18T10:00
Bill Moyers Journal looks at the trade deal in the works between the new leadership in Congress and the Bush Administration, which has the Democrats under fire from America's workers. Bill Moyers ...
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The Cost of War from 2007-05-11T10:00
It's a question that can be addressed in many ways. The National Priorities Project keeps a constantly running count of war costs - and compares the totals with what the dollars would buy in other ...
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Regent University, REASON magazine's Nick Gillespie, historian Marilyn B. Young from 2007-05-11T10:00
The recent controversy over the firing of federal prosecutors found Regent University graduate Monica Goodling-special counsel to Alberto Gonzalez and one of some 150 Regent students who have worke...
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Carlo Bonini, Jonathan Miller and Jerry Miller from 2007-05-04T10:00
As Congress investigates why the Administration made false pre-war claims, Italy's foremost investigative reporter Carlo Bonini, takes viewers on the trail of the forged intelligence documents purp...
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Jon Stewart and Josh Marshall from 2007-04-27T17:00
Veteran journalist Bill Moyers begins his new weekly series Bill Moyers Journal with an interview with Jon Stewart, the anchor of the award-winning The Daily Show for eight years, about why so many...
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Buying the War from 2007-04-25T17:00
Four years ago on May 1, President Bush landed on the aircraft carrier USS lincoln and delivered a speech in front of a giant "Mission Accomplished" banner. Despite profound questions and the incr...
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