Donald Trump Is Attempting a Coup — We Must Have a Special Prosecutor
by Bill Moyers & Michael WinshipThis post first appeared at BillMoyers.comSo Donald Trump fired James Comey because the FBI director mistreated Hillary Clinton last summer over her use of private...
View ArticleAll of Donald Trump’s Lies
This post first appeared atBillMoyers.comThis weekend, The New York Times performed a noble public service by publishing nearly every lie Donald Trump has told since taking the oath of office (just...
View ArticleBruce Bartlett: Why I’m Not a Democrat
This post first appeared atBillMoyers.comEditor’s Note:Economist Bruce Bartlett is a man of fierce intellectual independence — and courage, too. Telling the truth about Republican economic policies...
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LBJ Launches Medicare: ‘You Can't Treat Grandma This Way’
Watching the craziness in the Senate this week, as Mitch McConnell and the GOP’s zealots drove their clown car into a brick wall and yet another effort to take away health care coverage from millions...
View ArticleThe Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: Robert Jay Lifton and Bill Moyers on “A...
This post first appeared at BillMoyers.comThere will not be a book published this fall more urgent, important, or controversial than The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, the work of 27 psychiatrists,...
View ArticleRev. Dr. Susan K. Smith On Scraping the Whitewash From Our Myths
This post first appeared at BillMoyers.com.Editors Note: Susan K. Smith almost didn’t make it last summer to the Chautauqua Institute in upstate New York — that historic community of adult learning to...
View ArticleVulture Capitalists Circle Above Puerto Rican Prey
This post first appeared at BillMoyers.com.Puerto Rico is devastated. Two hurricanes plunged the island into darkness and despair. Crops perish in the fields. The landscape of ruined buildings and...
View ArticleHow the Nazis Used Jim Crow Laws as the Model for Their Race Laws
This post first appeared atBillMoyers.comon October 13 2017.To get to the core of race in America today, read this new book by James Whitman. Whitman is the Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and...
View ArticleIn the Age of Trump, a Chilling Atmosphere
This post first appeared atBillMoyers.comon October 18, 2017.Back in the 1930s a scholarly intramural feud to choose the inscription for the new library at my future alma mater, the University of Texas...
View ArticleA Feral Trump Leads the Feral Right. And Vice Versa.
This post first appeared atBillMoyers.comon October 30, 2017.EDITOR’S NOTE: Take a long look at the photograph above of Donald Trump speaking to the American Conservative Union, the umbrella...
View ArticleMoyers and McKibben: Time Is Running Out for the Planet
This post first appeared atBillMoyers.comon November 7, 2017.EDITOR’S NOTE: I wasn’t one of the 50,766 participants who finished the New York City Marathon last weekend. Instead, I spent the average...
View ArticleThe Trump-Russia Story Is Coming Together. Here’s How to Make Sense of It
This post first appeared atBillMoyers.comon November 21, 2017.Editor’s Note: The news is coming so fast and furious, from so many sources and in so many fragments, that it takes more than a scorecard...
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