We Cannot Wait for History to Judge. We Need the Truth About Trump and Russia...
by Bill Moyers & Michael WinshipOver the holidays, John Farrell, author of an upcoming biography of Richard Nixon, wrote an op-ed piece in The New York Times confirming what many of us have known...
View ArticleLest We Forget: Historians on the Big Lie Behind the Rise of Trump.
x Vimeo VideoIn this web exclusive, Bill Moyers and four historians dissect the big lie Trump rode to power: the Birther lie. Nell Painter, historian and Edwards Professor of American History,...
View ArticleDonald Trump’s Demolition Derby
This essay first appeared at BillMoyers.com.We’re a week into the Trump administration and it’s pretty obvious what he’s up to. First, Donald Trump is running a demolition derby: He wants to demolish...
View ArticleI thought CNN was taking a courageous stand against White House lies. I was...
This post first appeared at BillMoyers.com.Well, I certainly got that one wrong.Based on news reports, and after two phone calls to check them out, on Tuesday I wrote a column saluting Jake Tapper and...
View ArticleWe Must Know the Truth
By Bill Moyers & Michael Winship.This post first appeared at BillMoyers.com.We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: there MUST be an investigation by an independent, bipartisan commission of...
View ArticleDemocrats: Do the Right Thing
This post first appeared at BillMoyers.comIn Neil Gorsuch, the corporate class have their perfect manservant for the Supreme Court.He looks the part: tall, handsome, greying (at 50), charming and...
View ArticleAsk Yourself: Will Donald Trump EVER Become President?
This post first appeared atBillMoyers.comIt’s been a week now since Donald Trump once again became our president.Here’s how it happened.After he unleashed missiles on a Syrian airfield, members of...
View ArticleDonald 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 at BillMoyers.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 at BillMoyers.com Editor’s Note: Economist Bruce Bartlett is a man of fierce intellectual independence — and courage, too. Telling the truth about Republican economic policies...
View ArticleLBJ 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 at BillMoyers.com on 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...
View ArticleIn the Age of Trump, a Chilling Atmosphere
This post first appeared at BillMoyers.com on 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...
View ArticleA Feral Trump Leads the Feral Right. And Vice Versa.
This post first appeared at BillMoyers.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 at BillMoyers.com on 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 at BillMoyers.com on 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...
View ArticleDonald 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...
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