Bill Moyers Journal
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The Journal: America's Economy Reformed?
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S 2011 : Ep 04.12.11 - 10/8/09
Just over a year after economic calamity brought promises of reform to Washington is it business as usual for Wall Street? Former IMF chief economist Simon Johnson and US Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) join Bill Moyers for a report card on the bailouts and to find out whether efforts of reform have been derailed. Bill Moyers remembers his friend, renowned physician and mountaineer Charlie Houston.moreless -
The Journal: Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot & Artist Chris Jordan
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8/6/09
Bill Moyers speaks with one of America's leading educators and author of The Third Chapter: Passion, Risk, and Adventure in the 25 Years After 50. Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot is the first African American woman in the history of Harvard to have an endowed professorship named in her honor. And, photographic artist Chris Jordan turns the statistics of consumerism into palpable images.moreless -
The Journal: Sen. Dick Durbin and Author Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
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S 2011 : Ep 02.24.11 - 5/7/09
Bill Moyers speaks with Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) - who declared that banks "are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place" - on campaign finance reform, and making Washington work for the people rather than special interests. And, one of America's leading educators and author of THE THIRD CHAPTER: PASSION RISK AND ADVENTURE IN THE 25 YEARS AFTER 50.moreless -
Bill Moyers Journal: James K. Galbraith on our Economic Future
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S 2011 : Ep 02.17.11 - 10/24/08
Bill Moyers sits down to talk about the economic future with with James K. Galbraith, the author of six books, the most recent, THE PREDATOR STATE: HOW CONSERVATIVES ABANDONED THE FREE MARKET AND WHY LIBERALS SHOULD TOO. And, Bill Moyers talks with Mark Johnson, the producer of a remarkable documentary about the simple but transformative power of music.moreless -
Bill Moyers Journal: Chemicals in Our Food?
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S 2011 : Ep 05.23.08 - 5/23/08
Expose: America's Investigative Reports that questions why the potentially dangerous chemical BPA, a component of commonly used plastic items, repeatedly has been called safe by the manufacturers, their lobbyists, and U.S. regulators; Jeffrey Toobin, author of The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court.moreless -
The Journal: Robert Bly & Grace Lee Boggs
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S 2011 : Ep 02.24.11 - 8/30/07
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. Also on the program activist and philosopher Grace Lee Boggs discusses her belief that real change for democracy will come from the grassroots.moreless -
Bill Moyers Journal: Ethics Reform in Congress
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S 2011 : Ep 06.01.07 - 6/1/07
Former Democratic senator Bob Kerrey is making his case for a refocused mission in Iraq. Joan Claybrook discusses ethical reforms under consideration in Congress. In addition, Bill Moyers shares his perspective on the Vietnam war in an essay featuring archival audio of a conversation between President Lyndon Johnson and U.S. National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy.moreless -
Moyers on America: Is God Green?
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S 2011 : Ep 01.03.11 - 11/11/06
A new holy war is growing within the conservative evangelical community. Now a number of conservative evangelicals are joining with liberal Christians in the fight over climate change, arguing that man's stewardship of the planet is a biblical imperative and calling for action to stop global warming. But they are being met head-on by opposition from their traditional evangelical brethren.moreless -
The Journal: Extended Final Show
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4/29/10
Citizen action in Iowa, Jim Hightower on Populism and writer Barry Lopez. -
The Journal: Reverend Jeremiah Wright
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S 2010 : Ep 11.23.10 - 4/27/10
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright in his first broadcast interview since he became embroiled in a controversy for his remarks and his relationship with Barack Obama. Wright, who retired in early 2008 as pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, where Senator Obama is a member, has been at the center of controversy for comments he made during sermons, which surfaced in the press in March.moreless -
The Journal: Johnston, Unger and Kaye
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S 2010 : Ep 04.26.10 - 4/26/10
David Cay Johnston who says America's system has been rigged to benefit the super-rich. Harvey J. Kaye whose book Thomas Paine and the Promise of America channels the "the greatest radical of a radical age." Craig Unger, author of the bestselling House of Bush, House of Saud. A Bill Moyers essay on Martin Luther King, Jr., LBJ, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.moreless -
The Journal: Our Media Future
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S 2010 : Ep 04.22.10 - 4/22/10
With radio and television dominated by mega-corporations, Americans have turned to the Internet for news -- but a recent court ruling gives Big Telecom more control over broadband. FCC commissioner Michael Copps on 'net neutrality', the fight for more democratic media and the future of journalism. Veteran regulator William K. Black, who says Wall Street is already been breaking current rules.moreless -
The Journal: Achieving Financial Reform
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S 2010 : Ep 04.15.10 - 4/15/10
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? Authors Simon Johnson and James Kwak, two of the nation's most respected economic experts and authors of the new book 13 BANKERS: THE WALL STREET TAKEOVER AND THE NEXT FINANCIAL MELTDOWN.moreless -
The Journal: Louise Erdrich
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S 2010 : Ep 04.08.10 - 4/8/10
Renowned for her mastery of multiple genres, Louise Erdrich discusses how her Native American heritage and unique cultural experience has impacted her life, motherhood, and work. And historian, international relations expert and former US Army Colonel Andrew J. Bacevich returns to the JOURNAl to discuss America's long war in Afghanistan.moreless -
The Journal: Inequality in America
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S 2010 : Ep 04.01.10 - 4/1/10
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, Bill Moyers interviews attorneys Bryan Stevenson and Michelle Alexander to learn how poor and working class Americans have been falling behind and what America must do to fulfill Dr. King's vision.moreless -
The Journal: Reform vs. Reformation
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S 2010 : Ep 03.25.10 - 3/25/10
Bill Moyers takes a closer look at the newly signed health bill and explores the future of health care reform with THE NATION's John Nichols and National Organization for Women president Terry O'Neill. Financial journalist Gretchen Morgenson offers a candid look at the obstacles facing substantive reform and what Congress' proposed legislation would. and wouldn't, accomplish.moreless -
The Journal: Same Sex Marriage
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S 2010 : Ep 02.25.10 - 2/25/10
Once adversaries in 2000's Bush v. Gore Supreme Court case, now two of the nation's premier lawyers -- Theodore Olson and David Boies -- one conservative and one liberal -- have teamed up to make the constitutional case for same-sex marriage.moreless -
The Journal: Justice For Sale
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S 2010 : Ep 02.18.10 - 2/18/10
Bill Moyers Journal revisits the 1999 FRONTLINE special "Justice for Sale" and takes a hard look at how campaign cash in judicial races may sway America's courts. -
The Journal: After Citizens United
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S 2010 : Ep 02.04.10 - 2/4/10
Libertarian journalist Nick Gillespie and legal scholar Lawrence Lessig discuss public financing of campaigns and the effects of money on politics. And, Dr. Margaret Flowers speaks about Medicare for all. -
The Journal: State of the Union(s)
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S 2010 : Ep 01.28.10 - 1/28/10
Monica Youn and Zephyr Teachout on the court decision on campaign finance. AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka offer shis perspective on President Obama's first State of the Union address and on whether organized labor can grow and generate jobs in the 21st century. And, Bill Moyers remembers historian Howard Zinn.moreless -
The Journal: Obama's First Year
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S 2010 : Ep 01.21.10 - 1/21/10
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 Melissa Harris-Lacewell and journalist Eric Alterman. And, Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson on America's energy crisis.moreless -
The Journal: Greg Mortenson, Thomas Frank
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S 2010 : Ep 01.15.10 - 1/15/10
Author and humanitarian Greg Mortenson, whose best-selling books THREE CUPS OF TEA and STONES INTO SCHOOLS argue that education is the best way to peace in Afghanistan and across the Islamic world. WALL STREET JOURNAL correspondent and author of THE WRECKING CREW: HOW conservatives RUINED GOVERNMENT, ENRICHED THEMSELVES, AND BEGGARED THE NATION takes a look back at the decade that was.moreless -
David Corn and Kevin Drum
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S 2010 : Ep 01.07.10 - 1/7/10
MOTHER JONES journalists David Corn and Kevin Drum offer a hard look at the obstacles to real reform of the financial industry. -
Bill Moyers Journal: LA Labor
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S 2010 : Ep 11.22.10 - 6/13/08
BILL MOYERS JOURNAL analyzes the growing inequality gap on the ground in Los Angeles, where recently union workers marched to bring attention to how they are getting squeezed out of the shrinking middle class. Holly Sklar, co-author of RAISE THE FLOOR: WAGES AND POLICIES THAT WORK FOR ALL OF US. Historian Steven Fraser on Gilded Ages.moreless -
The Journal: Bill T. Jones
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S 2009 : Ep 12.24.09 - 12/24/09
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 process, his insights into Lincoln, and how dance can give us fresh perspective on America's most-studied president.moreless -
The Journal: Howard Zinn
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S 2009 : Ep 12.11.09 - 12/11/09
Historian Howard Zinn has chronicled centuries of people's struggles against oppression. He joins Bill Moyers to discuss the voices of today's people and his new film THE PEOPLE SPEAK. And, organizers George Goehl and Heather Booth on turning anger into action.moreless -
The Journal: LBJ's Road to War
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S 2009 : Ep 11.20.09 - 11/20/09
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 involvement in Vietnam. Through Johnson's secret tapes of phone calls and conversations, and his own reminiscences, Moyers recalls the events that plunged us ever deeper into war.moreless -
The Journal: Anna Deavere Smith
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S 2009 : Ep 11.12.09 - 11/12/09
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 questions of life and death, sickness and healthcare. The JOURNAL visits a new home in New York City for contemplation and celebration of poetry.moreless -
The Journal: Economic Recovery in Reivew
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S 2009 : Ep 10.29.09 - 10/29/09
With Americans still facing rising unemployment, foreclosures, and declining property values, renowned economist James K. Galbraith on whether we've averted another crisis and how to get help for the middle class. And, National Review senior editor Richard Brookhiser talks about his mentor William F. Buckley, Jr. and today's conservative movement.moreless -
Judge Richard Goldstone
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S 2009 : Ep 10.22.09 - 10/22/09
Bill Moyers talks with Justice Richard Goldstone, who headed up the controversial UN Human Rights Council investigation into fighting in Gaza between Israel and Hamas. - Load More
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