Bill Moyers

Bill Moyers
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  • Published Is This Land Made For You and Me–Or For The Super-Rich? (Blog entry)
    January 13, 2012 - 12:31pm

    The traveling medicine show known as the race for the Republican presidential nomination has moved on from Iowa and New Hampshire, and all eyes are now on South Carolina. Well, not exactly all. At the moment, our eyes are fixed on some big news from the great state of Oklahoma, home of the legendary American folk singer Woody Guthrie, whose 100th birthday will be celebrated later this year.

  • Published Another Word About NPR: What It Isn't, Is And Could Be (Blog entry)
    March 25, 2011 - 4:15pm

    With Michael Winship

    Like Jake LaMotta and his brother Joey in the bloody boxing classic Raging Bull, we are gluttons for punishment. So here we are again, third week in a row, defending NPR against the bare-knuckled assault of its critics.

  • Published We Can't Let an Amateur Right-Wing Smear Campaign Destroy NPR (Blog entry)
    March 21, 2011 - 11:52am

    with Michael Winship

  • Published How Howard Zinn Would Face Today (Blog entry)
    November 1, 2010 - 11:43pm

    Moyers delivered this speech October 29, 2010, as part of the Howard Zinn Lecture Series at Boston University.

    I was honored when you asked me to join in celebrating Howard Zinn’s life and legacy. I was also surprised. I am a journalist, not a historian. The difference between a journalist and an historian is that the historian knows the difference.

  • Published Honoring Common Cause's John Gardner: "Now It's The Citizen's Turn" (Blog entry)
    October 8, 2010 - 4:31pm

    These remarks were delivered at a dinner in Washington commemorating the 40th anniversary of Common Cause on October 6, 2010.

    Thank you for inviting me to join in this 40th anniversary of Common Cause. Your founder, John Gardner, profoundly influenced my life and I welcome this opportunity to share some memories of him.
     

  • Published Chevron's "Crude" Attempt to Suppress Free Speech (Blog entry)
    May 16, 2010 - 10:31pm

    With Michael Winship

  • Published The Unbearable Lightness of Reform (Blog entry)
    March 29, 2010 - 2:11pm

    Give the victors their due: the bill Obama signed expands coverage to many more people, stops some very ugly and immoral practices by the health insurance industry that should have been stopped long ago, and offers a framework for more change down the road, if there's any heart or will left to fight for it. But reformation? Hardly.

  • Published Dangerous Alliance of Health Industry and Right-Wingers (Blog entry)
    July 27, 2009 - 10:51am

    Republicans have united with big business and Big Pharma in all-out combat aimed at crushing health-care reform. Meanwhile, supporters who want to scrap the present system for fundamental change are staring glumly though the fog of war at a battlefield in total disarray.

  • Published Some Choice Words for 'The Select Few' (Blog entry)
    July 13, 2009 - 10:11am

    with Michael Winship

  • Published The Age of Tom Paine (Blog entry)
    June 15, 2009 - 10:50am
    He was the master wordsmith of the American Revolution. His ideas are embedded deep in our DNA. "These are the times that try men's souls," he wrote, and patriots of every rank responded — farmers, blacksmiths, merchants and aristocrats. But he died broke, scorned and alone, here in New York City two hundred years ago this week. So unsung is this hero, a foundling father one historian calls him, that only a handful of his most ardent fans showed up at the ceremonies marking the bicentennial of his death.