Bill Moyers

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  • Published Dangerous Alliance of Health Industry and Right-Wingers (Blog entry)
    July 27, 2009 - 11:51am

    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 - 11:11am

    with Michael Winship

  • Published The Age of Tom Paine (Blog entry)
    June 15, 2009 - 11:50am
    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.
  • Published Rx and the Single Payer (Blog entry)
    May 22, 2009 - 11:23am

    In 2003, a young Illinois state senator named Barack Obama told a local AFL-CIO meeting, “I am a proponent of a single-payer universal health care program.” There was only one thing standing in the way. “All of you know we might not get there immediately because first we have to take back the White House, we have to take back the Senate and we have to take back the House.” Fast forward six years. So, what's happened to single payer?

  • Published Mortgaging the White House (Blog entry)
    May 3, 2009 - 11:46pm

    In his first hundred days, FDR came out swinging. He shut down the banks, threw the money lenders from the temple, cranked out so much legislation so fast he would shout to his secretary, Grace Tully, "Grace, take a law!"
    President Obama's been busy, but contrary to many of the pundits, he's no FDR.

  • Published Moguls Steal Home While Companies Strike Out (Blog entry)
    September 19, 2008 - 2:28pm

    From our offices in Manhattan, we look out on the tall, gleaming skyscrapers that are cathedrals of wealth and power -- the Olympus ruled by the gods of finance, the temples of the mighty, the holy of holies, whose priests guard the sacred texts of salvation -- the ones containing the secrets of subprime lending and derivatives as mysterious and elusive as the Grail itself.