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Anthony Leiserowitz

Job Titles:
  • Scientist
Scientist Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, joins Bill to describe his efforts to galvanize communities over what's arguably the greatest single threat facing humanity. Leiserowitz, who specializes in the psychology of risk perception, knows better than anyone if people are willing to change their behavior to make a difference.

Bill Moyers

Job Titles:
  • Buying
  • Climate Scientist Katharine Hayhoe Talks
  • Director Jacob Kornbluth on His New Movie "Inequality for All" ( 09 / 16 / 13 ) [13
  • Film Historian Neal Gabler Discusses
  • Financial Expert
  • Financial Journalist Gretchen Morgenson ( 03 / 26 / 10 ) [23
  • Investigative Journalist
  • Investigative Reporter
  • Journalist Matt Taibbi and Chrystia Freeland to Explore How Far America 's Mega - Wealthy Will Go to Keep the One Percent in Charge ( 10 / 17 / 12 ) [49
  • Mayor Gayle McLaughlin
  • NY Times Columnist
Bill Moyers | Restoring an America That Has Lost Its Way (10/09/14) [25:23] Bill Moyers | Senator Elizabeth Warren talks to Bill about taking on the entrenched political and Wall Street interests that have rigged the game against the rest of us. (08/05/14) [25:28] Bill Moyers | Bill speaks to NY Times columnist Linda Greenhouse and Slate's Dahlia Lithwick about the agenda of the Roberts court. (07/11/14) [36:38] Bill Moyers | Rising Voices for a New Economy. Two successful community organizers join forces to improve the lives of working Americans and make corporations pay their fair share in taxes. (07/02/14) [8:09] Bill Moyers | Our banks are larger than before the 2008 crash and they're still living dangerously, economist Anat Admati tells Bill. (06/13/14) [24:34] Bill Moyers | What the 1% Don't Want You to Know. Economist Paul Krugman explains how the United States is becoming an oligarchy - the very system our founders revolted against. (04/18/14) [24:30] Bill Moyers | Bill Moyers Remembers the Day FDR Died (04/11/14) [2:08] Bill Moyers | Historian Harvey J. Kaye talks to Bill about why FDR's "Four Freedoms" -- freedom from fear and want and freedom of speech and religion -- are more important now than ever. (04/11/14) [24:33] Bill Moyers | Advocate Saru Jayaraman: All Work and No Pay. Did you know the federal minimum wage for millions of restaurant workers is $2.13 an hour? That's not only unfair but unsafe. (04/04/14) [26:46] Bill Moyers | Investigative reporter Julia Angwin talks to Bill about how America has become a dragnet nation where mass surveillance rules. (03/14/14) [24:30] Bill Moyers | Michelle Alexander: Locked Out of the American Dream, tells Bill about an emerging movement that aims to end mass incarceration and its impact on America. (12/20/13) [35:25] Bill Moyers | Are Drones Destroying our Democracy? Bill explores the moral and legal implications of using drones to target our enemies. (02/01/13) [56:46] Bill Moyers | America's Political Breakdown: Economics commentator Martin Wolf views the debt ceiling as the legislative equivalent of a nuclear bomb the US has aimed at itself Bill Moyers | Citizens United - The Sequel: What's the potential fallout from McCutcheon v. FEC, the campaign finance case currently before the Supreme Court (10/11/13) [56:46] Here in the richest country on earth, 50 million of us -- one in six Americans -- go hungry. More than a third of them are children. And yet Congress can't pass a Farm Bill because our representatives continue to fight over how many billions to slash from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, better known as food stamps. The debate is filled with tired clich�s about freeloaders undeserving of government help, living large at the expense of honest, hardworking taxpayers. But a new documentary, A Place at the Table, paints a truer picture of America's poor. The Month (06/00/13) Bill Moyers | Director Jacob Kornbluth on his new movie "Inequality for All" (09/16/13) [13:19] Bill Moyers | Remember climate change? The issue barely came up during the presidential campaigns, and little has been said since. (01/04/13) [56:54] Bill Moyers | Journalist Matt Taibbi and Chrystia Freeland to explore how far America's mega-wealthy will go to keep the One Percent in charge (10/17/12) [49:05]. Bill Moyers | Between Two Worlds -- Life on the Border btween US and Mexico (08/08/12) [52:23] Bill Moyers | Banking on Greed: financial expert Sheila Bair talks with Bill about the lawlessness of our banking system and the prognosis for meaningful reform. (07/13/12) [56:36] Bill Moyers | Peter Edelman, fighting to keep poverty on the American agenda... Bill Moyers | The impact of campaign financing on the judicial election process () [54:56] Bill Moyers | Harmful impact of chemicals on the American worker, and chemical company efforts to keep it secret. () [1:56:47] Bill Moyers | Meet an Iowa organization fighting to help farmers and other ordinary citizens fight for change. () [16:50] Bill Moyers | Capitol Crimes, one report in a three-part series called, collectively, Moyers on America, explores the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal in detail, revealing a dark side of American politics -- a web of relationships, secret deals, and political manipulation. (2006) [1:56:00] Bill Moyers | Jeremy Scahill on Blackwater and private contractors (in Iraq) (10/19/07) [43:14]

Bob Herbert

Job Titles:
  • Journalists
Bill Moyers | A bitter election behind us, and Bill explores what happens next with journalists Bob Herbert, Reihan Salam, and James Fallows. (11/09/12) [56:48]

Glenn Greenwald

Job Titles:
  • Columnist
  • Journalist
Columnist Glenn Greenwald explains what the Boston bombings and U.S. drone attacks have in common, and how secrecy leads to abuse of government power. The violent Boston rampage triggered a local and federal response that, according to journalist Glenn Greenwald, adds a new dimension to troubling questions about government secrecy, overreach, and what we sacrifice in the name of national security. Greenwald joins Bill to peel back layers that reveal what the Boston bombings and drone attacks have in common, and how secrecy leads to abuse of government power.

Joseph E. Stiglitz

Job Titles:
  • Nobel Prize - Winning Economist

Ken Burns

Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's ten-part, 18-hour documentary series, THE VIETNAM WAR, tells the epic story of one of the most consequential, divisive, and controversial events in American history as it has never before been told on film. Visceral and immersive, the series explores the human dimensions of the war through revelatory testimony of nearly 80 witnesses from all sides--Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as combatants and civilians from North and South Vietnam. Ten years in the making, the series includes rarely seen and digitally re-mastered archival footage from sources around the globe, photographs taken by some of the most celebrated photojournalists of the 20th Century, historic television broadcasts, evocative home movies, and secret audio recordings from inside the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations.

Madeline Janis

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder and National Policy Director of Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy

Matt Taibbi

Job Titles:
  • Journalist Matt Taibbi and Chrystia Freeland to Explore How Far America 's Mega - Wealthy Will Go to Keep the One Percent in Charge ( 10 / 17 / 12 ) [49

Oliver Stone

Oliver Stone and American University historian Peter J. Kuznick began working on the project in 2008. Stone, Kuznick and British screenwriter Matt Graham cowrote the script. It covers "the reasons behind the Cold War with the Soviet Union, U.S. President Harry Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan, and changes in America's global role since the fall of Communism." Stone is the director and narrator of all ten episodes.

Paul Krugman

Job Titles:
  • Economist

Rachel LaForest

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director of Right to the City
Economic equality advocates Rachel LaForest, executive director of Right to the City, and Madeline Janis, co-founder and national policy director of Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, discuss with Bill how social action can change both policy and lives. Janis led the fight for a living wage in Los Angeles; LaForest fights for fair and affordable housing across the country.

Rana Foroohar

Ms. Foroohar says financialization delivers stagnant wages, inequality and economic crisis; the Financial Times columnist and author of "Makers and Takers" says the financial sector represents only 7 percent of the U.S. economy, but takes around 25 percent of all corporate profit while creating only 4 percent of all jobs.

Richard Wolff

Job Titles:
  • Economist
Economist Richard Wolff talks about battling rampant capitalism and fighting for economic justice. Economist Richard Wolff joins Bill to shine light on the disaster left behind in capitalism's wake, and to discuss the fight for economic justice, including a fair minimum wage.

Sen. Lindsey Graham

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said the quiet part aloud on why he's still so close to former President Donald Trump: because we can use him for our goals. "President Trump has gotten people who wouldn't give me or Romney or anybody else the time of day. They believe he is on their side," the senator told the America First Agenda Summit crowd on Tuesday in Washington, D.C.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Job Titles:
  • Senior Editor for the Atlantic
Bill Moyers | This week Bill speaks with Ta-Nehisi Coates, a senior editor for The Atlantic about his cover story on why America needs to reconcile with its racist past. (05/22/14) [26:46] Bill Moyers | A geneticist who has made science exciting to millions of TV viewers warns that we're burning up the planet, but there's still a chance we can make it.. (05/09/14) [24:27]