S01E01 On Winner-Take-All Politics
In its premiere episode, Moyers & Company dives into one of the most important and controversial issues of our time: How Washington and Big Business colluded to make the super-rich richer and turn their backs...
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S01E10: Gambling With Your Money
You’d think after such a calamitous economic fall, there’d be a strong consensus on reinforcing the protections that keep us out of harm’s way. But in some powerful corners, the opposite is happening. Business and political forces, including hordes of lobbyists, are working hard to diminish or destroy these protections. One of the biggest bull’s-eyes is on the Volcker Rule, a section of the Dodd-Frank Act that aims to keep the banks in which you deposit your money from gambling it on their own — sometimes risky — investments. On this week’s Moyers & Company, Bill talks with the namesake of the Volcker Rule — Paul Volcker, who served two terms as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 1979-1987 and formerly headed President Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board. Volcker contends the rule aims to curb conflicts of interest between bankers and their customers.
Overview
Episodes
S01E02 Crony Capitalism
This weekend, continuing its sharp multi-episode focus on the intersection of money and politics, Moyers & Company explores the tight connection between Wall Street and the White House with David Stockman – yes, that David...
S01E03 How Big Banks are Rewriting the Rules of Our Economy
Big banks are rewriting the rules of our economy to the exclusive benefit of their own bottom line. But how did our political and financial class shift the benefits of the economy to the very...
S01E04 How Do Conservatives and Liberals See the World?
Our country is more politically polarized than ever. Is it possible to agree to disagree and still move on to solve our massive problems? Or are the blind leading the blind — over the cliff?...
S01E05 Economic Malpractice and the Millennials
There are 80-plus million Americans today who were born roughly between 1978 and 2000, and they’re getting hit hard by economic circumstances created over the past 30 years. The Millennials are the first generation of...
S01E06 Decoding the Campaigns
We’re saturated with deceptive political advertising — aided and abetted now with spending by citizens, corporations and super PACs that seems to know no bounds. Add to that relatively cheap “buys” on the media landscape...
S01E07 Where Movies End and Politics Begins
This weekend’s Moyers & Company starts with a compelling Bill Moyers Essay: Is it fair for parents to opt out of vaccinations for their children on the basis of religion or philosophy? Bill weighs the...
S01E08 Moving Beyond War
Nine years after Baghdad erupted in “shock and awe,” we’re once again hearing in America the drumbeat for war in the Middle East. Now, the bull’s-eye is on Iran. But what we need more than...
S01E09 Standing Up For Democracy
American history is rich with stories of social change inspired by the actions of motivated individuals and organized groups. Today’s activists are no different — facing long odds against powerful and systemic special interests. On...
S01E10 Gambling With Your Money
You’d think after such a calamitous economic fall, there’d be a strong consensus on reinforcing the protections that keep us out of harm’s way. But in some powerful corners, the opposite is happening. Business and...
S01E11 An Optimist for Our Times
Angela Glover Blackwell has spent her adult life advocating practical ways to fulfill America’s promise of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” for all. Now, with our middle class struggling, poverty rising, and inequality...
S01E12 The Case for Old-School Faith & Politics
Two movements once at the vital center of our society, liberal politics and American Christianity have gone astray, says Eric Alterman (from the left) and Ross Douthat (from the right). On this weekend’s Moyers &...
S01E13 Big Money, Big Media, Big Trouble
Big money and big media have coupled to create a ‘Disney World’ of democracy in which TV shows, televised debates, even news coverage is being dumbed down, resulting in a public less informed than it...
S01E14 Between Two Worlds - Life on the Border
No writer understands the border culture between Mexico and the United States more intimately than Luis Alberto Urrea, whose life is the stuff of great novels. Son of a Mexican father and Anglo mother, Urrea...
S01E15 Fighting for Fair Play on TV and Taxes
With the 2012 campaign season moving from primary to election mode, Bill invites back to his studio master media decoder Kathleen Hall Jamieson for a closer look at the role misinformation will play in the...
S01E16 Tom Morello, Troubadour for Justice
Songs of social protest — music and the quest for justice — have long been intertwined, and the troubadours of troubling times — Guthrie, Seeger, Baez, Dylan, and Springsteen among them — have become famous...
S01E17 Reckoning with Torture
S01E18 Dark Money in Politics
S01E19 How Big Banks Victimize Our Democracy
Matt Taibbi and Yves Smith discuss the folly and corruption of both banks and government. Also, Peter Edelman on fighting U.S. poverty.
S01E20 Confronting the Contradictions of America’s Past
Bill and Khalil Gibran Muhammad discuss what we should learn from our racial past to better understand the present.
S01E21 Is Labor A Lost Cause?
Exploring if unions can rebound and once again act strongly in the interest of ordinary workers.
S01E22 Banking on Greed
The uphill fight to make banks honest and accountable, plus the latest battleground in the war on Planet Earth.
S01E23 Capitalism’s ‘Sacrifice Zones’
Bill and journalist Chris Hedges talk about parts of America “that have been destroyed for quarterly profit.
S01E24 What It’s Like to Go to War
Bill talks to Vietnam veteran and author Karl Marlantes about what we need to understand about the minds and hearts of our modern warriors.
S01E25 Suppressing the Vote
Bill talks with Keesha Gaskins and Michael Waldman of the Brennan Center for Justice about how voter ID laws enable voting suppression.
S01E26 Nuns, Faith and Politics
On a road trip of faith and politics, American nuns spread the word: Paul Ryan’s budget would hurt those already struggling to make ends meet.
S01E27 The Resurrection of Ralph Reed
S01E28 Challenging Power, Changing Politics
Bill discusses the power of independent thinking with Senator Bernie Sanders and Green Party candidates Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala.
S01E29 The One Percent Court
S01E30 Elections for Sale
Bill Moyers and Trevor Potter discuss how American elections are bought and sold, who covers the cost, and how the rest of us pay the price.
S01E31 United States of ALEC
How corporations and state legislators are colluding to write laws and remake America, one statehouse at a time.
S01E32 Hispanic America’s Turn
Univision’s Jorge Ramos and María Elena Salinas on Hispanic influence and power in America.
S01E33 Justice, Not Politics
Exploring efforts to capture climate change in action, and the fight to protect our state courts from predatory politics.
S01E34 Plutocracy Rising
Journalists Matt Taibbi and Chrystia Freeland discuss how far America’s super-rich will go to keep the One Percent in charge.
S01E35 What’s Behind the Presidential Campaign Messages?
Marty Kaplan and Kathleen Hall Jamieson judge the political debates, and Neil Barofsky describes the obstacles to banking reform.
S01E36 The Election is Over — Now What?
A bitter election behind us, and burning questions ahead. Bill explores what happens next with journalists Bob Herbert, Reihan Salam, and James Fallows.
S01E37 Hurricanes, Capitalism & Democracy
Naomi Klein joins Bill to discusses the links between capitalism and climate change, and Trevor Potter assesses Big Money’s true impact on the election.
S01E38 Big Media’s Power Play
What you can do to stop Big Media from controlling more of what we see, hear and read.
S01E39 Fiscal Cliffs and Fiscal Realities
Why the fiscal cliff is merely a phantom menace — and what we should be talking about instead.
S01E40 Junot Díaz on Rewriting the Story of America
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Díaz straddles two cultures while telling the story of America’s past and future.
S01E41 What We Can Learn from Lincoln
Tony Kushner, who wrote the screenplay for Lincoln, talks about America’s 16th president and “the history lesson of politics.
S01E42 Ending the Silence on Climate Change
Climate change communication expert Anthony Leiserowitz explains why climate change gets the silent treatment, and what we should do about it.
S01E43 Paul Krugman on Why Jobs Come First
The New York Times columnist explains why our top priority should be getting America back to work – if only Washington would stop throwing distractions in the way.
S01E44 Fighting for Filibuster Reform
Larry Cohen, president of the Communications Workers of America, joins Bill to make the case for common-sense reform that would bring the Senate back to serving democracy.
S01E45 Foul Play in the Senate, and Today’s Abortion Debate
Bill explores Senate favoritism for the world’s largest biotech firm, and takes a deeper look at modern abortion rights activism.
S01E46 Are Drones Destroying our Democracy?
Bill explores the moral and legal implications of using drones to target our enemies. Also, Matt Taibbi on big bank privileges.
S01E47 Who’s Widening America’s Digital Divide?
Internet scholar Susan Crawford explains how media conglomerates put profit ahead of the public interest, and author Nick Turse shares what we never knew about the Vietnam War.
S01E48 The Fight to Keep Democracy Alive
Exploring the virus of money in our politics, and how we need to combat it.
S01E49 Taming Capitalism Run Wild
Economist Richard Wolff and Restaurant Worker Advocate Saru Jayaraman talk about battling rampant capitalism, and fighting for economic justice.
S01E50 Fighting Creeping Creationism
Zack Kopplin on fighting the onslaught of creationism and Susan Jacoby on the challenges of free thinking in America.
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Bill Moyers
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