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Mortgage Meltdown

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:00:00 EST

BILL MOYERS JOURNAL travels to ground zero of the mortgage meltdown—Cleveland, Ohio. Correspondent Rick Karr takes viewers to Slavic Village, one of the hardest hit neighborhoods in the nation when it comes to the spate of foreclosures caused by the subprime mortgage crisis. There, more than 1,000 homes stand vacant and decaying in a neighborhood that once thrived with families living the American dream of home ownership.

William Greider

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:00:00 EST

Moyers gets perspective from veteran journalist William Greider on the current financial crisis and what he calls "the great deflation of Wall Street."

American Dream

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:00:00 EST

Bill Moyers gives a preview of next week's show and asks for participation in the Deepening the American Dream Project.

Conservative Movement Woes, I

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:00:00 EST

Conservatives Mickey Edwards and Ross Douthat discuss why they believe their movement has gone off track during the last eight years and what it means for the Republican Party. Douthat is senior editor at The Atlantic Monthly and co-author of Grand New Party, and Mickey Edwards is a former Republican Congressman and author of Reclaiming Conservatism.

Conservative Movement Woes, II

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:00:00 EST

Deepening the American Dream

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:00:00 EST

Bill Moyers introduces "Deepening the American Dream," a Web-only project at www.pbs.org/moyers that features essays and videos of some of Moyers' notable guests laying out their vision for the future of the American dream.

Contemplating Climate Security

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:00:00 EST

Bill Moyers interviews Senator Barbara Boxer about global warming.

Expose on the Journal: Worker Safety

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:00:00 EST

Injury rates reported at America's poultry plants have dropped dramatically in recent years, and so have workplace safety inspections. Are regulators rewarding companies for inaccurate reporting of injuries? Bill Moyers Journal and Expose: America's Investigative Reports go inside America's poultry industry, which employs almost a quarter million workers nationwide, to show the reality of working conditions and to investigate how official statistics showing a drop in workplace injuries may have been the result of deceptive reporting.

Bill Moyers on Big Oil

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:00:00 EST

A Bill Moyers essay.

Traces of the Trade

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:00:00 EST

The JOURNAL previews P.O.V.'s TRACES OF THE TRADE

Douglas Blackmon

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:00:00 EST

Bill Moyers interviews Douglas Blackmon, the Atlanta bureau chief of the WALL STREET JOURNAL, about his latest book, SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME, which looks at an "age of neoslavery" that thrived from the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II.

Patterson and Loury

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:00:00 EST

BILL MOYERS JOURNAL examines racial inequality in America through the prisms of the legacy of slavery and the current socio-economic landscape with perspective from historical and cultural sociologist Orlando Patterson and Glenn C. Loury, an economist and expert on race and social division.

Moyers on Juneteenth

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:00:00 EST

Bill Moyers on Juneteenth.

Los Angeles Labor

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:00:00 EST

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

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:00:00 EST

Holly Sklar, co-author of Raise the Floor: Wages and Policies that Work For All of Us, discusses what current economic conditions say about the state of the American dream.

Steve Fraser on Gilded Ages

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:00:00 EST

Bill Moyers also interviews Steve Fraser, historian and author of Wall Street: America's Dream Palace, about the modern parallels and differences to the first Gilded Age, the big disparity between the rich and poor, and the increasing strain on working Americans.

Dr. Ronald Walters and Kathleen Hall Jamieson

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:00:00 EST

The Annenberg School's Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Dr. Ronald Walters, director of the African American Leadership Institute and Scholar Practitioner Program at the University of Maryland, contemplate what's next for Obama, Clinton and the rest of the election cycle.

THE MEDIA, MCCLELLAN, AND THE WAR

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:00:00 EST

There's nothing new in Scott McClellan's book about the propaganda campaign or the role of the press in selling the war, so why is it such big news? Journalists Jonathan Landay and John Walcott of McClatchy newspapers and Greg Mitchell of EDITOR AND PUBLISHER analyze the reaction of the administration and the media to McClellan's book.

Bill Moyers on The Democratic Party's Nominee

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:00:00 EST

Bill Moyers on the Democratic Party and its new nominee.

Casualty of War: Part I

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:00:00 EST

Bill Moyers interviews former talk show host Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro on the true cost of war and their documentary, BODY OF WAR, depicting the moving story of one veteran dealing with the aftermath of war. With extensive excerpts from the film, the filmmakers talk about Iraq war veteran Tomas Young who was shot and paralyzed less than a week into his tour of duty. Three years in the making, BODY OF WAR tells the poignant tale of the young man's journey from joining the service after 9/11 to fight in Afghanistan, to living with devastating wounds after being deployed to Iraq instead.

A Democratic house divided.

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:00:00 EST

Bill Moyers interviews Berkeley Law professors Christopher Edley, Jr. and Maria Echaveste - he's for Obama and she's for Clinton. They met working in the Clinton administration and now, having been married for nine years, Edley and Echaveste are both advising their respective candidates. Edley serves as dean and professor of law of UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law, where Echaveste is a lecturer in residence.

Melody Petersen

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:00:00 EST

Melody Petersen talks with Bill Moyers about her new book OUR DAILY MEDS, and how drug companies market medication.

Journal Updates

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:00:00 EST

From the Farm Bill to the situation in Sadr City — updates on JOURNAL stories.

California Nurses Association

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:00:00 EST

Bill Moyers Journal profiles the fight the California Nurses Association (CNA) has been waging over universal healthcare. "There shouldn't be a double standard," says Rose Ann DeMoro, executive director of CNA. "We, as the public, pay for Dick Cheney's care...why is the government not providing the same type of care to all Americans?"

Philippe Sands

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:00:00 EST

British law professor Philippe Sands, author of TORTURE TEAM, talks about the approval of coercive interrogation by high-level American officials.

Essay on Jeremiah Wright

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:00:00 EST

Bill Moyers reflects on his interview with Reverend Jeremiah Wright.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:00:00 EST

Expert on media and politics, Kathleen Hall Jamieson returns to take stock of the never-ending primary season.

Christopher Cerf and Victor Navasky

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:00:00 EST

Victor Navasky and Christopher Cerf's new book MISSION ACCOMPLISHED looks back at what the experts told us would happen in Iraq.

Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Part I

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:00:00 EST

Bill Moyers interviews the Reverend Jeremiah Wright in his first broadcast interview with a journalist 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.

Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Part II

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:00:00 EST

Leila Fadel

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:00:00 EST

Just back from being under fire in Sadr City this week, award-winning journalist Leila Fadel, Baghdad Bureau Chief for McClatchy, gives viewers on-the-ground analysis of the latest events and close-up look at the state of the war.

Martha Nussbaum

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:00:00 EST

Bill Moyers talks with Marth Nussbaum, the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at University of Chicago, about church and state, and her newest book, LIBERTY OF CONSCIENCE: IN DEFENSE OF AMERICA'S TRADITION OF RELIGIOUS EQUALITY.

Cash Cows and Cowboy Starter Kits

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:00:00 EST

As food prices go sky high and millions go hungry in America, why are tax dollars being spent on farmers who don't farm? Bill Moyers Journal teams up with the PBS series Exposé: America's Investigative Reports to follow the trail of Washington Post reporters who uncovered more than $15 billion in "wasteful, unnecessary, or redundant expenditures" that have flowed from Washington to America's farmers.

Hunger in America

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:00:00 EST

The broadcast looks at shortages at America's food banks.

David Beckmann

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:00:00 EST

Bill Moyers talks with the president of Bread for the World about the challenges of combatting hunger.

Hope in the Congo, Part I

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:00:00 EST

Bill Moyers Journal takes viewers on the ground in the Democratic Republic of the Congo—a country almost one-fourth the size of the US—to follow aid workers and local relief efforts that are bringing hope to a forgotten land. "The aid agencies are almost substituting for a social welfare system that hasn't operated in these areas for decades," says Dominic MacSorley, Emergency Director for Concern Worldwide, an international aid organization. The broadcast profiles an innovative program that employs locals to bike food to remote areas. "The spirit of the people…hasn't dampened," says MacSorley. "The future for this country should be much, much brighter than it is."

Hope in the Congo, Part II

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:00:00 EST

David Beckmann

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:00:00 EST

Bill Moyers talks with the president of Bread for the World about the challenges of combatting hunger.

Reflections on the Kerner Commission

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:00:00 EST

Forty years after race riots in Detroit, Newark, and dozens of other cities stunned the nation, has anything changed? The program takes a look at an update of the Kerner Commission Report, which blamed the violence on the devastating poverty and hopelessness endemic in the inner cities of the 1960s and includes an interview with former Oklahoma Senator Fred Harris, one of the last living members of the Kerner Commission.

Newark Mayor Cory Booker

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:00:00 EST

Bill Moyers interviews Newark Mayor Cory Booker for a frontline report on race and politics today.

Casualty of War: Part I

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:00:00 EST

Part II: Casualty of War

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 17:00:00 EST

Christians United for Israel

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:00:00 EST

John McCain has won the GOP nomination. Can he win the hearts and minds of the Christian right? Bill Moyers Journal reports on popular conservative evangelist John Hagee and his controversial endorsement of McCain. Hagee, leader of the politically powerful group Christians United for Israel (CUFI), has been criticized for controversial remarks about Catholics and about America's role in the Middle East.

Mickey Edwards and Matt Welch

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:00:00 EST

Bill Moyers talks about the state and future of conservatism in light of Senator McCain's nomination with former Congressman Mickey Edwards (R-OK), author of RECLAIMING CONSERVATISM: HOW A GREAT AMERICAN POLITICAL MOVEMENT GOT LOST - AND HOW IT CAN FIND ITS WAY BACK, and Matt Welch, editor of REASON magazine and author of MCCAIN: THE MYTH OF A MAVERICK.

Viewer Mail

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:00:00 EST

You've been writing and we've been reading.

Rick Karr on Government Secrecy

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:00:00 EST

Are muckrakers and whistleblowers facing insurmountable odds?

Kathleen Hall Jamieson

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:00:00 EST

As Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama make their appeals to lower-income voters in Ohio and Texas, expert on media and politics Kathleen Hall Jamieson analyzes the messages on the campaign trail in the lead up to Tuesday's potentially decisive primaries.

Nell Painter

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:00:00 EST

Also on the program, historian Nell Irvin Painter examines what history reveals about the current state of inequality in America. Painter looks at today's economic disparity as a new "Gilded Age" that threatens democracy.

Viewer Mail

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:00:00 EST

Viewer comments on JOURNAL stories.

Exposé on the Journal

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:00:00 EST

Bill Moyers Journal and the PBS series Exposé: America's Investigative Reports offer a hard and fresh look at how earmarks really work. Watch a preview. The broadcast profiles Seattle Times reporters on the trail of how members of Congress have awarded federal dollars for questionable purposes to companies in local Congressional districts-often to companies whose executives, employees or PACs have made campaign contributions to the legislators.

Sarah Chayes

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:00:00 EST

Sarah Chayes, author and former journalist who has been helping rebuild Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban regime, with a look at the front lines of America's war there.

Debt Dilemma

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:00:00 EST

Does America's $9 trillion federal debt mean we are mortgaging our future and jeopardizing individual savings, healthcare, and retirement for generations to come? Bill Moyers gets a reality check from Public Agenda's Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson, co-authors of WHERE DOES THE MONEY GO?: YOUR GUIDED TOUR TO THE FEDERAL BUDGET CRISIS.

Susan Jacoby

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:00:00 EST

Susan Jacoby, author of THE AGE OF AMERICAN UNREASON, talks about the crisis of ignorance in the U.S. and how a 'flight from reason' is playing out in American politics and society. "We have really, over the past 40 years, gotten shorter and shorter and shorter attention spans," says Jacoby.

Photojournalist Lori Grinker

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:00:00 EST

Photojournalist Lori Grinker takes viewers to Amman, Jordan for a devastating look at the fate of Iraqis displaced by the conflict.

Rev. Samuel Rodriguez

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 8 Feb 2008 17:00:00 EST

One of America's most prominent conservative evangelicals, Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, gives his perspective on the role faith is playing in this campaign season and his take on what's happening with the evangelical vote in the primaries. Rodriguez, who has voiced his support for a moral, biblical response to the issue of immigration, is president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 8 Feb 2008 17:00:00 EST

Kathleen Hall Jamieson returns to look at the issues underlying the horse race.

Presidential Reading

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 8 Feb 2008 17:00:00 EST

Thousands have weighed in on The Moyers Blog to suggest one book the next President should take to the White House. Bill Moyers reviews the submissions for essential presidential reading.

Moyers on Taxi to the Dark Side

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 8 Feb 2008 17:00:00 EST

Bill Moyers on a new documentary that explores America's debate over torture.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:00:00 EST

Kathleen Hall Jamieson returns to evaluate a big week in the '08 campaign.

Government Waste

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:00:00 EST

PART I: BILL MOYERS JOURNAL examines the reality of waste and abuse of power in Washington with a look at the investigations being conducted by Congress's Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Government Waste

moyersonpbs@thirteen.org — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:00:00 EST

PART II: BILL MOYERS JOURNAL examines the reality of waste and abuse of power in Washington with a look at the investigations being conducted by Congress's Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.