Americans are living through the dangerous effort to normalize the abnormal candidate Donald Trump who won the presidency wi/3 million popular vote deficit.
The Overlooked, Under-Reported and Ignored Stories of 2016
BillMoyers.com asks reporters, editors and bloggers which key story they feel the mainstream media failed to cover adequately over the last 12 months.
Chatting With Trump Supporters
Donald Trump is Time magazine’s person of the year, but the most interesting aspect of America’s story this year isn’t the man himself.
And So it Begins: The Media Normalizing the Election
The media must not excuse the racism, misogyny, nativism, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia because we think Trump voters have legitimate gripes.
The Long Path to Reversing Citizens United
Campaign finance lawyers are pursuing two legal strategies to try & push back against the 2010 ruling, & court decisions, that deregulated campaign finance.
We, the Plutocrats vs. We, the People
Condensed version of a speech that Bill Moyers delivered at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, on plutocrats and the people.
Labor Day: The Official Start of the Campaign Season
Once upon a time, in a faraway land called America, Labor Day marked the start of the traditional start of campaign season.
How Newsrooms Fail To Reflect America and Why It Matters
Newsrooms have a set of priorities. Diversity is ninth or tenth and when the downturn came, it slid off the table as expected.
If Donald Trump Had a Selfie Stick, We’d All Be in the Picture
Psychoanalyst concludes Trump’s modern incarnation of Narcissus, an intrusive, omnipresent & terrible-to-behold mirror image of America’s worst public face.
Donald Trump’s Dark and Scary Night
Here was the alpha dog of the von Trump family, baying at a blood-red moon that the hills are alive with the sounds of menace.