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January 15, 2010 — Full Transcript (print) Thomas Frank on Obama's inheritance. THREE CUPS OF TEA author Greg Mortenson on peace and education.
January 8, 2010 — Full Transcript (print) David Corn and Kevin Drum on big money and big politics. Our posts and your comments
December 25, 2009 — Full Transcript (print) Choreographer Bill T. Jones. January 15, 2010
Peace Through Education... December 18, 2009 — Full Transcript (print) Economist Robert Kuttner and journalist Matt Taibbi on Wall Street's power over the federal government. Fighting foreclosure. Bill Moyers book picks. "PROOF OF PEACE There is a cultural December 11, 2009 — Full Transcript (print) whisper that answered my first Historian Howard Zinn. Organizers George Goehl and Heather Booth. wonderings about peace as a ..." - Kelly Florez December 4, 2009 — Full Transcript (print) Director Oliver Stone.
November 27, 2009 — Full Transcript (print) Dr. Jane Goodall on conservation.
November 20, 2009 — Full Transcript (print) Tracing a President’s steps in escalating war. Bill Moyers reflects on LBJ's Vietnam
November 13, 2009 — Full Transcript (print) Actress-playwright Anna Deavere Smith and her one-woman play LET ME DOWN EASY. Poets House in New York City.
October 30, 2009 — Full Transcript (print) Economist James K. Gablraith on the "recovery." Richard Bookhiser on William F. Buckely, Jr. A Bill Moyers Essay.
October 30, 2009 — Full Transcript (print) Web Exclusive. Bill Moyers talks with Glenn Greenwald.
October 23, 2009 — Full Transcript (print) Judge Richard Goldstone on his recent UN investigation in the fighting in Gaza. Bill Moyers essay on Justice Justice.
October 16, 2009 — Full Transcript (print) Journalist Mark Danner on Obama’s foreign policy challenges.America Bracho's Santa Ana community health crusade.
October 9, 2009 — Full Transcript (print) Former International Monetary Fund chief economist Simon Johnson and US Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) report on the state of the economy. Bill Moyers remembers Dr. Charles Houston.
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September 25, 2009 — Full Transcript (print) Rory Stewart on Afghanistan; Kavita Ramdas on women and human rights.
September 18, 2009 — Full Transcript (print) San Tanenhaus, author of THE DEATH OF CONSERVATISM. Michael Zweig and Bill Fletcher on the future of organized labor.
September 11, 2009 — Full Transcript (print) Journalist Nancy Youssef on Afghanistan. Global health specialist and Dartmouth College president Dr. Jim Yong Kim.
September 4, 2009 — Full Transcript (print) Trevor Potter and Floyd Abrams on campaign finance and the Supreme Court; A Bill Moyers essay on health care.
August 28, 2009 — Full Transcript (print) Documentary Special: MONEY-DRIVEN MEDICINE
August 21, 2009 — Full Transcript (print) Documentary Special: CRITICAL CONDITION
August 14, 2009 — Full Transcript (print) Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Drew Altman, David Frum.
August 7, 2009 — Full Transcript (print) Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Photographic artist Chris Jordan.
July 31, 2009 — Full Transcript (print) Former insurance industry insider Wendell Potter.
July 24, 2009 — Full Transcript (print) Journalist Trudy Lieberman and Dr. Marcia Angell on health care reform. Rage on the Airwaves.
July 17, 2009 — Full Transcript (print) Environmental activists Erich Pica and Mary Sweeters. Author Robert Wright. A Bill Moyers essay on profits and patients.
July 10, 2009 — Full Transcript (print) Former insurance industry insider Wendell Potter.
July 3, 2009 — Full Transcript (print) Religious scholars Cornel West, Serene Jones and Gary Dorrin on faith and social justice; America's foodbanks in crisis -- update.
June 26, 2009 — Full Transcript (print) Poet W. S. Merwin; Deepening the American Dream.
June 19, 2009 — Full Transcript (print) Leymah Gbowee and Abigail Disney from PRAY THE DEVIL BACK TO HELL -- a new documetary about Liberian women's quest for peace.
June 12, 2009 — Full Transcript (print) Robert Reich on health care reform and the economy; Richard Brookhiser and Harvey Kaye on Thomas Paine.
June 5, 2009 — Full Transcript (print) Jeremy Scahill; Media analysis from Brooke Gladstone and Jay Rosen.
May 29, 2009 — Full Transcript (print) Special documentary: "Torturing Democracy." Please note due to rights restrictions we will not be able to stream TORTURING DEMOCRACY online. You can watch the entire film at the TORTURING DEMOCRACY Web site.
May 22, 2009 — Full Transcript (print) Health care reform: Donna Smith; David Himmelstein and Sidney Wolfe; Bill Moyers on Memorial Day.
May 15, 2009 — Full Transcript (print) Journalist Shahan Mufti and historian Juan Cole; Daniel Goleman on his book ECOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE; Bill Moyers on Twitter.
May 8, 2009 — Full Transcript (print)
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Senator Dick Durbin, Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
May 1, 2009 — Full Transcript (print) Mark Danner and Bruce Fein, Steve Meacham and City Life/Vita Urbana
April 24, 2009 — Full Transcript (print) Simon Johnson and Michael Perino
April 17, 2009 — Full Transcript (print) David Simon, creator of THE WIRE
April 10, 2009 — Full Transcript (print) Special Performance: Sam Waterston and Harold Holzer: Lincoln's Legend and Legacy
April 4, 2009 — Full Transcript (print) William K. Black, Amy Goodman and Glenn Greenwald
March 27, 2009 — Full Transcript (print) James Thindwa, William Greider, Questions for the President
March 20, 2009 — Full Transcript (print) Marta Peláez, Mike Davis, Moyers on "socialism"
March 13, 2009 — Full Transcript (print) Religious scholar Karen Armstrong, Viewer American Dreams
March 6, 2009 — Full Transcript (print) Actor and writer John Lithgow, Celebrating the Dodge Poetry Festival
February 27, 2009 — Full Transcript (print) Linguist John McWhorter, Economist Robert Johnson
February 20, 2009 — Full Transcript (print) Parker Palmer, Robert G. Kaiser, Moyers on More Troops for Afghanistan
February 13, 2009 — Full Transcript (print) Poet Nikki Giovanni, Economist Simon Johnson
February 6, 2009 — Full Transcript (print) Historian Eric Foner on Lincoln, Bloggers Glenn Greenwald and Jay Rosen
January 30, 2009 — Full Transcript (print) Pierre Sprey and Marilyn Young on Strategic Bombing, Vartan Gregorian
January 23, 2009 — Full Transcript (print) David Sirota and Thomas Frank, Melissa Harris-Lacewell and Patricia Williams, Moyers on the Forgotten
January 16, 2009 — Full Transcript (print) Simon Schama, National Service Day - Born Again American, Bill Moyers Responds to Viewer Comments
January 9, 2009 — Full Transcript (print) EXPOSÉ ON THE JOURNAL: Mr. Heath Goes Back to Washington, Leo Gerard, United Steelworkers' International President, Bill Moyers reflects on Middle East violence
January 2, 2009 — Full Transcript (print) Actor and writer John Lithgow, Onion Soup: An Essay for the New Year, Remembering Al Meyerhoff
December 19, 2008 — Full Transcript (print) Sarah Chayes, New York Governor David Paterson, EXPOSÉ on the JOURNAL: A Private War
December 12, 2008 — Full Transcript (print) Glenn Greenwald, Emma Coleman Jordan on the bailout hearings, FCC update.
December 5, 2008 — Full Transcript (print) Senator Russ Feingold, Playing for Change
November 28, 2008 — Full Transcript (print) Michael Pollan, Viewer mail
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November 21, 2008 — Full Transcript (print) NEW YORK TIMES business columnist Joe Nocera, EXPOSÉ on THE JOURNAL: Danger Beneath the North Texas Soil, Last Call for the Bush Administration
November 14, 2008 — Full Transcript (print) Elizabeth Rubin and Fred Kaplan, EXPOSÉ on THE JOURNAL: Broken Justice, Honoring Veterans
November 7, 2008 — Full Transcript (print) Eric Foner and Patricia J. Williams, Kevin Phillips, Moyers on Changing Times, Moyers on Terkel and Leonard
October 31, 2008 — Full Transcript (print) Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Glenn Loury, Joan Claybrook and Bob Edgar, Moyers on the Vote
October 24, 2008 — Full Transcript (print) Viewer mail, James K. Galbraith, Playing for Change, Moyers on Non-election News
October 17, 2008 — Full Transcript (print) Robert Lovato and Linda Chavez, Michael Zweig, Mark Crispin Miller
October 10, 2008 — Full Transcript (print) George Soros, Kathleen Hall Jamieson
October 3, 2008 — Full Transcript (print) Brooke Gladstone and Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Emma Coleman Jordan
September 26, 2008 — Full Transcript (print) Andrew J. Bacevich
September 19, 2008 — Full Transcript (print) Gretchen Morgenson and Floyd Norris, Kevin Phillips, Bill Moyers on Yankee Stadium
September 12, 2008 — Full Transcript (print) Rage on the Radio, Brooke Gladstone and Les Payne, After 9/11 - A Bill Moyers Essay September 5, 2008 — Full Transcript (print) Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Weekend Warriors off to Iraq
August 29, 2008 — Full Transcript (print) Katrina vanden Heuvel and Adolph Reed, Merle and Earl Black, Moyers on Labor Day
August 22, 2008 — Full Transcript (print) Democratic Convention, Philip Pan, China and the U.S.
August 15, 2008 — Full Transcript (print) Andrew J. Bacevich
August 8, 2008 — Full Transcript (print) Moyers on the Iraq Surplus, EXPOSÉ on THE JOURNAL: The Business of Poverty, Dean Baker and Bob Herbert
August 1, 2008 — Full Transcript (print) Capitol Crimes
July 25, 2008 — Full Transcript (print) The Torture Hearings, Jane Mayer, Ernest R. "Fritz" Hollings
July 18, 2008 — Full Transcript (print) Mortgage Mess, William Greider, Moyers on Justice
July 11, 2008 — Full Transcript (print) Mickey Edwards and Ross Douthat, Moyers on the American Dream
June 27, 2008 — Full Transcript (print) Climate Security Act, EXPOSÉ on THE JOURNAL: Worker Safety, Moyers on Big Oil
June 20, 2008 — Full Transcript (print) Traces of the Trade preview, Douglas Blackmon, Orlando Patterson and Glenn Loury, Moyers on Juneteenth
June 13, 2008 — Full Transcript (print) LA Labor, Holly Sklar, Stephen Fraser
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June 6, 2008 — Full Transcript (print) Moyers on the Nominee, McClellen, the Media and the War, Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Ronald Walters
May 30, 2008 — Full Transcript (print) Body of War
May 23, 2008 — Full Transcript (print) Administration Resignations, EXPOSÉ on the JOURNAL: Chemicals in Our Food, Jeffrey Toobin, Moyers on Memorial Day
May 16, 2008 — Full Transcript (print) Christopher Edley and Maris Echeveste, Melody Peterson, JOURNAL updates
May 9, 2008 — Full Transcript (print) California Nurses Association, Philippe Sands
May 2, 2008 — Full Transcript (print) Bill Moyers on Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Christopher Cerf and Victor Navasky
April 25, 2008 — Full Transcript (print) Reverend Jeremiah Wright
April 18, 2008 — Full Transcript (print) Leila Fadel, Martha Nussbaum
April 11, 2008 — Full Transcript (print) Hunger in America, EXPOSÉ on THE JOURNAL: Cash Cows and Starter Cowboy Kits, David Beckmann
April 4, 2008 — Full Transcript (print) Hope in the Congo?, David Beckmann
March 28, 2008 — Full Transcript (print) The Kerner Commission - 40 Years Later with Fred Harris, Newark Mayor Cory Booker
March 21, 2008 — Full Transcript (print) Body of War
March 14, 2008 — Full Transcript (print) Government Oversight
March 7, 2008 — Full Transcript (print) Christians United for Israel (CUFI), Mickey Edwards and Matt Welch, Viewer Mail
February 29, 2008 — Full Transcript (print) Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Nell Irvin Painter, Viewer Mail
February 22, 2008 — Full Transcript (print) EXPOSÉ ON THE JOURNAL: Mr Heath Goes to Washington, Sarah Chayes
February 15, 2008 — Full Transcript (print) Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson, Susan Jacoby, Photographer Lori Grinker
February 8, 2008 — Full Transcript (print) Moyers on TAXI TO THE DARKSIDE, Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, Kathleen Hall Jamieson
February 1, 2008 — Full Transcript (print) Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Government Waste
January 25, 2008 — Full Transcript (print) Moyers on the Iraq Report, Katherine Newman, Campaign Ad Spending, John Grisham
January 18, 2008 — Full Transcript (print) David Cay Johnston, Harvey J. Kaye, Craig Unger, Bill Moyers Essay
January 11, 2008 — Full Transcript (print) Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Shelby Steele
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January 4, 2008 — Full Transcript (print) Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich, Kathleen Hall Jamieson
December 28, 2007 — Full Transcript (print) Thomas Cahill
December 21, 2007 — Full Transcript (print) Benjamin Barber, Sanford Levinson, Moyers Essay: America on Steroids
December 14, 2007 — Full Transcript (print) Keith Olbermann, Media Ownership, Ronald J. Walters
December 7, 2007 — Full Transcript (print) Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Melissa Rodgers, Viewer Mail
November 30, 2007 — Full Transcript (print) Christians United for Israel (CUFI), Ronald J. Sider and M.J. Rosenberg, Viewer Mail
November 23, 2007 — Full Transcript (print) James Cone, Bernice Johnson Reagon
November 16, 2007 — Full Transcript (print) FCC Ownership Rules, Manuel A. Vásquez, Katrina: Recovery Gone Wrong?
November 9, 2007 — Full Transcript (print) Thomas Cahill, Pakistan in Peril
November 2, 2007 — Full Transcript (print) Minority Media, Katherine Newman, Takin' It To the Streets: A Bill Moyers Essay
October 26, 2007 — Full Transcript (print) Charles Fried, Fritz Schwartz, The Church Committee and FISA
October 19, 2007 — Full Transcript (print) Jeremy Scahill, Moyers on the Trade Deal
October 12, 2007 — Full Transcript (print) Robert Kuttner and William H. Donaldson, Anouar Majid, Doris Lessing: A Bill Moyers Essay
October 5, 2007 — Full Transcript (print) Christians United for Israel (CUFI), Rabbi Michael Lerner and Dr. Timothy P. Weber, Iran: The Talk of the Town, On Amish Grace
September 28, 2007 — Full Transcript (print) John Bogle, Deborah Amos and George Packer, Clip File: Loose Change, For the Fallen: A Bill Moyers Essay
September 21, 2007 — Full Transcript (print) Rachel Carson, Photographic Artist Chris Jordan
September 14, 2007 — Full Transcript (print) 9/11 For the Record
September 7, 2007 — Full Transcript (Watch the show) (print) Mickey Edwards and Anthony Romero, Jack L. Goldsmith, Mountaintop Mining
August 31, 2007 — Full Transcript (Watch the show) (print) Robert Bly
August 24, 2007 — Full Transcript (Watch the show) (print) FCC Commissioner Michael J. Copps, Low-Power Radio, Bill Moyers Clip File
August 17, 2007 — Full Transcript (Watch the show) (print) Katrina Revisited: Melissa Harris-Lacewell and Mike Tidwell, Martin E. Marty, Moyers on Rove
August 3, 2007 — Full Transcript (Watch the show) (print) Barbara Ehrenreich, Clive James, Nickel and Dimed
July 27, 2007 — Full Transcript (Watch the show) (print) Earmark Reform?, Al Qaeda and Iraq, Moyers on Sacrifice
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July 20, 2007 — Full Transcript (Watch the show) (print) The Yes Men, Martín Espada, Viewer Mail
July 13, 2007 — Full Transcript (Watch the show) (print) Tough Talk on Impeachment: Bruce Fein and John Nichols, Moyers on the War Debate
July 6, 2007 — Full Transcript (Watch the show) (print) E.O. Wilson, The Earth Conservation Corps
June 29, 2007 — Full Transcript (Watch the show) (print) Lori Wallach, Victor Gold, Gretchen Morgenson
June 22, 2007 — Full Transcript (Watch the show) (print) Ken Silverstein Bill Moyers talks with Imam Zaid Shakir
June 15, 2007 — Full Transcript (Watch the show) (print)
Bill Moyers Essay: The Libby Pardon Bill Moyers talks with Andy Stern Grace Lee Boggs
June 8, 2007 — Full Transcript (Watch the show) (print)
Payday for CEO's Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori Christian Parenti on Afghantistan
June 1, 2007 — Full Transcript (Watch the show) (print)
Congressional Ethics Bob Kerrey Listening to History
May 27, 2007 — D-Day Revisited Full Transcript (Watch the show) (print)
May 25, 2007 — Full Transcript (Watch the show) (print)
May 18, 2007 — Full Transcript (Watch the show) (print)
"SOS Essay/Melissa Harris-Lacewell Bruce Bawer Trade Talks
May 11, 2007 — Full Transcript (Watch the show) (print) "I'm Harry" Essay/Keeping the Faith Nick Gillespie Marilyn B. Young The Cost of War
May 4, 2007 - Full Transcript (Watch the show) (print) Carlo Bonini Jerry Miller and the Innocence Project Jonathan Miller
April 27, 2007 - Full Transcript ( Watch the show) (print) Jon Stewart Blogging for Truth Bill Moyers Remembers David Halberstam
APRIL 25, 2007 : "Buying the War" (watch the show) (print)
Newsletter For Educators About the Series Bill Moyers on PBS Feedback
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