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Susan Jacoby on Secularism and Free Thinking
Journalist and historian Susan Jacoby talks with Bill about the role secularism and intellectual curiosity have played throughout America's history, a topic explored in her new book, The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Free Thought..
Freedom of and From Religion
A Bill Moyers Essay: How do we honor religious liberty without it becoming the liberty to impose moral beliefs on others?
We Need a Trigger Cut
Robert Reich on Bill Moyers Journal.
The fiscal cliff doesn’t have to be a nightmare — not if we understand that we face two big economic challenges ahead: getting the economy back on track, and getting the budget deficit under control. And if we attend to both in the right order.
Heather McGhee on Student Debt
In this 2012 Moyers Moment from Moyers & Company, Heather McGhee, director of the Washington office of the research and advocacy organization Demos, talks about the crushing burden of student debt. She points out that while young people are paying as much as 18 percent interest on private student loans, “the banks they’re paying that interest to are getting, basically, a zero-interest loan from the government every day.”
by billmoyers.com
The FCC’s Chance to Promote Diverse Media Owners, and How It May Blow It
Think you know who’s really controlling what you see and hear in the media? Think again. In a political fight worthy of a great drama, media moguls and their lobbyists are making a power play to control and profit from the public airwaves while ignoring the public interest. The FCC is currently considering relaxing media ownership rules in top markets — a move that would allow Big Media, including News Corp, to monopolize print and broadcast media in key markets, controlling local news messages and limiting diversity in American media. Read More
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Get on Track for Sustainability
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| Bruce Bartlett |
Despite Republican propaganda to the contrary, the long-term fiscal problem of the United States is principally that revenues are too low. If fixing this problem required a legislated tax increase, the nation would be in serious trouble, because Republicans will forever block it as long as they have the ability. Fortunately, they handed Barack Obama the power to permanently fix our fiscal problem if he has the courage and skill to use it.
The core problem, from the Republicans’ point of view, is that they stupidly enacted temporary tax cuts during the George W. Bush administration. Their expiration creates a bludgeon that could eventually beat sense into them on the tax issue.
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