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#1244: Finding Economic Stimulus Former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), MIT Sloan School of Management professor and senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics Simon Johnson examines President Obama's plan for economic recovery.
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#1351: Achieving Financial Reform How did Wall Street grow so powerful that its hijinks nearly brought down the global economy and what hope is there for real reform? Bill Moyers talks with two of the nation's most respected economic analysts.
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Buying the War Veteran journalist Bill Moyers examines why the government's claims about weapons of mass destruction and terrorist ties to Saddam Hussein went mostly unchallenged by the media in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq.

August 2007 ( check local listings )
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#1102 Bill Moyers interviews Jon Stewart, the anchor of the award-winning "The Daily Show"for eight years, about why so many get their news and analysis from his fake news show.
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#1103 British renaissance man Jonathan Miller discusses atheism; Bill Moyers interviews Jerry Miller, the 200th person exonerated by DNA evidence; and reporter Carlo Bonini reports on forged intelligence documents purporting that Iraq sought to buy yellowcake uranium from Niger.
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#1104 BILL MOYERS JOURNAL takes a look at Regent University, Pat Robertson's Christian leadership institution, which is working to ensure that Biblical principles are reflected in the law of the land.
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#1106 Acclaimed writer and peacemaker Maxine Hong Kingston talks to Bill Moyers about her writing, her activism and her work helping soldiers returning from war find peace within themselves through writing.
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D-Day Revisited This special edition of Bill Moyers Journal features D-Day veterans in the poignant "D-Day Revisited,"which explores the sometimes painful memories of their wartime experiences.
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#1108 Bob Kerrey, former Democratic senator, member of the 9/11 Commission and Vietnam war veteran, makes his case for staying the course in Iraq.
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#1109 While high-flying executives from the nation's top airlines get big compensation, workers and retirees are seeing cuts.
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#1110 "Wall Street and workers" Andy Stern, the president of the fastest growing union in the nation, delivers his take on what big corporate buyouts on Wall Street mean for America's workers.
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#1111 The inside story of what journalist Ken Silverstein found when he went undercover to recruit Washington lobbyists to help improve the image of a corrupt foreign government.
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#1112: Foreclosing on America With U.S. mortgages entering foreclosure at a record pace, what does it mean for ordinary Americans? Gretchen Morgenson, assistant business and financial editor at The New York Times , weighs in.
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#1113: Biologist E.O. Wilson With a lifetime dedicated to the study of life on Earth, E.O. Wilson tells Bill Moyers what humankind needs to understand in order to save the planet.
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#1114 BILL MOYERS JOURNAL explores the talk of impeachment gaining steam as a new opinion poll says nearly half of Americans favor impeachment of the president and more than half want to impeach the vice president.
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#1115: Satire Rings True Bill Moyers gets the real story from The Yes Men, a duo of pranksters who use spoofs to get the press to cover serious issues.
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#1116: Al Qaeda in Iraq? Experts analyze the enemy in Iraq and ask: Is it a civil war or the front line of a global war?
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#1117: Economic Inequality As Wall Street continues to fuel wealth in America, BILL MOYERS JOURNAL examines what growing economic inequality means for middle-class and working families.
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#1118: Talk of Impeachment In a program that generated a passionate response when first broadcast, BILL MOYERS JOURNAL explores the talk of impeachment gaining steam as a recent opinion poll says nearly half of Americans favor impeachment of the president and more than half want to impeach the vice president.
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#1119: Lessons of Katrina Two years after Katrina, BILL MOYERS JOURNAL examines the lessons of the disaster and what they say about American culture and values.
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#1120: Media Power Grab? The FCC is considering new rules that will govern how much control the media titans will have over what we read, see and hear. BILL MOYERS JOURNAL examines what's at stake for democracy.
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#1121 Poet Robert Bly.  Bill Moyers interviews American poet Robert Bly and 92-year-old activist Grace Lee Boggs, who have spent their lives seeking change—Bly through poetry that speaks truth to power and Boggs through grassroots activism. 
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#1122: Christians and the Environment As proposed new rules may allow coal companies to expand mountain top removal mining, BILL MOYERS JOURNAL takes viewers to the mountains of West Virginia, which are being stripped for their coal with often disastrous environmental consequences for surrounding communities, to report on local evangelical Christians who are turning to their faith to help save the earth.
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#1123: "9/11: For the Record" BILL MOYERS JOURNAL rebroadcasts a special one-hour analysis of the 9/11 Commission Report, connecting the dots of what happened that day and the warning signs leading up to it.
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#1124: Rachel Carson’s Legacy BILL MOYERS JOURNAL looks at the life and legacy of Rachel Carson and her book Silent Spring , which launched the modern environmental movement.
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#1125: Capitalism in Crisis Bill Moyers interviews investment industry giant John Bogle on the crisis in American capitalism.
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#1126: Christians for Israel BILL MOYERS JOURNAL reports on the politically powerful group, Christians United for Israel, whose leader, Pastor John Hagee, advocates for a preemptive strike against Iran.
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#1127: Wall Street Woes Bill Moyers asks veteran market watcher Robert Kuttner and Wall Street insider William H. Donaldson: Could we see a repeat of the big stock market crash of ’29?
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#1128: Examining Blackwater Blackwater’s top gun, Erik Prince, has been spinning their story this week in a PR offensive. Bill Moyers asks why the press is buying it and interviews journalist and author Jeremy Scahill, who helps separate the spin from the reality.
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#1129: Presidential Power How far can a president go to defend the nation? BILL MOYERS JOURNAL examines the unprecedented presidential power that some say is being amassed by the current U.S. administration and kept secret in the name of national security.
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#1130: Media Consolidation As "Big Media" is pushing the FCC to relax ownership rules, BILL MOYERS JOURNAL reports on the real-world consequences of media policy through the lens of how it affects minority media ownership in America.
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#1131: Historian Thomas Cahill Bill Moyers interviews best-selling historian Thomas Cahill in a far-ranging interview that takes viewers from the Coliseum in Rome to death row in Texas and examines what our attitudes toward cruelty can tell us about who we are as Americans.
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#1132: Katrina Recovery Woes BILL MOYERS JOURNAL looks at Mississippi families who are still in need of housing, two-years after Katrina, and examines what’s happened to the money Congress sent to rebuild.
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#1133: Race in America Bill Moyers interviews theologian James Cone about the cross and the lynching tree as symbols of tragedy and triumph.
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#1134: Middle East Peace? In the wake of this week’s peace summit in Annapolis, BILL MOYERS JOURNAL profiles the politically powerful group Christians United for Israel, whose leader, Pastor John Hagee, wants to bring millions of Christians together to support Israel.
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#1135: New Media and the Election BILL MOYERS JOURNAL looks at how new media — the Web, YouTube, social networking — has changed the face, pace and language of the election.
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#1136: Keith Olbermann Why is Keith Olbermann mad as hell?
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#1137: Crisis in Capitalism? Bill Moyers interviews author Benjamin Barber about how capitalism isn’t living up to its potential to serve society.
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#1138: Historian Thomas Cahill Bill Moyers interviews best-selling historian Thomas Cahill in a far-ranging discussion that takes viewers from the Coliseum in Rome to death row in Texas and examines what our attitudes toward cruelty can tell us about who we are as Americans.
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#1139: Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich What do the results in Iowa say about the press and politics? In two interviews, Bill Moyers talks with candidates shut out of key debates — Paul by Fox News from an upcoming debate in New Hampshire and Kucinich by Iowa’s biggest newspaper, The Des Moines Register , in December.
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#1140 He won in Iowa and lost in New Hampshire, but what does Obama’s candidacy tell us about the politics of race in America?
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#1141: Talk of Change With all the talk of change coming out of the campaigns, can we expect big money to lose its grip on Washington? Bill Moyers interviews The New York Times investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize-winner David Cay Johnston, who says America’s system has been rigged to benefit the super-rich.
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#1142: John Grisham Bill Moyers talks with John Grisham, best-selling author of The Firm , The Pelican Brief and The Rainmaker , in a far-ranging interview that gives viewers unexpected insight into the beliefs and background that influenced Grisham’s life and work.
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#1143: Government Waste BILL MOYERS JOURNAL examines waste and abuse of power in Washington with a look at the investigations being conducted by Congress’ Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
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#1144: Presidential Reading 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.
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#1145: Out-of-Control Debt 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 .
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#1146 Earmarks. BILL MOYERS JOURNAL teams up with the PBS series EXPOSE: AMERICA'S INVESTIGATIVE REPORTS to show how earmarks really work. 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.
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#1147: Analyzing Election Ads 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.
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#1148: Controversial Endorsement John McCain has won the GOP nomination. Can he win the hearts and minds of the Christian right? BILL MOYERS JOURNAL reports on the politically powerful conservative evangelist John Hagee and his controversial endorsement of McCain.
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#1149: Government Waste BILL MOYERS JOURNAL looks at waste, fraud and abuse of power in Washington with an examination of the scandals investigated by Congress’ Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
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#1150: Casualty of War Bill Moyers interviews filmmakers 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 his tour in Iraq.
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#1151: Race and Politics Forty years after race riots in Detroit, Newark and dozens of other cities stunned the nation, has anything changed? Bill Moyers interviews Newark Mayor Cory Booker for a front line report on race and politics today. 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.
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#1152: Hope in the Congo BILL MOYERS JOURNAL takes viewers on the ground in the Democratic Republic of the Congo — a country almost one-fourth the size of the U.S. — to follow aid workers and local relief efforts that are bringing hope to a forgotten land.
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#1201: Hunger in America 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 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.
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#1202: Battle in Sadr City Just back from being under fire in Sadr City … journalist Leila Fadel with the latest from Iraq.
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#1203: Reverend Jeremiah Wright Bill Moyers interviews Reverend Jeremiah Wright in his first television interview with a journalist since he became embroiled in a controversy for his remarks and his relationship with Barack Obama.
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Bill Moyers interviews Victor S. Navasky and Christopher Cerf about their latest book Mission Accomplished.

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#1205: Healthcare 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?”
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#1206: A Democratic House Divided Bill Moyers interviews Berkeley Law professors Christopher Edley Jr. and Maria Echaveste — he’s for Obama and she’s for Clinton. Married for nine years, Edley and Echaveste are both advising their respective candidates.
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#1209: The Media, McClellan and War 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 & Publisher analyze the reaction of the administration and the media to McClellan’s book.
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#1210: Inequality in America While many Americans are working harder for less money and paying more for everyday items like gas and food, the rich are getting richer. BILL MOYERS JOURNAL analyzes the growing inequality gap on the ground at a workers march in Los Angeles and with historian Steve Fraser on the modern parallels to the first Gilded Age.
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#1211: Racial Inequality This week, as many Americans celebrate “Juneteenth,” a special day of recognition commemorating the end of slavery in the United States, BILL MOYERS JOURNAL examines racial inequality through the prisms of the legacy of slavery and the current socio-economic landscape.
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#1212: Workplace Safety 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?
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#1213: Conservative Movement Woes What’s happened to the conservative movement in America? 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.
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#1214: Mortgage Meltdown BILL MOYERS JOURNAL dissects the causes and consequences of the mortgage meltdown, spotlighting Cleveland, Ohio, which has one of the hardest hit neighborhoods in the nation with more than 1,000 homes vacant and decaying.
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#1215: Congressional Torture Hearings BILL MOYERS JOURNAL goes inside last week’s hearings on torture in Congress and gets perspective from journalist Jane Mayer on the debate over whether the U.S. sanctioned torture to prosecute the war on terror.
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#1216: Abramoff Lobbying Scandal With former lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who is already serving five and a half years, expected to be sentenced on other charges next month, Bill Moyers takes viewers back to the scene of the crime in this update of “Capitol Crimes,” an acclaimed documentary investigating the Abramoff lobbying scandal.
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#1217: Exploiting Poverty

As more companies view low-income Americans as opportunities for profit, the “poverty business” is booming. BILL MOYERS JOURNAL and EXPOSÉ: AMERICA'S INVESTIGATIVE REPORTS follow a team of BusinessWeek reporters as they track new corporate practices among auto dealers, banks and even nonprofit hospitals that some say exploit the working poor.

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#1218: US Imperial Presidency Is an imperial presidency destroying what America stands for? Bill Moyers sits down with history and international relations expert and former U.S. Army Colonel Andrew J. Bacevich, who identifies three major problems facing our democracy: the crises of economy, government and militarism, and calls for a redefinition of the American way of life.
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#1219: Middle Class Squeeze With celebrations set to kick off in Denver for the 2008 Democratic National Convention, BILL MOYERS JOURNAL travels to Colorado, where tough economic times are hitting suburban communities.
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#1220: Democratic Convention Analysis What did the Democrats accomplish this week and can they deliver real change while still playing old-fashioned Beltway politics?
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#1221: Deploying to Iraq BILL MOYERS JOURNAL gives viewers an intimate look at how deployments of National Guard troops to Iraq affect the state governors' ability to swiftly respond to domestic disaster at home and impact the families left behind. Traveling to New Jersey, the JOURNAL follows families preparing for the deployment of nearly half of New Jersey’s National Guard to Iraq.
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#1222: Rage on the Radio What happens when America's airwaves fill with hate? BILL MOYERS JOURNAL takes a tough look at the hostile industry of "shock jock" media with a hard-hitting examination of its effects on our nation's political discourse.
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#1223: Facing the Financial Fallout Amidst historic economic failures, BILL MOYERS JOURNAL takes an in-depth look at what led to the financial meltdown, what it means for American families and how it will affect voters between now and November.
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#1224: America's Triple Crisis Bill Moyers sits down with history and international relations expert and former US Army Colonel Andrew J. Bacevich, who identifies three major problems facing our democracy — the crises of economy, government and militarism — and calls for a redefinition of the American way of life.
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#1225: Politics, the Economy and the Media In a week full of breaking news and historic moves — from proposed economic fixes to record-breaking market flux to vice-presidential debates — how did the media fare in informing the public?
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#1226: George Soros on the Crisis Bill Moyers talks with one of the world's most successful investors, George Soros, about the global capital meltdown, how he saw it coming and what can be done now.
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#1227: Voter Fraud As the election nears and accusations of voter fraud run rampant from party to party, BILL MOYERS JOURNAL takes a close look at the charges and what you can do to protect your vote.
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#1228: News and Analysis As Election Day draws near, BILL MOYERS JOURNAL offers news and analysis on the issues that matter most.
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#1229: Promises of Change With just days left before Americans cast their votes, both candidates are still pledging "change" if elected, but can the stranglehold of money on politics be broken?
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#1230: The Future of American Politics With the country's election of Barack Obama, Bill Moyers speaks with Kevin Phillips about how America has changed since Phillips penned The Emerging Republican Majority 40 years ago.
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#1231: Middle East Policy What will President-elect Obama's promises of change mean for the Middle East? JOURNAL guest host Deborah Amos sits down with Elizabeth Rubin, the Edward R. Murrow press fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and Slate magazine columnist Fred Kaplan.
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#1232: Fatal Flaws in Gaslines BILL MOYERS JOURNAL and EXPOSÉ: AMERICA'S INVESTIGATIVE REPORTS present an investigative story into tragic accidents resulting from natural gas explosions. The report is part of BLUEPRINT AMERICA, a PBS-wide series on the nation's infrastructure.
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#1233: National Food Fight? BILL MOYERS JOURNAL takes a hard look at how America's food policies — farm subsidies, trade rules and regulation — affect consumers here and abroad.
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#1234: Senator Russ Feingold As one of the most progressive voices in the Senate who also campaigned for President-elect Obama, what does Russ Feingold (D-WI) expect of the next four years?
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#1235: Returning the Rule of Law Bill Moyers sits down with political commentator and blogger Glenn Greenwald who asks: Are we a nation ruled by men or by laws?
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#1236: What's Next for Afghanistan? As a new administration is set to take over in the White House, Bill Moyers checks in with author Sarah Chayes on the state of affairs in America's other war.
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#1237: "Beyond Our Differences" BILL MOYERS JOURNAL presents the film Beyond Our Differences , which explores the common threads that unify the world's religious traditions.
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#1237: "Beyond Our Differences" BILL MOYERS JOURNAL presents the film Beyond Our Differences , which explores the common threads that unify the world's religious traditions.
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#1238: Actor John Lithgow He's played heroes, villains, saints, sinners, a ballet-dancing elephant and a space alien. Now, actor and children's author John Lithgow — best known as Dick Solomon from NBC's hit show "3rd Rock From the Sun" — reveals a new side of himself ... poetry lover.
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#1239: A Working Class Renaissance? Bill Moyers sits down with United Steelworkers' International President Leo Gerard to discuss seeking economic justice for workers in the middle of an economic crisis and how he sees the future of American manufacturing.
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#1240: The History of America's Future Bill Moyers speaks with historian Simon Schama, who spent months traveling across America in the run-up to an historic election to discover what events in our nation's past can tell us about how we live today and what's in store for the future.
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#1241: Expectations of the Obama Administration America saw a historic moment with the inauguration of President Obama, but was it a progressive landmark?
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#1242: America's Policy on Bombing On the heels of the American drone attacks on suspected terrorist compounds in Pakistan, BILL MOYERS JOURNAL takes a closer look at America's history of and current policy on bombing, explores the ethics behind these assaults when civilians become the victims and asks, "Does bombing work?"
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#1243: The Legacy and Legend of Lincoln As Abraham Lincoln's bicentennial birthday approaches, Bill Moyers sits down with historian and Lincoln biographer Eric Foner to discuss the legacy and the legend of America's most studied president. Having just received Illinois' highest honor, the Order of Lincoln, Foner is author of Our Lincoln: New Perspectives on Lincoln and His World and speaks to Moyers about the evolution of Lincoln's image from politician to icon.
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#1245: Washington's Lobbyist Culture Bill Moyers talks with Robert G. Kaiser, who has been following Beltway politics for The Washington Post for nearly 50 years, about how the nation's Capitol has succumbed to lobbyists and turned government into big business. Kaiser discusses the power of money in Washington and whether or not President Obama can change the lobbying culture.
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#1246: Behind the Bank Bailout Bill Moyers talks with economist Robert Johnson, who decodes this week's news on the bank bailout, with a hard look at the international ramifications of the plan and a discussion of why nationalization has become a flash point.
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#1247: Actor John Lithgow He's played heroes, villains, saints, sinners, a ballet-dancing elephant and a space alien; now, actor and children's author John Lithgow — best known as Dick Solomon from NBC's hit show "3rd Rock From the Sun" — reveals a new side of himself ... poetry lover.
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#1248: Scholar Karen Armstrong With economic, political and social strife across the globe, prominent religious scholar Karen Armstrong discusses human commonalities and her work on an international charter for compassion. The renowned author of The Battle for God and The Bible: A Biography , Armstrong is a 2008 recipient of the coveted TED Prize.
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#1249: Author Mike Davis With the media buzzing over socialism in the Beltway, Bill Moyers sits down with "old-school socialist" Mike Davis for his critique of the government's response to the economic crisis and how he thinks it compares to Roosevelt's New Deal.
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#1250: Journalist William Greider For years best-selling author William Greider sounded the alarm about Washington's unholy alliance with Wall Street and the failure of the Federal Reserve and other regulators to take preventive measures to avoid disaster. Now, he offers some suggestions to the question everyone is asking: "What do we do now?"
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#1251: Corruption in America's Banks? The financial industry brought the economy to its knees, but how did they get away with it? Bill Moyers sits down with Bill Black, the former senior regulator who cracked down on banks during the savings and loan crisis of the 1980s, for his analysis of what went wrong and his critique of the bailout.
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#1252: Sam Waterson's Lincoln Assassinated on Good Friday, Abraham Lincoln was transformed from man to martyr and myth. In this special performance edition of BILL MOYERS JOURNAL, acclaimed actor Sam Waterston and historian Harold Holzer explore Lincoln's legacy and legend in the poetry and prose by great American writers across the decades who have wrestled to define the true Lincoln through the lens of their own times.
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#1301: Screenwriter David Simon From crime beat reporter for The Baltimore Sun to award-winning screenwriter of HBO's critically-acclaimed "The Wire," David Simon talks with Bill Moyers about inner-city crime and politics, storytelling and the future of journalism.
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#1302: Investigating Wall Street As the demand grows for a new Pecora Commission, the 1930s investigation into the causes and effects of the Great Depression, Bill Moyers speaks with economist Simon Johnson and Ferdinand Pecora biographer and legal scholar Michael Perino.
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#1303: U.S. Torture and Consequences With the release of the Department of Justice memos, President Obama has acknowledged "a dark and painful chapter" in the U.S. interrogation techniques used on detainees. How should he respond to allegations of torture?
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#1304: The Politics of Big Money As the banking stress test results come in, the JOURNAL takes a closer look at money's stranglehold on politics.
Bill Moyers speaks with Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) on campaign finance reform, big lobbying and making Washington work for the people rather than special interests.
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#1305: Pakistan in Peril As the world follows the violence and unrest in Pakistan, Bill Moyers speaks with historian Juan Cole and journalist Shahan Mufti about how the United States' relationship with the troubled nation will impact the prospects for peace, human rights and democracy in the war-torn region.
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#1306: Reforming Healthcare Washington's abuzz about healthcare, but why isn't a single-payer plan an option on the table? Bill Moyers speaks with advocate Donna Smith about how the broken system is hurting Americans and then with Public Citizen's Dr. Sidney Wolfe and Physicians for a National Health Program's Dr. David Himmelstein about the political and logistical feasibility of healthcare reform.
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#1307: Documentary "Torturing Democracy" BILL MOYERS JOURNAL presents Torturing Democracy , a film from award-winning producer Sherry Jones, which examines America's detention and interrogation practices in the "war on terror."
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#1307: Documentary "Torturing Democracy" BILL MOYERS JOURNAL presents Torturing Democracy , a film from award-winning producer Sherry Jones, which examines America's detention and interrogation practices in the "war on terror."
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#1308: Politics and the Price of War From a billion dollars sought for embassies in Pakistan and Afghanistan to May's highest casualties for U.S. forces in Iraq since September, the wars abroad are taking their toll on the nation. Bill Moyers sits down with award-winning investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill to examine the human and financial costs of America's wars.
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#1309: Robert Reich on Money in Politics Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich sits down with Bill Moyers to talk about the influence of lobbyists on policy, the economy and the ongoing debate over healthcare. And, Bill Moyers sits down with historian Harvey J. Kaye and journalist Richard Brookhiser on the 200th anniversary of Thomas Paine's death.
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#1310: Women Fight for Peace BILL MOYERS JOURNAL profiles Leymah Gbowee, a woman who led her fellow countrywomen to fight for and win peace in war-torn Liberia, and Abigail Disney, who documented their struggle in the award-winning film Pray the Devil Back to Hell .
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#1311: Poet W.S. Merwin Pulitzer prize-winning poet W.S. Merwin joins Bill Moyers for a wide-ranging conversation about language and the insights gleaned from a much-lauded career that's spanned more than 50 years.
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#1312: Faith and Social Justice Bill Moyers sits down with renowned scholars Cornel West, Serene Jones and Gary Dorrien for a fresh take on what our core ethics and values as a society say about America's politics, policy and the challenges of balancing capitalism and democracy.
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#1313: Profits Before Patients With almost 20 years inside the health insurance industry, Wendell Potter saw for-profit insurers hijack the healthcare system and put profits before patients. Now, he speaks with Bill Moyers about how those companies are standing in the way of healthcare reform.
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#1314: Religion in the 21st Century In his new book The Evolution of God , best-selling author Robert Wright examines how the idea of God has changed through history. Bill Moyers sits down with Wright to discuss why he thinks the notion of God — real or not — is imperative to a moral society.
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#1315: Debating Healthcare Reform As the debate over healthcare reform rages on, BILL MOYERS JOURNAL examines the partisan messages that have emerged in the crossfire to find out who's playing politics to influence, and possibly derail, real reform.
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#1316: Profits Before Patients

With almost 20 years inside the health insurance industry, Wendell Potter saw for-profit insurers hijack our healthcare system and put profits before patients. Now, he speaks with Bill Moyers about how those companies are standing in the way of healthcare reform.

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#1317: Change, Growth and New Learning "Change, growth, and new learning" — there's a cultural shift in America, says Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot. Bill Moyers speaks with one of America's leading educators and author of The Third Chapter: Passion, Risk, and Adventure in the 25 Years After 50 . Lawrence-Lightfoot is the first African-American woman in the history of Harvard to have an endowed professorship named in her honor. She's been on the faculty for 37 years and her career as a scholar has won her the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship and the George Ledlie Prize for Research.
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#1318: A Conservative Plan for Healthcare? Bill Moyers sits down with George W. Bush's former special assistant David Frum, who is calling on Republicans to come up with a plan for healthcare reform and suggests changes that conservatives can favor.
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#1319: Critical Condition Filmmaker Roger Weisberg puts a human face to the 47 million uninsured in America in Critical Condition . The film follows families fighting illness without health coverage.
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#1320: Money-Driven Medicine The film Money-Driven Medicine reveals how a profit-hungry "medical-industrial complex" has turned healthcare into a system where millions are squandered on unnecessary tests, unproven and sometimes unwanted procedures and overpriced prescription drugs.
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#1321: Campaign Finance and the Constitution Next week, the Supreme Court reconvenes early for a special hearing on the constitutionality of campaign finance reform. Hear the arguments on both sides.
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#1322: Obama at the Crossroads With a landmark speech on healthcare behind him and tensions rising in war-torn Afghanistan, BILL MOYERS JOURNAL looks at President Obama's next big fights in health reform and in "America's forgotten war."
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#1323: Is American Conservatism Dead? New York Times editor Sam Tanenhaus examines past and present conservative movements and talks with Bill Moyers about why he wrote "Conservatism Is Dead" just as President Obama took office.
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#1324: Obama's War in Afghanistan With a leaked memo, delayed decisions and calls for more troops in Afghanistan, there's a growing public demand to know what direction President Obama has in mind for the war-torn country.
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#1325: America's Economy Reformed? Just over a year after economic calamity brought promises of reform from Washington, has Wall Street really changed? Former International Monetary Fund chief economist Simon Johnson and US Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) report on the state of the economy.
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#1326: Redefining the United States Barack Obama was elected on a message of change, promising a new era of diplomacy and international cooperation, but can the president deliver a new vision of America?
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#1327: Investigating the Attacks in Gaza Bill Moyers talks with Justice Richard Goldstone, who headed up the controversial UN Human Rights Council investigation into fighting in Gaza between Israel and Hamas.
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#1328: Economic Recovery in Review The Dow's up, but why are Main Street Americans still reeling from last year's economic collapse? With Americans still facing rising unemployment, foreclosures and declining property values, renowned economist James K. Galbraith discusses whether we've averted another crisis and how to get help for the middle class.
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#1329: Film: The Good Soldier BILL MOYERS JOURNAL broadcasts The Good Soldier , a film which follows four veterans — one from World War II, two from Vietnam and the fourth from Iraq — as they reveal how the experiences of battle changed their lives.
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#1330: Anna Deavere Smith While politicians and the media war over "the public option" and "bending the cost curve," acclaimed actress-playwright Anna Deavere Smith and her one-woman play, Let Me Down Easy , give voice to questions of life and death, sickness and healthcare.
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#1331: LBJ's Path to War Bill Moyers considers a president's decision to escalate troop levels in a military conflict. Through LBJ's taped phone conversations and his own remembrances, Bill Moyers looks at Johnson's deliberations as he stepped up America's role in Vietnam.
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#1332: Dr. Jane Goodall Despite dire warnings for our endangered planet, Jane Goodall says all is not yet lost — we can change course if we act now.
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#1333: Filmmaker Oliver Stone Oliver Stone came back from Vietnam a changed man, and his experiences of war have influenced his filmmaking. He talks with Bill Moyers about how being a veteran has affected his life, his work and his vision of the world.
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#1334: Historian Howard Zinn Renowned historian Howard Zinn has chronicled centuries of people's struggles against oppression. He joins Bill Moyers to discuss the voices of today's people — facing big interests' outsized influence — and his new film, The People Speak .
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#1335: Washington for Sale? Amidst fading hopes for real reform on issues ranging from high finance to healthcare, economist Robert Kuttner and journalist Matt Taibbi join Bill Moyers to discuss Wall Street's power over the federal government.
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#1336: Lincoln Expressed in Dance At the close of Lincoln's bicentennial year, BILL MOYERS JOURNAL takes a unique look at the 16th president. Moyers speaks with critically acclaimed choreographer Bill T. Jones about his creative process, his insights into Lincoln and how dance can give us fresh perspective on America's most-studied president.
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#1337: The Stranglehold of Money on Politics While Wall Street is back in the black and momentum for reform slows, Americans are still struggling to keep their homes and jobs. How does Big Finance get away with it?
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#1338: Peace Through Education America has committed more money and more troops to Afghanistan, but Greg Mortenson, the best-selling author of Three Cups of Tea , argues that there's a better path to peace: building schools and nurturing local communities.
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#1339: America's Energy Challenge Faced with the increasing global demand for oil and the threat of climate change, experts say that America needs a new energy policy — but what are our options? Bill Moyers sits down with analysts Jean Johnson and Scott Bittle to discuss how we can power America's future.
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#1340: Labor's State of the Union AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka is calling on America's workers to stand up and fight. Trumka talks with Bill Moyers about whether organized labor can grow and generate jobs in the 21st century.
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#1341: Big Money in Politics The Supreme Court's decision to give corporations and unions more freedom to spend on elections is prompting some federal and state legislators to fight back. But what does this decision really mean for American democracy?
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#1342: Lincoln Expressed in Dance On Lincoln's birthday, BILL MOYERS JOURNAL takes a unique look at the 16th president. Moyers speaks with critically acclaimed choreographer Bill T. Jones about his creative process, his insights into Lincoln and how dance can give us fresh perspective on America's most-studied president.
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#1343: Buying America's Courts? As two-thirds of American voters oppose the Supreme Court giving corporations greater freedom to spend on elections, the JOURNAL takes a hard look at how campaign cash in judicial elections may sway America's courts.
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#1344: Same-Sex Marriage Once adversaries in 2000's Bush v. Gore Supreme Court case, now two of the nation's premier lawyers — one conservative and one liberal — have teamed up to make the constitutional case for same-sex marriage.
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#1345: Diagnosing Healthcare Reform

After months of lobbying, grandstanding and political theater, two experts weigh in: Is the healthcare reform bill worth salvaging?

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#1346: NYU President John Sexton Bill Moyers sits down with NYU president and modern renaissance man John Sexton for a wide-ranging conversation about God, baseball and the troubling disintegration of civil disourse in today's society.
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#1347: Dr. Jane Goodall Despite dire warnings for our endangered planet, Jane Goodall says all is not yet lost — we can change course if we act now.
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#1348: Financial Reform Eighteen months after the economic meltdown, and following successful drives for stimulus and health reform legislation, why has Washington been unable to deliver serious financial reform and rein in Wall Street?
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#1349: King's Dream for Equality The JOURNAL looks at Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision of economic equality on this week's 42nd anniversary of his assassination. Bill Moyers talks with Bryan Stevenson and Michelle Alexander on the historic struggle for economic and racial justice.
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#1350: Author Louise Erdrich How did the award-winning author of 13 novels, poetry, children's books and a memoir of early motherhood find her voice? Louise Erdrich discusses how her unique mix of heritage has impacted her life, motherhood and work.
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#1352: The Case for Net Neutrality The case for net neutrality. As Big Telecom tightens its grip over broadband, is your access to the Web at risk? Bill Moyers talks with FCC commissioner Michael Copps to discuss the future of 'net neutrality', the fight for more democratic media and the future of journalism in the digital age.
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#1353: 21st Century Populism With distrust of the federal government at an historic high, the JOURNAL travels to Iowa for a look at a populist revival and Bill Moyers sits down with Jim Hightower to find out how ordinary people can reclaim our country in this special 90-minute finale to BILL MOYERS JOURNAL.
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