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Bill Moyers Journal (Video) | PBS

Veteran journalist Bill Moyers returns to PBS with Bill Moyers Journal, a weekly program of interviews and news analysis on a wide range of subjects, including politics, arts and culture, the media, the economy, and issues facing democracy.
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Episodes

Floyd Abrams

Next week, the Supreme Court reconvenes early for a special hearing on the constitutionality of campaign finance limits for corporations. Bill Moyers talks with Floyd Abrams, a First Amendment attorney arguing to overturn parts of McCain-Feingold.

Sep 04, 200916 min

Floyd Abrams and Trevor Potter

Next week, the Supreme Court reconvenes early for a special hearing on the constitutionality of campaign finance limits for corporations. To hear the arguments, Bill Moyers sits down with Trevor Potter, president and general counsel of The Campaign Legal Center and a former chairman of the Federal Election Commission, and Floyd Abrams, a First Amendment attorney.

Sep 04, 200928 min

Critical Condition Pt 1

Bill Moyers Journal presents CRITICAL CONDITION, a film by Roger Weisberg that follows families fighting illness without health coverage. The families discover that being uninsured can cost them their jobs, health, homes, savings, and even their lives.

Aug 21, 200928 min

Critical Condition Pt 2

Bill Moyers Journal presents CRITICAL CONDITION, a film by Roger Weisberg that follows families fighting illness without health coverage. The families discover that being uninsured can cost them their jobs, health, homes, savings, and even their lives.

Aug 21, 200928 min

David Frum

Conservative journalist David Frum worries that Republicans would only win a failing status quo in their fight to kill health care reform. Bill Moyers sits down with the former special assistant to George W. Bush, who is calling on Republicans to come up with a plan for health care reform and suggests changes that conservatives can favor. David Frum is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the editor of NewMajority.com.

Aug 14, 200928 min

Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Drew Altman

Media analyst Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Kaiser Family Foundation president and CEO Drew Altman discuss the messages in health care ads today, and how well they reflect the real issues of health care reform.

Aug 14, 200928 min

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.

Aug 07, 200928 min

Viewer Mail

You've been talking and we've been listening. THE JOURNAL highlights your comments and suggestions from some of our recent broadcasts.

Jul 31, 200941 min

Wendell Potter

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

Jul 31, 200941 min

Trudy Lieberman and Dr. Marcia Angell

Bill Moyers sits down with Trudy Lieberman, director of the health and medical reporting program at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, and Marcia Angell, senior lecturer in social medicine at Harvard Medical School and former editor in chief of the New England Journal of Medicine.

Jul 24, 200929 min

Rage on the Airwaves

What happens when America's airwaves fill with hate? BILL MOYERS JOURNAL revisits 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.

Jul 24, 200925 min

Robert Wright

In his new book, THE EVOLUTION OF GOD, bestselling author Robert Wright examines how the idea of God has changed through history. Wright sits down with Bill Moyers to discuss why he thinks the notion of God - real or not - is imperative to a moral society.

Jul 17, 200941 min

Obama and Environmentalists

Bill Moyers talks with two environmental activists who are disappointed in Obama's progress on climate change.

Jul 17, 200941 min

Wendell Potter

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

Jul 10, 200941 min

Money, Politics and Health Care

Bill Moyers looks at the influence of money and lobbying on health care reform efforts in Washington, D.C.

Jul 10, 200941 min

Faith and Social Justice

Bill Moyers talks to 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.

Jul 03, 200941 min

Hunger in America

Why are America's food banks suffering shortages? Find out what you can do to help.

Jul 03, 20095 min

W. S. Merwin, Part I

On the heels of winning this year's Pulitzer prize for poetry, W.S. Merwin joins Bill Moyers for a wide-ranging conversation about language, his writing process, the natural world, and the insights gleaned from a much-lauded career of more than 50 years. W.S. Merwin is the author of 21 volumes of poetry and won his second Pulitzer Prize for his most recent collection, THE SHADOW OF SIRIUS.

Jun 26, 200928 min

Deepening the American Dream

What's your vision for the future of the American Dream? Our guests and our viewers speak out.

Jun 26, 200928 min

W. S. Merwin, Part II

On the heels of winning this year's Pulitzer prize for poetry, W.S. Merwin joins Bill Moyers for a wide-ranging conversation about language, his writing process, the natural world, and the insights gleaned from a much-lauded career of more than 50 years. W.S. Merwin is the author of 21 volumes of poetry and won his second Pulitzer Prize for his most recent collection, THE SHADOW OF SIRIUS.

Jun 26, 200928 min

Women Fight for Peace, Part I

Instructed by a dream and organized in prayer, Leymah Gbowee and thousands of everyday women in Liberia --both Christians and Muslims alike --confronted warlords and a corrupt president to successfully fight for peace and dignity in their war-torn nation. "I realized that every problem we encounter on this journey, I'm going to rise above it and lead these women because they trusted me with their lives and their future," says Gbowee. Journal guest host Lynn Sherr interviews Leymah Gbowee and Abi...

Jun 19, 200928 min

Women Fight for Peace, Part II

Instructed by a dream and organized in prayer, Leymah Gbowee and thousands of everyday women in Liberia --both Christians and Muslims alike --confronted warlords and a corrupt president to successfully fight for peace and dignity in their war-torn nation. "I realized that every problem we encounter on this journey, I'm going to rise above it and lead these women because they trusted me with their lives and their future," says Gbowee. Journal guest host Lynn Sherr interviews Leymah Gbowee and Abi...

Jun 19, 200928 min

Robert Reich

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 health care.

Jun 12, 200928 min

Time again for Thomas Paine?

On the 200th anniversary of Thomas Paine's death, Bill Moyers sits down with THOMAS PAINE AND THE PROMISE OF AMERICA author Harvey J. Kaye and NATIONAL REVIEW senior editor Richard Brookhiser, author of WHAT WOULD THE FOUNDERS DO?

Jun 12, 200928 min

Jeremy Scahill

From a billion dollars sought for embassies in Pakistan and Afghanistan to May's highest casualties for US forces in Iraq since September, the wars abroad are taking their toll on our nation. Bill Moyers sits down with award-winning investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill to examine the human and financial costs of America's wars.

Jun 05, 200928 min
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