Paul Volcker and His Rule

Staff / Truthdig May 16, 2012 JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon may be less concerned with the actual $2 billion his bank lost than the credence it lends to calls for tougher regulation. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Bill Moyers: Life on the Border

Staff / Truthdig May 8, 2012 Bill Moyers begins his latest show by saying, "There is no stretch of territory in the world quite like the borderlands between the United States and Mexico " And he's right. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Bill Moyers: Attack Ads Inside and Out

Staff / Truthdig Feb 21, 2012 On this week's "Moyers & Company," Kathleen Hall Jamieson of FactCheck.org and FlackCheck.org says "we're at a very, very critical time right now" and must try to block "visceral" political advertising at the local level. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Bill Moyers Makes Newt Gingrich Look Like an Idiot

Staff / Truthdig Feb 6, 2012 The PBS headliner rises to the defense of Saul Alinsky, "a patriot, in a long line of patriots, who scorned the malignant narcissism of duplicitous politicians and taught everyday Americans to think for themselves and to fight together for a better life." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Bill Moyers Coming Back to a TV Near You

Staff / Truthdig Jan 12, 2012 Good thing he wasn't gone for long. Veteran broadcast journalist and perennial class act Bill Moyers is making his TV comeback this weekend with a new show, "Moyers & Company," after almost two years off the air. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

It Seems Wall Street Is Occupying Us

Richard Reeves / Truthdig Nov 11, 2011 The good news of the day is that Bill Moyers is coming back to television next January. The bad news is that Coca-Cola seems to be winning its battle to fill the Grand Canyon with empty plastic bottles. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

PBS Couldn’t Make Time for Bill Moyers’ New Show

Staff / Truthdig Aug 24, 2011 Legendary broadcaster Bill Moyers is returning to television, flush with $2 million in foundation funding, but PBS opted not to carry his "Moyers & Company." American Public Television will instead distribute the interview show for free to stations around the country. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Bill Moyers: ‘We’re Almost Out of Time’

Staff / Truthdig May 19, 2011 On this week's episode of Truthdig Radio in collaboration with KPFK: the great Bill Moyers on the desperate state of our democracy, Nomi Prins on the scandalous IMF and Cole Miller on grass-roots philanthropy Update: Full transcriptOn this week's episode: the great Bill Moyers, the scandalous IMF and grass-roots philanthropy. Dig deeper ( 31 Min. Read )

Veteran Regulator Calls Geithner a Failure

Staff / Truthdig Apr 6, 2009 William K. Black made a name for himself busting bad bankers and the lawmakers who loved them during the savings and loan scandal. His book, "The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One," says it all. Here he tells Bill Moyers that the treasury secretary is a failed regulator engaged in the cover-up of a massive fraud. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

This Way to Better Media

Amy Goodman / Truthdig Jun 12, 2008 Thousands of people gathered in Minneapolis for the fourth National Conference for Media Reform. They came from all walks of life and all ages to address a central crisis in our society: our broken media system. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Rev. Wright Speaks

Staff / Truthdig Apr 25, 2008 Lesser journalists continue to characterize the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's sermons as hate speech, without ever having heard more than snippets of them. As Wright tells the great Bill Moyers, the meaning of his sermons has been deliberately distorted to achieve a political goal, and it worked. Updated. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Bill Moyers Lets Loose on Rupert Murdoch

Staff / Truthdig Jul 2, 2007 Media icon Bill Moyers objects not just to Rupert Murdoch's politics but to the damage he says the mogul has done to the ailing Fourth Estate And in this critique, the venerable journalist doesn't hold back: "If Rupert Murdoch were the angel Gabriel, you still wouldn't want him owning the sun, the moon and the stars But Rupert Murdoch is no saint He is to propriety what the Marquis de Sade was to chastity". Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )