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• On Winner-Take-All Politics (#101)

  The authors of "How Washington Made the Rich Richer -- And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class." [56 minutes]

• David Stockman On Crony Capitalism (#102)

  For years, high-ranking administration officials have spun through the revolving door between the White House and American big business. But how have they influenced the regulation of industries from which they came -- and American democracy as a result? This weekend, continuing our sharp multi-episode focus on the intersection of money and politics, Moyers & Company explores the tight connection between Wall Street and the White House with David Stockman, former budget director for President Reagan. Currently a businessman who says he was "taken to the woodshed" for telling the truth about the administration's tax policies, Stockman speaks candidly with Bill Moyers about how money dominates politics, distorting free markets and endangering democracy. "As a result," Stockman says, "we have neither capitalism nor democracy. We have crony capitalism." Stockman shares details on how the courtship of politics and high finance have turned our economy into a private club that rewards the super-rich and corporations, leaving average Americans wondering how it could happen and who's really in charge. "We now have an entitled class of Wall Street financiers and of corporate CEOs who believe the government is there to do... whatever it takes in order to keep the game going and their stock price moving upward," Stockman tells Moyers. Also on the show, Moyers talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter and columnist Gretchen Morgenson on how money and political clout enable industries to escape regulation and enrich executives at the top. Morgenson warned of Wall Street's culpability in the widening income gap back in 2007 on Bill Moyers Journal. BillMoyers.com has that show -- and over a hundred more -- available for free viewing. [56 minutes]

• Episode #103

  The tight connection between Wall Street and the White House is explored with David Stockman. [56 minutes]

• How Do Conservatives and Liberals See The World? (#104)

  Moral psychologist Jonathan Haidt on the psychological underpinnings of our contentious culture. [56 minutes]

• Economic Malpractice and the Millennials (#105)

  Heather McGhee of Demos is a member of the Millennnial generation fighting for financial reforms. [56 minutes]

• Decoding The Campaigns (#106)

  "Master media decoder" Kathleen Hall Jamieson separates fact from fiction in the national campaigns. [56 minutes]

• Where Do Movies End and Politics Begin? (#107)

  A discussion of how representations of heroism in movies shape expectations of a U.S. President. [56 minutes]

• On Winner-Take-All Politics (#108)

  Moyers looks at America's economic disparity to investigate how it happened and who's to blame. [52 minutes]

• Crony Capitalism (#109)

  President Reagan's former budget director David Stockman discusses how money dominates politics. [52 minutes]

• How Big Banks Are Rewriting The Rules of Our Economy (#110)

  The mid-90's Citicorp-Travelers merger shows the collusion between government and corporate finance. [52 minutes]

• Moving Beyond War (#111)

  Iran, the futility of "endless" wars and the rhetoric of American exceptionalism are discussed. [56 minutes]

• Standing Up for Democracy (#112)

  Bill Moyers meets organizers involved with a nationwide citizens' initiative called the 99% Spring. [56 minutes]

• Gambling with Your Money (#113)

  A conversation with Paul Volcker, the head of President Obama's Economic Recovery Advisory Board. [56 minutes]

• An Optimist for Our Times (#114)

  A conversation with Angela Blackwell, founder of the influential research center PolicyLink. [56 minutes]

• The Case for Old-School Faith & Politics (#115)

  The implications of the wayward course of liberal politics and American Christianity are discussed. [56 minutes]

• Big Money, Big Media, Big Trouble (#116)

  Entertainment industry veteran Marty Kaplan discusses how news as entertainment hurts democracy. [56 minutes]

• Between Two Worlds: Life on the Border (#117)

  Novelist Luis Alberto Urrea sheds light the border culture between the United States and Mexico. [56 minutes]

• Fighting for Fair Play On TV and Taxes (#118)

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson discusses the role media misinformation will play in the 2012 campaign. [56 minutes]

• Tom Morello: A Troubadour for Justice (#119)

  Harvard-educated rock guitarist Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine discusses social justice. [56 minutes]

• Reckoning with Torture (#120)

  The Torture Report: What the Documents Say About America's Post-9/11 Torture Program is discussed. [56 minutes]

• How Do Conservatives and Liberals See The World? (#121)

  Moral psychologist Jonathan Haidt discusses psychological underpinnings of our contentious culture. [52 minutes]

• Big Money, Big Media, Big Trouble (#122)

  A look at the impact of news that is becoming less about journalism and more about entertainment. [52 minutes]

• Dark Money In Politics (#123)

  A look at super PACs and the conspiracy of cash that allows the rich to influence politics. [56 minutes]

• How Big Banks Victimize Our Democracy (#124)

  Rolling Stone editor Matt Taibbi and Yves Smith discusses the corruption of banks and government. [56 minutes]

• Confronting The Contradictions of America's Past (#125)

  Author Khalil Muhammad discusses the importance of confronting the contradictions of America's past. [56 minutes]

• Is Labor A Lost Cause? (#126)

  A look at whether labor unions can rebound and act strongly in the interest of ordinary workers. [56 minutes]

• Banking On Greed (#127)

  Financial expert Sheila Bair discusses the lawlessness of our banking system and potential reform. [56 minutes]

• America's "Sacrifice Zones" (#128)

  Journalist Chris Hedges discusses communities trapped in despair as a result of capitalistic greed. [56 minutes]

• What It's Like to Go to War (#129)

  Vietnam veteran, PTSD survivor and author Karl Marlantes provides insight to our modern warriors. [56 minutes]

• Suppressing The Vote (#130)

  Experts discuss election laws they contend are designed to keep minorities and the poor from voting. [56 minutes]

• Between Two Worlds: Life on the Border (#131)

  Author Luis Alberto Urrea creates rich accounts of the border culture between Mexico and the US. [54 minutes]

• Confronting The Contradictions of America's Past (#132)

  Khalil Muhammad, author of "The Condemnation of Blackness," discusses America's ethnic tensions. [54 minutes]

• Nuns, Faith, and Politics (#133)

  Robert Royal, editor in chief of The Catholic Thing, discusses the issues of economic inequality. [56 minutes]

• The Resurrection of Ralph Reed (#134)

  The former head of the Christian Coalition who was connected to Jack Abramoff returns to politics. [56 minutes]

• Challenging Power, Changing Politics (#135)

  Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and Green Party candidates Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala appear. [56 minutes]

• The One-Percent Court (#136)

  A look at how the uncontested power of the Supreme Court is changing our elections and our lives. [56 minutes]

• Elections for Sale (#137)

  Campaign finance reform advocate Trevor Potter discusses money and our political system. [56 minutes]

• United States of Alec (#138)

  An in-depth look at the influential, corporate-funded American Legislative Exchange Council. [56 minutes]

• Hispanic America's Turn (#139)

  Univision's Jorge Ramos and Maria Elena Salinas discuss the political impact of American Hispanics. [56 minutes]

• Justice Not Politics (#140)

  James Balog discusses the erosion of glaciers. A judicial system under partisan attack is explored. [56 minutes]

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• Plutocracy Rising (#141)

  A look at how the super-rich have willfully confused their self-interest with America's interest. [56 minutes]

• What Did The Debates Tell Us? (#142)

  Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Marty Kaplan discuss the rhetoric and realities of the two campaigns. [56 minutes]

• On Winner-Take-All Politics (#143)

  How, in a nation as wealthy as America, can the economy simply stop working for people at large, while super-serving those at the very top? This weekend, in an encore broadcast of the premiere episode of Moyers & Company (check local listings), Bill Moyers looks deeper at America's economic disparity to investigate how it happened and who's to blame. His detectives: political scientists Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson, authors of Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer - And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class. Through exhaustive research and analysis, Hacker and Pierson - whom Moyers regards as the "Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson" of economics - detail important truths behind a 30-year economic assault against the middle class. Moyers calls the book "the best account I've seen of how politicians rewrote the rules to create a winner-take-all economy that favors the 1% over everyone else, putting our once and future middle class in peril." "I think a lot of people know that inequality has grown in the United States. But saying that inequality has grown doesn't begin to describe what's happened," Pierson tells Moyers. Hacker says, "It's not the haves versus the have-nots. It's the have-it-alls versus the rest of Americans." The show includes testimony of middle class Americans at a Senate hearing about the impact of hard times on families, as well as an essay on how Occupy Wall Street reflected a widespread belief that politics no longer works for ordinary people. Uncovering the ways Washington helps the rich get richer. Next on Moyers & Company. [56 minutes]

• The Election Is Over - Now What? (#144)

  With the election now over, journalist James Fallows discusses what will happen next in Washington. [56 minutes]

• Hurricanes, Capitalism & Democracy (#145)

  Naomi Kleine, author of "The Shock Doctrine," discusses hurricanes, climate change and democracy. [56 minutes]

• What It's Like to Go to War (#146)

  Karl Marlantes, a highly-decorated Vietnam veteran and PTSD survivor, discusses our modern warriors. [52 minutes]

• Big Media's Power Play (#148)

  Senator Bernie Sanders discusses Big Media. Congressman Mickey Edwards talks about the fiscal cliff. [56 minutes]

• Fiscal Cliffs and Fiscal Realities (#149)

  Independent political and economic analysts Bruce Bartlett and Yves Smith discuss the jobs crisis. [56 minutes]

• What We Can Learn from Lincoln (#150)

  Tony Kushner, who wrote the screenplay for the film "Lincoln," discusses politics and compromise. [56 minutes]

• Rewriting The Story of America (#151)

  The life and work of Junot Diaz contains many worlds -- and that makes him all the more worth listening to. His books, including National Book Award finalist This Is How You Lose Her and Pulitzer Prize-winner The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, journey between the old and the new, and between the America that was and the America we're becoming. Born in the Dominican Republic, but raised in New Jersey and American to the core, Junot Diaz is a spotter of the future, a curator of the past, a man of the here-and-now. Diaz joins Bill Moyers on the next Moyers & Company (check local listings) to discuss the evolution of the great American story. Along the way he offers funny and perceptive insights into his own work, as well Star Wars, Moby Dick, and America's inevitable shift to a majority minority country. "There is an enormous gap between the way the country presents itself and imagines itself and projects itself, and the reality of this country," Diaz tells Bill. "Whether we're talking about the Latino community in North Carolina, a whole new progressive generation of Cuban Americans in Florida, a very out queer community across the United States, or an enormous body of young voters who are either ignored or pandered to, I think we're having a new country emerging that's been in the making for a long time, and that I think for the first time is revealing itself more fully to the entire country." [56 minutes]

• Ending The Silence On Climate Change (#152)

  A look at how the NRA and gun merchants continue to strong-arm Congress and state legislatures. [56 minutes]

• Paul Krugman On Why Jobs Come First (#201)

  The Nobel Prize-winning economist explains why our priority should be getting America back to work. [56 minutes]

• Fighting The Filibuster (#202)

  Larry Cohen of the Communications Workers of America discusses changing the filibuster rules. [56 minutes]

• What's Fueling The Modern Abortion Debate? (#203)

  Bill Moyers discusses the changing face of the reproductive rights movement and those it serves. [56 minutes]

• Are Drones Destroying Our Democracy? (#204)

  Moral and legal implications of using drones to target foreign and American enemies are explored. [56 minutes]

• Who's Widening America's Digital Divide (#205)

  A look at how the US government allowed media conglomerates to put profit ahead of public interest. [56 minutes]

• The Fight to Keep Democracy Alive (#206)

  Guests Dan Cantor and Jonathan Soros have joined forces to curb the influence of money on politics. [56 minutes]

• Taming Capitalism Run Wild (#207)

  Richard Wolff, author of "Capitalism Hits the Fan," discusses how to battle for economic justice. [56 minutes]

• Fighting Creeping Creationism (#208)

  Religious fundamentalists backed by the Right Wing are finding increasingly stealthy ways to challenge evolution with the dogma of creationism. Their strategy includes passing education laws that encourage teaching creationism alongside evolution, and supporting school vouchers to transfer taxpayer money from public to private schools, where they can push a creationist agenda. But they didn't count on 19-year-old anti-creationism activist Zack Kopplin. From the time he was a high school senior in his home state of Louisiana, Kopplin has been speaking, debating, cornering politicians, and winning the active support of 78 Nobel Laureates, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the New Orleans City Council, and tens of thousands of students, teachers and others around the country. On this week's Moyers & Company (check local listings), the Rice University history major joins Bill to talk about fighting laws and voucher programs that let publicly-funded creationist curriculum in the backdoor. Also on the program, 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. [56 minutes]

• What We Can Learn from Lincoln (#209)

  Tony Kushner, writer of the Oscar-nominated screenplay for "Lincoln," discusses the 16th President. [52 minutes]

• Ending The Silence On Climate Change (#210)

  Scientist Anthony Leiserowitz describes his efforts to galvanize communities over climate change. [52 minutes]

• What Has Capitalism Done for Us Lately? (#211)

  Economics Professor Richard Wolff offers smart, blunt talk about the issue of income inequality. [56 minutes]

• And Justice for Some (#212)

  Attorney and legal scholar Bryan Stevenson exposes the failures in the American legal system. [56 minutes]

• Mlk's Dream of Economic Justice (#213)

  Historian Taylor Branch and theologian James Cone discuss Dr. King's vision of economic justice. [56 minutes]

• Living Outside Tribal Lines (#214)

  A report on the striking extremes of wealth and poverty on display in California's Silicon Valley. [56 minutes]

• A Mother Fights Toxic Trespassers (#215)

  Activist Sandra Steingraber has become known for building awareness about the threats of fracking. [56 minutes]

• Trading Democracy for "Security" (#216)

  Journalist Glenn Greenwald discusses what the Boston bombings and drone attacks have in common. [56 minutes]

• The Sandy Hook Promise (#217)

  Guests discuss how to protect children and adults from gun violence in communities across America. [56 minutes]

• How People Power Generates Change (#218)

  Marshall Ganz, Rachel LaForest and Madeline Janis discuss organizing people to create social action. [56 minutes]

• The Toxic Politics of Science (#219)

  "Lead Wars" authors David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz discuss the hazards of industrial pollution. [56 minutes]

• Going to Jail for Justice (#220)

  Environmental activist Tim DeChristopher discusses civil disobedience and the fight for justice. [56 minutes]

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• Episode #222

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