Moyers & Company

Seasons

2012

USA

8.2

Continuing his long-running conversation with the American public, Bill Moyers returned to television in January 2012 with Moyers & Company, a weekly series of smart talk and new ideas aimed at helping viewers make sense of our tumultuous times through the insight of America's strongest thinkers. Airing on public television and radio stations around the country, the series offers a forum to poets, writers and artists, scientists and philosophers, and leading scholars. The program also features Moyers' hallmark essays on democracy.

Episode List

S1 • E1

On Winner-Take-All Politics

On Winner-Take-All Politics: Bill Moyers explores how America's vast inequality didn't just happen, it's been politically engineered.

S1 • E2

Crony Capitalism

Crony Capitalism: Bill Moyers and former White House budget director David Stockman on the all-too-cozy relationship between Washington and Wall Street.

How Big Banks Are Rewriting the Rules of Our Economy

S1 • E3

How Big Banks Are Rewriting the Rules of Our Economy

How Big Banks are Rewriting the Rules of our Economy: Former Citigroup CEO John Reed on unmitigated corporate influence and his own regrets.

How Do Conservatives and Liberals See the World?

S1 • E4

How Do Conservatives and Liberals See the World?

Our country is more politically polarized than ever. Is it possible to agree to disagree and still move on to solve our massive problems? Moyers and moral psychologist Jonathan Haidt talk about the psychological underpinnings of our contentious culture.

S1 • E5

Economic Malpractice and the Millenials

How economic inequality destroys opportunity for the millennial generation.

S1 • E6

Decoding the Campaigns

Decoding the languages of politics and poetry.

S1 • E7

Where Movies End and Politics Begins

Where do movies end and politics begin -- does it matter?

S1 • E11

Moving Beyond War

Moving beyond war: A new vision for America's global role

S1 • E12

Standing Up for Democracy

American history is rich with stories of social change inspired by the actions of motivated individuals and organized groups. Today's activists are no different -- facing long odds against powerful and systemic special interests.

S1 • E13

Gambling with Your Money

You'd think after such a calamitous economic fall, there'd be a consensus on reinforcing the protections that keep us safe. But the opposite is happening. Business and political forces, including mercenary lobbyists, are trying to destroy these safeguards.

S1 • E14

An Optimist for Our Times

Angela Blackwell advocates practical ways to achieve "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" for all. Now, with our middle class struggling, poverty rising, and inequality growing, the CEO of PolicyLink finds reasons for hope in these hard realities

The Case for Old-School Faith & Politics

S1 • E15

The Case for Old-School Faith & Politics

Two movements once at the vital center of our society, liberal politics and American Christianity have gone astray, says Eric Alterman (left-wing) and Ross Douthat (right-wing). Each discusses the implications of this wayward course on U.S. Democracy.

S1 • E16

Big Money, Big Media, Big Trouble

Moyers talks with Marty Kaplan, director of USC's Norman Lear Center, about how taking news out of the journalism box and placing it in the entertainment box hurts democracy and allows special interest groups to manipulate the system.

S1 • E17

Between Two Worlds: Life on the Border

Understanding the border culture between Mexico and the United States with storyteller Luis Alberto Urrea.

S1 • E18

Fighting for Fair Play on TV and Taxes

Bill and media decoder Kathleen Hall Jamieson take a closer look at the role media misinformation will play in the Obama vs. Romney TV ad slugfest. Bill also talks to RoseAnn DeMoro about the Robin Hood Tax.

S1 • E19

Tom Morello, Troubadour for Justice

Tom Morello is the Harvard-educated guitarist who played for Rage Against the Machine, and then for Audioslave. Rolling Stone chose his album "World Wide Rebel Songs" as one of the best of 2011, and named him one of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time

S1 • E20

Reckoning with Torture

Larry Siems and Doug Liman join Bill Moyers to talk about what we should be learning from and doing about U.S. torture tactics.

S1 • E23

Dark Money in Politics

Shining light on the dark money corrupting elections and democracy.

S1 • E24

How Big Banks Victimize Our Democracy

For how long and in how many ways are average Americans going to pay the price for big bank hubris, with our own government acting as accomplice?

Confronting the Contradictions of America's Past

S1 • E25

Confronting the Contradictions of America's Past

Confronting the Contradictions of America's Past.

S1 • E26

Is Labor a Lost Cause?

With a sharp decline in union membership, a legion of new enemies, and a series of legal and legislative setbacks, can unions rebound and once again act strongly in the interest of ordinary workers?

S1 • E27

Banking on Greed

The uphill fight to make banks honest and accountable.

S1 • E28

Capitalism's 'Sacrifice Zones'

Calling attention to America's 'sacrifice zones' with journalist Chris Hedges.

S1 • E29

What It's Like to Go to War

America has been at war for over a decade now, with millions of soldiers having seen death and dying up close in Afghanistan and Iraq. But most Americans, watching comfortably on their TVs and computers, witness mostly to statistics, stump speeches, and "expert" rhetoric, don't get what's really going on there.