Moyers & Company: Season 2
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Moyers & Company Season 1.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 2 Progress Shield
The Fight to Keep Democracy Alive
Feb 15, 2013
Dan Cantor, New York Working Families Party; Jonathan Soros, Friends of Democracy super PAC; the power of poetry with Martin Espada.
Fighting Creeping Creationism
Mar 1, 2013
Anti-creationism activist Zack Kopplin; author Susan Jacoby discusses secularism.
What We Can Learn From Lincoln
Mar 8, 2013
Screenwriter Tony Kushner talks about Abraham Lincoln.
Ending the Silence on Climate Change
Mar 15, 2013
Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication.
What Has Capitalism Done for Us Lately?
Mar 22, 2013
Economist Richard Wolff analyzes income equality; Sheila Bair, former chairperson of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
And Justice for Some
Mar 29, 2013
Bryan Stevenson, founder of Equal Justice Initiative, discusses the American justice system; an essay on the idea of justice for all.
MLK's Dream of Economic Justice
Apr 5, 2013
Historian Taylor Branch and theologian James Cone discuss Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision of economic justice.
Living Outside Tribal Lines
Apr 12, 2013
Economic inequality in California; writer Sherman Alexie.
A Mother Fights Toxic Trespassers
Apr 19, 2013
Activist Sandra Steingraber discusses protecting children from toxic trespassers contaminating air, water and food.
Trading Democracy for National Security
Apr 26, 2013
Journalist Glenn Greenwald discusses the Boston Marathon bombings; political scholars Norman Ornstein and Thomas Mann.
The Sandy Hook Promise
May 3, 2013
Francine Wheeler, whose son Ben was among the children killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., and singer Peter Yarrow, discuss the power of music to create chang
How People Power Generates Change
May 10, 2013
Marshall Ganz, senior lecturer in public policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government; Rachel Laforest, executive director of Right to the City and Madeline Janis, c
The Toxic Politics of Science
May 17, 2013
Public health historians David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz discuss the dangers of lead; Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics; Danielle Brian, P
Going to Jail for Justice
May 24, 2013
Environmental activist Tim DeChristopher, co-founder of Peaceful Uprising; columnist Gretchen Morgenson.
Living Outside Tribal Lines
May 31, 2013
Economic inequality in California; writer Sherman Alexie.
Taming Capitalism Run Wild
Jun 7, 2013
Economist Richard Wolff; activist Saru Jayaraman.
Big Brother's Prying Eyes
Jun 14, 2013
Professor Lawrence Lessig, director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University.
United States of ALEC: A Follow-Up
Jun 21, 2013
ALEC -- the American Legislative Exchange Council.
The Faces of America's Hungry
Jun 28, 2013
Filmmaker Kristi Jacobson and Mariana Chilton, director of the Center for Hunger-Free Communities, discuss hunger in America; journalist Greg Kaufmann.
Surviving the New American Economy
Jul 5, 2013
First profiled 22 years ago, two American families in Wisconsin struggle to keep up with the changing U.S. economy; authors Barbara Miner and Barbara Garson.
Distracted From Democracy
Jul 12, 2013
Columnist Marty Kaplan discusses economic inequality in the U.S.; historian Gary May.
A New Case for Gun Control
Jul 19, 2013
Tom Diaz discusses gun control; Baldemar Velásquez fights for the rights of farmworkers.
John Lewis Marches On
Jul 26, 2013
Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) discusses his leadership role during the civil-rights movement of the 1960s.
The Faces of America's Hungry
Aug 2, 2013
Director Kristi Jacobson and Mariana Chilton, director of the Center for Hunger-Free Communities, discuss hunger, food insecurity and poverty in America.
Taming Capitalism Run Wild
Aug 9, 2013
Economist Richard Wolff; activist Saru Jayaraman.
How People Power Generates Change
Aug 16, 2013
Marshall Ganz, senior lecturer at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government; Rachel LaForest, executive director of Right to the City; Madeline Janis, co-founder of Los Ang
America's Gilded Capital
Aug 23, 2013
Journalist and author Mark Leibovich discusses his views on Washington, D.C.
John Lewis Marches On
Aug 30, 2013
Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) discusses the 1963 march for civil rights.
What Are We Doing in Syria?
Sep 6, 2013
Correspondent Deborah Amos, National Public Radio; historian Andrew Bacevich; guest host Phil Donahue.
The Collision of Sports and Politics
Sep 13, 2013
Davie Zirin, sports editor of The Nation.
Robert Reich on Inequality for All
Sep 20, 2013
Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich discusses the movie "Inequality for All," which examines income disparity in America.
Saving the Earth From Ourselves
Sep 27, 2013
Kumi Naidoo, international executive director of Greenpeace.
Wendell Berry: Poet & Prophet
Oct 4, 2013
Writer Wendell Berry discusses the environment.
Citizens United: The Sequel
Oct 11, 2013
Yale Law School professor Heather Gerken discusses McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission; historian Joyce Appleby.
The Debt Ceiling Is a Nuclear Bomb the US Has Aimed at Itself
Oct 18, 2013
British journalist Martin Wolf discusses the debt ceiling debate and its potential impact on the global economy; MIT professor Sherry Turkle.
Progressives Pick Up the Pieces
Oct 25, 2013
Financial journalist Gretchen Morgenson; historian Peter Dreier.
The Top Secret Trade Deal You Need to Know About
Nov 1, 2013
Yves Smith, the Naked Capitalism blog; Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research; a preview of "Unmanned: America's Drone Wars."
How Dollarocracy Is Destroying America
Nov 8, 2013
John Nichols, The Nation; professor Robert McChesney.
The Path of Positive Resistance
Nov 15, 2013
Dr. Jill Stein, co-founder of the Massachusetts Coalition for Healthy Communities; Dr. Margaret Flowers, Physicians for a National Health Program.
Zombie Politics and Casino Capitalism
Nov 22, 2013
Author Henry Giroux; remembering novelist Doris Lessing; the documentary "Birth of the Living Dead."
Wendell Berry: Poet & Prophet
Nov 29, 2013
Author and environmental activist Wendell Berry; short documentary "Dance of the Honey Bee."
Behind Washington's Closed Doors
Dec 6, 2013
Mark Leibovich, The New York Times Magazine, discusses Washington's powerbrokers.
Gunfighter Nation
Dec 13, 2013
Historian Richard Slotkin talks about guns and violence in America.
Incarceration Nation
Dec 20, 2013
Civil rights lawyer and legal scholar Michelle Alexander.
The Pope, Poverty, and Poetry
Dec 27, 2013
Historian Thomas Cahill discusses Pope Francis and the relevance of the church in the 21st century.
State of Conflict: North Carolina
Jan 3, 2014
The battle of American politics rages on in North Carolina.