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Goodman and Moynihan report each week on the people and places caught in the middle, the ones most directly affected by policy debates, war and social issues. The column breaks through the glib clichés, dogmatic language and overall static that has permeated mainstream media coverage. Goodman and Moynihan’s unrestrained commentary from the front lines resonates with a generation that has an uncanny ability to spot the inauthentic in any discourse. The energy and passion for the truth found in this column inspires and rouses readers young Goodman and Moynihan report each week on the people and places caught in the middle, the ones most directly affected by policy debates, war and social issues. The column breaks through the glib clichés, dogmatic language and overall static that has permeated mainstream media coverage. Goodman and Moynihan’s unrestrained commentary from the front lines resonates with a generation that has an uncanny ability to spot the inauthentic in any discourse. The energy and passion for the truth found in this column inspires and rouses readers young and old from across the political spectrum.

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Breaking the Sound Barrier

2025/12/31

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Democracy Now! turns 30 in February. Carried on over 1,500 stations around the globe, and with a growing audience of millions across multiple digital platforms, the program has become a leader in the burgeoning non-profit news space, as we collectively grapple with a multipronged crisis in journalism.

CBS 60 Minutes Censorship Rings Another Alarm, Warning of Corporate Media’s Threat to Democracy

2025/12/24

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan News organizations cannot function under corrupt corporate control, answering to billionaire bosses and politicians. When that happens, democracy dies, and dictators rise.

For Some Brown University Students, This Was Their Second School Shooting

2025/12/18

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Gun violence is not unique to this country, but its sheer magnitude and frequency here is without equal.

From Rosa Parks to National Parks: Trump's Racism and Bigotry Demand Resistance

2025/12/11

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan This month marks the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. Her courageous act triggered the historic Montgomery bus boycott, launched the career of a young preacher named Martin Luther King, Jr., and changed the world.

Secretary-on-the-Defensive Pete Hegseth's Dept. of War (Crimes)

2025/12/04

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth claims he had nothing to do with killing two survivors clinging to the wreckage of their boat following U.S. strikes on September 2. These actions, along with at least 20 additional lethal boat strikes that followed, are widely considered by legal and military experts to be war crimes.

COP30's Three F-Words: Failure on Fossil Fuels

2025/11/26

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Powerful petrostates and large polluting nations succeeded in blocking inclusion of a roadmap away from fossil fuels in the summit’s concluding agreement

COP30 in the Amazon and the Hope of Indigenous Leadership

2025/11/20

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Thousands of Amazonian land defenders, both Indigenous people and their allies, have traveled to the tropical city of Belém, Brazil, carrying their message that the rainforest is at a tipping point, but can still be saved.

Adelante, Adelita

2025/11/13

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan House Speaker Johnson’s arbitrary and hostile refusal to swear in Adelita Grijalva for close to two months was an absolute disservice, not only to her and her constituents, but to our democracy. As fears rise of Trump’s authoritarian actions, the people of southern Arizona now have a voice in Congress. Adelante, Adelita.

Zohran Mamdani, Eugene V. Debs, and the Dawn

2025/11/06

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Eugene V. Debs was arrested, tried, convicted, and sentenced to 10 years in prison. His address to the court at sentencing is considered one of the most eloquent speeches in modern English. That’s what Mamdani quoted at his victory rally.

Speaker Johnson: Seat Adelita Grijalva Now!

2025/10/30

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan As Trump exerts maximum pressure to block the release of the Epstein files, Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva’s voice and vote is needed in Congress, now.

Trump's Demolition, from the East Wing to Western Democracy

2025/10/23

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan President Trump and his enablers were openly disturbed by the mass protests across the United States on “No Kings Day” that said with incredible creativity and in a consistently peaceful and nonviolent way, essentially what the framers of the Constitution wrote, only a few years before enslaved workers laid that cornerstone of the White House: “No kings, no monarchs.”

Too Many Palestinian (and Certain Israeli) Voices Are Excluded from the U.S. Media

2025/10/16

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan We need a media that reflects the full range of voices. Without that, peace, in the Middle East and elsewhere, will remain beyond reach.

Trump's Orwellian Militarization of American Cities

2025/10/09

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan By the end of “1984,” Winston is brutalized into accepting the lies. This need not be our fate. Trump’s attempt to send troops into American cities can and must be resisted.

Trump's Attack on Free Speech and One Federal Judge's Fiery Rebuke

2025/10/02

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan This week Judge William Young excoriated the Trump administration’s attack on free speech. “This case — perhaps the most important ever to fall within the jurisdiction of this district court — squarely presents the issue of whether non-citizens lawfully present here in [the] United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us,” he wrote. “The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally 'yes, they do.'”

Palestinian Statehood and the Race to Stop the Gaza Genocide

2025/09/25

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan This week, 10 more nations recognized Palestinian statehood. Over 150 countries now recognize Palestine as a state, including 14 of 15 members of the United Nations Security Council. The only outlier: the United States, which consistently wields its Security Council veto power in defense of Israel.

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★★★★★

..internacionalista 2024/11/24

Excelente

Is it possible to get this translated into Spanish each week?

★★★★★

cartiran 2024/04/21

The Noble Peace Prize

Amy, the Noble has your name, Medhi, Max, Finkelstein, Galloway, Peled, the intercept, and those that stand on the foundation 0f truth and speaking to...

★☆☆☆☆

whenisayyou for scratch 2024/05/31

Anti-Semite

If you support one to light themselves on fire go ahead do it Amy.

★★★★★

Superstumbler 2023/07/28

Succinct, informative, provocative.

Each podcast focuses on a piece of news from the week, weaves it into historical context, and concludes with compelling commentary on implications fo...

★★★★★

sassynoa 2022/06/10

Clear and powerful reporting

A must listen! Refreshing contrast from all other news outlets.

★★★★★

OLYSUZ 2021/07/04

Best News Show

Amy and her team are polished and effective. They skillfully weave in any back story as they interview their guests.

★★★★★

hazelbnr 2021/02/18

Creatively concise

The power of excellent reporting and writing can not go unnoticed, especially in this era of excessive analysis and verbal diarrhea with most news out...

★★★★★

MindoCamp1 2020/07/04

Our history in a nutshell

These brief summaries of the week’s news are the most perfect concentrated historical account of this time of crises that I have seen or heard anywher...

★★★★★

cwalbrecht28 2020/05/30

Listen for good info!

I love you Amy! You’re the best. You have done so much to raise our awareness and activism for generations to come.

★★★★★

ugogrrrl 2019/12/24

Must Listen

This is the best column in the business. A must listen.

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