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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

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From Rosa Parks to National Parks: Trump's Racism and...

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2025/12/11

By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanThis 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.

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Secretary-on-the-Defensive Pete Hegseth's Dept. of...

Breaking the Sound Barrier by Amy Goodman ·

2025/12/04

By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanDefense 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.

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

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2025/11/26

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

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COP30 in the Amazon and the Hope of Indigenous...

Breaking the Sound Barrier by Amy Goodman ·

2025/11/20

By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanThousands 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.

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Adelante, Adelita

Breaking the Sound Barrier by Amy Goodman ·

2025/11/13

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.

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Zohran Mamdani, Eugene V. Debs, and the Dawn

Breaking the Sound Barrier by Amy Goodman ·

2025/11/06

By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanEugene 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.

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Speaker Johnson: Seat Adelita Grijalva Now!

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2025/10/30

By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanAs 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.

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

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2025/10/23

By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanPresident 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.”

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Too Many Palestinian (and Certain Israeli) Voices Are...

Breaking the Sound Barrier by Amy Goodman ·

2025/10/16

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

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Trump's Orwellian Militarization of American Cities

Breaking the Sound Barrier by Amy Goodman ·

2025/10/09

By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanBy 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.

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Trump's Attack on Free Speech and One Federal Judge's...

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2025/10/02

By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanThis 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.'”

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Palestinian Statehood and the Race to Stop the Gaza...

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2025/09/25

By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanThis 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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Robert Redford: The Actor and the Activist

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2025/09/18

By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanRenowned for roles in films like “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” Robert Redford won an Oscar for directing “Ordinary People” and numerous other awards over his storied career. But what mattered most to him was independent film.

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Charlie Kirk, Col. Kurtz, and Donald Trump's Heart of...

Breaking the Sound Barrier by Amy Goodman ·

2025/09/11

By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanThe assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah on Wednesday sent shockwaves across the country and around the world, not only through its raw violence, with a single, deadly sniper shot, but as a hallmark of worsening political divisions wracking the United States.

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Donald Trump's Losing Streak

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2025/09/04

By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanThe courts are playing a central role in opposing the lawless Trump administration, but the core of the resistance are people–people at every level organized in opposition, defending democracy.

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20 Years Later, the Lessons of Hurricane Katrina Go...

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2025/08/28

By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanIt’s been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina made landfall on August 29th, 2005, breaching New Orleans’ protective levees, unleashing unprecedented destruction.

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On The Smithsonian and Slavery: Trump's Whitewashing...

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2025/08/21

By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanYes, slavery was bad, President Trump. It was evil and remains a stain on this country. We should never stop talking about it.

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"If These Words Reach You, Know That Israel Has...

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2025/08/14

By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanAnas Al-Sharif and his colleagues were among the last journalists in northern Gaza, prepared to report on Israel’s renewed invasion of Gaza City to depopulate the city of 1 million Palestinians.

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From Thinking to Action in the Fight Against Plastics

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2025/08/07

By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanWe are standing at a real-world version of Rodin’s Gates of Hell, where thinking about the problem is no longer enough.

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The Education of Sereen Haddad

Breaking the Sound Barrier by Amy Goodman ·

2025/07/31

By Amy Goodman & Denis MoynihanSereen Haddad has finally won her degree. More importantly, this talented young graduate, in challenging starvation and genocide in Gaza, has gotten an education.

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