Category: News & Opinion
The Fallacy of Senate as Jury (Editorial)
Tim Taylor November 3, 2019 You have, no doubt, heard people describe the Senate’s role in the impeachment process as that of a jury. That analogy is flawed on a […]
Where Are the Republicans? Trump’s Racism
Tim Taylor July 18, 2019 The fact that support for Donald Trump rose among Republicans (see Rueuters/Ipso poll) after his most recent racist comments speaks volumes about the Republican Party […]
Activists in Action: Congressman Vargas Remembering the victims of the ’84 San Ysidro Massacre
Remembering the victims of the San Ysidro McDonald’s massacre that took 21 lives on July 18, 1984. At that time, that… Posted by Congressman Juan Vargas on Wednesday, June 22, 2016 […]
NEWS: An End to Impunity for Dictators—and Their Backers—Makes the World Safer
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan It was a bad week for dictators, and a good one for international justice. Two brutal, U.S.-backed dictators who ruled decades ago were convicted […]
Dave Zirin & Jules Boykoff on the 2016 Rio Olympics & Brazil’s Collapsing Political System
We continue our conversation with Dave Zirin, author of the book “Brazil’s Dance with the Devil: The World Cup, the Olympics, and the Fight for Democracy,” and Jules Boykoff, author […]
“I Want the World to Wake Up”: Hiroshima Survivor Criticizes Obama for Pushing New Nuclear Weapons
Extended interview with Setsuko Thurlow, who survived the Hiroshima atomic bombing, about the bombing of 1945 and her push to eliminate nuclear weapons. On August 6, 1945, Thurlow was at […]
NEWS & PEOPLE: Peace Activist and Holocaust Survivor Hedy Epstein Dies at 91
Holocaust survivor and peace activist Hedy Epstein has died at the age of 91. Epstein was born in Germany and left in 1939 on a Kindertransport to England. Her parents […]
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson Takes High-School Detention to a New Level
By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan Thursday, Jan. 28, was a cold morning in Durham, North Carolina. Wildin David Guillen Acosta went outside to head to school, but never made […]
WATCH: Amy Goodman on MetroFocus (PBS)
Amy Goodman appears on the PBS show MetroFocus and breaks down all that is wrong with the media’s coverage of Election 2016. Watch the Full Interview …read more Source:: Democracy […]
LISTEN: Amy Goodman on NPR’s Weekend Edition
NPR’s Scott Simon asks Amy Goodman about Bernie Sanders’ chances of getting the delegates he needs to claim the Democratic nomination. Download MP3 || Read the transcript …read more Source:: […]