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Republicans are breaking U.S. democracy using the filibuster
Mar 4, 2021Amy GoodmanDenis MoynihanGrassroots mobilization won the U.S. Democrats this narrow window in which to pass progressive legislation. Pressure is needed now more than ever, to ensure that...
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U.S. pandemic relief bill promises major reduction in child poverty
Mar 11, 2021Amy GoodmanDenis MoynihanAs we emerge from the pandemic, the radical approach to fighting childhood poverty embedded in the American Rescue Plan will provide much-needed support to those...
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U.S. Senate filibuster empowers white supremacists and blocks progress
Mar 18, 2021Amy GoodmanDenis MoynihanAs Republicans nationally ramp up an unprecedented attack on democracy, the need to eliminate the filibuster has never been more urgent.
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U.S. needs a national assault weapons ban, now
Mar 25, 2021Amy GoodmanDenis MoynihanThe mass shootings in Boulder, Colorado and in metro Atlanta are just two more instances of senseless gun violence enabled by the NRA, gun manufacturers, and the...
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Chauvin murder trial a searing indictment of police brutality
Apr 1, 2021Amy GoodmanDenis MoynihanNine minutes and 29 seconds. That's how long Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer now on trial for killing George Floyd, pressed his knee into...
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U.S. should distribute vaccines, not weapons
Apr 8, 2021Amy GoodmanDenis MoynihanInstead of selling weapons of war, the United States should make global public health the number 1 priority. It is by far the most effective way to enhance the...
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Biden pledges to end 'forever war' in Afghanistan
Apr 15, 2021Amy GoodmanDenis MoynihanEnding the war in Afghanistan should be a beginning, accompanied immediately by reparations to the Afghan people.
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George Floyd might be alive today if police on scene had intervened
Apr 22, 2021Amy GoodmanDenis MoynihanDerek Chauvin is going to prison for George Floyd's murder largely due to the actions and testimony of bystanders. Let their courage inspire the national adoption...
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Dangerous anti-protest laws sweeping across U.S.
Apr 29, 2021Amy GoodmanDenis MoynihanThe U.S. is seeing a frightening legislative trend: the criminalization of protest. There are close to 100 anti-protest bills proposed nationwide in state...
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Bones of murdered Black children used in Princeton course
May 6, 2021Amy GoodmanDenis MoynihanOrganizers learned of the bones, which have been described as an "open secret" in the anthropology community, when trying to facilitate the Penn Museum's...
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Voter suppression bills threaten U.S. electoral rights
May 13, 2021Amy GoodmanDenis MoynihanThe January 6 insurrection was one way to try to overthrow democracy in the U.S. Now, a more sophisticated effort to subvert democracy is underway.
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Resistance to Israeli occupation is finding a voice in Washington
May 20, 2021Amy GoodmanDenis MoynihanIsrael has launched another of its horrific, periodic bombing campaigns against the embattled Gazans. The U.S. enables this by providing Israel with billions in aid...
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Reparations are long overdue for Tulsa massacre
May 27, 2021Amy GoodmanDenis MoynihanThe 1921 Tulsa race massacre was one of the single greatest acts of racist terrorism in U.S. history.
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The deadly connection between mass shooters and domestic violence
Jun 3, 2021Amy GoodmanDenis MoynihanTwo necessary steps to stop mass shootings is to deny men who abuse women at home the freedom they currently enjoy to buy and own guns, and to take violence against...
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Numbers don't lie: counting through the climate crisis
Jun 10, 2021Amy GoodmanDenis MoynihanTwo hundred is the approximate number of water protectors arrested on June 7, during the largest act of nonviolent civil disobedience against Line 3 construction to...
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Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg continues to shed light on U.S....
Jun 18, 2021Amy GoodmanDenis Moynihan"Eventually, [whistleblowing] looks more right than going into the office and perpetuating a system of injustice quietly, day after day," said Edward Snowden.
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Delta variant largely 'a developing country problem'
Jun 24, 2021Amy GoodmanDenis MoynihanThe gap between the rich and the poor is the result of vaccine apartheid. While this inequity persists, none of us will truly be safe.
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Juneteenth, July 4th, and the vestiges of slavery in America
Jul 1, 2021Amy GoodmanDenis MoynihanAdoption of the Abolition Amendment is a necessary step if the US is ever to face honestly the enduring legacy of slavery on which it was built.
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As the climate crisis intensifies, so do attacks on land defenders
Jul 9, 2021Amy GoodmanDenis MoynihanFinally, on Monday, the Honduran Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, found Roberto David Castillo guilty of ordering the 2016 murder of Berta Cáceres.
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Voter 'suppression session' in Texas
Jul 15, 2021Amy GoodmanDenis MoynihanThe rationale for the "election integrity" bills, say the Republicans, is to combat voter fraud -- which has been repeatedly proven to be almost non-existent.
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