By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan
One recent, mid-pandemic poll showed close to 80% support for Medicare for All among Democratic party members. When the people lead, the saying goes, the leaders will follow. It’s a matter of life and death.

Medicare for All: A Prescription Against Deadly COVID Capitalism

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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By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
“What starts here changes the world,” is quickly becoming, for thousands of students across the country, a call to action, demanding peace in Gaza.

Campus Crackdowns Ignite Gaza Solidarity Movement

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
This week, USC decided to abandon one its most prominent young women students, its 2024 valedictorian Asna Tabassum, buckling under a wave of neo-McCarthyism sweeping campuses nationwide.

USC Silences Its Valedictorian. She Vows to Fight On

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
1864 was a pivotal year in U.S. history, as the tide shifted in the civil war, leading to Union victory and the abolition of slavery the following year. Yes, the nation made faltering progress then, but it was by no means “great.” For true greatness, we can only look to the future.

Arizona’s 1864 Abortion Ban is Not So Great

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
Israel is wielding starvation as a weapon of war, imposing a famine on the more than two million Palestinians trapped in Gaza, one million of whom are children.

Israel Is Wielding Starvation as a Weapon of War

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
Immigrants helped build this country, a fact no amount of racism or xenophobia can erase.

Medicare for All: A Prescription Against Deadly COVID Capitalism

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