By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
The filibuster has long empowered white supremacists to protect and extend slavery, segregation, Jim Crow, and all their modern manifestations, from voter suppression to mass incarceration.

Now Is the Time to End the Filibuster

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
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.

A Bridge Collapse Exposes Seemingly Unbridgeable Divides

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
Rachel Corrie died on March 16th, 2003. She went to Gaza to commit her idealism to action, in solidarity with Palestinians living under Israeli occupation. What she saw transformed her.

Now Is the Time to End the Filibuster

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