By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Gun violence is not unique to this country, but its sheer magnitude and frequency here is without equal.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan This 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.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Defense 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.

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

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Thousands 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.

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.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Eugene 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.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan As 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.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan President 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.”

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

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan By 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.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan This 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.'”

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan This 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.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Renowned 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.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The 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.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The 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.

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

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

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Anas 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.

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