Breaking The Sound Barrier By Amy Goodman

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Independence Day occurs as this imperfect union faces an existential threat. President Donald Trump daily amasses more authoritarian control, unchecked by the Republican majority in Congress and the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Narciso Barranco sits in ICE detention, with his two sons still on active duty in the US Marines not far away, at Fort Pendleton. It is past time to unmask the violent agents targeting people like Narciso, and halt Trump’s racist, xenophobic mass detentions and deportations.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan A terror campaign is sweeping the United States, orchestrated from inside the White House and waged by masked, militarized federal agents. Its primary targets are immigrants.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan As the summer heats up and with US democracy increasingly at risk, two fundamental truths must remain front and center: people have a First Amendment right to protest, and US soldiers have an obligation to disobey unlawful orders.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Meet the new Trump, same as the old Trump, only now surrounded by sycophants eager to enable his new travel ban, and with an even stronger majority on the Supreme Court.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan “Six-hundred days on, the humanitarian situation in Gaza is at its darkest point yet,” reads the latest statement by the UN’s Humanitarian Country Team of the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Columbia University held graduation this week, with thousands receiving their degrees. Some students were missing, though, casting a pall over the proceedings.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Newark has a long history of resistance to oppression, as President Trump and his enablers are about to find out.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Police violence is a persistent problem in the United States, disproportionately victimizing people of color, especially Black men.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan May Day, May 1st, has long been a day of protest, and this year is no exception. Protests are happening across the country, against President Donald Trump and his attack on the social safety net, on immigrants, on people of color and the LGBTQ community, and more.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan A free press is a bulwark against authoritarianism. Trump knows this, which is why we all need to support and defend independent journalism, while we still can.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Republican politicians know that to promote the elimination or even the privatization of Social Security is political suicide. Instead, the DOGE plan seems to be to render it dysfunctional, by shuttering field offices, massively reducing its workforce, thus abandoning the most vulnerable among us, who have the least political influence. This is what Trump and Musk clearly intend. The urgent work now is to stop them.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan There is a force more powerful than authoritarians: the power of people, organized in solidarity and resistance.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan History teaches us that standing by silently as others are disappeared is a failed strategy, as the next person grabbed off the street by masked agents of the state may be you.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Violence against journalists is not new. Israel’s targeting of journalists in Gaza, however, has taken this violence to a new, unprecedented scale.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The detentions, deportations and disappearances are stoking fear in the immigrant community, which is certainly one of its main objectives. One who remains undaunted is Jeanette Vizguerra.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Several lawsuits have successfully blocked, at least temporarily, some of Trump’s anti-trans executive orders. But while the court battles proceed, the lives of transgender people are still at risk.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Several key decisions have halted or delayed some of Trump’s attempts to demolish much of the U.S. government, aided by his largest campaign donor, the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, and by Vice President JD Vance, who argues that court orders are optional (they’re not).

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan If Elon Musk is serious about cutting costs, he should take a hard look at Guantánamo Bay.

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan As the US drifts closer to authoritarianism, the words of Hans and Sophie Scholl and the White Rose collective remain vital: We will not be silent.