Amy Goodman

5 days ago | truthdig.com | Amy Goodman |Denis Moynihan

On May 3, 2024, Roger Fortson was on a video call with his girlfriend when a knock came at his door. Fortson, a 23-year-old Black man, was a senior airman in the U.S. Air Force, stationed in Florida. Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Deputy Eddie Duran had responded to a domestic disturbance call at the apartment complex in Fort Walton Beach. Building staff directed him to Fortson’s unit. After the deputy pounded on the door, Fortson opened it, holding his left hand up, palm out, posing no threat.

2 weeks ago | truthdig.com | Amy Goodman |Denis Moynihan

President Donald Trump hates the press perhaps as much as he loves it. Since his 2015 embrace of electoral politics, though, his lifelong craving for headlines has been at odds with adversarial journalism that holds him to account. Thus, he attacks the press as the “enemy of the people,” insults journalists and even incites violence against them. Now, in his second term, his attacks have multiplied, not only on news outlets that report his abuses of power, but on the very existence of a free press.

3 weeks ago | thedailyreview.com | Amy Goodman |Denis Moynihan

By Amy Goodman and Denis MoynihanApril 15 is tax day in the United States, when most of us — the wealthiest excepted — pay our share of taxes to fund the government. This includes three key pillars of the social safety net: Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.

1 month ago | thedailyreview.com | Amy Goodman |Denis Moynihan

The Trump administration’s nationwide roundup of international students accused of holding opinions it dislikes is picking up speed, sowing fear, separating families and driving people to go underground or out of the country. This targeting appeals to President Trump and his followers as it bolsters three pillars of the MAGA movement: It attacks universities, long reviled as a source of liberal power; it fuels the anti-immigrant fervor long promoted by people like Trump adviser Stephen Miller.

1 month ago | filmsforaction.org | Amy Goodman |Denis Moynihan

The Trump administration’s nationwide roundup of international students accused of holding opinions it dislikes is picking up speed, sowing fear, separating families and driving people to go underground or out of the country.