Our Jenna Flanagan sits down with Amy Goodman to discuss just how essential community radio has become in an era of increased corporate news media consolidation including the closing of thousands of local newspapers.
On February 19, 1996, the eve of the New Hampshire primary, a new one-hour progressive news report debuted on WBAI in New York and across seven or eight other Pacifica Network stations. For the next 30 years, listeners from around the country and around the world tuned into Democracy Now! every weekday to hear our guest, the broadcast journalist, author, and investigative reporter Amy Goodman reports on stories of imperialism run amok, of marginalized populations fighting for basic human rights, and countless other stories often not heard anywhere else, or at least not in any other daily newscast.
In the decades since, she has published six books that are New York Times bestsellers, won more awards than we have time to list here including the Society for Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award for Excellence, the Paley Center for Media’s She’s Made It Award, and the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship.
Democracy Now! currently airs on over 1,400 public television and radio stations worldwide. Amy Goodman joins us now from the Democracy Now!
THE BIGGEST LOSER?
With a 6 to 3 conservative majority on the Supreme Court, including three justices who were appointed during the first Trump term, the body has been overwhelmingly positive to the President’s agenda.
In 2025, as reported by courtwatching website SCOTUSblog, the justices ruled in favor of the Trump administration in 20 of the 24 lawsuits brought and against it four times. That was probably why the president and many of his supporters seemed a bit surprised to find his tariffs against many of the nearly 100 countries affected to be struck down by the Supreme Court on Friday.
The President said the decision was "deeply disappointing" at a press conference at the White House a couple hours after the decision was announced. He added that the justices who ruled in the majority opinion should be "absolutely ashamed" and were afraid to "do the right thing."
Here to help break down the deeper ramifications of the Supreme Court decision as well as look at escalating rhetoric between the US and Iran, a US blockade in Cuba, and yet another government shutdown is WeDecide’s political panel–Laura Jedeed, a writer at FirewalledMedia.com and an Army veteran of two tours in the War in Afghanistan, Egberto Willes, host of KPFT's Politics Done Right, and David Levinthal, Washington DC correspondent and Senior Editor at Large at Notus.
MURDER AT SEA
In our C Block we take a closer look at the Trump administration’s 44 attacks on boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacifica they insist are drug running but have yet to produce any evidence backing up their claim.
We speak to Jeffrey Stein, staff attorney for the ACLU’s National Security Project about what legal recourse the families of the 150 people who have been killed during the strikes may have.
WORLD UPENDED?
For years conservatives have ranted against the UN. But President has taken that to whole new level with the creation of his self-styled Board of Peace, a body he created made up of like minded authoritarians and dictators.
At the same time, Trump has upended longstanding alliances with our European allies. Does this shake up of the post WW II world order elevate the risk of nuclear war?Does it mean more nations will seek to build their own nuclear arsenal?
In the D Block, we were joined by Naval Academy graduate, aviator, and author Brynn Tannehill and professor of political science at Fairleigh Dickinson University and founding director of its School of Public and Global Affairs and the Public Mind Poll, Peter Woolley.
