Juan González
Juan González co-hosts Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman. González has been a professional journalist for more than 30 years and a staff columnist at the New York Daily News since 1987. He is a two-time recipient of the George Polk Award.
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Eric Holder Returns to Wall Street-Tied Law Firm After Years of Refusing to Jail Bankers
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
The End of Encryption? NSA and FBI Seek New Backdoors
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
After Marriage Equality and Obamacare, Mixed Results From SCOTUS on Abortion, Pollution, Executions
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Rep. Nydia Velázquez: Freedom for Oscar López Rivera Unites Puerto Ricans Across Political Lines
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
"I Am Not Nonviolent": New Nina Simone Film Captures Singer and Activist's Uncompromising Voice
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Celebration Day at the US Chamber of Commerce? A Debate on Who Benefits From the TPP
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Report
As Nation Mourns Nine Black Victims of Church Massacre, Details of Suspect's White Supremacy Emerge
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Massacre at South Carolina's Emanuel AME an Attack on Historic Landmark of African-American Freedom
By Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
The Dominican Republic's "Ethnic Purging": Edwidge Danticat on Mass Deportation of Haitian Families
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
War for Decades to Come? One Year After Islamic State Advance, US Could Send Hundreds More Troops to Iraq
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Will Albert Woodfox Be Freed? Louisiana Fights Release of Longest-Serving US Prisoner in Solitary
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Protesters Press Secluded G7 Leaders on Harmful Policies, From Austerity to Dirty Coal
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Traumatized by Three Years at Rikers Without Charge, Ex-Teen Prisoner Kalief Browder Commits Suicide
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Australian Whistleblower Who Took on FIFA Corruption: Sepp Blatter's Resignation Long Overdue
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Fracking Protests Continue in Texas as New ALEC-Backed Law Bars Towns From Banning Drilling
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
''Cultural Genocide'': Landmark Report Decries Canada's Forced Schooling of Indigenous Children
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Former Congressman Ron Dellums: Organizing for Peace Forces Us to Challenge All Forms of Injustice
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Report
SDS Leader Tom Hayden on Vietnam: We Must Challenge the Pentagon on the Battlefield of Memory
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Report
Say Her Name: Families Seek Justice in Overlooked Police Killings of African-American Women
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Sgt. James Brown, 26, Survived Two Tours in Iraq Only to Die Begging for His Life in Texas Jail
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
"Shell No": From Sea to Land, Seattle Residents Fight Oil Giant's Plans for Arctic Drilling
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Ralph Nader on Bernie Sanders' Presidential Bid and His Unanswered Letters to the White House
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Wisconsin Activists to Continue Protests After Cop Avoids Charges in Killing of Tony Robinson
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
As Internal Documents Show Major Overreach, Why Is FBI Spying on Opponents of Keystone XL Pipeline?
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Revolt Over TPP: Senate Dems Rebuke Obama by Blocking Debate on Secretive Trade Deal
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
As the Obama Administration Seeks More Funding for Charter Schools, Questions Raised Over Billions Spent
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Court Rules NSA Bulk Spying Illegal: New Vindication for Snowden, and Uncertainty for Patriot Act
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
New York City Mayor de Blasio Moves to Rein in Soaring Rents With Call for New Tenant Protections
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Snowden Documents: NSA Technology Lets the Government Generate Transcripts of Private Phone Calls
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Ralph Nader on Bernie Sanders, the TPP "Corporate Coup" and Writing to the White House
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
At Least 116 Environmental Defenders Were Murdered Last Year, Mostly in Latin America
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Kenyan Mother Wins Goldman Prize for Anti-Lead Protest After Her Own Breast Milk Made Baby Sick
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
"It Was Worth Risking My Life, My Freedom": Campaign Reform Activist on Flying Gyrocopter to Capitol
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Earth Day Special: Goldman Prize Awarded to Burmese Photographer Who Fought Dam Project
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Did NBC Cover Up Role of US-Backed Free Syrian Army in 2012 Kidnapping of Richard Engel?
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Greece's Yanis Varoufakis: The Medicine of Austerity Is Not Working, We Need a New Treatment
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Test Mutiny: Tens of Thousands of New York Parents Revolt Against Standardized Exams
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Remembering Eduardo Galeano, Champion of Social Justice and Chronicler of Latin America's Open Veins
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Report
As Video Captures Officers' Fatal Shootings of Unarmed Men, Knowing Your Rights to Film the Police
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Black Lives Matter Activists in South Carolina Demand Reform After Police Killing of Walter Scott
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Blueprint for Post-9/11 Surveillance: US Began Bulk Collection of Phone Call Data in 1992
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Father of One of the Missing Mexican 43 on How Drug War Aid "Being Used to Annihilate Students"
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
After Cop's Shooting of Unarmed Walter Scott Caught on Video, New Calls for Body Cameras on Police
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
As Video Exposes Walter Scott Police Killing, Why Is the Man Who Filmed Eric Garner's Death in Jail?
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Found Guilty: Will Federal Jury Impose Death Penalty in State That Bans It?
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Al-Shabab Kills 147 at Kenyan University in Deadliest Attack Since Kenya's 2011 Invasion of Somalia
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
George Takei: LGBT Protections Still Needed Despite Amended Indiana, Arkansas Religious Freedom Laws
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Former Iranian Ambassador: Historic Nuclear Deal Has Prevented a New War in the Middle East
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Indiana Scrambles to Contain Growing Corporate, Public Outcry Over Anti-LGBT "Religious Freedom" Law
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Report
The Yemen Crisis: Could Domestic Conflict Grow Into Protracted Regional War?
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Yemen Does Not Need Another War: Report From Sana'a as Saudi Attack Enters Second Day
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Private Prisons for Immigrant Families Grow, Despite Court Ruling Against "Detention as Deterrence"
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Report
Ecuadorean Foreign Minister on Press Freedom, Anti-Correa Protests and Chevron
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Ecuador: Why Did It Take Sweden 1,000 Days to Agree to Question Julian Assange in Our UK Embassy?
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Ecuadorean Foreign Minister: The US Is the Real Threat in the Americas, Not Venezuela
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Freed After Eight Years at Guantanamo, a Father and Son Are Still Kept Apart
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Hedge Fund-Backed Castellan Real Estate Group Intimidates New York City Tenants to Vacate
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
After Netanyahu Wins Israel Vote With Racism and Vow of Permanent Occupation, How Will World Respond?
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Data and Goliath: Bruce Schneier on the Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Should McDonald's and Monsanto Have the Same Rights as People? A Debate on Corporate Personhood
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Gateway to Freedom: Historian Eric Foner on the Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Is Venezuela Really an "Extraordinary Threat"? US Sanctions Top Officials as Tensions Grow
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
New York Hedge Funds Pour Millions of Dollars Into Cuomo-Led Bid to Expand Charter Schools
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
"I Thought I Saw Death": John Lewis Remembers Police Attack on Bloody Sunday in Selma 50 Years Ago
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Michelle Alexander: Ferguson Shows Why Criminal Justice System of "Racial Control" Should Be Undone
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Michelle Alexander: Roots of Today's Mass Incarceration Crisis Date to Slavery, Jim Crow
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Antiquities Scholar: Islamic State's Destruction of Museum and Library Is Cultural and Ethnic Cleansing
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Police Killing of Unarmed Mexican Farmworker in Washington State Sparks Protest
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Climate Deniers Exposed: Top Scientist Got Funding From ExxonMobil, Koch Brothers, Big Coal
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Could a Former Activist Unseat Mayor 1%? Rahm Emanuel Faces Chicago Runoff Despite Vast Outspending
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
"Mayor 1%" Rahm Emanuel of Chicago Faces Progressive Challenge in Heated Bid for Re-election
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Malcolm X Remembered 50 Years After 1965 Assassination
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
An Unsolved Case of Racial Terror: FBI Probes 1946 Moore's Ford Bridge Lynching in Georgia
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Exchanging Vows, Alabama Same-Sex Couples Make History in a State Where Discrimination Runs Deep
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
As Study Finds 4,000 Lynchings in Jim Crow South, Will US Address Legacy of Racial Terrorism?
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
After Months of Protest, NYPD Officer Charged for Fatal Shooting of Unarmed Black Man Akai Gurley
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Deported Palestinian Scholar Sami Al-Arian on His Chilling Post-9/11 Prosecution
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
FCC's Net Neutrality Shift a Victory for Open Internet and Grassroots Activism Against Cable Giants
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Juan Gonzalez: Overhaul of New York City's 911 System Woefully Mismanaged and Nearly $1 Billion Over Budget
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
An End to "Mindless Austerity": Obama Pushes for Taxing the Rich to Fund New Spending Programs
By Juan González and Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Johann Hari: Everything We Know About the Drug War and Addiction Is Wrong
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Dean Baker: New Leftist Greek Leaders Being "Very Smart" to Challenge German-Imposed Austerity
By Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Hailed as US Counterterrorism Model in Middle East, Yemen Teeters on the Brink of Collapse
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Remembering Saudi's King Abdullah: "He Was Not a Benevolent Dictator, He Was a Dictator"
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
David Cay Johnston: Class War Is Being Waged by the Rich Against the Poor
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Phyllis Bennis: As Obama Hails "Turning Page" on Wars, US Drone Strikes Continue Across Globe
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Ralph Nader on What Was Missing in President Obama's State of the Union Address
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
As Nigerian Massacre Evidence Grows, Questions Swirl Over Collusion Between Boko Haram and Military
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
After Confronting New York City Mayor, Police Union Leader Faces Mutiny of His Own From Dissident Cops
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Fighting Gag Order, Ferguson Grand Juror Accuses Prosecutor of Mishandling Case and Misleading Public
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Charlie Hebdo Shooting: 12 Killed in Attack on French Satirical Magazine Known for Muhammad Cartoons
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Matt Taibbi and "the $9 Billion Witness" Who Exposed How JPMorgan Chase Helped Wreck the Economy
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Calls for Calm After NYPD Union Says Mayor, Protesters Have Blood on Their Hands for Cops' Murder
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
"The Interview" Belittles North Korea, but Is Film's Backstory and US Policy the Real Farce?
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
Should Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and CIA Officials Be Tried for Torture? War Crimes Case Filed in Germany
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
From Free Pre-K to Paid Sick Leave to Pay Raises, NYC Mayor de Blasio Fulfills Progressive Promises
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview
The Destabilization of Pakistan: Tariq Ali on Taliban School Massacre and US Afghan War Blowback
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Report
Black Youth-Organized Millions March NYC Draws Tens of Thousands in Movement's Biggest Protest Yet
By Amy Goodman, Samantha Riddell and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Report
A Racist and Unjust System? A Discussion on Policing in Wake of Michael Brown and Eric Garner Deaths
By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview