Democracy Now! Audio
820 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 5.1K ratingsDemocracy Now! is an independent daily TV & radio news program, hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. We provide daily global news headlines, in-depth interviews and investigative reports without any advertisements or government funding. Our programming shines a spotlight on corporate and government abuses of power and lifts up the stories of ordinary people working to make change in extraordinary times. Democracy Now! is live weekdays at 8am ET and available 24/7 through our website and podcasts.
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Democracy Now! 2020-10-26 Monday
October 26, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteA survivor of medical abuse speaks out about conditions at an ICE jail in Georgia, where at least 19 women say they got unnecessary gynecological treatment and surgeries; A new film tells the story of a Palestinian American family living in Trump country.
Democracy Now! 2020-10-23 Friday
October 23, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 BytePresident Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden spar in the second and final debate of the 2020 campaign; We air excerpts of the candidates' takes on the pandemic, healthcare, climate change, racism and U.S. immigration policy.
Democracy Now! 2020-10-22 Thursday
October 22, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteMass protests against police brutality continue in Nigeria after security forces shot and killed 12 peaceful protesters in Lagos; We look at the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which has already killed over 700 people.
Democracy Now! 2020-10-21 Wednesday
October 21, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteZephyr Teachout on the Justice Department's antitrust lawsuit against Google and how Senate Democrats can block Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation; Mexico's ex-defense secretary is arrested for working with a major drug cartel while heading the military.
Jelani Cobb on the History of U.S. Election Violence & Joe Biden's Moral Imperative on Civil Rights
October 20, 2020 12:00Just two weeks ahead of November 3, we continue our conversation with New Yorker contributor Jelani Cobb, about his new PBS “Frontline” documentary “Whose Vote Counts,” election-related violence and Biden’s “moral imperative” to safeguard civil rights.
Democracy Now! 2020-10-20 Tuesday
October 20, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteWe go to La Paz, where Bolivia's socialist MAS party has won the presidency a year after former President Evo Morales was ousted in a right-wing coup; Jelani Cobb on "Whose Vote Counts," his new Frontline documentary about voter suppression.
WATCH: Second Presidential Debate - 90 Minutes Uninterrupted
October 20, 2020 00:00WATCH: Second Presidential Debate - 90 Minutes Uninterrupted
Democracy Now! 2020-10-19 Monday
October 19, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBAs the presidential campaign enters its final two weeks, we speak with The Intercept's Jeremy Scahill about "American Mythology," his new seven-part audio documentary on the Trump years.
Democracy Now! 2020-10-16 Friday
October 16, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteSenate Republicans are rushing ahead with confirming Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett; We speak with Kristen Clarke, who testified in the Senate, and hear from a mother, who once had an abortion, on why she opposes Barrett's confirmation.
Democracy Now! 2020-10-15 Thursday
October 15, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteAs coronavirus cases spike across the U.S., the Trump administration has reportedly adopted a policy of deliberately letting the virus infect much of the U.S. population. We host a debate on herd immunity and how best to confront the virus.
Democracy Now! 2020-10-14 Wednesday
October 14, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteJudge Amy Coney Barrett refuses to answer questions about the Affordable Care Act, Roe v. Wade, voting rights and more as Republicans rush her confirmation; Dahlia Lithwick on the Supreme Court nomination fight; Samuel Moyn on urgent Supreme Court reform.
Democracy Now! 2020-10-13 Tuesday
October 13, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 BytePeople with preexisting conditions protest the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett, who could threaten the ACA; Dark money fuels Barrett's rise and Republican court packing; Barrett's role in Bush v. Gore; Voters face challenges casting early ballots.
Election Night 2020 Coverage with Democracy Now!
October 13, 2020 00:00Election Night 2020 Coverage with Democracy Now!
Democracy Now! 2020-10-12 Monday
October 12, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteAs Trump's COVID-19 infection threatens White House residence staff, we speak to a domestic worker advocate and a man whose father was a butler to eight presidents; On Indigenous Peoples' Day, we look at Indigenous-led protests against the border wall.
Democracy Now! 2020-10-09 Friday
October 09, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteMen tied to armed right-wing militias are arrested for plotting to overthrow the Michigan state government and kidnap Governo Gretchen Whitmer; The World Food Programme wins the Nobel Peace Prize; A look at the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Democracy Now! 2020-10-08 Thursday
October 08, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteVice President Mike Pence and Senator Kamala Harris spar in the only vice-presidential debate of the campaign season. We air highlights and speak to global health expert Dr. Craig Spencer and anti-poverty campaigner Rev. William Barber.
Democracy Now! 2020-10-07 Wednesday
October 07, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteTrump's niece Mary Trump on his erratic behavior, COVID infection and how his father viewed illness as a weakness; Two survivors of the 1979 Greensboro massacre by the KKK and Nazis welcome a long-overdue apology and recognition of police complicity.
Democracy Now! 2020-10-06 Tuesday
October 06, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteTrump leaves hospital while still infectious and minimizes the risk of COVID-19 as the U.S. death toll tops 210,000; Kristin Urquiza, whose Trump-backing father died from COVID, speaks out; Meet the college senior running a "White House COVID tracker."
Kentucky Lawmaker Facing Felony Protest Charges Is "Determined to Get Justice for Breonna Taylor"
October 05, 2020 12:00We speak with Rep. Attica Scott about the Breonna Taylor case and her own arrest in September during a protest in Louisville. She now faces charges of first-degree rioting, failure to disperse and unlawful assembly, along with her daughter and 22 others.
Democracy Now! 2020-10-05 Monday
October 05, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteWhite House correspondent Jeff Mason says journalists are pushing for transparency on Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis; Dr. Ashish Jha on the outbreak at the White House; Ben Crump says Breonna Taylor's family wants a new special prosecutor and investigation.
WATCH: The Vice Presidential Debate - 90 Minutes Uninterrupted
October 05, 2020 00:00WATCH: The Vice Presidential Debate - 90 Minutes Uninterrupted
Democracy Now! 2020-10-02 Friday
October 02, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteJust days after mocking his presidential rival Joe Biden for regularly wearing masks, President Trump reveals he and the first lady have both tested positive for COVID-19.
"The End of October": How Lawrence Wright's New Novel, Written Before COVID, Predicted the Pandemic
October 01, 2020 12:00A global pandemic that “brings the world to its knees.” We’re facing that today, but this is a description of the novel, “The End of October,” which came out in April 2020 to a world under lockdown, as COVID-19 tore across the globe.
Democracy Now! 2020-10-01 Thursday
October 01, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteWe go to Mumbia for an update from India, second only to the U.S. in COVID-19 infections; Two years after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a new documentary tracks his death, the rise of MBS, and the decades-long U.S.-Saudi Arabia alliance.
Democracy Now! 2020-09-30 Wednesday
September 30, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteIn the chaotic first debate against Joe Biden, President Trump refuses to condemn white supremacists and more. We get analysis from former neo-Nazi Christian Picciolini, professor Marc Lamont Hill, lawyer Kristen Clarke and journalist Kate Aronoff.
Democracy Now! 2020-09-29 Tuesday
September 29, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteHistorian Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on election integrity, the case for ending the Supreme Court, the Breonna Taylor case, mass evictions and more; Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Cay Johnston on how Trump is a "criminal-level tax cheat."
Democracy Now! 2020-09-28 Monday
September 28, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteThe New York Times reveals President Trump barely paid taxes; Planned Parenthood on how Amy Coney Barrett could shape reproductive rights; New bodycam footage raises questions about the investigation into the police killing of Breonna Taylor.
WATCH: First Biden vs. Trump Presidential Debate - 90 Minutes Uninterrupted
September 28, 2020 00:00WATCH: First Biden vs. Trump Presidential Debate - 90 Minutes Uninterrupted
Democracy Now! 2020-09-25 Friday
September 25, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 BytePulitzer Prize-winning journalist Barton Gellman on how Trump could subvert the election results to stay in power; Bernie Sanders warns democracy itself is at stake in November; Bishop Michael Curry on the coronavirus pandemic, the 2020 election and more.
Father of Jacob Blake: We Want Attempted Murder Charges Against Kenosha Cop Who Shot My Son
September 24, 2020 12:00We continue our conversation with the father of Jacob Blake Jr., who was paralyzed last month after a police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin, shot him in the back seven times in front of three of his children.
Democracy Now! 2020-09-24 Thursday
September 24, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteProtests erupt across the U.S. after the Louisville cops who shot Breonna Taylor escape being charged for her death; We speak to the father of Jacob Blake, who was paralyzed last month when police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, shot him in the back seven times.
Democracy Now! 2020-09-23 Wednesday
September 23, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteWe look at Trump's top pick for the Supreme Court, Judge Amy Coney Barrett's ties to the cult-like group People of Praise and speak with a former member; Historian Virginia Espino on forced sterilizations of Mexican women at an L.A. hospital in the 1970s.
Democracy Now! 2020-09-22 Tuesday
September 22, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteAs COVID spreads in ICE jails, we speak to nurse whistleblower Dawn Wooten, who alleges ICE ignored pandemic safety rules and forced hysterectomies on jailed immigrants; A new film looks at California's history of forced sterilizations of women prisoners.
New Film Links Forced Sterilization in California Prisons to Horrific History of Eugenics in U.S.
September 22, 2020 12:00We continue to look at revelations about forced hysterectomies at an ICE facility in Georgia have forced a reckoning with the long history of sterilizations in the U.S. — particularly of Black, Brown, poor and disabled people — and the way this procedure has continued in jails and prisons to the present day.
Democracy Now! 2020-09-21 Monday
September 21, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteSupreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died at 87. We spend the hour looking at Justice Ginsburg's life and legacy with legal journalist Dahlia Lithwick, "RBG" filmmaker Julie Cohen, and a man Ginsburg once called her favorite plaintiff.
Democracy Now! 2020-09-18 Friday
September 18, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteThe U.S. death toll from COVID-19 nears 200,000 as President Trump continues to downplay the pandemic and contradict scientists; We speak with David Goodrich, a former NOAA climate scientist; Remembering historian Howard Zinn.
Democracy Now! 2020-09-17 Thursday
September 17, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteA new report shows the humanitarian crisis in Yemen is deepening after U.S. aid cuts; 13,000 migrants are homeless after a fire destroyed most of Europe's largest refugee camp in Greece; WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange fights extradition to the U.S.
Democracy Now! 2020-09-16 Wednesday
September 16, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteLouisville agrees to a historic $12 million settlement with Breonna Taylor's family; Author Mychal Denzel Smith on racism, police killings, depression and the 2020 election; Noura Erakat says Trump's "peace" deals will boost oppression in the Middle East.
Democracy Now! 2020-09-15 Tuesday
September 15, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteReporter Ari Berman on attacks on voting rights across the U.S.; As fires continue to devastate the West Coast, Indigenous ways of land management could foster greater climate resiliency; How Amazon increased profits by price gouging during the pandemic.
Democracy Now! 2020-09-14 Monday
September 14, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteAs fires char the West Coast, we look at how farmworkers are particularly vulnerable and speak to a wildland fire ecologist in Oregon as Trump blames forest management, not the climate crisis; Rev. Barber on mobilizing voters ahead of November's election.
Democracy Now! 2020-09-11 Friday
September 11, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteNineteen years after the U.S. 9/11 attacks, the U.S. "global war on terror" launched in 2001 has displaced 37 million; Black feminist scholar and organizer Barbara Smith on combating white supremacy; The need for transparency developing a COVID vaccine.
Extended Interview: Roberto Lovato on His Memoir About Family, Migration, Gangs & Revolution in the Americas
September 10, 2020 12:00We continue our interview with Salvadoran American journalist Roberto Lovato, author of the new book “Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas.”
Democracy Now! 2020-09-10 Thursday
September 10, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteMajor climate change-fueled fires burn across the western U.S.; Dearth of African American and Latinx participants in medical trials could slow a COVID-19 vaccine; The history of medical exploitation of vulnerable groups in the U.S. and around the world.
Democracy Now! 2020-09-09 Wednesday
September 09, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteAs a hearing to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange begins, his lawyer says the case sets a chilling precedent; Salvadoran American journalist Roberto Lovato on how decades of U.S. military intervention in Central America led to the migrant crisis.
Spain Honors Filmmaker Isabel Coixet with National Cinematography Prize
September 08, 2020 12:00Spain’s Ministry of Culture has awarded Spain’s National Cinematography Prize to celebrated filmmaker Isabel Coixet. In 2019, Coixet spoke to Democracy Now! about her work, including her film “Elisa & Marcela.”
Democracy Now! 2020-09-08 Tuesday
September 08, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteThe director of "The Killing of Breonna Taylor" on new details in the case; How the Trump administration killed an anti-corruption commission in Guatemala in exchange for Guatemala's support of Trump's policies on the Middle East and immigration.
Democracy Now! 2020-09-07 Monday
September 07, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBIn a Democracy Now! special, Harvard professor Cornel West and Ben Jealous discuss Trump's record, Biden's vow to fight systemic racism, and more; Professor Angela Davis on the uprising against police brutality and racism.
Democracy Now! 2020-09-04 Friday
September 04, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteYale philosopher Jason Stanley, author of "How Fascism Works," says nations don't have to be fascist to suffer fascist politics; Chilean American author Ariel Dorfman on Salvador Allende's victory 50 years ago; David Graeber, dead at 59, in his own words.
Democracy Now! 2020-09-03 Thursday
September 03, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteAfter 23 deaths at Fort Hood, the commander is ousted. Is it enough?; Belarus protesters call for the removal of President Lukashenko; Rep. Mark Pocan on police violence in his hometown of Kenosha, the Alex Morse race, and cutting the Pentagon budget.
Democracy Now! 2020-09-02 Wednesday
September 02, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteWe discuss whether "The End of Oil Is Near" with reporter Antonia Juhasz; NYC teachers' unions reach a deal with the mayor over how to reopen schools; A former editor at Kenosha News on why he resigned over his news outlet's coverage of Jacob Blake.