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! 2020-09-01 Tuesday
September 01, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteTrump's new coronavirus adviser pushes for herd immunity; Jacob Blake's shooting brings scrutiny to the case of Black teenager Chrystul Kizer handled by the same Kenosha DA; Hurricane Laura cuts power to Louisiana immigration jails, prompting protests.
Democracy Now! 2020-08-31 Monday
August 31, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteWe speak to author, professor and cancer survivor Ibram X. Kendi about the death of actor Chadwick Boseman, his own fight against cancer, racial disparities in healthcare, Trump, white supremacy and "How to Be an Antiracist."
Democracy Now! 2020-08-28 Friday
August 28, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteHistorian Rick Perlstein on President Trump's RNC speech and the 2020 race; We speak with a father whose son was killed by Kenosha police in 2004; Hurricane Laura slams ashore as a Category 4 storm.
Democracy Now! 2020-08-27 Thursday
August 27, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteProtests continue over the police shooting of Jacob Blake; Professional athletes strike for racial justice; Mike Pence emphasizes law and order at the RNC; John Dean, Nixon's former White House counsel, on Trump's "Authoritarian Nightmare."
Democracy Now! 2020-08-26 Wednesday
August 26, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBTwo people are shot dead in Kenosha, Wisconsin, as protests continue over the police shooting of Jacob Blake; Highlights from the second night of the RNC; Investigative journalist Jean Guerrero on Stephen Miller, Donald Trump and white nationalism.
Make America White Again: Stephen Miller's Assault on Immigration & His Quest to Change the Country
August 26, 2020 12:00We continue our in-depth interview with Jean Guerrero, author of the new book, “Hatemonger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the White Nationalist Agenda.”
Democracy Now! 2020-08-25 Tuesday
August 25, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBThe RNC kicks off with dire warnings about Joe Biden and little mention of the pandemic's devastation; Veteran GOP strategist Stuart Stevens on working to defeat Trump; Climate-fueled wildfires in California expose the state's reliance on prison labor.
Democracy Now! 2020-08-24 Monday
August 24, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBAmid protests and congressional hearings, the House approves $25 billion to help the USPS; Trump's former campaign manager Steve Bannon allegedly defrauded donors with promises to build a wall; We look at far-right QAnon conspiracy theory before the RNC.
Democracy Now! 2020-08-21 Friday
August 21, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBJoe Biden accepts the Democratic presidential nomination and vows to bring the U.S. out of darkness; Cornel West and Ben Jealous react to the DNC and the Biden-Harris ticket.
Democracy Now! 2020-08-20 Thursday
August 20, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBBarack Obama warns the future of U.S. democracy is at stake if Trump is reelected; Attorney Durecka Purnell on Kamala Harris's historic vice-presidential nomination; Historian Keisha Blain on Charlotta Bass, first Black woman to run for vice president.
Democracy Now! 2020-08-19 Wednesday
August 19, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteDemocrats formally pick Joe Biden as their 2020 presidential nominee; Economist Darrick Hamilton and Sunrise Movement's Varshini Prakash on the Democratic Party's next steps; Trump's postmaster general suspends disruptive changes to the Postal Service.
Democracy Now! 2020-08-18 Tuesday
August 18, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteMichelle Obama and Bernie Sanders deliver searing critiques of President Trump on the first night of the virtual DNC; We speak to former 2020 candidate Julián Castro, who wasn't invited to speak in primetime; Marking 100 years of the 19th Amendment.
Democracy Now! 2020-08-17 Monday
August 17, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBRep. Ro Khanna on the post office crisis & why he opposes the DNC platform that does not include Medicare for All; Black Lives Matter activist Cori Bush on her primary win; 5 Afro-Indigenous Garífuna activists are among missing land defenders in Honduras.
Democracy Now! 2020-08-14 Friday
August 14, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBIsrael and the UAE reach a deal to normalize relations and for Israel to temporarily suspend its West Bank annexation plans; As calls grow to release people from prison, a look at why breaking the cycle of incarceration is so hard, especially for women.
Democracy Now! 2020-08-13 Thursday
August 13, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBSen. Kamala Harris's first address as Joe Biden's historic running mate; A debate on Harris's "top cop" record as California attorney general and San Francisco DA; Bolivians protest the repeated postponement of presidential elections since the 2019 coup.
Isabel Wilkerson on the U.S. Caste System & VP Pick Kamala Harris Breaking "Long-Standing Barriers"
August 12, 2020 12:00Part 2 of our interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson about her groundbreaking new book, “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.”
Democracy Now! 2020-08-12 Wednesday
August 12, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteAimee Allison of She the People and former Sanders campaign press sec. Briahna Joy Gray on Joe Biden's pick of Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate; Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson on her book, "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents."
Democracy Now! 2020-08-11 Tuesday
August 11, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteLebanon's government resigns after days of protest following the explosion in Beirut; The Atlantic's Ed Yong on how the coronavirus humbled and humiliated the U.S.; San Quentin State Prison in California faces the U.S.'s largest coronavirus outbreak.
Democracy Now! 2020-08-10 Monday
August 10, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutesLebanon's government is on the brink of collapse amid protests over the Beirut blast; Trump's postmaster general could sabotage the Postal Service ahead of an election reliant on mail-in voting; Trump's latest executive orders may be unconstitutional.
Democracy Now! 2020-08-07 Friday
August 07, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteWe spend the hour with President Trump's niece Mary Trump, whose new book describes how his dysfunctional family fostered his greed, cruelty and sexist and racist behavior, and discuss how it shaped his mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic and more.
Democracy Now! 2020-08-06 Thursday
August 06, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBOn the 75th anniversary of the U.S. dropping the world's first atomic bomb in warfare, Hiroshima survivor Hideko Tamura Snider recounts her horrific experience; How the U.S. government controlled the media narrative to justify its use of the atomic bomb.
Democracy Now! 2020-08-05 Wednesday
August 05, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBWe speak to a doctor in Beirut after Tuesday’s massive explosion in the port and look at Lebanon’s economic, political and public health crisis with journalist Rami Khouri; Calls grow to break up Big Tech monopolies as their CEOs make record profits.
Democracy Now! 2020-08-04 Tuesday
August 04, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBHow Jared Kushner's White House task force abandoned a nationwide coronavirus testing plan; human rights advocates demand the release of jailed asylum seekers and immigrants amid the pandemic; Border Patrol agents raid a humanitarian aid camp in Arizona.
Democracy Now! 2020-08-03 Monday
August 03, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteAs President Trump floats delaying the 2020 election, we speak with historian Nils Gilman, who gamed out what a contested election would look like, and LaTosha Brown of the Black Voters Matter Fund; Moroccan journalist Omar Radi has just been arrested.
Democracy Now! 2020-07-31 Friday
July 31, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBWe play excerpts from President Barack Obama's eulogy for civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis at the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta; We also hear remarks from senior pastor Raphael Warnock and Rev. James Lawson, a champion of nonviolence.
Democracy Now! 2020-07-30 Thursday
July 30, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteProfessor Noam Chomsky on why neoliberal policies left the country unprepared for a public health crisis, how Cuba has helped other countries during the pandemic, Israel's threat to annex the West Bank and the upcoming U.S. election.
"They Have No Evidence Against Me": Moroccan Journalist Omar Radi Jailed After He Criticized Gov't
July 30, 2020 12:00Moroccan authorities have arrested journalist Omar Radi Wednesday on what press freedom advocates call “retaliatory charges.” We spoke to him before his arrest, when he was being called in several times a week for questioning.
“They Have No Evidence Against Me”: Moroccan Journalist Omar Radi Jailed After He Criticized Govt.
July 30, 2020 12:00Moroccan authorities have arrested journalist Omar Radi Wednesday on what press freedom advocates call “retaliatory charges.” We spoke to him before his arrest, when he was being called in several times a week for questioning.
Democracy Now! 2020-07-29 Wednesday
July 29, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteAttorney General William Barr is grilled by House lawmakers; Civil rights legend John Lewis is remembered by Rev. Raphael Warnock, who will preside over his funeral at MLK’s former church, and fellow Freedom Rider and SNCC leader Bernard Lafayette.
Democracy Now! 2020-07-28 Tuesday
July 28, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteAs COVID-19 vaccine trials continue around the world, we look at who is profiting from the race to develop a cure; In Texas, hundreds who came to the U.S. seeking asylum were secretly held in hotels before being expelled from the country.
Democracy Now! 2020-07-27 Monday
July 27, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteProtests continue as Trump deploys federal forces. We speak with activists in Portland and Seattle. Princeton professor Eddie Glaude on the radical legacy of Rep. John Lewis, and his new book on James Baldwin's America and lessons for today.
Democracy Now! 2020-07-24 Friday
July 24, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteProfessor Noam Chomsky on Trump’s vow to send federal agents to Democrat-led cities, whether he’ll leave office if he loses the election and more; Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez fires back at Rep. Ted Yoho for verbally attacking her on the Capitol steps.
Democracy Now! 2020-07-23 Thursday
July 23, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 BytePhiladelphia DA Larry Krasner warns he will arrest Trump's federal agents who violate rights there; Chicago protesters demand justice for Miracle Boyd, teen activist police punched; Journalist Todd Miller on U.S. militarism at the border and abroad.
Democracy Now! 2020-07-22 Wednesday
July 22, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteCOVID-19 infections skyrocket in South Africa amid a vaccine study; We look at COVID throughout the African continent with the head of Africa's Centres for Disease Control and Prevention; Latinx workers are hit hard by the pandemic, die at greater rates.
Democracy Now! 2020-07-21 Tuesday
July 21, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteAs outcry grows in Portland over unidentified federal officials snatching activists off the streets in unmarked vans, Trump threatens to send federal forces to more cities; Teachers react to the administration's attempt to force public schools to reopen.
Democracy Now! 2020-07-20 Monday
July 20, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteWe remember two civil rights icons who died Friday: 17-term U.S. Rep. John Lewis, original Freedom Rider and one of the "Big Six" at the 1963 March on Washington, & C.T. Vivian, whom Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called "the greatest preacher to ever live."
Democracy Now! 2020-07-17 Friday
July 17, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteU.S.-backed bombing campaign continues in Yemen as COVID-19 spreads; Journalist Sonia Shah says "It's Time to Tell a New Story About Coronavirus—Our Lives Depend on It"; Philadelphia mayor delays homeless encampment eviction as CDC urges them to remain.
Democracy Now! 2020-07-16 Thursday
July 16, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteNew details about the police killing of George Floyd; 87 are arrested demanding the arrest of officers who killed Breonna Taylor; Marc Lamont Hill has COVID; Public health historian John Barry warns "The Pandemic Could Get Much, Much Worse."
Democracy Now! 2020-07-15 Wednesday
July 15, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBAs Trump diverts COVID data from the CDC, epidemiologist and former CDC official Dr. Ali Khan responds; Ohio State Prof. Amna Akbar says "The Left Is Remaking the World"; Tucson Mayor Regina Romero in the COVID hot spot of Arizona.
Democracy Now! 2020-07-14 Tuesday
July 14, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteReporter Jacob Soboroff on COVID in ICE jails and how more jailed migrant families face separation; the Washington NFL team whose name is a slur drops the R-word; the lead writer for Trump's favorite Fox News TV show resigns over racist online comments.
Democracy Now! 2020-07-13 Monday
July 13, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteTrump and Education Sec. Betsy DeVos push for public schools to reopen amid record infections; Vauhxx Booker survived an attempted lynching over the Fourth of July weekend; how the twin pandemics of COVID and racism are impacting people with disabilities.
Democracy Now! 2020-07-10 Friday
July 10, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteBrazil faces the world's second-worst COVID outbreak as far-right President Bolsonaro tests positive; The Supreme Court shields Trump's tax returns; A victory for Indigenous sovereignty as half of Oklahoma is ruled to be Native American land.
Democracy Now! 2020-07-09 Thursday
July 09, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteThe Supreme Court sides with the Trump administration to let employers deny free birth control access; Preventing zoonotic diseases and the next pandemic; Black Lives Matter protests in Belgium focus on the country's violent colonial legacy.
Democracy Now! 2020-07-08 Wednesday
July 08, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteAs Trump pushes schools to reopen, international students respond to plans to deport those in online-only courses; Houston's hospitals struggle to cope with record cases; Black and Latinx people suffer more due to racism and health service disparities.
Democracy Now! 2020-07-07 Tuesday
July 07, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteAs judge orders the Dakota Access Pipeline shut down, a Standing Rock Sioux Tribe elder responds; the Atlantic Coast Pipeline is canceled after years of protests; a person jailed at ICE's Otay Mesa Detention Center describes the COVID outbreak there.
Democracy Now! 2020-07-06 Monday
July 06, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBIndigenous scholar and activist Nick Estes on Trump's speech at Mount Rushmore, renaming sports teams, and COVID in Indian Country; Exclusive interview with Egyptian prisoner rights advocate Laila Soueif, fighting for the release of her son and daughter.
Democracy Now! 2020-07-03 Friday
July 03, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBJames Earl Jones reads Frederick Douglass's historic speech, "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"; Angela Davis, Cornel West, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor & Tamika Mallory on the historic uprising against racism and police violence.
Democracy Now! 2020-07-02 Thursday
July 02, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteTribal governments call on Trump to cancel his Independence Day rally at Mount Rushmore; Barbara Ransby on the "Biden problem" facing social movements; The family of Vanessa Guillén, a soldier at Fort Hood, demands answers after her disappearance.
Democracy Now! 2020-07-01 Wednesday
July 01, 2020 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteJamaal Bowman on his upset primary victory over Israel hawk Eliot Engel, and his support for Palestine, a rent strike and police accountability; Atlantic science writer Ed Yong on the U.S. COVID crisis, and how Medicare for All could have saved lives.
"Unmitigated Disaster": Hunger Striker at Otay Mesa Detention Center Speaks Out as COVID-19 Spreads
June 30, 2020 12:00We go inside Otay Mesa Detention Center in California to speak to Anthony Alexandre, a Haitian immigrant and longtime U.S. resident who has led two hunger strikes to protest dire conditions and a deadly COVID-19 outbreak at the jail.