Democracy Now! Audio
820 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 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! 2022-08-15 Monday
August 15, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteA search warrant reveals the FBI is investigating President Donald Trump for potential violation of the Espionage Act and other laws; Afghan journalist Zahra Nader on the first anniversary of the return of the Taliban to power in Afghanistan; We feature a rare speech by renowned Indian British novelist Salman Rushdie, who survived an assassination attempt Friday. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-08-12 Friday
August 12, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteMatthieu Aikins writes about “The Taliban’s Dangerous Collision Course With the West” for The New York Times; An imprisoned Saudi man was tortured and jailed for running a satirical Twitter account; Longtime Filipino activist Walden Bello gives an interview after being jailed for “cyber libel.” Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Indigenous Lawyer: Independently Investigate Dom Phillips & Bruno Pereira Murder in Brazil's Amazon
August 12, 2022 12:00We speak with Indigenous lawyer Eliésio Marubo in Brasília about calls to independently investigate the murders of British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous advocate Bruno Pereira.
Democracy Now! 2022-08-11 Thursday
August 11, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteTrita Parsi on efforts to revive the Iran nuclear deal; Hundreds of migrants arrive by bus in New York, sent by Texas Governor Greg Abbott with no warning as mutual aid and legal services scramble to respond; Activists call on President Biden to address soaring rent inflation; Los Angeles faces protests over expanding its ban on encampments of unhoused people. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-08-10 Wednesday
August 10, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 BytePolice arrest a suspect in the killings of four Muslim men in Albuquerque, New Mexico; The founder of the African People’s Socialist Party, a racial justice group, says the FBI is targeting the group for its political work; Immigrant justice activists cheer the end of the “Remain in Mexico” policy. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-08-09 Tuesday
August 09, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteFBI agents raid former President Trump’s home in Florida seeking documents; A look at Democrats’ sweeping climate, healthcare and tax bill; Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is ordered by a court to pay nearly $50 million in damages to the parents of a child killed at Sandy Hook. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-08-08 Monday
August 08, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteDozens of Palestinians are killed in Gaza after days of fighting between Israel and the militant group Islamic Jihad; Highlights from the historic inauguration of Colombia’s new leftist president and vice president; Princeton professor and expert on Hungary, Kim Lane Scheppele, on CPAC and U.S. conservatives’ embrace of right-wing authoritarianism. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-08-05 Friday
August 05, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteThe DOJ brings criminal charges against four former and current Louisville police officers for their role in Breonna Taylor’s death; The life and legacy of Albert Woodfox, a Black Panther activist who was held in solitary confinement longer than any prisoner in U.S. history. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-08-04 Thursday
August 04, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteThe nuclear crisis grows at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia plant and abroad; Kim Lane Scheppele on the rise and fall of Hungary’s constitutional democracy. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-07-29 Friday
July 29, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteCongressmember Andy Levin on facing AIPAC’s big-money campaign in Tuesday’s primary race; As key Senate Democrats reach a deal on climate funding, we speak with one of their advisers and with a congressional staffer arrested this week urging lawmakers to address the climate crisis; Two threats facing incarcerated people this summer: intensifying heat waves and monkeypox. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-07-28 Thursday
July 28, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteAs top U.S. and Russian diplomats talk for the first time since February, we look at the latest developments in the Russian war on Ukraine; The Taliban crackdown on women and girls since taking power. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Afghan Journalist Bilal Sarwary: Taliban Must "Allow a Free Press to Thrive" Amid Humanitarian Crisis
July 28, 2022 12:00In Part 2 of our interview with Afghan journalist Bilal Sarwary, he discusses life under Taliban rule and the increasing Taliban attacks on journalists.
Democracy Now! 2022-07-27 Wednesday
July 27, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteTensions between the U.S. and China mount ahead of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s planned trip to Taiwan; Economists Jayati Ghosh and Richard Wolff on the risks of a global debt crisis and how to handle rising inflation. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-07-26 Tuesday
July 26, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteIndigenous activists respond to Pope Francis’s apology tour in Canada for the Catholic Church’s role in Canada’s policy of residential schools that forcefully assimilated Indigenous children; The Puerto Rico Status Act would give residents a say in the future status of the territory; Burma’s military government executes four democracy activists. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
New Bomba Estéreo Project Centers Afro-Colombians as Francia Márquez Elected First Afro-Colombian VP
July 26, 2022 12:00Simón Mejía of the Colombian Grammy Award-winning band Bomba Estéreo speaks with Democracy Now! about the election of Francia Márquez Mina as the country’s first Afro-Colombian vice president and about the band’s new project centering the resistance, experiences and traditions of Afro-Colombians.
Democracy Now! 2022-07-25 Monday
July 25, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteThe World Health Organization declares monkeypox a global health emergency; Congressmember Ro Khanna on the ongoing baby formula shortage; “Aftershock” is a new documentary that examines the crisis of maternal mortality among Black people in the United States, which could get worse as states struggle to cope with abortion access after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-07-22 Friday
July 22, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteHighlights from the January 6th committee’s eighth and final hearing until the fall. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-07-21 Thursday
July 21, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteAs heat waves scorch much of the globe, we spend the hour looking at the intensifying climate crisis with leading activists in the United States, Africa and Europe. We look at how Biden could use his emergency powers, and speak with Vanessa Nakate, climate justice activist in Kampala, Uganda, and British author and environmental activist George Monbiot. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-07-20 Wednesday
July 20, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutesDemocratic Rep. Jamie Raskin on the latest in the House investigation of the Capitol insurrection, which holds its eighth public hearing Thursday; Progressive Caucus Chair, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, on surviving a racist death threat, and the Democrats’ push for an assault weapons ban and a federal right to abortion. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-07-19 Tuesday
July 19, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteTexas state Senator Roland Gutierrez on a new report revealing “multiple systemic failures” in the response of nearly 400 police officers to the shooting in Uvalde; Jewish Currents editor Peter Beinart on how pro-Israel PACs are deploying millions to defeat liberal congressional candidates; Pioneering scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw launches a critical race theory “summer school.” Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-07-18 Monday
July 18, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteHuman rights advocates question President Biden’s Middle East trip, including his meetings with Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman and Egypt’s Abdel Fattah el-Sisi; Bill McKibben on the heat have scorching much of the globe; How “unimaginable abortion stories” will become more common following the end of Roe v. Wade. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
In "Immense World," Science Writer Ed Yong Shows "How Animal Senses Reveal Hidden Realms Around Us"
July 15, 2022 12:00The Atlantic’s science writer Ed Yong joins us to discuss his fascinating new book, “An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us.”
Democracy Now! 2022-07-15 Friday
July 15, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteAstrophysicist Katie Mack on the revolutionary new images of the cosmos released this week from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope; Astronomer Lucianne Walkowicz of JustSpace Alliance on the push to rename the JWST because of his role in perpetuating homophobia at the State Dept. and NASA in the 1950s and 1960s. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-07-14 Thursday
July 14, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteRashid Khalid and Sarah Leah Whitson on President Biden’s Middle East tour; Ed Yong on the COVID-19 “reinfection wave.” Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-07-13 Wednesday
July 13, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteHighlights from the seventh public hearing of the House select committee investigating the Capitol insurrection, which focused on former President Trump’s links to domestic extremist groups and how he used Twitter to summon some of his most violent supporters to Washington, D.C., on January 6. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-07-12 Tuesday
July 12, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteAn update from Sri Lanka on the unfolding political and economic crisis; Joe Lauria, editor-in-chief of Consortium News, on pressure for independent media to follow a single approved narrative on the Ukraine war; Reproductive rights leaders in the Deep South on their work post-Roe, including the CEO of the Mississippi clinic at the center of the Supreme Court case that overturned Roe. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-07-11 Monday
July 11, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBFilmmakers Betsy West and Julie Cohen discuss their latest documentary, “Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down,” about the former Arizona congressmember’s fight for gun safety after she survived an assassination attempt in 2011. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-07-08 Friday
July 08, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteFormer Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is assassinated while campaigning for his party; WNBA star Brittney Griner pleads guilty to drug possession charges in Russia as pressure grows for the U.S. to secure her release; As President Biden prepares to visit Israel and other countries in the Middle East, the State Department is accused of whitewashing the killing of Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Dig...
Democracy Now! 2022-07-07 Thursday
July 07, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteBoris Johnson resigns as leader of the U.K. Conservative Party, clearing the way for a new prime minister; The latest on Sri Lanka’s economic crisis and global fuel shortages leading to protests worldwide; Aziz Rana and Darryl Li on building a leftist foreign policy. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-07-06 Wednesday
July 06, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteThe death toll for the July Fourth shooting in Highland Park climbs to seven; The rise of white supremacist extremism with groups like Patriot Front and NSC-131 in New England; The Supreme Court agrees to hear the North Carolina case Moore v. Harper in the fall, a case that will decide if Republican gerrymandering violates the state constitution. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-07-05 Tuesday
July 05, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteGun violence disrupts a July Fourth parade in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park; We speak with an activist helping to lead protests over the police shooting of Jayland Walker in Akron, Ohio; The latest on the mass shooting in Uvalde and abortion rights in Texas. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-07-04 Monday
July 04, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteWe air a special holiday show for U.S. Independence Day featuring the words and voices of famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass, actor James Earl Jones and poet Amanda Gorman. Plus we speak to Michele Goodwin and Kitty Kolbert on the overturning of Roe.
Democracy Now! 2022-06-24 Friday
June 24, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteThe U.S. Supreme Court strikes down a New York state law on concealed firearms, vastly expanding gun rights across the country; Highlights from the fifth day of public hearings by the House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-06-23 Thursday
June 23, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteA 5.9-magnitude earthquake kills at least 1,000 in Afghanistan; Experts warn of a pending global food shortage; Critics denounce the World Trade Organization for keeping intellectual property barriers they say will limit global access to COVID-19 vaccines, tests & treatments. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-06-22 Wednesday
June 22, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 27.4 MBHighlights from the fourth public hearing of the House committee investigating January 6, which focused on how then-President Trump and his campaign team pressured and harassed state and local officials in a thwarted plan to overturn the 2020 election. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-06-21 Tuesday
June 21, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteAs voters make history in Colombia, we speak to people on the ground about the significance of the presidential election and reair interviews with Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez, who will be the country’s first leftist president and the first Black vice president. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-06-20 Monday
June 20, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 27.4 MBA Juneteenth special with Clint Smith, Nikole Hannah-Jones and Craig Steven Wilder.
Democracy Now! 2022-06-17 Friday
June 17, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteThe U.K. approves Julian Assange’s extradition to the United States to face espionage charges; Highlights from the third public January 6 hearing in Congress; The Poor People’s Moral March this Saturday will bring thousands to the Capitol as the U.S. faces its worst inflation in decades with skyrocketing food, gas and energy prices. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-06-16 Thursday
June 16, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteThe Biden administration announces a new $1 billion military aid package for Ukraine; Hate crimes and legislative attacks on the LGBTQ community rise across the U.S.; An organizer who skipped a White House Pride Month celebration says the administration must stop the detention and deportation of LGBTQ immigrants and asylum seekers. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-06-15 Wednesday
June 15, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteHistorian and “Watergate: A New History” author Garrett Graff on the break-in 50 years ago this week and lessons from the Watergate hearings for the House January 6 committee; Veteran labor journalist Steven Greenhouse on Biden’s address to the AFL-CIO convention and the latest on unionizing drives at Amazon and Starbucks and throughout the economy; Biden plans to visit Saudi Arabia despite his pledge to treat the kingdom like a “pariah.” Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Si...
Democracy Now! 2022-06-14 Tuesday
June 14, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteHighlights from the second public hearing of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the Capitol. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-06-13 Monday
June 13, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 27.4 MBWe spend the hour with Democracy Now! co-host Juan González, who has just published a revised edition of his landmark 2000 book, “Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America.” Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-06-10 Friday
June 10, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteWe recap the first public hearing of the U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-06-09 Thursday
June 09, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteThe United Nations demands an independent investigation into charges of rape and sexual assault committed by Russian soldiers in Ukraine; The House committee investigating Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election and the deadly January 6 insurrection holds its first public hearing Thursday evening. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-06-08 Wednesday
June 08, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteVoters in San Francisco recall progressive District Attorney Chesa Boudin after a well-funded opposition campaign by the real estate industry and others; Latin American leaders boycott the Summit of the Americas after Biden excludes Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua; An Amazonian Indigenous leader is blocked from the summit; British journalist and Brazilian expert on Indigenous peoples are missing in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest after documenting illegal fishing and mining in the area. Get Democr...
From Prison to the Newsroom: Keri Blakinger, Formerly Incarcerated Reporter, on Her New Memoir & More
June 07, 2022 12:00In an extended, in-depth interview, we speak with criminal justice reporter Keri Blakinger about her “epic” new memoir, “Corrections in Ink.”
Democracy Now! 2022-06-07 Tuesday
June 07, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteBritish Prime Minister Boris Johnson narrowly survives a vote of no confidence; Texas Senator Roland Gutierrez says police are covering up what happened in Uvalde, and reporters say police and biker gangs are blocking them from covering funerals of the mass shooting victims; Investigative reporter Keri Blakinger on her new memoir, “Corrections in Ink,” about her journey from addiction and prison to recovery and the newsroom. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the ...
Democracy Now! 2022-06-06 Monday
June 06, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteKatrina vanden Heuvel says we need a real debate on the Ukraine war; The House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection will hold its first public hearing this Thursday; Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Will Bunch on how shooters wielding semiautomatic rifles massacred at least three in the city Saturday; A landmark California task force report calls for reparations to descendants of enslaved people. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: de...
Democracy Now! 2022-06-03 Friday
June 03, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 BytePresident Biden calls on Congress to enact new gun control measures; San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin on fighting the recall election to unseat him and end his progressive policies on social justice reform; The Biden administration wipes the debts of former students at Corinthian Colleges, but has not yet moved on wider student debt forgiveness. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-06-02 Thursday
June 02, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteAnatol Lieven on how the U.S. can avoid Cold War mistakes in a standoff with Russia; How the U.S. is exporting its gun violence through massive arms sales to other countries; The climate emergency and war in Ukraine lead to a devastating hunger crisis. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe