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820 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 17 hours 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! 2022-06-01 Wednesday
June 01, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteInvestigative journalist Frank Smyth on the NRA and the power of the gun lobby; Adel Al Manthari was hit by a U.S. drone strike in Yemen, and supporters are raising money for lifesaving surgery in lieu of help from the Pentagon; a new campaign targets racist Supreme Court rulings used to justify discrimination against people in Puerto Rico and U.S.-occupied territories. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-05-31 Tuesday
May 31, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteThe Texas senator for Uvalde on calls for stricter gun control after the massacre at Robb Elementary School; A Pulse nightclub survivor says police took three hours to break in after the 2016 attack left 49 dead, and are ill-equipped to stop mass shooters; Leftist Gustavo Petro wins in the first round of Colombia’s presidential election, setting up a showdown with a right-wing business leader compared to Trump. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: ...
Democracy Now! 2022-05-30 Monday
May 30, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteA special broadcast featuring Michele Goodwin, author of “Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood”; Rep. Lucy McBath; and ACLU attorney and trans activist Chase Strangio.
Democracy Now! 2022-05-27 Friday
May 27, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteAuthor and journalist Mark Follman on how behavioral threat assessment can prevent mass shootings; Longtime Minneapolis activist and Councilmember Robin Wonsley Worlobah on stalled police abolition two years after the murder of George Floyd; an update on evacuation efforts in the Donbas region as Russian shelling continues Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-05-26 Thursday
May 26, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteThe massacre at Robb Elementary School increases pressure for gun control; How Australia passed sweeping new gun control measures after a mass shooting; DHS says it will try to pause immigration enforcement in Uvalde after the Robb Elementary School massacre; Journalist Patrick Cockburn on continued fighting in Ukraine. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-05-25 Wednesday
May 25, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteAn 18-year-old gunman kills 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. We speak with Nicole Golden of Texas Gun Sense, The Trace reporter Mike Spies, and Parkland H.S. victim father and activist Manuel Oliver. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Abolition Struggle Ongoing in Minneapolis 2 Years After Police Killed George Floyd, Spurring Protests
May 25, 2022 12:00Two years after the police killing George Floyd, we go to Minneapolis to speak with Robin Wonsley Worlobah, longtime activist who is now the city’s first Black democratic socialist city councilmember.
Democracy Now! 2022-05-24 Tuesday
May 24, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteHaitian American historian Westenley Alcenat and Prof. Gerald Horne respond to The New York Times series “The Ransom,” which details how Haiti became one of the poorest countries in the world while bankers in France and the United States made a fortune; President Biden is in Tokyo to meet with leaders from the “Quad” in efforts to counter China’s power and makes confusing comments on U.S. policy on Taiwan. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democ...
Democracy Now! 2022-05-23 Monday
May 23, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteIn a “Green Wave,” Australian voters elect the Labor Party’s Anthony Albanese and end a decade of conservative rule; “His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice,” is a new book on Floyd’s life and legacy published two years after his death at the hands of Minneapolis police sparked a global uprising against racism. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-05-20 Friday
May 20, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteAn update from the grieving Buffalo community after last weekend’s white supremacist massacre; reproductive rights groups face a major setback as Oklahoma imposes one of the strictest abortion bans in the country. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-05-19 Thursday
May 19, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteNina Khrushcheva on Russia’s war in Ukraine; Gun control advocates say stricter rules may have prevented the Buffalo shooter’s killing spree; Chileans rewrite their country’s Pinochet-era constitution. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-05-18 Wednesday
May 18, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteProgressives win big in Tuesday’s primary elections despite opposition from within the Democratic Party, as well as deep-pocketed outside groups, say journalist David Sirota and progressive champion Nina Turner; U.S. journalist William Nessen reports from the frontline of the war in eastern Ukraine. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-05-17 Tuesday
May 17, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteColor of Change’s Rashad Robinson on social media’s role in the Buffalo massacre and the propagation of extremism; Journalist Talia Lavin on how the gunman’s hateful ideology reflects hateful rhetoric found in online chatrooms she reports on; The role of monopolies in the U.S. baby formula shortage. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-05-16 Monday
May 16, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteIndia Walton in Buffalo responds to the mass shooting at a grocery store that targeted the Black community; the spread of white nationalist conspiracy theories and Fox News host Tucker Carlson and their relation to mass shootings; Ibram X. Kendi on antiracist education; We Testify founder Renee Bracey Sherman on the racist history of anti-abortion movements and what lawmakers must do to protect reproductive healthcare. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily ...
Democracy Now! 2022-05-13 Friday
May 13, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteIndigenous writer and historian Nick Estes on a new report by the Interior Department that says at least 500 Indigenous children died at Indian boarding schools run or supported by the U.S. government; Calls grow for President Biden to grant clemency to imprisoned Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier; Journalists in Mexico are being killed with impunity in record numbers; European peace activists oppose Finland’s plans to end decades of neutrality and join NATO. Get Democracy Now! delivered ...
Democracy Now! 2022-05-12 Thursday
May 12, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 BytePalestinians mourn and protest the killing of veteran journalist Shireen Abu Akleh; Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov on the Russian invasion; A conversation with 2021 Nobel Literature Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-05-11 Wednesday
May 11, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteAl Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh is shot dead by Israeli forces in the West Bank; Nobel Peace Prize-winning journalist Maria Ressa on the return of the Marcos dynasty in the Philippines; Workers at Starbucks and Amazon who say they were fired for organizing are fighting to get their jobs back. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-05-10 Tuesday
May 10, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteSri Lanka’s prime minister resigns after weeks of mass protests over the country’s economic crisis; The podcast “Suave” wins a Pulitzer Prize; Historian Kelly Lytle Hernández’s new book “Bad Mexicans” tells the untold story of the Mexican Revolution and its relation to U.S. imperialism. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-05-09 Monday
May 09, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteU.S. lawmakers are openly calling the fighting in Ukraine a proxy war between the U.S. and Russia; Alabama becomes the first state to make it a felony to provide gender-affirming medical care to trans youth; The Irish nationalist party Sinn Féin wins a historic number of seats in the Northern Ireland Assembly. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-05-06 Friday
May 06, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteThe World Health Organization says the true death toll of the COVID-19 pandemic is nearly 15 million people, with nearly 5 million deaths in India alone; Reproductive rights scholar Michele Goodwin on how a ban on abortion in rape and incest cases hurts the survivors. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Policing the Womb: Michele Goodwin Takes on Anti-Abortion Laws, Lays Out Reproductive New Deal
May 06, 2022 12:00In an in-depth interview with Michele Goodwin, she discusses her book, “Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood,” and lays out a “Reproductive New Deal.”
Democracy Now! 2022-05-05 Thursday
May 05, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteHow the Russian war in Ukraine is exacerbating world hunger, especially for African countries reliant on wheat imports and where food insecurity is already dire; The European Union vows to ban Russian oil imports by the end of the year; Historian Timothy Snyder on why Russia’s war in Ukraine is a colonial war. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-05-04 Wednesday
May 04, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteWe speak with an abortion doctor and a reproductive rights activist facing deportation about how to protect access to abortion; The role of dark money in placing anti-abortion justices on the high court; What can we learn from the Ohio primaries for House and Senate races where a Trump-backed candidate won and a progressive Democrat lost amid a wave of outside attacks. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-05-03 Tuesday
May 03, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteA leaked majority opinion suggests the U.S. Supreme Court has decided to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that established a constitutional right to abortion; CodePink’s Medea Benjamin and the Quincy Institute’s George Beebe on the war in Ukraine and the risk of a direct military confrontation between Russia and the United States. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-05-02 Monday
May 02, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteA record-breaking heat wave hits India and Pakistan as summer arrives early due in part to the climate crisis; One in five reptile species risk extinction; Update on the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine and its impact on support for crises in other parts of the world. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-04-29 Friday
April 29, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteRussian missiles fly over the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, raising fears of a nuclear disaster; Science writer Ed Yong on why future pandemics are more likely, due to the climate crisis; The landmark 1979 labor documentary “The Wobblies” is rereleased in high definition and entered into the Library of Congress. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-04-28 Thursday
April 28, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteA Harvard report details the school’s deep ties to slavery; After a U.S. prisoner swap with Russia this week, calls grow for the Biden administration to secure the freedom of WNBA star Brittney Griner, jailed in Russia since February; Anatol Lieven on the dangers of a U.S. proxy war in Ukraine. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-04-27 Wednesday
April 27, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteU.S. lawmakers push for Puerto Rico’s self-determination; Asylum seekers could see better conditions if the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down the Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” policy; Historian Alfred McCoy on how to end the war in Ukraine. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-04-26 Tuesday
April 26, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteCuba and the U.S. hold their highest-level talks in four years; Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, is set to buy Twitter for $44 billion; Environmental lawyer Steven Donziger on leaving house arrest after nearly 1,000 days. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-04-25 Monday
April 25, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteFrench President Emmanuel Macron wins reelection against far-right leader Marine Le Pen; Redistricting in Florida all but guarantees Republicans four more seats in Congress while cutting seats of Black Democrats; Legislative attacks on LGBTQ rights proliferate across the U.S., and some Democratic lawmakers are pushing back. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-04-22 Friday
April 22, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteWe mark Earth Day with a look at why the U.S. must reconsider its heavy reliance on Russian and Ukrainian dirty steel; The director of “Powerlands,” a new documentary on Indigenous movements against environmental catastrophe across the world. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-04-21 Thursday
April 21, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteWe speak with a Ukrainian democratic socialist; Tony Wood on how average Russians are paying the price for Vladimir Putin’s gamble; Why the Donbas region is pivotal to the outcome of the war. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Update on Ukraine's Donbas, Under Heavy Attack, & What a Peaceful Resolution Could Look Like
April 21, 2022 12:00In an extended conversation, we get an update on the Donbas part of Ukraine, where thousands of civilians are reportedly trapped.
Democracy Now! 2022-04-20 Wednesday
April 20, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteSecurity deteriorates in Afghanistan under Taliban rule as a boys’ school in Kabul is bombed; U.S. border officials allow Ukrainian refugees to enter while holding back asylum seekers from Haiti, Central America and elsewhere; Texas plans to execute Melissa Lucio despite claims she is innocent, amid bipartisan calls to save her life. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-04-19 Tuesday
April 19, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteRussia launches a major new offensive in eastern Ukraine; Imprisoned Egyptian activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah undertakes a hunger strike to protest his detention as his family calls for his urgent release. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-04-18 Monday
April 18, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteIsraeli forces repeatedly raid the Al-Aqsa Mosque, violently clearing worshipers during Ramadan; Republican-led states enact a wave of new abortion restrictions; The Biden administration grants temporary protected status to Cameroonians living in the United States. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-04-15 Friday
April 15, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteU.S. weapons makers are cashing in on the Ukraine war; Vijay Prashad on how Russia’s invasion exposes Western hypocrisy on war crimes; “Trigger Points: Inside the Mission to Stop Mass Shootings in America.” Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-04-14 Thursday
April 14, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteThe U.S. mental health crisis and its connections to the New York subway shooting; Sweden and Finland consider NATO membership; Update from Lviv on the Russian war in Ukraine after Putin declared a “dead end” to peace negotiations. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-04-13 Wednesday
April 13, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteNew York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams on the subway shooting; How the Russian war in Ukraine is impacting inflation; Starbucks Workers United union drive spreads to 30 states. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-04-12 Tuesday
April 12, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteRussia is set to launch a massive offensive in eastern Ukraine; Saudi investment in the Trump family and the fate of 26 Saudi men accused of killing journalist Jamal Khashoggi; J. David McSwane on his new book, “Pandemic, Inc.: Chasing the Capitalists and Thieves Who Got Rich While We Got Sick.” Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-04-11 Monday
April 11, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteActivists Tariq Ali and Tooba Syed respond to Imran Khan’s ousting as Pakistan’s prime minister and the election of Shahbaz Sharif; Far-right candidate Marine Le Pen will face French President Emmanuel Macron in a runoff after France’s first round of presidential elections; Founder of the La Frontera Fund on mobilizing to free and support Lizelle Herrera, jailed over a “self-induced abortion” amid Texas’s crackdowns on reproductive rights. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. S...
Democracy Now! 2022-04-08 Friday
April 08, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteProf. Michele Goodwin on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s historic confirmation to the Supreme Court and the wave of anti-abortion laws sweeping the U.S.; Russia’s suspension from the U.N. Human Rights Council reveals double standards in the international criminal justice system; Trita Parsi on negotiations to revive the Iran nuclear deal. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-04-07 Thursday
April 07, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteBig Oil reaps major profits as gas prices soar amid war in Ukraine; Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Hungary’s right-wing leader Viktor Orbán, just reelected to a fourth term; President Biden extends a moratorium on student loan payments, but activists continue to demand full cancellation of debts. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-04-06 Wednesday
April 06, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteEvidence grows of Russian atrocities in Ukraine; A Taliban crackdown on girls’ education stalls talks with the U.S. about possible relief for Afghanistan’s economic crisis. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-04-05 Tuesday
April 05, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 BytePakistan faces a constitutional crisis as Prime Minister Imran Khan calls for new elections; Concerns grow about human rights abuses in El Salvador during a 30-day state of emergency over gang violence; A new report highlights how poverty and COVID-19 deaths are linked in the United States. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-04-04 Monday
April 04, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteWe speak with the two best friends who took on Amazon and successfully organized workers in Staten Island vote to form the retail giant’s first U.S. union; As Russian forces retreat from the areas around Kyiv, evidence emerges of summary killings of civilians, mass graves and other atrocities. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-04-01 Friday
April 01, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 BytePresident Biden signs the Emmett Till Antilynching Act, culminating more than a century of efforts to make lynching a federal crime. We speak with Till’s cousin and best friend, as well as the great-granddaughter of crusading anti-lynching journalist Ida B. Wells; Journalist Chris Hedges speaks about his former RT America show, Julian Assange, Ukraine and more. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-03-31 Thursday
March 31, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBRussia appears set to launch a major new offensive in the Donbas region of Ukraine; Funding ends for free COVID-19 tests, treatment and vaccines, putting the uninsured and communities of color at even greater risk, as the pandemic has led to a renewed push for Medicare for All. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
New Book Documents Role of U.N. & EU in Humanitarian Crisis for African Refugees Held in Libyan Prisons
March 30, 2022 12:00Part 2 of our interview with Sally Hayden, author of the new book, “My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route.”
Democracy Now! 2022-03-30 Wednesday
March 30, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 1 ByteIs there a peace deal in sight for Ukraine?; Guerline Jozef and Maria Hinojosa on the unequal treatment of nonwhite refugees, most recently Haitians at the U.S.-Mexico border; Investigative reporter Sally Hayden on African refugees imprisoned in Libya. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe