Democracy Now! Video
811 episodes - English - Latest episode: 21 days ago - ★★★★★ - 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! 2023-01-23 Monday
January 23, 2023 13:00 - 59 minutes - 198 MB VideoHeadlines for January 23, 2023; Free Julian Assange: Noam Chomsky, Dan Ellsberg & Jeremy Corbyn Lead Call at Belmarsh Tribunal
Democracy Now! 2022-11-08 Tuesday
November 08, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 219 MB VideoEgyptian activist Sanaa Seif is in Sharm el-Sheikh amid COP27 to demand authorities release her brother Alaa Abd El-Fattah, who is on a hunger strike and may be close to death; Sunrise Movement’s Varshini Prakash on what’s at stake for the climate in Tuesday’s midterms; How Arizona Republicans disenfranchised Native American voters after they helped swing the state to the Democrats in 2020; The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law on efforts to protect the vote in Tuesday’s midterm ...
Democracy Now! 2022-11-07 Monday
November 07, 2022 13:00 - 59 minutes - 228 MB VideoJustice Democrats spokesperson Waleed Shahid on which midterm races progressives could win; Voters weigh abortion access, cannabis legalization and other major issues in ballot initiatives across the United States; The impact of Elon Musk’s Twitter acquisition on communities of color and election disinformation. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-11-04 Friday
November 04, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 246 MB VideoBenjamin Netanyahu is set to return as prime minister in Israel, this time with help from a far-right politician who supports ethnic cleansing of Palestinians; Asylum seekers arrive in New York from southern border states, where many say they faced pressure to relocate; The Department of Homeland Security’s expanding efforts to monitor and shape online speech. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-11-03 Thursday
November 03, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 236 MB VideoEgypt arrests hundreds ahead of COP27; We discuss new diplomatic efforts between Russia and Ukraine and look at the war’s impact on Africa; Ethiopia and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front reach a peace deal to end years of brutal conflict. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-11-02 Wednesday
November 02, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 250 MB VideoMatt Duss and Ray McGovern debate the Russian invasion of Ukraine and how the left should respond to the war; SEIU president Mary Kay Henry on what’s at stake for working people in the midterm elections. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-11-01 Tuesday
November 01, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 240 MB VideoThe majority-conservative Supreme Court appears poised to strike down affirmative action in college admissions; Israel votes in its fifth national elections in four years amid increasing violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank; New York pays millions for wrongfully convicting two men for the assassination of Malcolm X. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-10-31 Monday
October 31, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 264 MB VideoLuiz Inácio Lula da Silva defeats far-right President Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil’s runoff elections in a remarkable political comeback, but Bolsonaro has yet to concede; Democratic Congressmember Ro Khanna of California on the war in Ukraine, U.S.-Saudi relations, midterm elections and more. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-10-28 Friday
October 28, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 214 MB VideoCarol Anderson on Democrats losing ground in the closely watched Senate and gubernatorial races in Georgia; Mother Jones reporter Ari Berman on how Republicans used extreme gerrymandering to take over the Wisconsin legislature and what this means for 2024; Voting rights activist Desmond Meade on how Republicans in Florida are trying to intimidate formerly incarcerated people from voting. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-10-27 Thursday
October 27, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes VideoProgressive House lawmakers send, then retract, a letter urging diplomacy with Russia; Peace talks begin in South Africa to end the Ethiopian conflict; Children’s hospitals across the United States see a rise in respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-10-26 Wednesday
October 26, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 252 MB VideoPennsylvania Senate candidates Mehmet Oz and Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman face off in their first and only debate; Penn State students protest a speaking event with Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes; Black voters are organizing unprecedented turnout ahead of midterms. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-10-25 Tuesday
October 25, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 250 MB VideoChina’s President Xi Jinping begins a historic third term after eliminating term limits; With midterms two weeks away, legendary consumer advocate and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader campaigns for Democrats for the first time ever, and political organizer Mark Green says the Democratic party needs to be more aggressive in its message against the GOP. 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 - 208 MB VideoThe 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 - 228 MB VideoThe 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! 2022-08-03 Wednesday
August 03, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 212 MB VideoU.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s controversial trip to Taiwan; We look at the vote to expand health benefits to veterans affected by toxic “burn pits” in Iraq and Afghanistan and how local residents have been impacted, as well; Kansas voters defeat an anti-abortion constitutional amendment. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-08-02 Tuesday
August 02, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 213 MB VideoThe U.S. kills al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul; Update from Kansas, where voters will decide a constitutional amendment that could end abortion access in the state; LGBTQ+ scholar and journalist Steven Thrasher on monkeypox and his new book, “The Viral Underclass.” Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
In-Depth Steven Thrasher Interview: How Racism, Capitalism, Borders & Ableism Create a "Viral Underclass"
August 02, 2022 12:00 VideoIn an extended interview, LGBTQ+ scholar and journalist Steven Thrasher lays out his theory of “The Viral Underclass” and shares stories of the people he writes about in his new book.
Democracy Now! 2022-08-01 Monday
August 01, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 212 MB VideoWe spend the hour with Weather Underground leaders Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers, and their son Zayd, who chronicles the family’s activism in his new award-winning 10-part podcast series, “Mother Country Radicals.” 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 - 224 MB VideoCongressmember 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 - 211 MB VideoAs 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
Democracy Now! 2022-07-27 Wednesday
July 27, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 244 MB VideoTensions 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 - 264 MB VideoIndigenous 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 12:00 VideoSimón 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 - 228 MB VideoThe 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 - 220 MB VideoHighlights 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 - 253 MB VideoAs 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 minutes VideoDemocratic 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 - 227 MB VideoTexas 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 - 232 MB VideoHuman 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
Democracy Now! 2022-07-15 Friday
July 15, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 273 MB VideoAstrophysicist 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
In “Immense World,” Science Writer Ed Yong Shows "How Animal Senses Reveal Hidden Realms Around Us"
July 15, 2022 12:00 VideoThe 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.”
In "Immense World," Science Writer Ed Yong Shows "How Animal Senses Reveal Hidden Realms Around Us"
July 15, 2022 12:00 VideoThe 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! 2022-07-14 Thursday
July 14, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 235 MB VideoRashid 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 - 225 MB VideoHighlights 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 - 284 MB VideoAn 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 - 248 MB VideoFilmmakers 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 - 243 MB VideoFormer 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 - 258 MB VideoBoris 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
Scholars Urge Left Internationalists to Find Foreign Policy Common Ground
July 07, 2022 12:00 VideoWe continue our conversation looking at “Left Internationalism in the Heart of Empire.”
Democracy Now! 2022-07-06 Wednesday
July 06, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 167 MB VideoThe 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 - 226 MB VideoGun 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 - 197 MB VideoWe 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! 2022-07-01 Friday
July 01, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 214 MB VideoThe Supreme Court sharply limits the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to curb emissions at power plants; How restrictive U.S. immigration policies led to the tragedy in San Antonio, where dozens of migrants were found dead in the back of a tractor-trailer; An interview with abortion rights pioneer Dr. Rebecca Gomperts. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-06-30 Thursday
June 30, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 220 MB VideoNATO expands in Europe as the war in Ukraine drags on; How the right-wing Supreme Court is radically reshaping the United States; Flint residents respond to Michigan’s Supreme Court throwing out charges against former Gov. Rick Snyder over the deadly Flint water crisis. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-06-29 Wednesday
June 29, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 162 MB VideoHighlights from the explosive testimony of Cassidy Hutchinson, former top aide to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, at the sixth public hearing of the January 6 committee. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-06-28 Tuesday
June 28, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 215 MB Video46 migrants are found dead in the back of a truck in Texas as the Biden administration continues to enforce harsh border policies; The head of a Texas abortion fund discusses struggling to help patients amid lawsuits and harassment; Digital privacy for abortion seekers and providers in an age of ubiquitous surveillance and abortion bans. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-06-27 Monday
June 27, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 256 MB VideoWe spend the hour looking at the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and its impact on people across the United States. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Democracy Now! 2022-06-24 Friday
June 24, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 186 MB VideoThe 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 - 194 MB VideoA 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 - 172 MB VideoHighlights 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