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Democracy Now! Audio

Democracy 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.

Headlines for October 09, 2026; “Abolish ICE”: Protests Erupt in NYC After ICE Agents Shoot Father with 5-Year-Old Son in Car; Navi Pillay, South African Jurist, Wins Nobel Peace Prize in “Stinging Rebuke to Donald Trump”; “Entire System of Cornell University Failed Her”: Jane Doe Gang Rape Case Enrages Campus Community
Headlines for October 08, 2026; “She Put Her Body on the Line”: Maricarmen, 87, Dies; Her Eviction Sparked Spain Housing Protests; “The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist”: Daniel Roher, Tristan Harris Discuss New Film; Afghanistan, 25 Years Later: Journalist Emran Feroz on the Legacy of “America’s Longest War”
Celebrated Chilean American composer, musician and electronic music producer Nicolás Jaar recently stopped by the Democracy Now! studio to perform and talk about his work. He has released seven solo albums, including Piedras 1 and Piedras 2, both of which came out in 2025. He’s also known for his film scores, including for Dheepan by Jacques Audiard and Ema by Pablo Larraín.
Headlines for October 07, 2026; Israeli Activist Maoz Inon Lost His Parents on Oct. 7, Decries Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza; “Origins of a Genocide”: Al Jazeera’s Marwan Bishara on “Twelve Days That Shook the Middle East”; Three Years into Genocide, “The IDF Is Still Hunting Gazans”: Palestinian Journalist Akram al-Satarri
Headlines for October 06, 2026; French High School Students Lead Mass Protests over School Funding, Inequality; Thousands Arrested; Ebola Death Toll in DRC Tops 4,000; Trump USAID Cuts Fuel Outbreak; “Incredible Moment for the Borderlands”: Judge Blocks Border Wall Expansion in Big Bend & West Texas
Headlines for October 05, 2026; Far Right Makes Gains in Brazil as Flávio Bolsonaro Tops Lula in First Round of Presidential Race; “I Am Jane Doe”: Cornell Case Reignites Debate over Rape Culture, Frats & Prosecuting Sex Crimes; Meet Issa Amro: Palestinian Human Rights Advocate Attacked by Settlers, Detained by Israeli Army
Headlines for October 02, 2026; “Cruel & Torturous”: Christa Pike in Critical Condition After Botched Tennessee Execution; “The School That Became a Grave”: Jeremy Scahill on U.S Bombing of Minab, Killing 120+ Iranian Kids
Headlines for October 01, 2026; The Real Existential Risk Is AI CEOs Avoiding Oversight: “Alternative Nobel” Winner Timnit Gebru; “Berlin 4” Lawyer on Pro-Palestine Protest Crackdown & Germany’s Unconditional Support for Israel; Rise of the Far Right in Germany Raises Fear of an Even Wider Crackdown on Migration
Headlines for September 30, 2026; “No Land to Stand On”: Mahmoud Khalil on His Memoir, Palestine, Fighting Deportation & Suing Columbia; 80 Years After Nuremberg Trials, U.S. Leads Assault on ICC & International Law: Wolfgang Kaleck
Part 2 of our discussion with Wolfgang Kaleck, German human right lawyer and founder of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights.
Headlines for September 29, 2026; Greenland Deal: Trump Drops Threat to Annex Denmark Territory in Favor of Greater U.S. Military Role; “Buying More Time for the Genocide”: Muhammad Shehada on Trump’s Gaza Plan 1 Year Later; Afghans “Have Been the Victims” of U.S. Military, Taliban, Cartels & More for Decades: Nagieb Khaja
Part 2 of conversation with longtime national security reporter and editor Sharon Weinberger, author of the new book Valley of Death: How Big Tech Is Fueling the Future of War.
Headlines for September 28, 2026; Forcible Eviction of 87-Year-Old Madrid Woman Sparks Protest Encampment over Spain’s Housing Crisis; “Britain’s Gaza Secrets Exposed”: How U.K. Downplayed Israeli Crimes to Keep Selling Weapons; “Valley of Death”: Sharon Weinberger on Big Tech, AI Warfare & the CIA’s Secret Backing of Steve Jobs
Headlines for September 25, 2026; “Stop Arming Israel”: 100+ Arrested at Jewish Voice for Peace Sit-In Outside Netanyahu U.N. Speech; “Grotesque”: Ex-Israeli Negotiator Daniel Levy on Netanyahu’s U.N. Speech & Israel’s Impunity; The Hague Group: South Africa Leads Coalition Against U.S./Israel’s “Unilateral Bullying” of the ICC; “Crossing the Red Line”: Akbar Shahid Ahmed on Biden, His Advisers, Harris & Israel’s War in Gaza
Full interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning, two-time Grammy-winning multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens. Her new album, Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, has just been released. She recently came into the Democracy Now! studio to talk about her work and perform her song “Wish in Vain” with Dirk Powell.
Headlines for September 24, 2026; Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa on Trump’s Media Ban, Regulating AI & the “Tech Coup in Plain Sight”; Should U.N. Help Set Global AI Rules? AI Tech Billionaires Address Security Council; “Colonial AI”: African Countries Seek Tech Sovereignty But Fear a New Digital Colonialism; “Gilded Rage”: Jacob Silverman on How a Radicalized Silicon Valley Shapes Trump’s AI Policies
Extended interview with Jacob Silverman, author of Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley.
Headlines for September 23, 2026; “New Low in U.N. History”: Trita Parsi on Trump’s Threat to Annihilate Iran at General Assembly; Bernie Sanders: The World Is “Moving in the Wrong Direction” on War, Climate, Inequality & AI Tech; Nepali Activist at U.N. Rally Calls for Climate Justice After Deadly Glacier Floods Kill Thousands; “Secretary of Measlesland”: Dr. Paul Offit Slams RFK Jr.’s Handling of Deadly Measles Outbreak
Headlines for September 22, 2026; Climate Activists Target AI Data Centers & Amazon’s Plan to Build Largest U.S. Gas Power Plant; “Politics Are Desperately Important at the Moment”: Bill McKibben on Midterms, Trump & Climate Crisis; Could Cuba Become a “Silent Gaza”? U.S. Fuel Blockade Aims to “Asphyxiate” Island: Top Cuban Diplomat; “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” Brazilian Educator Paulo Freire Profiled in Film, “Reading the World”
Headlines for September 21, 2026; “War on the Press”: Trump Bans CNN, MS NOW & Politico from White House over Critical Coverage; “Extraordinary Rendition All Over Again”: U.S. Deportees Sent to Equatorial Guinea Beaten, Imprisoned; “America, Who Hurt You?”: Tony-Winning Performer Sarah Jones on New NY Solo Show & Art as Resistance
Headlines for September 18, 2026; “Inequality Emergency”: Ahead of U.N. General Assembly, Oxfam Urges Action on Climate, AI & Gaza; “Hope Is the Thing with Feathers”: Rhiannon Giddens on New Album, AI, Ed Sheeran, Macklemore & Trump; “We Are the 99%”: 15 Years Later, Occupy Wall Street’s Impact Is Still Being Felt
Headlines for September 17, 2026; “Fast Food Nation,” Mystery Meat & Trump’s Dismantling of U.S. Food Safety System: Eric Schlosser; “Call It Evil”: Philosopher Susan Neiman on Why Moral Clarity Matters in the Trump Era
Headlines for September 16, 2026; A Russian Oligarch Secretly Funded Donald Trump Jr.'s Bahamas Wedding; Democrats Demand Probe; “The Elimination Project”: Israel's Systematic Dismantling of Palestinian Life in West Bank: B’Tselem; “Architects of Atrocities”: Amnesty Says Iran Committed Crimes Against Humanity in 2022 Crackdown
Headlines for September 15, 2026; “End Times Fascism”: Naomi Klein & Astra Taylor on Billionaires, Bunkers, AI, Gaza & the Far Right
We speak with the economist Mariana Mazzucato, author of the new book The Common Good Economy: A New Compass.
Headlines for September 14, 2026; ”NAZA” Film on Gaza Genocide Wins Venice Special Jury Prize; Israel Threatens Directors’ Citizenship; “One Betrayal After Another”: 9/11 Widow Blasts U.S. Cover-Up of Saudi Role in Attacks; Trove of Evidence Sheds New Light on How Saudi Intelligence Asset Helped 9/11 Hijackers Before Attack; Is Yemen Heading Back to All-Out War? Saudis Launch Strikes as Houthis Take Control of Red Sea Coast
Headlines for September 11, 2026; “Horror to Last a Lifetime”: Juan González on Covering 9/11 Attacks in NYC 25 Years Ago Today; Forever War: How 9/11 Unleashed U.S. Violence on Civilians Abroad & Attacks on Rights at Home
Headlines for September 10, 2026; 25 Years Later: Afghan New Yorker Masuda Sultan Remembers 9/11 & 19 Relatives Killed in U.S. Bombing; Report from Kabul: NRC Head Jan Egeland on Global Aid Cuts, Poverty & Taliban Repression of Women; “Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump”: Spencer Ackerman; 4.7 Million Dead, $8 Trillion: Counting the Devastating Human & Economic Costs of the Post‑9/11 Wars
Headlines for September 09, 2026; Meet 9/11 Health Watch, NYC Group Behind Mayor Mamdani’s Release of 170K Pages on Ground Zero Toxins; “Let’s Just Round Them Up”: The Rise of Islamophobia in the Post-9/11 Domestic War on Terror
Headlines for September 08, 2026; “Toxic Nightmare”: 25 Years After 9/11, Juan González on His Predictions of Worker Illness & Death; Firefighter, EMT, Stuyvesant High School Student Describe 9/11 Exposure & Long Fight for Healthcare; “People I Flew with All the Time”: Flight Attendant Union Head Sara Nelson Remembers 9/11 Victims; 25 Years After 9/11: Cover-Up of Air Quality Risk Proved to Be “Death Sentence” for Thousands
Democracy Now! Marks 30 Years with Angela Davis, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, Michael Stipe & More
Headlines for September 04, 2026; Stanford Student Newspaper Wins Suit over Trump’s Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Speech; “They Got Zero Notice”: 2,500 Workers Laid Off as Tyson Foods Shutters Meatpacking Plant in Illinois; “Terrorizing Our City”: ICE Targets Immigrants in Danbury, CT, Including at School Bus Stops; “Top of the World”: Remembering the Restaurant Workers Killed Atop World Trade Center in 9/11 Attack
Headlines for September 03, 2026; Gloria Steinem, Feminist Icon & Ms. Magazine Co-Founder, Dies at 92; “Catastrophic Failure”: Postal Service Whistleblower Warns Mail-In Voting Rules Could Derail Election; “Modern-Day Poll Tax”: Dem. Texas Commissioner Slams GOP Vote to Close 92 Polling Sites; AI Could Revolutionize Medicine, But Humans Must Be in Charge: Researcher Shreya Johri
Headlines for September 02, 2026; U.S. Empire in Decline: Richard Wolff on Iran War, Rising Inequality, $40T National Debt & More; “Went to Sea and Never Came Back”: Families of Fishermen Seek Answers After Deadly U.S. Boat Strikes; “Stand Up for Multifaith Democracy”: U.S. Activists, Lawmakers Protest India’s RSS & Hindu Supremacy
Headlines for September 01, 2026; The Biggest Oil Deal or Theft at Gunpoint? U.S. Claims Majority Control of Venezuela’s Oil Reserves; U.S. Deports Thousands to Countries They Don’t Know Under Secretive “Third Country” Deal; Amid Severe Water Crisis & Drought, Puerto Rico Marks 10 Years of “La Junta” Oversight
Headlines for August 31, 2026; “Catastrophe of Unimaginable Proportions”: Nepal Flood Death Toll Tops 900; Near 5,000 Still Missing; The Real Reason There’s a Munitions Shortage? Too Many Wars & a Dysfunctional Pentagon: William Hartung; “Left Behind and Overlooked”: Indiana Energy Company Left Majority-Black Gary Powerless for Weeks; “We’re Not Going Back”: Ron Daniels on the Legacy of 1972 Gary Convention & 1963 March on Washington; Jane Fonda Exclusive: Dolly Parton, a Feminist, Wrote the Anthem for Working Women with “9 to 5”
Headlines for August 28, 2026; “Shut Down Dilley”: Rep. Joaquin Castro on “Abusive” ICE Family Jail, Targeting of Military Families; Glacier Collapse: 2K Dead or Missing in Nepal-Tibet Flood Is “Glaring Example of Climate Injustice”; “Don’t Be Squeamish About Squamous, Get a Checkup!” Amy Goodman’s Personal Health Update; “Who Paid, Who Gained”: Juan González on How Chicago Funded Real Estate Instead of Social Services; “The Lion King” in Quechua?: New Film “Runa Simi” Profiles Indigenous Artist Keeping Language Alive
Headlines for August 27, 2026; As Meta Agrees to $17B Settlement, Now Is the Time to Regulate AI Before It’s Too Late: Amba Kak; Exploited Data Workers in the Global South Are “the Secret Ingredient of AI Itself”; “Platform Extractivism”: Inside Venezuela’s Hidden Workforce Training AI Algorithms for Pennies
Filipino filmmaker Rafael Manuel discusses his debut feature film Filipiñana. Set at an upscale golf country club outside Manila, the film explores inequality, colonialism, structural violence and patriarchy. Filipiñana premiered at Sundance, where it won the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Creative Vision. It opens in New York at Film Forum on Friday.
Headlines for August 26, 2026; “They Threw Me to the Wolves”: Karen Attiah on Censorship Under Trump, Winning Her WaPo Job Back; Trump’s Contested Order to Restrict Mail-In Voting Could Disenfranchise Millions: Ari Berman; “Most Americans Are Getting Poorer”: Robert Reich on Inequality & the Failures of Corporate Democrats
Part 2 of our conversation with Jack Crosbie of Rolling Stone, who has been reporting on the Prairieland Nine — the nine activists in Texas who were sentenced to between 30 and 100 years in connection to an anti-ICE protest outside the Prairieland ICE jail in Alvarado, Texas. Crosbie’s recent articles include “Incarcerated for Life in Trump’s War on the Left” and “How Trump’s War on the Left Will Come for the Center.”
Headlines for August 25, 2026; U.S. Threatens New Economic War on Iran by Targeting China & Tehran’s Other Top Trading Partners; Illinois Is a Sanctuary State, But Cops & Prosecutors Still Secretly Work with ICE: Injustice Watch; Meet Prairieland Protester Autumn Hill: How Her “Act of Solidarity” Became a 50-Year Prison Sentence
Headlines for August 24, 2026; “Most Stupid Trade Fight in History”: U.S. & Canadian Workers Stand to Lose in Trump’s New Tariff War; Montreal Considers Cutting Ties to Israel as Outrage Grows in Canada over Israeli Impunity: Avi Lewis; “Unbought & Unbossed”: Angie Nixon on Winning Democratic Senate Race in Florida, DSA Membership & More; In Defeat for AIPAC, Aisha Wahab Wins House Seat, Becoming First Afghan American in Congress
Headlines for August 21, 2026; As Pressure Grows, Israel Finally Opens Probe into 2024 Killing of 5-Year-Old Hind Rajab in Gaza; Meet Loui Ridi: Palestinian American Returns to West Bank Home Besieged by Israeli Settlers; DOJ Whistleblower Confirms “Antisemitism” Probes Against Universities Were Sham Investigations
Headlines for August 20, 2026; 5 Years After Taliban Takeover, Women & Girls in Afghanistan Have Disappeared from Public Life; AI Superintelligence Is Not a Tool, It’s an Adversary Threatening Humanity: ControlAI’s Connor Leahy; “Love Machines”: James Muldoon on How AI Is Changing Relationships & the Global Workers Fueling AI
Headlines for August 19, 2026; Trump’s “Authoritarian Takeover” of the Media, ABC Suing FCC & the Meta Trial: Free Press’s Jessica González; “Profoundly Corrupt”: Trump Sued for Selling Early Access to His Truth Social Posts for $100K/Month; Bipartisan Outcry Forces Trump to Pause Border Security Project in Big Bend National Park in Texas; Activist Tree-Sit in Ancient Cottonwood Continues Against Border Wall Construction in Arizona
Headlines for August 18, 2026; Who Is Natalie Harp? NYT Reporter Maggie Haberman on Trump’s Aide & His Attacks on Women Reporters; “Regime Change” Author Maggie Haberman on Trump’s Imperial Presidency, Epstein Files & War on Iran; Netanyahu Throws “Poison Pill” into Gaza Deal as Kushner Meets with Hamas & Israel: Mouin Rabbani
Headlines for August 17, 2026; “Operation Puppet Master”: Trump Admin Spied on Minnesota Activists & Unions After ICE Killings; Exclusive: Palestine Action Lawyer Rajiv Menon Breaks Silence on Facing Contempt Charges in U.K.; “The Nerd Reich”: Author Gil Durán on Big Tech Fascism, Peter Thiel, JD Vance & the War on Democracy
Part 2 of our interview with Gil Durán, author of the new book, The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.
Amy Goodman meets with two members of the Palestinian Circus who are performing daily at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland.
Part 2 of our conversation with Dr. Thaer Ahmad and Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, featured in the new film American Doctor about U.S. doctors who volunteered in Gaza. We also speak with the film’s director, Poh Si Teng.
Headlines for August 14, 2026; “Stop Toxic Data Centers”: Justin Pearson on Elon Musk, AI & Winning Dem. House Primary in Memphis; “Mop Up Michigan”: Donavan McKinney on Democratic Socialism, Corporate Money & His Primary Upset; “American Doctor”: New Film Follows U.S. Doctors to Gaza as Israel Bombs Hospitals, Kills Staff, Patients
Headlines for August 13, 2026; Trump’s Secret Plane Switch: An Israeli Tip, CIA Doubts & Reporters Put at Risk; “Anatomy of an AI Kill Chain”: Militaries Rely on Mistake-Prone AI in Ukraine, Gaza & Iran; “Deep Unlearning”: Timnit Gebru on AI Hype, Ethics & Algorithmic Racial Bias
Headlines for August 12, 2026; Gaza Tribunal Co-Chairs MP Jeremy Corbyn, Neve Gordon & Shahd Hammouri on U.K. Complicity in Genocide
Headlines for August 11, 2026; Bryan Stevenson on the “Enduring Evil of Slavery” and Trump’s Attempt to Rewrite History
Headlines for August 10, 2026; “Consistent Torture”: Keith LaMar Speaks from Ohio Death Row After Getting 3-Year Execution Reprieve; Edinburgh International Festival Director & Famed Violinist Nicola Benedetti on the Power of Art; Actor Wagner Moura on Brazil’s Dictatorship, Bolsonaro & “A Trial — after An Enemy of the People”
Part 2 of our interview with the Brazilian actor and director Wagner Moura, who was nominated for an Oscar for his role in The Secret Agent.
Headlines for August 07, 2026; “Zombie Law from the Victorian Era”: DOJ Could Use 1873 Comstock Act to Ban Abortion Pills by Mail; “Focus Is on Affordability”: Cindy Holscher, Kansas Dem Nominee for Gov, on Data Center Fight & More; “The Potluck”: Musical Explores Trauma of 1979 Greensboro KKK Massacre of 5 Antiracist Activists; Dr. Abdul El-Sayed on Historic Michigan Win: “People Are Sick and Tired of This Politics of Hatred”
Headlines for August 06, 2026; “Fire Climate”: Hot, Dry, Windy Days Are Becoming Common, Making Wildfires Harder to Control; Amid Growing Fears of Rogue AI, Expert Urges Governments to “Bring This to a Grinding Halt”; “Struggle for Dignity”: At Least 40 Killed in Mass Protests in Pakistan-Administered Kashmir
Headlines for August 05, 2026; Dr. Abdul El-Sayed Wins Michigan Senate Primary in Major Defeat for AIPAC, Establishment Democrats; Insurgent Candidate Victories Highlight Growing Movement Against Corporate & Elite Power: John Nichols; “This Is an ICE Murder, Too”: Gabriela Soto Says She Miscarried While Husband Was Detained in Solitary
Headlines for August 04, 2026; “Department of Injustice”: Norm Eisen on Todd Blanche AG Nom, Reflecting Pool Vandalism Case; “If Emmett Till Lived”: Cultural Historian Sarah Lewis on New Book/Exhibit, Visit to Mississippi; Johanna Fernández Dies at 55: Leading Scholar on the Young Lords & Latinx Freedom Movement
Headlines for August 03, 2026; Why Did 60,000 Migrants Cross from Morocco into Spain’s Ceuta? Moroccan Dutch Professor Explains; The Death of Awdah Hathaleen: Report Details Settler Killing of “No Other Land” Producer in West Bank; “The People’s Historian”: Dave Zirin’s New Book Explores “Remarkable” Life of Howard Zinn
Part 2 of our conversation with Dave Zirin, author of the new book The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn.
Headlines for July 31, 2026; Rep. Ro Khanna on Blanche Nomination, Epstein Accountability and His Detention by Israeli Settlers; “Assault, Misogyny, Verbal Threats”: Mother Jones Exposé on Allegations Against GOP Rep. Max Miller; “Zero Accountability”: Ecuadorian Prosecutor Assassinated While Investigating U.S. Boat Strikes; “Digital Doppelgangers”: Naomi Klein Corrects the Record on Viral AI-Generated Quote
Headlines for July 30, 2026; “Less Regulated Than Sandwiches”: MIT Prof. Calls for Oversight as OpenAI Agent Hacks Other Firms; Citizens Bank Cuts Ties to ICE Prison Companies GEO Group & CoreCivic After Grassroots De-ICE Campaign; Report from Springfield, Ohio: Haitians Brace for ICE Crackdown After TPS Protections End
Headlines for July 29, 2026; U.N. Expert Francesca Albanese Slams U.S. “Complicity” as Trump Meets Netanyahu Despite ICC Warrant; “Tipping Point”: Ex-CDC Official Links Cyclospora & Measles Outbreaks to Trump’s Public Health Cuts; India Unleashes “Massive Crackdown” on Youth-Led Cockroach Movement After Education Minister’s Ouster
Headlines for July 28, 2026; “We Can’t Be Intimidated”: CodePink Slams Rubio-Led Campaign Against Cuba Solidarity Groups; A New McCarthyism? House GOP Subpoenas BreakThrough News in Escalating War on Progressive Groups; Meet Beto Coral, Activist Targeted by ICE for Criticism of Trump-Backed Colombian President-Elect; Berlin’s Queer Commissioner on Fatal Car Ramming Attack on LGBTQ+ Pride Celebration
Headlines for July 27, 2026; “Frontlines of a Burning World”: Climate Change-Fueled “Megafires” Sweep Europe & North America; “Iraq 2.0”?: Rep. Jim McGovern on Iran War, New Red Scare, Israeli War Crimes & Dem Party Divide; Israeli Army & Settlers Are Working Together to “Ethnically Cleanse” West Bank: Mariam Barghouti
Headlines for July 24, 2026; “America First or Israel First?” Ex-Israeli Negotiator Daniel Levy on Saudi Nuclear Deal, Iran & More; “Cockroach Democracy”: Arundhati Roy on India’s Youth-Led Protest Movement & Modi’s Collapsing Support; Report from San Juan: New Bill Targets Citizenship Rights as Puerto Rico Marks 10 Years of PROMESA; “Farmers of the Sea”: PBS Film Profiles Puerto Rican Fishermen on the “Frontlines of Climate Change”
Author Jasper Craven talks about his new book, God Forgives, Brothers Don’t: The Long March of Military Education and the Making of American Manhood. In the book, Craven examines how the military has come to define American masculinity and how it often fosters its most toxic traits.
Headlines for July 23, 2026; Meet Milwaukee Muslim Leader Salah Sarsour. ICE Detained Him for 80 Days; “Enough Is Enough”: Mohsen Mahdawi Says New Deportation Threat Seeks to Silence Palestine Activism; As Mamdani Calls on Trump to Arrest Netanyahu, Genocide Scholar Decries Israel’s Ongoing Impunity
Headlines for July 22, 2026; “Empire of Abuse”: MAGA Influencers Andrew & Tristan Tate Arrested on Rape & Sex Trafficking Charges; “Unlimited Money for Bombs”: Democrats Slam Hegseth for Seeking $67B for Iran War; Trump Says Images of Bombed Iran School Could Be “AI” But Study Confirms U.S. Killed 140+ in Strike
Headlines for July 21, 2026; As the U.S. Commits War Crimes in Iran, Trump Admin Vows to Dismantle Int’l Criminal Court: Reed Brody; What Spain’s Victory Means: Jules Boykoff on the World Cup, FIFA, Trump, “Collectivity” & More; “A Company That Trades Privacy for Profit”: ACLU on Flock’s Growing Nationwide Surveillance Network
Headlines for July 20, 2026; U.S. Escalates War on Iran, Targeting Civilian Infrastructure as 3 U.S. Soldiers Are Killed; “Justice for Lorenzo”: Houston Community Demands Accountability After ICE Killing of Mexican Father; Texas Rep. Al Green Accuses Trump Admin of Attempting to Cover Up ICE Killings; Nearly 1,000 Wildfires in Canada Continue to Burn as Trump & Carney Double Down on Fossil Fuels
Born in Lebanon to a family of musicians, Huda Asfour grew up in Tunis before moving to Gaza at 14, where she joined the National Conservatory of Music, and then lived in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, where she studied under Khaled Jubran at the Edward Said Music Conservatory. She now divides her time between New York and Egypt. Her latest project is “Naqus.”
Headlines for July 17, 2026; Denise Oliver-Vélez, Pioneering Young Lord & Black Panther, Dies at 78; Trump’s Election Integrity Speech Lays Groundwork for Midterm Interference: Ari Berman; Report from Houston: Family of ICE Shooting Victim Lorenzo Salgado Araujo Holds Public Viewing; “Disrupt, Identify, Defund, Debank, Arrest & Prosecute”: Trump Admin Threatens Leftist Groups; Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” Faces Boycott Calls over Filming in Occupied Western Sahara
Helado Tropical is the new collaborative album by Roberto Carlos Lange, better known by his stage name Helado Negro, and Fabi Reyna, who fronts the band Reyna Tropical.
Headlines for July 16, 2026; Todd Blanche Is “Not Fit” to Be AG, from Epstein Files to Trump’s $1.8B Slush Fund: Rep. Jayapal; We Are Sending a Message to Netanyahu: Rep. Jayapal on 100+ Dems Voting to Cut Israeli Military Aid; Victor Salgado Araujo Saw ICE Agent Kill His Brother in Texas. He Is Now Detained, Faces Deportation; A “Forever War” in Iran? Ali Vaez on Escalating War, U.S. “Diplomatic Malpractice”; Earthjustice Sues to Block Trump’s Move to Gut Endangered Species Act
Headlines for July 15, 2026; “Fighting Back”: Mahmoud Khalil Sues Trump Admin, Pro-Israel Groups for Conspiracy to Suppress Speech; Israeli Settlers Attack Convoy of Journalists & Father of Palestinian American Killed 1 Year Ago; “Block the Merger”: California AG Rob Bonta on 12 States Suing to Stop Paramount-Warner Mega Deal
Headlines for July 14, 2026; “They Were Hunting for Latinos”: LULAC CEO on ICE Killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston; “Our Community Is Hurting”: ICE Kills 25-Year-Old Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine; “Vote Her Out”: After Maine ICE Shooting, Sen. Collins Under Fire for Deciding Vote on ICE Funding; “Completely Unprecedented”: Ari Berman on Trump’s Attack on Elections Ahead of Midterms
Headlines for July 13, 2026; “Iran Is Not Going to Capitulate”: Jeremy Scahill on Renewed War, Strait of Hormuz & More; Lindsey Graham “Never Met a War of Aggression He Didn’t Passionately Back”: Jeremy Scahill; “Disgraceful”: Rashid Khalidi Slams Israeli Attacks on Journalists, Detention of Rep. Ro Khanna; U.S. Plans “Illegal Embassy” in Jerusalem on Land Stolen from Palestinian Families: Rashid Khalidi
Headlines for July 10, 2026; “Now or Never”: DSA & Justice Democrats on Changing the Democratic Party, Mamdani, Gaza & More; “Exposing Instagram’s Darkest Secret”: BBC’s Divya Arya on Ads for Child Sex Abuse Material in India; FOIA Under Attack: Landmark Transparency Law Turns 60; Fed Gov’t Blocking More Documents Than Ever
Headlines for July 09, 2026; “A Disastrous Development”: Trita Parsi on Breakdown of U.S.-Iran Ceasefire; “Demanding the Truth”: Family Wants Answers After ICE Kills Houston Dad Lorenzo Salgado Araujo; Homicide by Asphyxiation: What Happened to Geraldo Lunas Campos, Who Died in a Texas ICE Jail?; Albania’s Flamingo Revolution: Protests Against Kushner-Trump Luxury Resort Could Bring Down Gov’t
Headlines for July 08, 2026; As Calls Mount for Graham Platner to Drop Out of Senate Race, What Happens Next in Maine?; NATO Meets in Turkey Amid Crackdown on Civil Society; Trump Praises Erdoğan & Considers F-35 Sales; “Inside the Secret Network Fueling Sudan’s War”: Filmmaker Julia Steers on UAE Backing RSF Atrocities
We continue our conversation with documentary filmmaker Julia Steers about her reporting on the conflict in Sudan.
Headlines for July 07, 2026; Report from Tehran: Millions Attend Ali Khamenei’s Funeral Amid Widespread Sense of Victory in War; Calls Grow for Israel to Release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya; U.S. Doctor Says “Nobody Is Safe” in Gaza; Hamas Renouncing Rule Over Gaza Signals Commitment to Ceasefire Despite Israeli Attacks: Amjad Iraqi
Headlines for July 06, 2026; Trump’s Corruption, Birthright Citizenship & Olympian Charged w/ Touching Reflecting Pool: Norm Eisen; Record Heat Waves Are Preview of Our Future on a Warming Planet: Climate Writer David Wallace-Wells; Meet Rafael Rubio, NY City Council Employee Released from Delaney Hall After 5 Months in ICE Jail
“What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?”: James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass’s Historic Speech; “Empire of AI”: Karen Hao on How AI Is Threatening Democracy & Creating a New Colonial World; Journalist Karen Hao on Sam Altman, OpenAI & the “Quasi-Religious” Push for Artificial Intelligence
Headlines for July 02, 2026; Profiting from the Presidency: Trump and Family Rake In Billions from Crypto, Real Estate & More; “Rule of Law vs. Rule of Billionaires”: Supreme Court Says Trump Can Fire Regulators, Except at Fed; “The American Revolution Was Hardly an Anti-Colonial Movement”: UCLA Historian Robin D. G. Kelley
Headlines for July 01, 2026; “America Is a Multiracial Democracy”: Supreme Court Denies Trump’s Bid to End Birthright Citizenship; “We Continue to Fight”: Chase Strangio on the Supreme Court’s Ban on Trans Girls & Women in Sports; Supreme Court Approves Mail-In Voting, But Trump Keeps Pushing Extremist SAVE Act Ahead of Midterms; Reparations Efforts “Sweeping the Country” Despite DOJ Attack on Evanston, IL Groundbreaking Program
Headlines for June 30, 2026; “Merciless Indian Savages”: Cherokee Podcaster on Racist Slur in the Declaration of Independence; Meet Aber Kawas, DSA-Backed Palestinian American Who Won New York State Senate Primary; “Keep Supporting the Venezuelan People”: Thousands Missing as Earthquake Rescue Efforts Continue
Headlines for June 29, 2026; “America, U.S.A.”: Eddie Glaude on the 250th Anniv., Race & “The Madness at the Heart of the Country”; “Meet a Stranger”: StoryCorps Facilitates Conversations Across the U.S. for 250th Anniversary
Headlines for June 26, 2026; In “Devastating” Immigration Ruling, Supreme Court Allows Trump Admin to “Turn Back” Asylum Seekers; Venezuela Earthquakes: U.S. Sanctions Impede Rescue Efforts as Death Toll Soars; Supreme Court Strips Protections for Haitian & Syrian Immigrants in “Racially Inflected” Decision; Bayer/Monsanto Wins Roundup Case as Supreme Court Blocks Suit over Link Between Herbicide & Cancer
Headlines for June 25, 2026; “Utter Devastation”: Thousands Feared Dead in Venezuela After Double Earthquakes; Prairieland Nine: Texas ICE Protesters Get Up to 100 Years in Prison as Trump Targets Anti-Fascists; “How to Think About AI”: Cory Doctorow on Big Tech, Understanding AI, Labor Automation & More
Headlines for June 24, 2026; “Babies, Not Bombs”: DSA’s Darializa Avila Chevalier Beats 5-Term Rep. Espaillat. 1st Post-Win Intvw.; Seismic Shift: DSA and Mamdani-Backed Pro-Palestine Democrats Sweep New York Primaries; “Second Nature”: Elliot Page on New Film Exploring Animal World Beyond the Binary
We continue our discussion with actor, writer and producer Elliot Page, an Oscar nominee and author of the memoir Pageboy, about his trans identity, transgender rights and his work on the groundbreaking new documentary directed by Drew Denny, Second Nature, about gender and sexuality in nonhuman animal species.
Headlines for June 23, 2026; Remembering Ahmed Wishah, the Latest Palestinian Journalist Killed by Israel in Gaza; Remembering Mona Khalil, Beloved Lebanese Sea Turtle Conservationist Killed in Israeli Airstrike; DSA vs. Establishment: New York Primary Tests Growing Antiwar Split in Democratic Party; ”MAGA Inc.”: CorpWatch on Trump’s World of Tech Titans, Crypto Czars & Prison Profiteers
Headlines for June 22, 2026; “Document of Capitulation”: Spencer Ackerman & Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi on the U.S.-Iran Deal; U.K. Political Crisis: PM Keir Starmer Resigns & Palestine Action “Terrorism” Sentencing of “Elbit 4”; “Criminal Approach to Politics”: Trump Ally Abelardo de la Espriella Wins Colombian Presidency
Juneteenth Special: Historian Clint Smith on Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America; Rhiannon Giddens on Pulitzer-Winning Opera “Omar” About Enslaved Muslim Scholar Omar ibn Said; “Another Wasted Life”: Rhiannon Giddens on How Death of Kalief Browder Inspired Her Song
Part 2 of our conversation with the Nigerian British photographer and activist Misan Harriman, an outspoken advocate of Palestinian rights. His photographs of the Black Lives Matter movement went viral, and he became the first Black photographer to shoot the cover of British Vogue. There’s a new documentary about Harriman called Shoot the People.
Headlines for June 18, 2026; Trump’s War on Iran Ends with a “Triumphant” Tehran and a Diminished U.S.: Vali Nasr; G7 Summit Highlights Global Economic System “Captured” by Billionaires: Oxfam; DOJ Takes Elon Musk’s Side in NAACP Lawsuit Against xAI for Polluting Black Neighborhoods; “Shoot the People”: Meet Misan Harriman, Celebrated Photographer & Outspoken Advocate for Palestine
Amy Goodman speaks with Irish filmmaker Seán Murray in Belfast, where tens of thousands of people attended an anti-racism rally recently to protest a wave of far-right, anti-immigrant violence. The riots broke out after an asylum seeker from Sudan was charged with attempted murder. Murray discusses the rise of the Irish far right, the historical context of British colonial racism and the impact on Irish society. Murray’s latest documentary is Journacide: The War on Truth, documenting Israeli killings of journalists in Lebanon.
Headlines for June 17, 2026; “The Point Is to Spread Fear”: DOJ Charges 15 with Conspiracy for Anti-ICE Protests in Minnesota; Has Trump Had Enough of Netanyahu? Israel Defies U.S., Vows to Continue War in Lebanon; “Journacide: The War on Truth.” New Film Investigates Israel’s Killing of Reporters in Lebanon
Headlines for June 16, 2026; Trita Parsi on What May Be in the U.S.-Iran Peace Deal & Being Threatened with Deportation; “Land Grab”: Trillionaire Elon Musk Sued in South Texas to Block SpaceX’s Takeover of Wildlife Refuge; Hands Off the Arts: Fired Kennedy Center Artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph Speaks Out as Trump Name Removed
Headlines for June 15, 2026; Will Israel Blow Up Trump’s Deal? Jeremy Scahill on Iran Talks, Strait of Hormuz, Nukes & More; Major Antiracist Rally Held in Belfast to Condemn Anti-Immigrant Riots Egged On by Elon Musk; DOJ Approves Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Amid Fears Trump Allies Will Tighten Grip on Media
Headlines for June 12, 2026; “New Form of Imperialism”: Renowned U.N. Scientist on AI Boom’s Huge Water, Carbon & Land Footprint; U.S. Attacks Iranian Water Reservoirs Amid “Normalization” of Targeting Civilian Infrastructure; “Cautionary Tale”: NYC’s The New School Guts Faculty & Staff as Colleges Intensify Austerity; Palestinian Activist Mohsen Mahdawi: Trump Admin “Weaponizing Immigration Laws” to Deport Me; “Hell’s Army”: New Film Tracks Russia’s Wagner Group & Rise of Mercenary Armies
Headlines for June 11, 2026; “They Have Never Faced an Adversary Like Iran”: Rami Khouri on Latest U.S.-Iran Strikes; “World Cup of Exclusion”: Games Begin Amid U.S. Visa Restrictions, High Ticket Costs & Iran War; World Cup Kicks Off in Mexico Amid Protests Against Austerity and Forced Disappearances; “Keep the Game Beautiful”: Why ICE Crackdown & FIFA Greed Could Spoil the World Cup; Will Congress Renew Controversial Surveillance Law? Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Cindy Cohn
Headlines for June 10, 2026; Report from Tehran: Amid More U.S./Iran Bombing, Trump Warns Iran Is ”DEAD…Will Pay the Price”; The Shocking Secrets of MSG’s Surveillance Machine: Noah Shachtman on Knicks’ Owner James Dolan; Trump Admin Guts Vital Sea Monitoring, “Tears Out the Eyes and Ears of Science”: David Helvarg; “I Was Just Forced to Resign from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory”: Climate Scientist Peter Kalmus
Headlines for June 09, 2026; “The Word 'Ceasefire' Has Lost Its Meaning”: Lylla Younes on Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing of South Lebanon; SpaceX IPO Could Make Musk a Trillionaire at Your Expense in “Massive Wealth Transfer”: Eric Gardner; “Tech-Driven Prosperity & Right-Wing Racist Politics”: Quinn Slobodian on Elon Musk and SpaceX IPO; Why New Yorkers “Thunderously Booed” Trump at Knicks-Spurs Game: Sportswriter David Zirin
Headlines for June 08, 2026; Iran Warns Israel over Escalating Attacks on Lebanon After Iran, Israel Exchange Strikes: Trita Parsi; Graham Platner’s Billionaire-Bashing Message Resonates in Maine Senate Race, Despite Controversies; Peru Votes for President Amid Trump’s “Unprecedented Program of Aggression” Against Leftists in Region
Headlines for June 05, 2026; Adam Hamawy, Ex-Volunteer Doctor in Gaza, Wins NJ House Primary Calling for End to Israeli Aid; Hasan Piker on Being Banned from U.K., Traveling to Cuba & Supporting Candidates Critical of Israel
Headlines for June 04, 2026; Voices from Delaney Hall: Family and Community Members Demand Release of Loved Ones from ICE Jail; Far-Right Leaders, Including Ex-CBP Chief Greg Bovino, Convene in Portugal for “Remigration Summit”; “Notes from an ICE Chaser”: Tracking Trump’s Mass Deportation Campaign on the Ground; Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian Ada Ferrer on Cuba’s Crisis, U.S. Sanctions and Family Separation
Headlines for June 03, 2026; “Fraud on the Court”: Even as DOJ Drops $1.8B Settlement Fund, Judge Reopens Case over Collusion; MAGA Loyalist Bill Pulte Tapped to Be New U.S. Spy Chief, Led Efforts to Target Trump Critics; “Appalling Misconduct”: Chicago Federal Prosecutors Under Fire; “Broadview 6” Charges Dropped; The Government Tried to Villainize Us: Broadview 6 Defendants Speak Out After Charges Dropped
Part 2 of our conversation with Kat Abughazaleh and Michael Rabbitt. They were indicted for protesting last year outside the Broadview ICE jail during Trump’s so-called Operation Midway Blitz crackdown. During a recent court hearing, the U.S. Attorney’s Office admitted federal prosecutors committed misconduct during the grand jury proceedings and, in a stunning move, the U.S. Attorney’s Office dismissed the charges against the four who had been indicted.
Headlines for June 02, 2026; Iran Suspends U.S. Talks as Israel Kills 8 More in Lebanon & Expands Occupation; “Murder as Policy”: Amnesty Int’l Decries U.S. Strikes on Latin American Boats as Death Toll Tops 200; “The Overseer Class”: Steven Thrasher on Black Cops, Pro-Palestine Protests, DEI & More
Part 2 of conversation with Steven Thrasher, author of the new book The Overseer Class: A Manifesto. In the book, he explores how members of historically marginalized groups rise to positions of power within institutions in lieu of structural change.
Headlines for June 01, 2026; NJ State Police Join Crackdown Against Supporters of Hunger-Striking Immigrants at Delaney Hall; “We Closed Our Account”: Advocates Call for Boycott of Citizens Bank for Financing ICE Jails; “Revolving Door”: Former GEO Group VP David Venturella Is New Interim ICE Chief; Meet Bajun Mavalwalla, Veteran Convicted for ICE Protest in Unprecedented Use of Conspiracy Charges
Headlines for May 29, 2026; “Subversion of Law and Order”: ICE Violence Escalates at Newark’s GEO-Run Jail, Delaney Hall; Meet Nadia Milleron: Jury Awards Family $50M for Daughter’s Death in Boeing Crash; “It’s About People Feeding Their Families”: Indigenous-Led Anti-Austerity Protests Rock Bolivia
Headlines for May 28, 2026; No End in Sight: Israel Expands War on Lebanon, Orders Evacuation of 14% of Country; Ex-Nuclear Negotiator on U.S.-Iran Talks, Abraham Accords & Trump’s Threat to Blow Up Oman; “From Bogotá to El Fasher”: How UAE Trained Colombian Mercenaries to Fight Alongside RSF in Sudan; Trump’s Enemies List: DOJ Launches “Egregious” Criminal Probe into Trump Accuser E. Jean Carroll
Headlines for May 27, 2026; “They Are Not Alone Inside”: Protests Outside Newark ICE Jail Support Hunger-Striking Detainees; Capitol Police Officers Sue Trump over Slush Fund for Jan. 6 Rioters & Other Allies; “How Oligarchs Dominate Our Democracies”: Northwestern Prof. Jeffrey Winters on Book “The Blind Spot”
Headlines for May 26, 2026; U.S. Bombs Iran Despite Peace Talks; Israel Strikes Lebanon to “Force Trump’s Hand”: Negar Mortazavi; “Designed to Break You”: Gaza Flotilla Activists Faced Violence, Sexual Abuse in Israeli Detention; “He Was in Agony”: Tennessee Issues 1-Year Stay for Tony Carruthers After Botched Execution Attempt
Democracy Now! Marks 30 Years with Angela Davis, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, Michael Stipe & More
Headlines for May 22, 2026; “Politically Driven Epidemic”: Ebola Response Hampered by Impoverishment & U.S. Global Health Cuts; Stephen Colbert Out at CBS as Trump Weaponizes Regulatory Power to Control the Media: David Sirota; “AI Resist List”: Karen Hao on Data Center Resistance, Tech Billionaires, “Empire of AI” & More
Headlines for May 21, 2026; “Clear Racism”: Trump Admin Blocks Refugee Resettlement, Except for White South Africans; Rising Conflict in DRC, Sudan, Other African Countries Linked to Trump’s Gutting of USAID: Study; “They’re Trying to Silence Us”: Students, Faculty on Censoring Pro-Palestine Voices at Graduations
Headlines for May 20, 2026; “Dictatorship in Action”: David Cay Johnston on $1.8B Slush Fund & Shielding Trumps “Forever” from IRS; Report from Havana: Cubans Starving & Dying Because of Intensified U.S. Blockade; Is an Invasion of Cuba Next? Peter Kornbluh on U.S. Move to Indict Raúl Castro & CIA’s Widening Role; Amnesty: Executions Spike in Iran as Gov’t Intensifies Domestic Repression Amid U.S./Israeli Attacks
Headlines for May 19, 2026; 3 Killed in Devastating San Diego Mosque Shooting: Linda Sarsour on Rising Anti-Muslim Hate & More; “Ask E. Jean” Film Profiles the Woman Who Twice Sued Trump & Won, for Sexual Assault & Defamation; Minnesota Officials Charge ICE Agent Who Shot Venezuelan Immigrant & Falsely Reported What Happened
Headlines for May 18, 2026; As WHO Declares Ebola Outbreak a Global Health Emergency, Did USAID Cuts Worsen the Crisis?; Trump’s Christian Nationalist Agenda & Taxpayer-Funded D.C. Prayer Rally: Bishop Barber & Sarah Posner; “Staggering Corruption”: Rep. Raskin on Trump’s $10B IRS Lawsuit, Stock Trades & Family Business
On Tuesday, a coalition of groups held a rally to protest ICE’s abuses at 26 Federal Plaza in New York City, a 41-story federal building in Lower Manhattan that houses immigration courts, ICE field offices, immigrant detention spaces, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The protest, organized by Hands Off NYC, included advocates from Make the Road New York, the New York Immigration coalition and a surprise guest — musician Tom Morello, who performed “This Land Is Your Land.”
Headlines for May 15, 2026; Nakba Day: Muhammad Shehada on Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza & Ongoing Palestinian Resilience; “Israel: What Went Wrong?”: Holocaust Scholar Omer Bartov & Haaretz’s Gideon Levy Debate Zionism
Headlines for May 14, 2026; Xi Warns Trump of Potential “Conflict” over Taiwan in Beijing Summit on Iran, Trade, Tech & More; “Here Where We Live Is Our Country”: Molly Crabapple on Resurfacing the Jewish History of Anti-Zionism
Headlines for May 13, 2026; FDA Chief Pushed Out in Latest Sign of Public Health Chaos Under RFK Jr.; Astra Taylor on AI Data Center Resistance & Fighting “Billionaire Big Tech Agenda”; Free Salah Sarsour: Muslim & Jewish Communities Demand ICE Release Milwaukee Mosque Leader
Headlines for May 12, 2026; A Return to Jim Crow? Ex-DOJ Civil Rights Chief Kristen Clarke Denounces Gutting of Voting Rights Act; I Was Kidnapped by Israel in Int’l Waters, Jailed for 10 Days: Gaza Flotilla Activist Saif Abukeshek
Headlines for May 11, 2026; Far-Right Anti-Immigrant Party Surges in U.K. Elections; Calls Grow for Labour PM Starmer to Resign; Meet Guido Reichstadter, the Marine Veteran Who Scaled D.C. Bridge to Protest Iran War & AI; Canceled over Palestine: Biotech CEO Rami Elghandour on Rutgers Disinviting Him as Graduation Speaker
Headlines for May 08, 2026; Trump Pushes to Take Over Elections, Punish His Enemies: Pulitzer Prize-Winning Reporter Ned Parker; Amid Growing Abuse at ICE Jails, Rep. Adelita Grijalva Calls to Shut Down Trump’s Detention Network; “They Don’t Care”: Trump’s Border Wall Construction Damages 1,000-Year-Old Sacred Indigenous Site; “Absolutely Vulnerable”: Over 20,000 Global South Ship Workers Stranded at Sea Due to Iran War
Headlines for May 07, 2026; Gaza Faces Public Health Collapse Amid Rat Infestation & Disease as Israel Blocks Reconstruction; India’s Modi Gov’t Purged Millions of Voters Before Elections in “Direct Attack” on Democracy; “Gerrymandering Arms Race”: GOP Rushes to Erase Black Representation After SCOTUS Guts Voting Rights
Headlines for May 06, 2026; Global Press Freedom Hits Record Low, U.S. Drops to 64th in the World: Reporters Without Borders; Israel’s Destruction of Southern Lebanon Turns Villages into “Moonscapes”: Reporter Lylla Younes; “Backtalker”: Kimberlé Crenshaw on New Memoir, Voting Rights, Critical Race Theory & Clarence Thomas
The Grammy-winning Mexican singer-songwriter Julieta Venegas visits Democracy Now! to perform and talk about her new memoir, Norteña, and her new album of the same name. Venegas has been a leading figure in Latin rock and pop for decades, often transcending genres, and is beloved by audiences around the world.
Headlines for May 05, 2026; Trump’s War on Iran & Strait of Hormuz Crisis Reveal “Limits of American Imperial Power”; “Assault on the First Amendment”: Dem. FCC Commissioner on Megamergers & Trump Targeting Kimmel, ABC; Public Access TV at Risk: Cable Giants Threaten to Cut Funds for Local Stations Across U.S.
Headlines for May 04, 2026; Abortion Rights Movement Shifts to “Plan C” as Court Restricts Mifepristone by Mail; Gaza Flotilla Participant Details “Cruelty” of Israeli Abduction at Sea; Two Activists Still Detained; Trita Parsi on Iran War: Trump Still “Looking for a Silver Bullet” Instead of Negotiating Seriously
Headlines for May 01, 2026; From Springfield, Ohio, to the Supreme Court: A Pastor’s Fight to Protect TPS for Haitians; “No School, No Work, No Shopping”: Workers, Immigrants to Lead Thousands of May Day Protests; “A People’s History of Invisible India”: Journalist Neha Dixit on Dire State of Worker Rights
Headlines for April 30, 2026; Supreme Court Guts Voting Rights Act in “Devastating Blow” to Democracy & Civil Rights: Maya Wiley; Maya Wiley: Southern Poverty Law Center Indictment Is Part of Trump’s Broader Attack on Civil Rights; Scholar Gilbert Achcar on the U.S. War Against Iran & Trump’s “Old-New Imperial Doctrine”; Sunlight Doesn’t Go Through the Strait of Hormuz: Bill McKibben on Iran Oil Shock & Green Transition
Headlines for April 29, 2026; “Political Disaster for Donald Trump”: Jeremy Scahill on Stalled U.S.-Iran Talks; UAE Quits OPEC as Many Countries Ramp Up Oil Production Despite Worsening Climate Crisis; “We Are Bombarding America’s Forests with Roundup”: Despite Cancer Fear, Trump Admin Pushes Herbicide
Headlines for April 28, 2026; Trump vs. Dreamers: Justice Dept. Moves to Make It Easier to Deport 500K+ DACA Recipients; Avi Lewis, New Socialist Leader of Canada’s NDP: “Life Just Doesn’t Have to Be So Grindingly Unfair”; Colombia Hosts First Global Summit on Transitioning from Fossil Fuels in Attempt to Break U.N. Deadlock
Renowned anti-death penalty activist Sister Helen Prejean reacts to the Justice Department announcement that it will use firing squads and single-drug lethal injections to kill condemned federal prisoners, as it seeks to ramp up and expedite capital punishment.
Headlines for April 27, 2026; Rep. Ro Khanna on White House Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting, Political Violence, Epstein Files & More; “Slow Civil War” Author Jeff Sharlet on the Growing Normalization of Violence at Home & Abroad; Death by Firing Squad: Sister Helen Prejean on Trump’s Moves to Ramp Up Executions
Headlines for April 24, 2026; Lebanese Journalist Amal Khalil Killed in Israeli Strike, Medics Blocked from Saving Her Under Rubble; NYC Councilmember Chi Ossé Calls for End to “Deed Theft” After Arrest at Eviction Protest in Brooklyn; “Muskism”: Author Quinn Slobodian on How Apartheid South Africa Inspired Elon Musk’s Worldview & More
Headlines for April 23, 2026; How Hawkish Democrats, from Schumer to Harris, Paved the Way for War with Iran: Stephen Zunes; The Looming Food Crisis: Why the Strait of Hormuz Is Disrupting Global Agriculture; Betting on War: Mysterious Traders Make Millions on Well-Timed Bets Tied to Trump’s War on Iran
Headlines for April 22, 2026; AI Data Center Resistance: Maine Passes Nation’s First Statewide Moratorium — Will Gov. Mills Sign It?; “Colossus Failure”: Elon Musk’s Data Centers Face Lawsuit for Polluting Black Neighborhoods in Memphis; “Data Colonialism”: Native Communities Fight AI Data Centers on Indigenous Land; Greenpeace Sends Ship to Support Global Sumud Flotilla’s Attempt to Break Israel’s Blockade of Gaza
Headlines for April 21, 2026; Deaths in ICE Custody Skyrocket: 2026 Toll Reaches 17, on Average One a Week; Caught in the Crackdown: Cases Against Arrested Anti-ICE Protesters Keep Falling Apart; Animal Rights Activists Target Wisconsin Facility Accused of Breeding Dogs for Medical Experiments
Headlines for April 20, 2026; “Gulf of Trust” Between Iran & U.S. as End of Ceasefire Nears, Peace Talks Uncertain; Who Is Breaking International Law in the Strait of Hormuz? It’s Not Iran, Says Scholar; Shepard Fairey on Art, Activism & Resisting Fascism: “It Can Happen Here, and It Is”; Forest Firings: Trump Admin Aims to “Break the Forest Service,” Nearly 200 Million Acres at Stake
Headlines for April 17, 2026; As Iran Reopens Strait of Hormuz, Are U.S. & Iran Near Deal or Renewed Fighting?; Report from Beirut: Israel-Lebanon Ceasefire Met with “Cautious Optimism”; Rami Khouri: U.S. & Israel Were “Forced into Two Ceasefires” as Regional Balance of Power Shifts; Aliya Rahman v. DHS: Disabled Woman Dragged from Car Files Claim over Violent Arrest in Minneapolis
Headlines for April 16, 2026; Hormuz Crisis “Only Going to Get More Horrific Before It Gets Any Better”: Prof. Laleh Khalili; “Depths of Hell”: Sudan Enters Fourth Year of Devastating Civil War Amid Growing Energy Crisis; “Into the Wood Chipper”: Whistleblower’s Inside Story of DOGE Shredding USAID, 14 Million May Die
Headlines for April 15, 2026; Israel’s War & Demands “Could Throw Lebanon Back into a Civil War”: Ex-Israeli Negotiator Daniel Levy; “Scorched-Earth Campaign”: Israel Uses “Gaza Playbook” to Turn Southern Lebanon into Rubble; Reps. Swalwell & Gonzales Resign over Alleged Sexual Misconduct; Will Congress Take More Action?; “The Future Is Peace”: Maoz Inon & Aziz Abu Sarah on Israelis and Palestinians Working Together
Headlines for April 14, 2026; Exclusive: Former U.S. Envoy & Iranian Nuclear Negotiator Discuss Ceasefire Talks, How War Could End; President vs. Pope: Trump Posts Pic of Self as Jesus, Pope Says Warmakers Have “Hands Full of Blood”
Headlines for April 13, 2026; Trump Orders Naval Blockade of Iran After Failed Talks, Iran Threatens Retaliation in Gulf; Viktor Orbán’s Era Is Over: Hungarians Celebrate as Longtime Far-Right Leader Suffers Landslide Loss; Trump Fires Judges Who Blocked Deportations of Student Activists Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi; Automatic Draft Registration Would Expand U.S. Surveillance State: Antiwar Activist
Headlines for April 10, 2026; “10 Minutes of Terror”: Lebanon Death Toll Tops 300 from Israel’s “Black Wednesday” Attack; Will the U.S. and Europe Break Up? Trump Says He May Pull Out of NATO as Iran War Criticism Mounts; Ahead of Hungary Election, JD Vance Campaigns with Orbán in Show of Support for Far Right in Europe
Headlines for April 09, 2026; 10 Minutes, 100 Airstrikes: Israel Rejects Ceasefire for Lebanon, Kills 250+ in Massive Attack; “The War Is Turning Iran Into a Major World Power”: U. of Chicago Professor Robert Pape; Can Gulf States Rely on U.S. Security Guarantees? How the War Empowers Iran & Remakes the Region
Headlines for April 08, 2026; “Sigh of Relief”: U.S. & Iran Agree to 2-Week Ceasefire, But Israel Keeps Bombing Lebanon; “Steal This Story, Please!”: Documentary on Amy Goodman & Democracy Now! in Theaters April 10
Headlines for April 07, 2026; Report from Tehran: “Hormuz Is Not a Tool to End the War But How Iran Wins the Aftermath”; Juan González: “Latinx Freedom” Conference Will Be Landmark Gathering in NYC April 9-10; “A Moral Obscenity”: White House Demands $1.5 Trillion Pentagon Budget, Largest Increase Since WWII
Headlines for April 06, 2026; Israeli Peace Activist: Gaza, Iran & Lebanon Are All Part of “One Forever War” That Must End; “He Is Increasingly Desperate”: Trita Parsi on Trump’s Expletive-Laced Threats Against Iran; Israel’s War on Lebanon Is a Consequence of “No Accountability” for Gaza: Human Rights Watch
Part 2 of our conversation with Palestinian activist Leqaa Kordia, who was freed on March 16 after spending more than a year in an ICE jail in Texas. She was arrested in 2025 as part of the Trump administration’s campaign to target student activists and others who advocated for Palestinian rights.
Headlines for April 03, 2026; Pam Bondi Fired as AG Despite Never Saying No to Trump: Law Prof. David Cole; David Cole: U.S. War on Iran Is “Blatantly Illegal” Under U.S. & Int’l Law; Arizona Sec. of State: Trump Is “Trying to Pick His Own Voters” by Restricting Mail-in Ballots; Meet Leqaa Kordia: Palestinian Protester Freed After a Year in ”ICE Dungeon”
Headlines for April 02, 2026; “This War Is Already Lost”: Spencer Ackerman & Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi on Trump’s Iran Debacle; “Born in the U.S.A.”: Supreme Court Appears Skeptical of Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Ban; Israel’s Death-by-Hanging Law Marks Further “Dehumanization of Palestinians”: B’Tselem
Headlines for April 01, 2026; Another Vietnam? Trump Sends Mixed Messages on Iran, from Ending War to Sending in Ground Troops; War’s Environmental Fallout: U.N. Expert Decries Targeting of Oil Sites & Desalination Plants; “Two Versions of Christianity”: Pope Leo Calls for Peace as U.S. Uses Religion to Justify Iran War; Immigrant Workers in Colorado Lead “Historic Strike” at JBS, Largest U.S. Meat Processor
Headlines for March 31, 2026; “Deeply Illegal, Unconstitutional”: Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Ban Reaches Supreme Court; U.S. Pressure on Cuba Continues Despite Arrival of Russian Oil Tanker; The AI War on Iran: Project Maven, a Secretive Palantir-Run System, Helps Pentagon Pick Bomb Targets
Headlines for March 30, 2026; No Kings: Rep. Omar, Sen. Sanders, Bruce Springsteen, Jane Fonda, Joan Baez at Massive St. Paul Rally; “People Are Rising Up”: Voices of No Kings Protests from NYC to Denver; NYC Palestine Activist Nerdeen Kiswani Speaks Out After Being Target of Assassination Plot; Report from Beirut: “Hearts Are Very, Very Heavy” After Israeli Strikes Target Journalists, Medics; “The Institutions Have Not Collapsed”: Prof. Ali Kadivar on Iran’s Resilience to U.S.-Israeli War
“These are all war crimes — and this is an American president threatening war crimes over and over publicly.”
Headlines for March 27, 2026; “No Kings”: March 28 Rallies Could Be Biggest Day of Protest in U.S. History; “Quagmire”: Jeremy Scahill on Iran War, Strait of Hormuz, Market Manipulation & More; Meta & Google Found Liable in Landmark Cases for Knowingly Causing Harm to Young People; Hurray for the Riff Raff Performs “Pa’lante” at Democracy Now!’s 30th Anniversary
Headlines for March 26, 2026; Crude Capitalism: Trump’s War on Iran Disrupts Global Systems, from Agriculture to Oil to Shipping; Meet Ryan Schwank, ICE Whistleblower Who Exposed Agency’s Unconstitutional Practices; “Torture & Genocide”: U.N. Expert Francesca Albanese Denounces Israeli Abuse of Palestinians; Michael Stipe & Aaron Dessner Perform “No Time for Love Like Now” at Democracy Now! Celebration
Headlines for March 25, 2026; New DHS Head Markwayne Mullin Is “Trump Loyalist, Anti-immigrant, Incompetent”: Rep. Delia Ramirez; Pentagon Whistleblower Criticizes “Bloodthirst” of Iran War, Says Hegseth Is Enabling War Crimes; Patti Smith Remembers Rachel Corrie, Sings “Peaceable Kingdom” at DN!’s 30th Anniversary Event; “People Have the Power”: Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Michael Stipe at Democracy Now! Celebration
Headlines for March 24, 2026; “Israel First”: Ex-Israeli Negotiator Daniel Levy Says Netanyahu Led Trump into Illegal Iran War; “Under the Rubble”: Pulitzer Prize Winner Reads Poem About Gaza at Democracy Now!'s 30th Anniversary; Bruce Springsteen Performs “Streets of Minneapolis” at Democracy Now!'s 30th Anniversary; As Trump Deploys ICE Agents to Airports, TSA Agents Continue to Go Without Pay: AFGE Union Steward
Headlines for March 23, 2026; Iran War & Strait of Hormuz Energy Crisis Reveal Decline of U.S. Empire: Historian Alfred McCoy; “It’s a Disaster”: European Countries Refuse to Take a Stand Against U.S. Violations of Int’l Law; From Gaza to Iran, Rise of Conscientious Objectors Marks U.S. Soldiers’ “Shift in Consciousness”
Headlines for March 20, 2026; Labor Icon Dolores Huerta, 95, Reveals She, Too, Was Raped by Cesar Chavez; Speaks to Maria Hinojosa; Report from Beirut: 1,000+ Dead, 1M+ Displaced, Many Fear Long-Term Occupation of Southern Lebanon; Disenfranchise Tens of Millions? Trump’s SAVE Act Targets Women, Poor, Rural & Trans Voters
Headlines for March 19, 2026; “Iran Is Playing the Long Game”: Prof. Vali Nasr on What to Expect from Protracted War in Middle East; The End of the Petrodollar? How Iran War Is Reshaping the Global Economy: Author Laleh Khalili; From Epic Fury to Epstein Fury: Rep. Ro Khanna on the Betrayals of the Trump Administration
Headlines for March 18, 2026; Speeding Up the “Kill Chain”: Pentagon Bombs Thousands of Targets in Iran Using Palantir AI; Trump’s Counterterrorism Chief Resigns over Iran War, Criticizes “Pressure from Israel”; “Warmongers Come for the Media”: Trump Threatens Media with “Treason” Charges over Iran War Coverage
Headlines for March 17, 2026; Israel Says It Has Assassinated Iran’s Security Chief, Ali Larijani, Known for Negotiating with the West; Ground Invasion of Iran Could Be “Suicide Mission” for U.S.: Ex-Army Intelligence Analyst; Report from Havana as Trump Threatens to “Take” Cuba & Pushes for Ouster of Cuban Leader; Prairieland Trial: Anti-ICE Protesters Convicted on Terrorism Charges as DOJ Targets “Antifa Cell”
Headlines for March 16, 2026; “A Sense of Despair”: Many Iranians Fear a Prolonged War — and What Comes After; Report from Jerusalem: As Israel Keeps Bombing Iran, Palestinians Face Growing Violence in West Bank; “Mr Nobody Against Putin” Wins Oscar; Meet the Russian Teacher in Film Who Confronts State Propaganda
Headlines for March 13, 2026; Report from Beirut: Israel Expands Bombing Campaign & Mass Displacement in Lebanon; Israeli Journalist Gideon Levy: Israel Will Not Stop Wars & Occupation Until U.S. Pulls Support; Economist Jeffrey Sachs: U.S.-Israeli “War of Choice,” Assault on U.N. Charter Could Lead to WWIII
Headlines for March 06, 2026; Another Land Grab? Israel Intensifies Bombardment of Lebanon & Orders Mass Displacement in the South; Lies, Corruption & Scandal: Trump Ousts Kristi Noem, Nominates Sen. Markwayne Mullin to Head DHS; “Donroe Doctrine” Summit: Trump Seeks to Build Right-Wing Power Bloc in Latin America
Headlines for March 05, 2026; “Why Are We Going to War?”: Former U.S. Middle East Officials Say Trump Has “No Clear Plan” on Iran; Geeta Gandbhir on Her Double Oscar Noms for “The Perfect Neighbor” & “The Devil Is Busy”; “Armed Only with a Camera”: Oscar-Nominated Doc Honors Brent Renaud and Other “Fallen Journalists”
Part 2 of interview with economist Michael Hudson about the global impacts of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. Hudson’s latest article is “The US/Israeli Attack Was to Prevent Peace Not Advance It.”
Geeta Gandbhir has made history as the first woman to receive Academy Award nominations for both Best Documentary Feature (for The Perfect Neighbor) and Best Documentary Short (The Devil Is Busy) in the same year. The Perfect Neighbor looks at the case of a 35-year-old Black mother of four who was fatally shot in 2023 by her white neighbor. The Devil Is Busy chronicles a day on the frontlines in the battle for reproductive rights at a women’s healthcare clinic in Atlanta, Georgia.
Headlines for March 04, 2026; Who Bombed Girls’ School in Iran? Reporter Nilo Tabrizy on What We Know About Massacre, 175 Killed; “Iran Is Not Going to Surrender”: Johns Hopkins Prof. Says U.S. and Israel Underestimate Iran; “Utter Disaster for All Involved”: Is Trump’s War on Iran Repeating Bush’s “Forever War” in Iraq?; “The Secret Agent”: Kleber Mendonça Filho on His Oscar-Nominated Film & Brazil’s Military Dictatorship
Mr Nobody Against Putin is an Oscar-nominated documentary that tells the story of Pavel “Pasha” Talankin, a primary school teacher and videographer who becomes an international whistleblower. After being reluctantly drawn into Putin’s propaganda machine, he starts documenting how ordinary Russians are indoctrinated with pro-war messages and recruited for the war.
Headlines for March 03, 2026; “Horror and Anxiety”: Death Toll in Iran Tops 780 as Trump Says U.S. Can Fight “Forever”; By Attacking Iran, U.S. & Israel Seek Unchallenged Supremacy in Middle East: Rami Khouri; “Stop This Bloodshed”: Israeli Lawmaker Ofer Cassif Slams Netanyahu’s “Fascist Government” over Iran; A War for Oil: Economist Michael Hudson on U.S. Quest to Control the World’s Oil Trade
The Secret Agent is one of the most celebrated international films of the year. It has been nominated for four Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actor. The film stars Wagner Moura and is set in Brazil in 1977, during the final years of the military dictatorship. We speak with the film’s director and screenwriter, Kleber Mendonça Filho.
Headlines for March 02, 2026; Iranian American Scholars Denounce U.S.-Israeli Attack, Warn Regime Change Efforts Will Backfire; Israel Wants Ability to Attack Anyone at Any Time: Israeli Analyst Ori Goldberg; Trump’s War on Iran Violates International Law & U.S. Constitution: War Crimes Prosecutor Reed Brody
The U.S. and Israel have launched an unprovoked attack on Iran, striking sites across the country, including the compound of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Iranian state media reports one Israeli strike hit an elementary girls’ school in Minab, killing at least 85 people, including scores of children. Iran responded by launching attacks across the Middle East targeting Israel and U.S. military installations in the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and Jordan.
Headlines for February 27, 2026; Missing DOJ Files: As Clintons Testify About Epstein, Where Are FBI Interviews with Trump Accuser?; ICE Abducts Then Releases Columbia Student After Mamdani Intervenes & Calls to Dismiss More Cases; “Abandoned By Border Patrol”: Blind Refugee in Buffalo Dies in the Cold; Family Demands Answers; Former St. Louis Congressmember Cori Bush Runs for Seat Again After AIPAC Targeted Her in 2024
Headlines for February 26, 2026; Cuba Kills 4 Exiles Trying to “Infiltrate” Island by Boat as U.S. “Medieval Siege” of Cuba Continues; “Flagrant War Crime”: Investigation Recreates 2025 Israeli Massacre, Cover-Up of 15 Gaza Aid Workers; Beaten, Starved, Tortured: New CPJ Report on Abuse of Palestinian Journalists in Israeli Prisons; A Record 129 Journalists Killed in 2025, Israel Responsible for 2/3 of the Deaths: CPJ
Headlines for February 25, 2026; “You Have Killed Americans,” “Black People Aren’t Apes”: Democrats Protest Trump’s State of the Union; Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Joseph Stiglitz Slams Trump’s Myths About Tariffs, Affordability; Rep. Summer Lee on Boycotting Trump Speech, Jesse Jackson, Voting Rights, “Endless Wars” & More; Jailed for “Standing Up”: DHS Assault Victim Aliya Rahman Arrested at State of the Union Address; “Lies, Gaslighting and Maligning”: Rep. Adelita Grijalva Boycotts Trump’s Speech
Headlines for February 24, 2026; A Warming Planet Makes Nor’easters & Other Storms More Intense: Climate Scientist Michael Mann; Aided by U.S. Intelligence, Mexican Army Kills Top Cartel Leader After Threat of Trump Intervention; War Crimes Prosecutor Reed Brody on Epstein Files, Duterte’s ICC Case & Ukraine War Anniversary
Headlines for February 23, 2026; Trump Lashes Out & Attacks Justices After Supreme Court Limits His Power to Impose Tariffs; “It’s Still a Genocide”: Poet Mosab Abu Toha on Reality of “Ceasefire” in Gaza; As U.S. Olympians Take On the Trump Administration, Trump Attacks Them While Kash Patel Parties
Headlines for February 20, 2026; Carole Cadwalladr on Epstein Fallout: As U.K. Arrests Ex-Prince, Where is the Accountability in U.S.?; Jeremy Scahill: Despite Ongoing Talks, Trump Admin Is “Obsessed” with Destroying Iran; “Colonial Apartheid Regime”: Jeremy Scahill on Trump’s “Board of Peace” & Plans For Gaza; Mohsen Mahdawi, Palestinian Columbia Student Targeted by Trump, Hails Court Ruling Blocking Deportation
Headlines for February 19, 2026; “Predatory Tech”: Silicon Valley on Trial in Landmark Youth Social Media Addiction Case; Social Media Addiction: Facebook Whistleblower Says Big Tech Has Known & Ignored Problem for Years; Courts Have Ruled 4,400+ Times That ICE Jailed People Illegally; Despite Rebukes, ICE Keeps Doing It; Former Prince Andrew Arrested in U.K. as Global Fallout from Epstein Files Grows
Headlines for February 18, 2026; Jesse Jackson Fought for Justice at Home & Abroad: Juan González & Bishop William Barber; “Extremely Dangerous Situation”: Trita Parsi Warns U.S. & Iran Have Incentives to Escalate Conflict; CFPB Staffer Alexis Goldstein Fired for Confronting DOGE Members, Announces Run for Congress; Meet Analilia Mejía, Who Won NJ Congressional Primary After Speaking Out Against ICE & Genocide in Gaza
Headlines for February 17, 2026; “Keep Hope Alive”: Remembering Rev. Jesse Jackson, Civil Rights Icon Who Twice Ran for President; Bernie Sanders on Jesse Jackson: One of the Most Significant Political Leaders of “Last 100 Years”; Jesse Jackson’s Legacy: From Marching with MLK to Building the Rainbow Coalition; When ICE Agents Lie: DOJ Drops Charges Against 2 Minneapolis Men Falsely Accused of Attempted Murder
Headlines for February 16, 2026; Why Is ICE Still Jailing Leqaa Kordia? Palestinian Protester Suffers Seizure After 11 Months Locked Up; “The Alabama Solution”: Oscar-Nominated Film Uses Prisoner Cellphones to Show U.S.’s Deadliest Prisons
Headlines for February 13, 2026; House Passes “Worst Voter Suppression Bill Ever” in Latest Push to Help Trump Take Over Elections; “Love Forward Together”: Faith Leaders in North Carolina Launch 50-Mile March for Social Justice; “Policy of Aggression”: Cuba’s U.N. Ambassador Denounces U.S. Oil Blockade, Push to Topple Government
Headlines for February 12, 2026; “Massive Cover-Up”: Rep. Jayapal Slams AG Pam Bondi over Epstein Files & Spying on Lawmakers; Netanyahu Seeks to Kill U.S.-Iran Talks to Start Another War: Mouin Rabbani; Oscar-Nominated Filmmaker Jafar Panahi Speaks Out on Jailing of Screenwriter Mehdi Mahmoudian in Iran; “I Was Just So Disgusted”: Jewish Rep. Balint Walks Out of Hearing After Bondi Calls Her Antisemitic
Headlines for February 11, 2026; “De Facto Dictatorship”: Democrats Confront ICE, CBP Officials on Brutal Tactics; Impeach the President: Rep. Al Green Denounces Trump’s Racist Obama Video & Attacks on Black History; “Devastating”: Trump EPA to Scrap Landmark Climate Finding in Pro-Fossil Fuel Deregulatory Push
Headlines for February 10, 2026; Protecting Pedophile Predators: Carole Cadwalladr on Jeffrey Epstein & the Elite’s Veil of Silence; Rep. Joaquin Castro Slams ICE “Prison” Where Children as Young as 2 Months Old Are Held; “I Have Never Felt So Much Fear”: Immigrant Children Speak Out on Life Inside ICE Jail in Dilley, TX
Headlines for February 09, 2026; Meet Aliya Rahman, Disabled U.S. Citizen Assaulted, Jailed & Traumatized by ICE in Minneapolis; As Black History Month Turns 100, Trump Refuses to Apologize for Video Depicting Obamas as Apes; JD Vance Is Booed at Olympics While Thousands Protest U.S. Sending ICE Agents to Games in Italy; “The War Hasn’t Ended”: Palestinians in Gaza Still Face Israeli Attacks, Disease, Medical Neglect
Headlines for February 06, 2026; Juan González on Lasting Impact of 9/11 Toxic Exposure as NYC Faces Calls to Release Suppressed Files; “Journalism Deserves Better”: Ex-Washington Post Staffers Slam Billionaire Bezos for Gutting Paper; Can U.S. & Iran Lower Tensions? Officials Begin New Talks Amid Trump Threats of Military Strikes; Right of Return: Omar Shakir & Ken Roth Debate “Blocked” Human Rights Watch Report on Palestine
Headlines for February 05, 2026; Rep. Khanna Slams DOJ for Not Launching New Probes of Jeffrey Epstein’s “Co-Conspirators”; “Tear Down ICE” & Probe Trump-UAE $500M Crypto Deal: Rep. Ro Khanna; Shot, Harassed & Threatened: U.S. Citizens Describe Surviving Violent Attacks by Immigration Agents; Elon Musk Under Fire for Epstein Links, Grok’s Sexualized AI Deepfakes & SpaceX-xAI Merger
Headlines for February 04, 2026; “No Means No”: AZ Secretary of State Calls for Resistance as Trump Pushes to “Nationalize” Voting; Why Was Spy Chief Tulsi Gabbard at FBI Election Raid in Georgia? Ex-DOJ Attorney Speaks Out; A New Nuclear Arms Race Could “Spiral” as Last U.S.-Russia Treaty Expires: Dr. Ira Helfand; “Geopolitics of the Weak”: Colombian Senator Urges “Collective Action” Against U.S. Aggression
Headlines for February 03, 2026; Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Directs Local Police to Investigate “Rogue, Reckless” ICE Agents; Philly City Council Considers “ICE Out” Legislation, as DA Krasner Decries “Wannabe Nazi” ICE Agents; Immigrant Rights Leader in Maine Says ICE Raids Caused Panic & “Wave of Fear”; ProPublica Identifies CBP Agents Who Fatally Shot ICU Nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis
Headlines for February 02, 2026; “Journalism Is Not a Crime”: Georgia Fort & Don Lemon Arrested for Covering St. Paul Church Protest; “Leave Our City Now”: Minneapolis Residents March as Part of National Strike Against ICE; “Billionaire Boys Club”: What the Latest Epstein Files Reveal About Elite Impunity; FBI Raid in Georgia Is Part of “Trump’s Scheme to Try to Rig the Midterms”: Ari Berman
Headlines for January 30, 2026; “Hostile Takeovers”: As U.S. Claims Venezuela’s Oil, Trump Seeks “Vassal States” Across the World; “Cold-Blooded Murder”: Families of Trinidadian Men Killed in U.S. Boat Strike Sue Trump Admin; 350,000 Haitians in U.S. “at Risk of Losing Everything” After Trump Revokes Legal TPS Status; “Prevent the Bloodshed”: Filmmaker Sepideh Farsi on Iran Protests & U.S. Threats of Military Strikes
Headlines for January 29, 2026; “Let Us Out”: ICE Detention of Children Sparks Protests at Immigration Jail in Dilley, TX; “Not Going to Bully Me”: Rep. LaMonica McIver Faces 17 Years in Prison over ICE Jail Inspection; ICE Agents Film Minnesota Protesters & Immigrants as Part of Massive Facial Recognition Push
Headlines for January 28, 2026; ICE “Wartime” Recruiting Effort Targets Gun & Military Lovers Using White Nationalist Messaging; Rep. Ilhan Omar Attacked by Man at Minneapolis Town Hall After She Called for Noem’s Impeachment; “The Border Is the Entire Country”: How Trump Brought Borderland Violence into U.S. Cities; Abolish ICE: Rep. Delia Ramirez Calls for Defunding DHS & Defends Rep. Ilhan Omar After Attack
Headlines for January 27, 2026; “Feels Like a Cover-Up”: Minnesota AG Keith Ellison Slams Trump Admin over Deadly ICE Crackdown; Can ICE Forcibly Enter Homes Without a Warrant? Inside Trump’s Attack on the 4th Amendment; From George Floyd to Alex Pretti: “Copaganda” Author on Myths About Immigration, Crime & Policing
Headlines for January 26, 2026; “He Was Executed”: Minneapolis Residents Outraged, Defiant After Immigration Agents Kill Alex Pretti; RIP Alex Pretti: Colleague Remembers “Compassion,” “Deep Empathy” of ICU Nurse Killed by Feds; “Trumped-Up Charges”: Out of Jail, Nekima Levy Armstrong Faces Prosecution for Anti-ICE Church Protest; ”ICE Out”: Tens of Thousands March in Minnesota in General Strike Against Immigration Raids
Headlines for January 23, 2026; “Emperor” Trump’s So-Called Board of Peace Erases Palestinians from Gaza Governance; Nekima Levy Armstrong Jailed After Protesting ICE Official Who Also Serves as Pastor in St. Paul; ICE Out of Minnesota: Unions & Churches Lead Economic Blackout in “Day of Truth and Freedom”; “Kings and Pawns”: Howard Bryant on What Jackie Robinson & Paul Robeson Reveal About America
Headlines for January 22, 2026; “An Abomination”: Yanis Varoufakis on Trump’s “Board of Peace” & Threat to Democratic World Order; “Catch of the Day”: Latest ICE Operation in Maine Targets Somali Community; Born in Evin Prison, Iranian Author on Protests Against “Authoritarian, Theocratic Regime”
The new film Magellan chronicles the life of Portuguese colonizer Ferdinand Magellan, the first person to circumnavigate the globe. Known for his voyage crossing the Pacific Ocean and landing on the island of Cebu, now the Philippines, the movie shows how Magellan was heralded as a hero to some, but is viewed as a murderer by many. In the film, the famed, acclaimed actor Gael García Bernal plays Magellan. We speak to the film’s director, Lav Diaz, an award-winning filmmaker and writer from the Philippines.
Headlines for January 21, 2026; Facing Possible Arrest, Minnesota Lawyer Defends Protest at Church Whose Pastor Is Top ICE Official; As Trump Threatens to Take Greenland, Oxfam Warns of Rising Authoritarianism & Billionaire Boom; NYC Nurses’ Strike Enters 10th Day; Mayor Mamdani & Sen. Sanders Join Picket Line
Headlines for January 20, 2026; ICE vs. People of Minnesota: A Special Report on Community Resistance to Trump’s Militarized Crackdown; “Not Above the Law”: Law Prof. Michele Goodwin Decries Violent ICE Activity in Minnesota; A Distraction from Epstein Files? Trump Ramps Up Chaos in Minnesota, Greenland & Beyond; “No Going Back”: Trump Escalates Threats to Take Greenland & Tariff European Allies
MLK Day Special: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in His Own Words
Part 2 of our conversation with Palestinian American director and actress Cherien Dabis about her new film, All That’s Left of You. It’s a new feature film that looks at 70 years of Palestinian history through the lens of one family’s experience over three generations. The film features the acclaimed Palestinian actor Mohammad Bakri, who died in December.
Headlines for January 16, 2026; ICE Arresting U.S. Citizens, Using Banned Chokeholds: Explosive ProPublica Report; “Autocratic Power Grab”: Trump Threatens to Invoke Insurrection Act, Deploy Troops to Minnesota; Palestinian Activist Mahmoud Khalil Speaks Out as New Ruling Could Lead to His Rearrest, Deportation; “All That’s Left of You”: Oscar-Shortlisted Film Traces Palestinian Family’s Love & Loss Since 1948
Headlines for January 15, 2026; FBI Raids Home of Washington Post Reporter as Attacks on Press Freedom Intensify Under Trump; “This Regime Will Fall”: Director Jafar Panahi on Deadly Iran Protests & Filmmaking Under Censorship
Headlines for January 14, 2026; “Federal Invasion”: Minnesota Officials Condemn Violent ICE Raids, Arrests; Journalist Tests ICE Recruitment; Surprised to Find Herself Hired with No Background Check; ”ICE Is OK with Renee Good’s Killing”: Journalist Ken Klippenstein on ICE Tactics & Recruitment; ICE Detention Expands Dramatically; 70,000 Immigrants Now Jailed, Deaths Increase; Supreme Court Appears Poised to Uphold State Bans on Trans Student Athletes
Headlines for January 13, 2026; “Stolen from Us”: Family Demands Justice for Keith Porter, Black Father Killed by Off-Duty ICE Agent; “State of Siege”: Iran Protest Death Toll Rises to 2,000 After U.S. Sanctions Spawn Economic Crisis; “Empire in Decline”: Historian Alfred McCoy on U.S. Aggression in Venezuela, Iran & Beyond
The documentary Yanuni profiles Indigenous chief and activist Juma Xipaia, who has survived six assassination attempts while defending her people’s land from illegal gold miners and deforestation. The film is shortlisted for a 2026 Academy Award.
Watch Part 2 of our interview about All the Walls Came Down, a new short documentary by filmmaker Ondi Timoner that looks back at the devastating 2025 fires in Los Angeles, which destroyed Timoner’s home and left the historically Black community of Altadena in ruins.
Headlines for January 12, 2026; Iran Escalates Deadly Crackdown on Mass Protests as Trump Threatens to Launch Military Attack; “We Had Whistles. They Had Guns”: Nationwide Protests Held over ICE Killing of Renee Good; “All the Walls Came Down”: L.A. Fire Survivors Fight Foreclosure & Demand Justice in Altadena
Extended conversation with Liat Beinin Atzili, an Israeli American high school teacher who was held hostage in Gaza for 54 days after being seized on October 7, 2023. Her story is the focus of the new documentary Holding Liat, directed by Brandon Kramer.
Headlines for January 09, 2026; “What Are You Hiding?” Minnesota AG Keith Ellison Says ICE Killing of Renee Good Must Be Investigated; “The Voice of Hind Rajab,” Shortlisted for Oscar, Uses Audio of 6-Year-Old Girl Killed in Gaza; “Holding Liat”: Former Israeli Hostage Says “There Aren’t Any Conflicts That Are Unsolvable”
Headlines for January 08, 2026; “Terror & Chaos”: Minneapolis Reels After ICE Agent Fatally Shoots Renee Good, Mother of 3; Trump Vows to “Indefinitely” Control Venezuela’s Oil as U.S. Seizes Two More Oil Tankers
Headlines for January 07, 2026; “This Is Our Hemisphere”: Report from Colombia on Trump’s Escalating Threats to the Region; Trump’s Plan to Seize Greenland Would “Militarize the Arctic,” Trample Indigenous Rights; “Firestorm”: MS NOW’s Jacob Soboroff on Anniversary of L.A. Fires & “America’s New Age of Disaster”
Watch Part 2 of our interview with David Uberti, reporter for The Wall Street Journal, about President Trump’s “war on wind” farms, and backing of AI Data Centers.
Headlines for January 06, 2026; “It’s All About the Oil, Stupid!”: Mehdi Hasan on Trump Attacking Venezuela & Kidnapping Maduro; “Imperial Laboratory”: Alexander Aviña on the “Donroe” Doctrine & U.S. Intervention in Latin America; Chevron Stocks Surge After Trump Vows to “Take Back” Venezuela’s Oil After U.S. Attack; Trump Family Businesses Rake in $4 Billion After His Reelection with Focus on AI, Crypto & Nuclear
Headlines for January 05, 2026; “Venezuela Is Not Going to Be a U.S. Colony”: Report from Caracas on U.S. Attack & Maduro Abduction; “Imperialist Intervention”: Law Prof. David Cole on the Illegality of U.S. Attack on Venezuela; Trump “Just Wants Oil,” Not Democracy: What’s Next in Trump’s War on Venezuela?
Amy Goodman and Juan González host breaking news coverage on U.S. forces attacking Venezuela and seizing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. We speak to Venezuelan reporter Andreína Chávez in Caracas, as well as professors Miguel Tinker Salas and Alejandro Velasco.
Headlines for January 02, 2026; Mamdani Takes Oath at Abandoned NYC Subway Station to Highlight Plan to Improve Public Transit; Zohran Mamdani Supporters Celebrate “Politics of Optimism” at His Inauguration; AOC, NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams & Poet Cornelius Eady: Voices from the Mamdani Inauguration; “I Will Govern as a Democratic Socialist”: Watch Zohran Mamdani & Bernie Sanders at NYC Inauguration
“Empire of AI”: Karen Hao on How AI Is Threatening Democracy & Creating a New Colonial World
Headlines for December 31, 2025; U.S. Strikes Against Venezuela: Trump “Wants the Oil” as Grassroots Resist “Economic Asphyxiation”; “One More Step to Push Out Principled Humanitarian Actors”: NRC on Israel Ban on Aid Groups in Gaza; “Mayor for the Masses”: Can the Democratic Socialist Movement That Elected Mamdani Keep Its Momentum?; “The Blue Road to Trump Hell”: Norm Solomon on “How Corporate Democrats Paved the Way for Autocracy”
Headlines for December 30, 2025; “Whatever Israel Wants”: Trump Backs Netanyahu’s “Colonial” Wars in Gaza, Iran & Beyond; “Israel Crushed Mohammad Bakri”: Gideon Levy & Rami Khouri on Death of Iconic Palestinian Filmmaker; Trump Set to Garnish Wages for Student Loan Defaults; The Debt Collective Lays Out Other Options; Over 20M Americans Set to Lose Healthcare Coverage Jan. 1 After Congress Goes on Recess
Headlines for December 29, 2025; What’s Behind Trump’s Christmas Strikes on Nigeria? Anti-Christian Genocide or Appeasing MAGA Base?; “Witch Hunt”: Jailed U.K. Palestine Action Activists Continue Hunger Strike Despite Health Risks; Cover-Up? New HBO Film Examines 2010 Immigrant Death Under Trump’s Current Border Commissioner
Arundhati Roy on New Memoir “Mother Mary Comes to Me,” Gaza & Authoritarianism from India to U.S.; Remembering Bill Moyers: PBS Icon on Corruption of Corporate Media and Power of Public Broadcasting
A Tribute to Blacklisted Lyricist Yip Harburg: The Man Who Put the Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz
Headlines for December 24, 2025; “Heartbreaking”: Journalist Vicky Ward on New Epstein Files & Survivors’ Fight for Accountability; “Never Stop”: Freed After 9 Months in ICE Jail, Immigrant Activist Jeanette Vizguerra Keeps Fighting; Free Leqaa Kordia: Palestinian Woman Who Joined Columbia U. Protest Has Been Detained Since March
Part 2 of our conversation with Jasper Nathaniel, the New York–based writer and reporter who covers Israel’s occupation of the West Bank on his Substack, Infinite Jaz. Nathaniel helped bring national attention to the case of Mohammed Ibrahim, the Palestinian American teenager who was released in late November after more than nine months in an Israeli military prison.
Headlines for December 23, 2025; CBS Censorship: Bari Weiss Pulls “60 Minutes” Exposé on Torture of Migrants U.S. Sent to El Salvador; “Out for Blood”: Writer Jasper Nathaniel on Surviving Israeli Settler Attack on W. Bank Olive Farmers
Headlines for December 22, 2025; “Who Are They Protecting?”: Rep. Ro Khanna Urges Contempt Charges over AG Bondi’s Epstein Redactions; Rep. Ro Khanna on Venezuela Strikes, Zohran Mamdani, Trump-Kennedy Center & More; Israel Approves 19 New West Bank Settlements as State-Sponsored Violence Escalates; “Destroying Knowledge”: Michael Mann on Trump’s Dismantling of Key Climate Center in Colorado
Headlines for December 19, 2025; Doctors in Jail? Hospitals Stripped of Fed Funding? The Criminalization of Trans Youth Healthcare; Kilmar Ábrego García Reunites with Family, But Trump Admin Threatens to Jail & Deport Him Again; “Terror & Fear”: Trump Moves to Denaturalize Citizens, End Birthright Citizenship, Halt Visa Lottery
Headlines for December 18, 2025; “Divorced from Reality”: Economist Dean Baker Fact-Checks Trump’s Primetime Speech; Meet Tania Nemer, Fired Immigration Judge Suing Trump Admin Amid Purge of Immigration Court System; “No Military Solution”: Is Peace Possible in Sudan as “Proxy War” Expands?
The longtime peace activist Cora Weiss died December 8 at the age of 91, after decades of advocacy demanding civil rights, nuclear disarmament, gender equality and the abolition of war.
Headlines for December 17, 2025; A Path to WWIII? Greg Grandin on Venezuela, Trump’s “Madman Doctrine” & More; Chile’s Trump? Ariel Dorfman on the Election of Pinochet Admirer José Antonio Kast; How Did Epstein Get Rich? The New York Times Investigates His “Scams, Schemes, Ruthless Cons”
Headlines for December 16, 2025; “We’re Angry”: Brown Univ. Student & Parkland Survivor Zoe Weissman Demands Action on Gun Violence; Homelessness Is About Affordability: Author Patrick Markee on the Housing Crisis in “New Gilded Age”; From “Alligator Alcatraz” to Gaza: U.S. Companies Line Up for Lucrative Gaza Contracts Under Trump
Headlines for December 15, 2025; Antony Loewenstein on the Hanukkah Massacre in Sydney & the Muslim Food Vendor Who Saved Lives; Nobel Peace Laureate Narges Mohammadi Arrested Again in Iran; Meet Mia Tretta: Shot 6 Years Ago, Brown Student Speaks Out After Surviving 2nd School Shooting
Headlines for December 12, 2025; From COVID to Hepatitis to Measles, RFK Jr. Is Gutting Vaccine Science: An Ex-CDC Expert Speaks Out; “Watched, Tracked & Targeted”: Gaza Writer Mohammed Mhawish on Life Under Israeli Surveillance; Trump Gold/Platinum Card: Amid Immigrant Crackdown, U.S. Sells Visas for Up to $5 Million; “A Force of Terror”: Rep. Delia Ramirez on ICE Abuses & Her Push to Impeach DHS Chief Kristi Noem
Part 2 of our conversation with historian Jeanne Theoharis on the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, which began days after Rosa Parks was arrested on December 1, 1955.
Headlines for December 11, 2025; Is War Next? U.S. Seizes Venezuelan Oil Tanker as Anti-Maduro Campaign Escalates; “Slow Poison”: Scholar Mahmood Mamdani on New Book About Uganda, Decolonization & More; “My Advice to Parents Is Learn from Your Kids”: Mahmood Mamdani on Raising Zohran, NYC’s Next Mayor; “Slower Form of Death”: Despite Ceasefire, Israel Keeps Killing in Gaza as Winter Storm Floods Tents
Headlines for December 10, 2025; Will the International Community Act? Preschool Massacre & “Large Piles of Bodies” in Sudan; “Torture & Enforced Disappearances” at Florida’s ICE Jails “Alligator Alcatraz” & Krome; Trump Spokesperson Karoline Leavitt’s Nephew’s Mother Released from ICE Jail, Faces Deportation; Despite Judge’s Order, ICE Deports Shackled Babson College Freshman, Harasses Her Family in Texas; What Activists Can Learn from Rosa Parks on the 70th Anniversary of Montgomery Bus Boycott
Headlines for December 09, 2025; “Merger Madness”: Trump at Center of Rival Netflix-Paramount Bids for Warner Bros.; “Honor Our History”: Trump Slammed for Ending Free National Park Entry on Juneteenth & MLK Day; Save Mumia’s Eyesight: Supporters March to Prison to Demand Medical Care for Him & Aging Prisoners
Watch Part 2 of our interview with former EPA regional administrator Judith Enck about her new book, The Problem with Plastic: How We Can Save Ourselves and Our Planet Before It’s Too Late.
Headlines for December 08, 2025; “Murder on the High Seas”: War Crimes Prosecutor Reed Brody on Trump’s Boat Strikes; “I Was Pepper-Sprayed”: Rep. Adelita Grijalva on ICE Raid, Epstein Files, Rising Health Costs & More; “Domestic Terrorism”: Leaked DOJ Memo Targets “Anti-Americanism, Anti-Capitalism, Anti-Christianity”; “The Problem with Plastic”: Former EPA Official on How to Save the Planet Before It’s Too Late
Headlines for December 05, 2025; Rigging Democracy: Supreme Court Approves Racial Texas Gerrymander, Handing Trump Midterm Advantage; 5,000 Arrests? ICE Descends on Louisiana to Carry Out Raids in World’s “Incarceration Capital”; Trump Calls Somali Community “Garbage”: Minnesota Responds to Racist Rant and Immigration Sweeps; “Alejandro Was Murdered”: Colombian Fisherman’s Family Files Claim Against U.S. over Boat Strike
Headlines for December 04, 2025; Will Hegseth Go? Defense Secretary Faces Anger from Congress over Boat Strikes, Signal Chat; Can a Deal Be Reached to End Russia’s War in Ukraine? Matt Duss on Latest Diplomatic Efforts; “Making America White Again”: Trump Further Restricts Immigration, Ramps Up ICE Raids; West African Asylum Seekers Find Safe Haven in NYC Volunteer-Run Kitchen
Headlines for December 03, 2025; U.S.-Backed Ceasefire Is Cover for Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza & West Bank: Sari Bashi; Ralph Nader on Trump’s “Entrenching Dictatorship,” Reclaiming Congress, and the Fight Against Big Money; ”WTO/99” Filmmaker on Anti-Corporate Globalization Movement: “These Issues Haven’t Gone Away”
Headlines for December 02, 2025; “A War Crime & Murder”: David Cole on U.S. Killing of Survivors of Boat Strike in Caribbean; “This Is a Union Town”: Zohran Mamdani & Bernie Sanders Join Striking Starbucks Workers’ Picket; Trump’s Cuts to AIDS Prevention Are Devastating LGBTQ+ Communities Globally: Steven Thrasher
Headlines for December 01, 2025; Trump Meddles in Honduran Election & Vows to Pardon Ex-President Jailed in U.S. for Drug Trafficking; “Kill Everybody”: Could Hegseth Face War Crimes Probe for Killing Survivors of U.S. Boat Strike?; Trump Vows to Pause Migration from “Third World Countries” After Fatal National Guard Shooting; “Imperial Blowback”: Suspect in D.C. Shooting Was Part of CIA Death Squad in Afghanistan
The Historic Rise of Zohran Mamdani: Democracy Now! Coverage from 2021 Hunger Strike to Election Night
“I’m Not Going to Give Up”: Leonard Peltier on Indigenous Rights, His Half-Century in Prison & Coming Home; My Father Is a Warrior & My Hero: An Interview with Leonard Peltier’s Daughter Marquetta
Headlines for November 26, 2025; “From Apartheid to Democracy”: Sarah Leah Whitson on New Book, Israel, Gaza & Trump-MBS Meeting; Mamdani’s Affordability Agenda: Incoming NYC Deputy Mayor Dean Fuleihan on How to Make It Happen; “Policy Violence”: ICE Raids & Shredding of Social Safety Net Are Linked, Says Bishop William Barber
Headlines for November 25, 2025; “The Epstein Class”: Anand Giridharadas on the Elite Network Around the Sexual Predator; Will the U.S. Attack Venezuela? Trump’s Anti-Maduro Campaign Seen as Part of a Broader Regional Plan; Assassinated Amazonian Rubber Tapper Chico Mendes Tried to Save the Rainforest. Meet His Daughter
Full interview with Alessandra Korap Munduruku, who led an Indigenous protest outside the U.N. climate summit in Belém, Brazil.
Headlines for November 24, 2025; From Affordability to Genocide, Trump-Mamdani Meeting at White House Was Full of Surprises; Climate Deal Excludes Fossil Fuel Phaseout as Wealthy Nations Place Burden “On the Backs of the Poor”
Headlines for November 21, 2025; No Fossil Fuel Phaseout, No Deal! At COP30, Vanuatu Climate Minister Joins 30+ Dissenting Nations; “We Need to Be Heard”: Indigenous Amazon Defender Alessandra Korap Munduruku on COP30 Protest; “Inviting the Arsonists”: Indian Climate Activist Slams Fossil Fuel Lobbyists at U.N. Climate Summit
Headlines for November 20, 2025; Climate Crisis Displaces 250 Million Over a Decade While U.S. & Other Polluting Nations Close Borders; Brazilian Indigenous Minister Sônia Guajajara on Fossil Fuel Phaseout, Bolsonaro’s Conviction & More; The Race to Save the Amazon: Top Brazilian Scientist Says Rainforest Is at “Tipping Point”
Headlines for November 19, 2025; “Bring the Truth Out of the Shadows”: Survivors Hail Congressional Vote to Release Epstein Files; Susana Muhamad, Ex-Colombian Environment Minister, on COP30 Talks, Trump, Gaza & More; Sudanese Researcher Lina Yassin on COP30 Climate Talks, UAE-Funded Proxy War in Sudan over Gold & More; “Data Crunch”: AI Boom Threatens to Entrench Fossil Fuels and Compromise Climate Goals
Headlines for November 18, 2025; Brazil’s Contradictory Climate Policies: Lula Gov’t Reduces Deforestation, Boosts Oil & Gas Production; Indigenous Leaders Converge in Belém, Brazil, Demanding Greater Role at U.N. Climate Talks; Kumi Naidoo on U.S. Skipping COP30, Why Rich Nations Must Pay a Climate Debt, Gaza, Sudan & More
Headlines for November 17, 2025; Report from COP30: Thousands March in Indigenous-Led Protest at Brazil Climate Talks “in Defense of Life”; Protect the Amazon, Tax the Polluters: Climate Activists Demand Action at COP30 in Belém, Brazil; “Just Transition”: Polluting Countries Must Take Responsibility for Extreme Climate Change
Headlines for November 14, 2025; “Gunboat Diplomacy”: U.S. War in Latin America Feared as Hegseth Launches “Operation Southern Spear”; “You Have Arrived in Hell”: Venezuelans Sent by U.S. to El Salvador Faced Torture, Sexual Abuse; “The Trillion Dollar War Machine”: William Hartung on How U.S. Military Spending Fuels Wars; How Mamdani Won: Field Director Tascha Van Auken on Grassroots Organizing Behind Historic Victory
Headlines for November 13, 2025; Trump “Knew About the Girls”: Calls Grow for Full Epstein Files After Release of Emails; Rep. Adelita Grijalva Speaks Out on Epstein Files & More After Being Sworn In 7 Weeks Late; Dr. Atul Gawande: Hundreds of Thousands Have Already Died Since Trump Closed USAID
Headlines for November 12, 2025; “Caved Too Soon”: Ro Khanna on Senate Shutdown Deal, Why Schumer Should Step Down & Epstein Files; “Food Is a Fundamental Human Right”: U.S. Hunger Expert Decries Trump Withholding Food Assistance; Epstein & Israel: Drop Site News Investigates Jeffrey Epstein’s Ties to Israeli Intelligence; “Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk”: New Film on Gaza Photojournalist Killed in Israeli Strike
Headlines for November 11, 2025; Calls for Schumer to Step Down Grow as Democrats Cave on Healthcare & Help GOP Pass Funding Bill; Chicago Parents Denounce ICE for Violently Detaining Beloved Daycare Teacher in Front of Toddlers; “Free Joan Little”: New Film on Landmark 1975 Murder Acquittal of Woman Sexually Assaulted by Prison Guard
Watch Part 2 of our interview with acclaimed journalist Jelani Cobb, dean of the Columbia Journalism School, about his new collection of essays, Three or More Is a Riot: Notes on How We Got Here.
Headlines for November 10, 2025; U.N. Climate Summit Opens in Brazil as the Philippines Is Hit by Back-to-Back Deadly Typhoons; Exposed: 5,000+ Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Got Access to U.N. Climate Talks & Helped Block Climate Action; How We Got Here: Jelani Cobb on Rise of Trump & White Nationalism After Push for Racial Justice
Headlines for November 07, 2025; “The Fight Is Not Over”: LGBTQ Advocates Challenge Supreme Court’s Anti-Trans Passport Ruling; “Without Precedent”: Lisa Graves on the Supreme Court, Tariffs, Voting Rights & Legacy of John Roberts; Is the U.S. Planning to Assassinate Maduro? Peter Kornbluh on “Trump’s Gunboat Diplomacy”; Remembering Peter Weiss: Legendary Human Rights Lawyer Dies at 99
Part 2 of our conversation with Tareq Baconi, author of the new memoir, Fire in Every Direction.
Headlines for November 06, 2025; “My Community Is Under Invasion from Our Own Federal Gov’t”: Evanston Mayor Decries ICE Raids in Illinois; “Taken: The Agents Raiding Communities and the People Trying to Stop Them”: Maria Hinojosa; “Fire in Every Direction”: Palestinian Author Tareq Baconi on Gaza, Zionism & Embracing Queerness
Headlines for November 05, 2025; Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani Wins Historic NYC Mayoral Race: “The Future Is in Our Hands”; The Movement Behind Mamdani: Organizers & Supporters Celebrate Stunning Victory & Repudiation of Trump; This Is How to Fight Fascism: Naomi Klein, AOC & Brad Lander on Mamdani Victory; “Epic Night for Democrats”: Party Wins Races Across the U.S. in Voter Rebuke to Trump
Headlines for November 04, 2025; From Mamdani to Prop 50, John Nichols on Election Day Races & the Future of Democratic Party; “The Dark Side”: Dick Cheney’s Legacy from Iraq Invasion to U.S. Torture Program; “Injustice”: How Biden’s DOJ Failed to Hold Trump Accountable for Jan. 6, Corruption & More
Headlines for November 03, 2025; “Denying People the Right to Food”: Millions Could Go Hungry as Trump Admin Holds Up SNAP Benefits; Trump Throws “Great Gatsby” Party at Mar-a-Lago as Food Stamps End for Millions; “Our Time Is Now”: Zohran Mamdani’s Mayoral Campaign Inspires NYC’s Working-Class South Asians; Trump Threatens to Go “Guns-a-Blazing” into Nigeria over “Killing of Christians”; Nigerian Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka on Denial of His U.S. Visa & Trump’s Threat to Strike Nigeria
Headlines for October 31, 2025; Chicago’s Militarized Immigration Raids “Coming to Other Cities” as Trump Plans 10,000-Bed Jails; Did U.S. Cover Up Shireen Abu Akleh Killing? Whistleblower Says Report Was Watered Down for Israel; “Mamdani of the Midwest”: Meet Omar Fateh. Could He Be the Next Mayor of Minneapolis?
Headlines for October 30, 2025; “Extraordinarily Destabilizing Decision”: Trump Denounced over Call to Immediately Resume Nuclear Tests; U.S., China Reach Trade Truce as Trump & Xi Meet for First Time in Years; Mass Killings Reported in Sudan as RSF Seizes El Fasher; 460 Killed at Hospital; U.N. Votes Overwhelmingly to Denounce U.S. Embargo on Cuba as Hurricane Melissa Batters Island
Headlines for October 29, 2025; “Groundhog Day”: Israel Breaks Ceasefire to Attack Gaza, Killing 104 People, Including 46 Children; Hurricanes Should Be Named After Fossil Fuel Firms: Mikaela Loach, Jamaican British Climate Activist; Federal Agent Pointed Gun at My Head: Illinois Lawmaker Hoan Huynh Denounces ICE Raids in Chicago; “Coexistence, My Ass!”: Israeli Comic Noam Shuster Eliassi Uses Humor to Oppose Occupation & Genocide
Headlines for October 28, 2025; Calls Grow for Humanitarian Ceasefire in Sudan as RSF Forces Seize Key City of El Fasher in Darfur; 42 Million to Lose Food Assistance as Trump Refuses to Tap Emergency SNAP Funds; Millions Face Soaring Health Insurance Premiums as GOP Refuses to Extend Obamacare Subsidies; Master Plan: David Sirota on Trump & the Decadeslong “Plot to Legalize Corruption in America”
Headlines for October 27, 2025; “Rubio’s Ideological Project”: What’s Driving Trump’s Campaign Against Venezuela?; Jeremy Scahill on Gaza “Ceasefire,” Talking to Hamas & Israel’s Doctrine of Dehumanizing Palestinians; NYC Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani Rallies with Bernie Sanders & AOC, Confronts Islamophobic Attacks
Headlines for October 24, 2025; As Israel Pushes to Annex West Bank, Norwegian Refugee Council Condemns Growing Settler Violence; Cracks Grow in MAGA Coalition over Epstein Files, Healthcare & Racist Group Texts: Ex-GOP Adviser; “Criminal Justice Is Criminal”: New Film Is “Musical Indictment” of Cash Bail & Deadly Houston Jail
Headlines for October 23, 2025; International Court of Justice: As Occupying Power, Israel Must Allow U.N. Aid into Gaza; Ex-U.S. Diplomat Robert Malley on Gaza Ceasefire & U.S. Double Standards on Israel; “Fascism or Genocide” Author Ross Barkan on NYC Mayoral Race, Mamdani’s Rise, Socialism & More
Headlines for October 22, 2025; “Nobody’s Girl”: Virginia Giuffre’s Memoir Details Sex Abuse by Epstein, Maxwell, Prince Andrew; Colombia’s U.S. Ambassador Denounces Trump’s Deadly Strikes on Boats in the Caribbean; Tensions in Latin America Rise as U.S. Threatens Venezuela & Colombia
Headlines for October 21, 2025; “We Are Under Attack”: Rep. Delia Ramirez on Immigration Crackdown in Chicago, Gov’t Shutdown & More; Shadow President: Project 2025 Architect Russell Vought Is Using Shutdown to Gut Federal Agencies; “Armed Only with a Camera”: HBO Film on Life & Death of Brent Renaud, Journalist Killed in Ukraine
Headlines for October 20, 2025; “The War Has Not Really Ended”: Gaza Reporter on Israeli Attacks & Reuniting with Imprisoned Brother; The Forgotten Captives: Israel Still Imprisoning 9,000 Palestinians Even After Hostage Deal; No to Authoritarianism: 7 Million Rally Across U.S. in Historic No Kings Day Protests; “This Is Ethnic Cleansing”: Civil Rights Icon Dolores Huerta Decries Trump’s Targeting of Immigrants
Headlines for October 17, 2025; “Israeli Sadism in a Nutshell”: Amira Hass on Israeli Prisons, Settler Violence & Gaza Ceasefire; “Cold-Blooded Murder”: David Cole on Trump’s Boat Attacks & CIA Covert Action in Venezuela; “No Kings. No Thrones. No Crowns.”: Millions to Protest Saturday in 1000s of Cities, Towns Nationwide
Headlines for October 16, 2025; Report from Gaza: Despite Ceasefire, Humanitarian Crisis Continues as Israel Severely Restricts Aid; “Taken Hostage by the Israeli Military”: Freed Palestinian Prisoners Describe Widespread Torture; Why Is Trump Bailing Out Argentina’s President Milei While Firing Thousands of Workers in U.S.?; Will Supreme Court Gut Voting Rights Act & Weaken Electoral Power of Black Americans?; Walkout: Top U.S. Media, Including Conservative Outlets, Reject New Pentagon Press Restrictions