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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.

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Washington, PA

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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.

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Spanish


Episodes

Democracy Now! 2024-03-18 Monday

3/18/2024
Headlines for March 18, 2024; “A Catastrophe That Cannot Be Described”: Palestinian Poet in Rafah on Daily Hardships Amid Israel’s War; Rachel Corrie: Parents & Friend Remember U.S. Activist Crushed by Israeli Bulldozer in Rafah in 2003

Duration:00:59:00

Maya Wind: Destruction of Gaza's Universities Part of Broader Israeli Project to Destroy Palestinian Liberation

3/15/2024
Israeli scholar Maya Wind joins us for Part 2 of her interview about her new book, Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom.

Duration:00:15:48

Democracy Now! 2024-03-15 Friday

3/15/2024
Headlines for March 15, 2024; “Island of Access”: VP Harris Visits MN Abortion Clinic in Historic First Amid Growing Restrictions; “Anti-Zionism Is Not Antisemitism”: Palestinian Prof. Shalhoub-Kevorkian on Hebrew Univ. Suspension; “Towers of Ivory and Steel”: Jewish Scholar Says Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom

Duration:00:59:00

Banjo Maestro Rhiannon Giddens Has Broken Many Musical Barriers. Now She Is Working with Beyoncé.

3/14/2024
It’s been a busy period for the pioneering musical artist Rhiannon Giddens. She won a Pulitzer Prize for her opera Omar, about Omar ibn Said, a Muslim scholar in Africa who was sold into slavery in the 1800s. She released a remarkable musical video for her song “Another Wasted Life” featuring 22 people who were wrongly incarcerated. And now her banjo playing can be heard on “Texas Hold ’Em,” the new hit single by Beyoncé, who recently became the first Black woman to top _Billboard_’s Hot Country Songs chart. In October, Rhiannon Giddens spoke to Democracy Now! about her remarkable life, from her work in The Carolina Chocolate Drops to her new album, You’re the One, which features a song inspired by Kalief Browder.

Duration:00:55:11

Democracy Now! 2024-03-14 Thursday

3/14/2024
Headlines for March 14, 2024; Mehdi Hasan on Genocide in Gaza, the Silencing of Palestinian Voices in U.S. Media & Why He Left MSNBC; Mehdi Hasan on the Risk of the Media Normalizing Trump’s Fascism & Dangers of TikTok Ban; Ramesh Srinivasan: TikTok Crackdown, Fueled by Anti-China Sentiment, Misses Real Threat of Big Tech

Duration:00:59:00

Democracy Now! 2024-03-13 Wednesday

3/13/2024
Headlines for March 13, 2024; What Is Israel’s Goal in Lebanon? Increasing Cross-Border Attacks Risk Expanding the Gaza War; Rami Khouri: U.S. Airdrops & Floating Pier Plan Are “Not Serious Responses” to Gaza Suffering; “Revolutionary Love”: Michelle Alexander on Gaza, Solidarity, MLK & What Gives Her Hope; Warning to America: Hungarian Green on Authoritarianism as Trump Hosts PM Viktor Orbán at Mar-a-Lago

Duration:00:59:00

Democracy Now! 2024-03-12 Tuesday

3/12/2024
Headlines for March 12, 2024; “Haiti Needs Peace”: PM Ariel Henry Announces He Will Resign, Transitional Council to Take Charge; Aid Worker in Gaza: The Only Barrier to Delivering Supplies Is Israel. The U.S. Must Pressure Its Ally; U.N. Rapporteur Francesca Albanese Urges Arms Embargo & Sanctions on Israel over War Crimes in Gaza; Immigrants Held in Private Northwest Detention Center Report Death, Suicide Attempts Amid Crackdown

Duration:00:59:00

Democracy Now! 2024-03-11 Monday

3/11/2024
Headlines for March 11, 2024; “Empire’s Laboratory”: How 2004 U.S.-Backed Coup Destabilized Haiti & Led to Current Crisis; Guilty: U.S.-Backed Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández Convicted of Drug Trafficking; “The Trauma Is Immeasurable”: Palestinian Writer Susan Abulhawa on Israeli Violence in Gaza

Duration:00:59:00

Democracy Now! 2024-03-08 Friday

3/8/2024
Headlines for March 08, 2024; Katrina vanden Heuvel: Biden’s Domestic Agenda — Taxes, Reproductive Rights — Undermined by Foreign Policy; Biden’s SOTU on Gaza: Israeli Daughter of Freed Hostage & Palestinian American Professor Respond

Duration:00:59:00

Democracy Now! 2024-03-07 Thursday

3/7/2024
Headlines for March 07, 2024; Israel’s “Killing Machine”: How U.S. Military Support Is Undercutting Ceasefire Talks, Prolonging War; Biden Admin Quietly Approves 100+ Arms Sales to Israel While Claiming Concern for Civilians in Gaza; New Pakistan Gov’t Marks Return of “Bourgeois Old Guard” as Jailed Imran Khan Looms Large

Duration:00:59:00

Back from Gaza, Palestinian Writer Susan Abulhawa Says "Language Is Inadequate" to Describe Horror

3/6/2024
Palestinian novelist, poet and activist Susan Abulhawa joins us for Part 2 of her interview from Cairo after two weeks in Gaza.

Duration:00:33:21

Democracy Now! 2024-03-06 Wednesday

3/6/2024
Headlines for March 06, 2024; Super Tuesday: Biden, Trump Head to Rematch; Schiff Helps Garvey Place in CA; AIPAC Suffers Setback; Unanimous? Supreme Court Ruling Leaving Trump on Ballot Reveals Split Among Justices; What I Witnessed in Gaza Is a Holocaust: Palestinian Writer Susan Abulhawa

Duration:00:59:00

Democracy Now! 2024-03-05 Tuesday

3/5/2024
Headlines for March 05, 2024; Haiti: Ariel Henry’s U.S.-Backed “Criminal Regime” Faces Gang Uprising; U.N. Set to Deploy Kenyan Police; Narco-State: U.S.-Backed Fmr. Honduran Pres. Juan Orlando Hernández on Trial in NY for Drug Trafficking; “The Zone of Interest”: Oscar-Nominated Film Producer on the Holocaust, Gaza & “Walls That Separate Us”

Duration:00:59:00

Alabama IVF Patient's Warning to Others Outside the State: "You Are Not Safe"

3/4/2024
Watch Part 2 of our interview with Alabama-based writer and artist Abbey Crain, who had been receiving in vitro fertilization treatments for about two years when the state Supreme Court issued its controversial ruling that frozen embryos are “children,” opening both patients and medical providers to new legal risks.

Duration:00:19:23

Democracy Now! 2024-03-04 Monday

3/4/2024
Headlines for March 04, 2024; Report from Rafah: U.S. Airdrops Food to Gaza While Arming Israel to Drop Bombs; “Alexei Navalny Taught Russia’s Opposition How to Mobilize”: Historian on Putin’s “Dictatorship”; “Enraging”: Meet Abbey Crain, IVF Patient in Midst of Treatment Derailed by Alabama High Court

Duration:00:59:00

Democracy Now! 2024-03-01 Friday

3/1/2024
Headlines for March 01, 2024; “Just Being Racist”: Biden & Trump Push Anti-Immigrant Policies in Dueling Border Visits; The Intercept: New York Times Exposé Lacks Evidence to Claim Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence Oct. 7

Duration:00:59:00

Democracy Now! 2024-02-29 Thursday

2/29/2024
Headlines for February 29, 2024; Senator Jeff Merkley: U.S. “Complicit in Starvation and Humanitarian Catastrophe” in Gaza; Sen. Merkley: McConnell Paralyzed the Senate & Turned Supreme Court into “Far-Right Legislature”; Israel Kills 104 Palestinians Waiting for Food Aid as U.N. Expert Accuses Israel of Starving Gaza

Duration:00:59:00

Democracy Now! 2024-02-28 Wednesday

2/28/2024
Headlines for February 28, 2024; “Uncommitted”: Over 100,000 Cast Protest Vote Against Biden’s Gaza Policy in Michigan Primary; The Life & Death of Aaron Bushnell: U.S. Airman Self-Immolates Protesting U.S. Support for Israel in Gaza

Duration:00:59:00

Democracy Now! 2024-02-27 Tuesday

2/27/2024
Headlines for February 27, 2024; Should U.S. Send More Weapons to Ukraine? A Debate on Funding & Ways to End Two-Year-Old War; Ralph Nader at 90 on the “Genocidal War” in Gaza & Why Congress Is a Weapon of Mass Destruction

Duration:00:59:00

Democracy Now! 2024-02-26 Monday

2/26/2024
Headlines for February 26, 2024; As 2-Month-Old Starves to Death in Gaza, Mosab Abu Toha Says His Own Family Is Eating Animal Feed; Gaza Ceasefire Could Save 75,000 from Death: Report from London School of Hygiene & Johns Hopkins; U.S. Anti-Terrorism Laws Are “Anti-Palestinian at the Core,” Chill First Amendment

Duration:00:59:00