Democracy Now! Audio
News & Politics Podcasts
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.
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.
Location:
United States
Description:
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.
Language:
English
Episodes
Democracy Now! 2022-08-17 Wednesday
8/17/2022
Democracy Now! Wednesday, August 17, 2022
Duration:00:59:00
Democracy Now! 2022-08-16 Tuesday
8/16/2022
Alex Vitale on the reasons to defund the FBI that have nothing to do with Trump; U.S. lawyers and journalists sue the CIA for spying on their London visits to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy; Calls grow for the compassionate release of 72-year-old political prisoner and Black liberation activist Mutulu Shakur, who is close to death.
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Duration:00:59:01
Democracy Now! 2022-08-15 Monday
8/15/2022
A search warrant reveals the FBI is investigating President Donald Trump for potential violation of the Espionage Act and other laws; Afghan journalist Zahra Nader on the first anniversary of the return of the Taliban to power in Afghanistan; We feature a rare speech by renowned Indian British novelist Salman Rushdie, who survived an assassination attempt Friday.
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Duration:00:58:59
Democracy Now! 2022-08-12 Friday
8/12/2022
Matthieu Aikins writes about “The Taliban’s Dangerous Collision Course With the West” for The New York Times; An imprisoned Saudi man was tortured and jailed for running a satirical Twitter account; Longtime Filipino activist Walden Bello gives an interview after being jailed for “cyber libel.”
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Duration:00:59:01
Indigenous Lawyer: Independently Investigate Dom Phillips & Bruno Pereira Murder in Brazil's Amazon
8/12/2022
We speak with Indigenous lawyer Eliesio Marubo in Brasília about calls to independently investigate the murders of British journalist Dom Phillips and Indigenous advocate Bruno Pereira.
Duration:00:18:38
Democracy Now! 2022-08-11 Thursday
8/11/2022
Trita Parsi on efforts to revive the Iran nuclear deal; Hundreds of migrants arrive by bus in New York, sent by Texas Governor Greg Abbott with no warning as mutual aid and legal services scramble to respond; Activists call on President Biden to address soaring rent inflation; Los Angeles faces protests over expanding its ban on encampments of unhoused people.
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Duration:00:59:01
"My Boy Will Die of Sorrow": Efrén Olivares on His Memoir of Family Separation Under Trump & Beyond
8/10/2022
In an in-depth interview, attorney Efrén Olivares discusses families he represented who were separated at the U.S.-Mexico border, and the long history of U.S. immigration policy and family separation.
Duration:00:22:16
Democracy Now! 2022-08-10 Wednesday
8/10/2022
Police arrest a suspect in the killings of four Muslim men in Albuquerque, New Mexico; The founder of the African People’s Socialist Party, a racial justice group, says the FBI is targeting the group for its political work; Immigrant justice activists cheer the end of the “Remain in Mexico” policy.
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Duration:00:59:00
Sandy Hook & the Battle for Truth: Alex Jones Spread Lies from 2012 Massacre to 2020 Election, Jan. 6
8/9/2022
We talk in-depth with New York Times reporter Elizabeth Williamson about covering the latest Alex Jones trial, and her book, “Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth.”
Duration:00:30:09
Democracy Now! 2022-08-09 Tuesday
8/9/2022
FBI agents raid former President Trump’s home in Florida seeking documents; A look at Democrats’ sweeping climate, healthcare and tax bill; Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is ordered by a court to pay nearly $50 million in damages to the parents of a child killed at Sandy Hook.
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Duration:00:59:00
Democracy Now! 2022-08-08 Monday
8/8/2022
Dozens of Palestinians are killed in Gaza after days of fighting between Israel and the militant group Islamic Jihad; Highlights from the historic inauguration of Colombia’s new leftist president and vice president; Princeton professor and expert on Hungary, Kim Lane Scheppele, on CPAC and U.S. conservatives’ embrace of right-wing authoritarianism.
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Duration:00:59:01
Democracy Now! 2022-08-05 Friday
8/5/2022
The DOJ brings criminal charges against four former and current Louisville police officers for their role in Breonna Taylor’s death; The life and legacy of Albert Woodfox, a Black Panther activist who was held in solitary confinement longer than any prisoner in U.S. history.
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Duration:00:59:00
Democracy Now! 2022-08-04 Thursday
8/4/2022
The nuclear crisis grows at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia plant and abroad; Kim Lane Scheppele on the rise and fall of Hungary’s constitutional democracy.
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Duration:00:59:01
Democracy Now! 2022-08-03 Wednesday
8/3/2022
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s controversial trip to Taiwan; We look at the vote to expand health benefits to veterans affected by toxic “burn pits” in Iraq and Afghanistan and how local residents have been impacted, as well; Kansas voters defeat an anti-abortion constitutional amendment.
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Duration:00:59:01
In-Depth Steven Thrasher Interview: How Racism, Capitalism, Borders & Ableism Create a "Viral Underclass"
8/2/2022
In an extended interview, LGBTQ+ scholar and journalist Steven Thrasher lays out his theory of “The Viral Underclass” and shares stories of the people he writes about in his new book.
Duration:00:26:38
Democracy Now! 2022-08-02 Tuesday
8/2/2022
The U.S. kills al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul; Update from Kansas, where voters will decide a constitutional amendment that could end abortion access in the state; LGBTQ+ scholar and journalist Steven Thrasher on monkeypox and his new book, “The Viral Underclass.”
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Duration:00:59:00
Democracy Now! 2022-08-01 Monday
8/1/2022
We spend the hour with Weather Underground leaders Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers, and their son Zayd, who chronicles the family’s activism in his new award-winning 10-part podcast series, “Mother Country Radicals.”
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Duration:00:59:01
Democracy Now! 2022-07-29 Friday
7/29/2022
Congressmember Andy Levin on facing AIPAC’s big-money campaign in Tuesday’s primary race; As key Senate Democrats reach a deal on climate funding, we speak with one of their advisers and with a congressional staffer arrested this week urging lawmakers to address the climate crisis; Two threats facing incarcerated people this summer: intensifying heat waves and monkeypox.
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Duration:00:59:00
Afghan Journalist Bilal Sarwary: Taliban Must "Allow a Free Press to Thrive" Amid Humanitarian Crisis
7/28/2022
In Part 2 of our interview with Afghan journalist Bilal Sarwary, he discusses life under Taliban rule and the increasing Taliban attacks on journalists.
Duration:00:16:26
Democracy Now! 2022-07-28 Thursday
7/28/2022
As top U.S. and Russian diplomats talk for the first time since February, we look at the latest developments in the Russian war on Ukraine; The Taliban crackdown on women and girls since taking power.
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Duration:00:59:00