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Democracy Now!

  Democracy Now! is a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. DN reporting includes breaking daily news headlines and in-depth interviews with people on the front lines of the world’s most pressing issues. DN proudly provides a place for a diversity of voices to speak for themselves, providing a unique and sometimes provocative perspective on global events. As an independent news program, Democracy Now! is audience-supported, which means that our editorial independence is never compromised by corporate or government interests. Since DN's founding in 1996, it has held steadfast to our policy of not accepting government funding, corporate sponsorship, underwriting or advertising revenue.

 

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Democracy Now! 2025-07-28 Monday

Headlines for July 28, 2025; “Stop This Genocide”: Gaza Aid Worker Warns of Imminent Starvation, Urges Israel to Lift Blockade; Gaza Flotilla Activist Slams “Israeli Piracy on the High Seas” After Aid Ship Seized in Int’l Waters; Will Trump Pardon Ghislaine Maxwell? Reporter Vicky Ward on Jeffrey Epstein, Maxwell & Their Victims

Democracy Now! 2025-07-25 Friday

Democracy Now! Friday, July 25, 2025

Democracy Now! 2025-07-24 Thursday

Headlines for July 24, 2025; “Wasting Away” in Gaza: Oxfam, 100+ Groups Decry Israel’s “Man-Made” Mass Starvation of Palestinians; “One Meal Every Three Days”: Journalist & Aid Worker Back from Gaza on Stark Reality on the Ground; “Duty to Repair”: Vanuatu Climate Minister on World Court Ruling Countries Must Address Climate

Democracy Now! 2025-07-23 Wednesday

Headlines for July 23, 2025; Palestinian American Student & Dad: 200 Relatives Killed in Gaza; VCU Withholds Diploma for Protest; Israel Waging “Fastest Starvation Campaign” in Modern History in Gaza: U.N. Special Rapporteur on Food; “Big Fat Bribe”: Stephen Colbert’s Show Canceled After He Slams Trump & Paramount/Skydance Merger

Democracy Now! 2025-07-22 Tuesday

Headlines for July 22, 2025; ICE Detained 6-Year-Old with Cancer for Over a Month: “He and His Sister Cried Every Night”; Trump Revokes Bond for Asylum Seekers, Forcing Immigrants to Fight Their Cases “Behind Bars”; “You Feel Like Your Life Is Over”: HRW Report Exposes Abuses in Trump’s Immigration Jails in Florida; “Life After”: Film Exposes How Medicaid Cuts, Assisted Dying Laws May Bring Disabled to Early Graves

Democracy Now! 2025-07-21 Monday

Headlines for July 21, 2025; “Precisely Designed Mass Starvation”: Aid Access as Weapon in Israel’s War on Gaza, Researchers Find; “Like a Video Game”: How Israel Deploys Grenade-Firing Drones in Gaza to Kill, Threaten and Displace; Former EPA Official on Trump Gutting Science Research Office: “People Are Not Going to Be Protected”; “I Do Solemnly Swear”: Audio Series Highlights Federal Workers’ Voices on Trump’s Unraveling of Gov’t

Democracy Now! 2025-07-18 Friday

Headlines for July 18, 2025; “Stunning Reversal”: Trump Stonewalls on Epstein Files After Campaigning on Full Transparency; Epstein Survivor Calls for Accountability: Release the Files, End Impunity for Rich & Powerful Abusers; Rep. Ro Khanna Pushes to Release All Epstein Files, Calls Gutting of Public Media “Devastating Blow”; Trump Cuts to Public Media Threaten Native Stations That Protect Culture & Public Health, Issue Alerts

Democracy Now! 2025-07-17 Thursday

Headlines for July 17, 2025; “I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It”: Prof. Omer Bartov on the Growing Consensus on Gaza; Writer Adam Shatz on How Oct. 7 & Israel’s Brutality in Gaza Reshaped the World

Democracy Now! 2025-07-16 Wednesday

Headlines for July 16, 2025; Disappearing Video, Legal Threats: How UnitedHealth, Largest U.S. Health Insurer, Silences Critics; New Release of Bob Dylan’s “Hard Rain” as Nobel Winners Warn of Nuclear Risk on Trinity Test 80th Anniversary; “Farmworkers’ Voices Are Not Being Heard”: UFW President Teresa Romero on ICE Raids & Workers’ Lives

Democracy Now! 2025-07-15 Tuesday

Headlines for July 15, 2025; Beaten to Death: Eyewitnesses Describe Brutal Killing of U.S. Citizen by Israeli Settlers in West Bank; “Gator Grift”: Hundreds Caged in Inhumane Conditions with No Due Process at Florida Immigrant Jail; “Purge Palantir”: Day of Action Protests Firm’s Role in Gov’t Surveillance, ICE & Genocide in Gaza

Democracy Now! 2025-07-14 Monday

Headlines for July 14, 2025; “War on Children”: Doctor in Gaza on Massacres, Starvation and Israel’s Plan for Concentration Camps; Netanyahu Had Ceasefire Deal in April 2024 But Kept Gaza War Going to Stay in Power: NY Times; ICE Rounds Up 300 California Farmworkers, One Dies: Eyewitness and Oxnard Mayor Respond

Democracy Now! 2025-07-11 Friday

Headlines for July 11, 2025; Ex-NOAA Official on TX Flood: Trump Breaking “Disaster Response Chain” as Climate Crisis Escalates; Judge Blocks Trump Birthright Citizenship Order; DOJ Caught Lying About Men Sent to El Salvador; U.N. Human Rights Chief Slams Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Policies, “Militarized Response” to Protests

Democracy Now! 2025-07-10 Thursday

Headlines for July 10, 2025; From Agents on Horseback in L.A. to a Chicago Arts Festival, Latino Communities Mobilize Against ICE; “Apocalypse in the Tropics”: Brazilian Filmmaker on Evangelicals, Bolsonaro & Trump’s Tariff Threat; “Economy of Genocide”: U.S. Sanctions U.N. Expert Who Reports on Corporate Profits from Israel’s Gaza War

Democracy Now! 2025-07-09 Wednesday

Headlines for July 09, 2025; “Netanyahu Is the Problem”: Sanders’s Former Adviser Matt Duss on Why Gaza Ceasefire Remains Elusive; “Vladimir Putin Is Not Interested in a Peace Deal”: Matt Duss on Trump’s Stalled Ukraine Diplomacy; “Ideological Deportation”: AAUP v. Rubio Trial Challenges Trump Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Students; Philadelphia Strike Ends: Race & Inequality at Center of Municipal Workers’ Fight for a Fair Wage

Democracy Now! 2025-07-08 Tuesday

Headlines for July 08, 2025; Hold GOP Accountable: Youngest Dem. Congresswoman on Medicaid, Climate Cuts & Her Visit to ICE Jail; “Freedom to Choose”?: Peter Beinart Slams Trump-Netanyahu Plan for Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza; Peter Beinart on Zohran Mamdani & Why Democratic Voters Are Increasingly Skeptical of Israel; What Is the Trump Doctrine? John Bellamy Foster on U.S. Foreign Policy & the “New MAGA Imperialism”

Democracy Now! 2025-07-07 Monday

Headlines for July 07, 2025; Texas Flood Kills 82+, Including 28 Kids, Amid Drought, Trump Cuts to Weather Service, NOAA & FEMA; “Most Massive Transfer of Wealth Upward in American History”: John Nichols on Trump’s Budget Law; “Frontal Assault” on Climate Justice: Rolling Stone’s Antonia Juhasz on Trump’s Budget Law; “Completely Illegal”: Dr. Feroze Sidhwa on Israel’s “Outrageous” Attacks on Gaza Hospitals & Staff

Democracy Now! 2025-07-03 Thursday

Headlines for July 03, 2025; EXCLUSIVE: Mahmoud Khalil, Palestinian Activist Jailed by ICE for 104 Days, in First Live Interview; GOP Budget Bill Slashes Medicaid for Millions, Cuts Taxes for the Rich, Funds ICE at Historic Levels

Democracy Now! 2025-07-01 Tuesday

Headlines for July 01, 2025; “Worst Thing I’ve Ever Seen”: U.S. Surgeon Describes Mass Starvation, Injury and Death in Gaza; “Trying to Find Food Is a Death Sentence”: Palestinian Writer Muhammad Shehada on Gaza Aid Massacres; “Ethnic Cleansing”: U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, on Israel’s War in Gaza; “Damaging and Deadly” Heat Domes Nearly Tripled, from Europe to the U.S.: Climatologist Michael Mann

Democracy Now! 2025-06-30 Monday

Headlines for June 30, 2025; To Fund Tax Cuts for the Rich, GOP Budget Bill Would “Take a Sledgehammer” to Healthcare for Millions; SCOTUS Clears Way for Trump Agenda, from Limits to Birthright Citizenship to LGBTQ Books in Schools; Freedom for Western Sahara: Sahrawis Demand End of Moroccan Occupation at U.N. Human Rights Council

Democracy Now! 2025-06-27 Friday

Headlines for June 27, 2025; Open the Floodgates: SCOTUS Says South Carolina Can Defund Planned Parenthood. Will Other States Follow?; Kidnapped to Salvadoran Mega-Prison: Andry Hernández Romero’s Family on 100+ Days of Disappearance; Rep. Pramila Jayapal: Trump Is Attacking “Every Part of the Legal Immigration System”; Bill Moyers Dies at 91: PBS Icon on Corruption of Corporate Media and Power of Public Broadcasting

Democracy Now! 2025-06-26 Thursday

Headlines for June 26, 2025; “The Economy Is Rigged”: Robert Reich on Zohran Mamdani, The Democratic Party, Inequality, and Trump; “A Clown Show”: RFK Jr. Fires CDC Panel & Stacks It with Anti-Vaxxers, Cuts Funding for Int’l Vaccines; “Buy More U.S. Weapons”: “Daddy” Trump Pushes Military-Industrial Complex on NATO Countries

Democracy Now! 2025-06-25 Wednesday

Headlines for June 25, 2025; “We Fight for Working People with No Apology”: Zohran Mamdani Beats Cuomo in NYC Mayoral Primary; “One Mass Casualty After Another”: U.S. Doctor in Gaza on Ongoing Israeli Massacres at Aid Sites; “Imperial Decline”: NATO Nations Boost War Spending at Trump’s Urging as He Defends Iran Bombing; “Inhumane”: Marine Veteran Calls for ICE to Release His Father After Video of Brutal Arrest Goes Viral

Democracy Now! 2025-06-24 Tuesday

Headlines for June 24, 2025; F-Bombs and Real Bombs: Trita Parsi on Shaky Iran Ceasefire & Trump’s Anger at Netanyahu; NYC Mayoral Primary Day: Zohran Mamdani on Building a Movement & Campaigning for an Affordable City; How Ranked-Choice Voting Could Decide NYC’s Mayoral Election: John Tarleton on Cuomo vs. Progressives; “Blatantly Unconstitutional”: Rep. Ro Khanna Decries U.S. Strikes on Iran Without Congressional Approval

Democracy Now! 2025-06-23 Monday

Headlines for June 23, 2025; Report from Tehran: Iranians View U.S. Strikes on Key Nuclear Sites as “Act of War”; Stop the War on Iran: 1,000+ Sign Petition Saying Iran War Deflects Attention from Gaza Genocide; Ex-Israeli Peace Negotiator Slams U.S. Bombing of Iran, Says Israel Seeks Chaos in Middle East; Mahmoud Khalil Is Free: Follow His Journey from ICE Jail to Newark Airport to Gates of Columbia University

Democracy Now! 2025-06-20 Friday

Headlines for June 20, 2025; Another Iraq? Military Expert Warns U.S. Has No Real Plan If It joins Israel’s War on Iran; “Harming Young People”: Chase Strangio on SCOTUS Trans Heathcare Ban & End of LGBTQ Suicide Hotline; I Was Detained, Deported from L.A. Airport for My Reporting on Gaza Campus Protests: Australian Writer; “More Choices and More Power”: How the Ranked-Choice Ballot Is Changing NYC Elections

Democracy Now! 2025-06-18 Wednesday

Democracy Now! will cover results from the presidential election to congressional and state races, as well as ballot initiatives. Democracy Now!'s election night special will feature interviews and perspectives that you won't hear anywhere else. Join Amy Goodman, Juan González and Nermeen Shaikh to hear the voices of activists, analysts and grassroots leaders discussing how the movements on the ground will go forward following this historic election.

Democracy Now! 2025-06-17 Tuesday

Democracy Now! will cover results from the presidential election to congressional and state races, as well as ballot initiatives. Democracy Now!'s election night special will feature interviews and perspectives that you won't hear anywhere else. Join Amy Goodman, Juan González and Nermeen Shaikh to hear the voices of activists, analysts and grassroots leaders discussing how the movements on the ground will go forward following this historic election.

Democracy Now! 2025-06-16 Monday

Democracy Now! will cover results from the presidential election to congressional and state races, as well as ballot initiatives. Democracy Now!'s election night special will feature interviews and perspectives that you won't hear anywhere else. Join Amy Goodman, Juan González and Nermeen Shaikh to hear the voices of activists, analysts and grassroots leaders discussing how the movements on the ground will go forward following this historic election.

Democracy Now! 2025-06-13 Friday

Democracy Now! will cover results from the presidential election to congressional and state races, as well as ballot initiatives. Democracy Now!'s election night special will feature interviews and perspectives that you won't hear anywhere else. Join Amy Goodman, Juan González and Nermeen Shaikh to hear the voices of activists, analysts and grassroots leaders discussing how the movements on the ground will go forward following this historic election.

Democracy Now! 2025-06-12 Thursday

Headlines for June 12, 2025; Ex-U.S. Diplomat Joins March to Gaza, Says Biden Official Matthew Miller Has “Blood on His Hands”; Block the Bombs: Rep. Delia Ramirez Pushes Bill to Halt U.S. Weapons Sales to Israel over Gaza; “The Beginning of Fascism”: Rep. Delia Ramirez Says Trump’s Immigrant Crackdown Is Crushing Democracy; The U.S. Accepts “Fruits of Migrant Labor” But Not Immigrants’ Humanity: Day Laborer Organizer in L.A.

Democracy Now! 2025-06-11 Wednesday

Headlines for June 11, 2025; No Kings: 1,800+ Rallies Planned as Trump Threatens Very Heavy Force on Army Parade Protesters; From Travel Ban to Troops in Streets, Advocates Blast Trump's Targeting of Immigrant Communities; They Kidnapped Us: Deported Gaza Flotilla Activist Describes Israeli Interception in Int'l Waters

Democracy Now! 2025-06-09 Monday

Headlines for June 09, 2025; L.A. Under Siege: Trump Sends in National Guard as Protests Continue over Militarized ICE Raids; Absolutely Unprecedented: Trump Deploys National Guard to L.A. & Hegseth Threatens to Send in Marines; Kidnapped in Int'l Waters: Israel Intercepts Gaza-Bound Aid Ship, Detains Greta Thunberg & Others

Democracy Now! 2025-06-06 Friday

Headlines for June 06, 2025; Musk vs. Trump? Quinn Slobodian on the Risks of Billionaire Rule; Trump Budget Bill Would Lead to 51,000 More Deaths Each Year, as Health Experts Urge Medicare for All; Completely Unwarranted Newark Mayor Ras Baraka Sues Trump Officials over His Arrest at ICE Jail; High Seas Update from Aid Ship Sailing to Gaza: Activists Vow to ;Win Through Solidarity; Fired over Gaza? Dr. Rupa Marya Sues UCSF, Says She Was Targeted for Speaking Up for Palestine

Democracy Now! 2025-06-05 Thursday

Headlines for June 05, 2025; Trump Revives Travel Ban, Bars Citizens of 12 Nations in Move Decried as Devastating; Mahmoud Khalil, Trapped in Immigration Gulag for Nearly 3 Months, Challenges Deportation Efforts; As U.S. Vetoes U.N. Gaza Ceasefire Resolution, Kathy Kelly & Veterans Enter 3rd Week of Hunger Strike; The Shame of Israeli Medicine: How Israeli Doctors Turned on Palestinian Colleagues & Patients; How to Survive the Broligarchy; Carole Cadwalladr on Tech Titans & Rising U.S. Authoritarianism

Democracy Now! 2025-06-04 Wednesday

Headlines for June 04, 2025; Death Traps: U.S.-Israeli Aid Scheme Paused in Gaza After 100+ Palestinians Killed While Waiting for Food; Greta Thunberg Speaks from Aid Ship Heading to Gaza Despite Israeli Threats: It's My Moral Obligation; Empire of AI: Karen Hao on How AI Is Threatening Democracy & Creating a New Colonial World

Democracy Now! 2025-06-03 Tuesday

Headlines for June 03, 2025; Panic, Terror, Chaos, Trauma: SCOTUS Ruling Lets Trump Strip Protections for 500K+ Immigrants; ICE Raids on Restaurants, Farmworkers, Students Spark Community Resistance Across Country; Detention Facilitates Deportation: Trump's Budget Bill Would Massively Increase ICE Jail Capacity; Palantir: Peter Thiel's Data-Mining Firm Helps DOGE Build Master Database to Surveil, Track Immigrants

Democracy Now! 2025-06-02 Monday

Headlines for June 02, 2025; Ex-Israeli Negotiator Daniel Levy: Netanyahu Wants Permanent War in Gaza, Not a New Ceasefire; British Surgeon in Gaza Reports on Rafah Massacre as Dozens of Palestinians Killed Waiting for Aid; Gaza Aid Worker: Israel's New Shadowy Humanitarian Aid Scheme Is Tool to Increase Suffering; Harvard Commencement Speakers: Despite Crackdown, Students Will Keep Speaking Up for Palestine

Democracy Now! 2025-05-30 Friday

Headlines for May 30, 2025; Worse Than McCarthyism: Historian Ellen Schrecker on Trump's War Against Universities & Students; As Courts Battle Trump on Tariffs, Will Right-Wing Supreme Court Rescue the President's Trade Agenda?; Trump's Abuse of Pardons Undermines Entire Justice System: Reagan Official Bruce Fein

Democracy Now! 2025-05-29 Thursday

Award-winning journalists Amy Goodman, Juan González and Nermeen Shaikh host this leading national daily independent news program. Taped live in New York City and periodically on-location.

Democracy Now! 2025-05-28 Wednesday

Headlines for May 28, 2025; I Am a Political Prisoner: Immigrant Rights Activist Jeanette Vizguerra Speaks from ICE Jail; Corporate Criminal: Nadia Milleron, Whose Daughter Died in 737 Crash, Slams New DOJ-Boeing Deal; Mt. Everest of Corruption: Crypto Investors Buy Access to President; Trump Expands Bitcoin Holdings

Democracy Now! 2025-05-27 Tuesday

Headlines for May 27, 2025; Israel Bombs Home of Gaza Pediatrician, Killing 9 of Her 10 Kids, in Latest Attack on Health Workers; Trump vs. Academic Freedom: President Escalates Attacks on Harvard & International Students; Georgia Abortion Ban Forces Family to Keep Pregnant, Brain-Dead Woman on Life Support; Unconscionable & Deliberate: GOP Budget Defunds Planned Parenthood Amid Maternal Health Crisis

Democracy Now! 2025-05-23 Friday

Democracy Now! Friday, May 23, 2025

Democracy Now! 2025-05-22 Thursday

Headlines for May 22, 2025; Nothing Can Justify It: Journalist Gideon Levy Reacts to Killing of Israeli Embassy Staffers in D.C.; The Worst It's Ever Been: U.K. Surgeon in Gaza Warns Kids Are Bearing Brunt as Israel Widens Assault; U.K. MP Jeremy Corbyn & EU MP Lynn Boylan on Europe Pressuring Israel to Halt Atrocities in Gaza; Trump Repeats White Genocide Falsehoods in Meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa

Democracy Now! 2025-05-21 Wednesday

Headlines for May 21, 2025; A Big, Ugly, Destructive, Deadly Bill: Bishop William Barber Slams Bill Cutting Medicaid, Medicare; It Is Going to Kill People: Disability Rights Activist Speaks Out on Trump's Big, Beautiful Bill; Tax Revolt: Arjun Singh on the Roots of Trump's Push for Massive $4.5 Trillion Tax Cut for the Rich; Trump's Brain Drain: Scientists Look to Move Abroad as DOGE Slashes Research Funding in U.S.

Democracy Now! 2025-05-20 Tuesday

Headlines for May 20, 2025; The Suffering Is Beyond Description: Report from Gaza as U.N. Warns 14,000 Babies Could Soon Die; Making Gaza Unlivable: Israel Intensifies Attacks as Netanyahu Vows to Seize All of Gaza; From a Palestinian Refugee Camp to Columbia: Mohsen Mahdawi Graduates After Being Jailed by Trump

Democracy Now! 2025-05-19 Monday

Headlines for May 19, 2025; Absolutely Genocidal: Mouin Rabbani on Gideon's Chariots, Israel's Latest Escalation of War on Gaza; Project Esther: NYT Details Right-Wing Plan to Rebrand All Critics of Israel as Hamas Supporters; Columbia Chose Silence, Not Solidarity: Mahmoud Khalil's Statement at Alternative Graduation Ceremony; On 100th Birthday of Malcolm X, Family Presses Trump to Release Gov't Files on Assassination

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