Democracy Now! 2025-04-24 Thursday

Headlines for April 24, 2025; Ultimate Grifter: Bob Kuttner on How Trump Could Drop His Tariffs & Take Credit for Saving Economy; As Trump Attacks CBS, Maria Ressa Warns He Is Following Philippine Model to Crack Down on Free Press; Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa Remembers Pope Francis for Progressive Views & Embracing the Global South; Trump's War on Children: DOGE Guts Head Start, Child Abuse Programs, Healthcare & More

Democracy Now! 2025-04-23 Wednesday

Headlines for April 23, 2025; America, América: Greg Grandin on Latin American History, from Colonization to CECOT to Pope Francis

Democracy Now! 2025-04-22 Tuesday

Headlines for April 22, 2025; Remembering Pope Francis on Earth Day: How He Linked Capitalism, Climate & Catholicism; The Doxxing-to-Deportation Pipeline: Update on Abduction & Jailing of Tufts Student Rümeysa Öztürk; Vijay Prashad: Historic 1955 Anti-Colonial Bandung Conference Inspired New Era in Global South

Democracy Now! 2025-04-21 Monday

Headlines for April 21, 2025; Sen. Van Hollen on Meeting Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador & Escalating Constitutional Crisis; Pope Dies at 88: Pax Christi's Marie Dennis on How He Championed the Marginalized, Changed the Church; Heart of Compassion for Palestine: Pope Francis Called for Gaza Ceasefire Until His Final Days; Pope Francis's Book Editor Robert Ellsberg on the Pontiff's Life, Legacy & Care for Refugees; Mohsen Mahdawi Arrest Sends Message Peacemakers Are Not Welcome: Israeli American Columbia Student

Democracy Now! 2025-04-18 Friday

Headlines for April 18, 2025; Absolute Nonsense: As Measles Cases Soar & Kids Die, Expert Slams RFK Jr. on Vaccine-Autism Link; Cannes Selects Film on Gaza Photographer Fatma Hassona; A Day Later, She's Killed in Israeli Strike

Democracy Now! 2025-04-17 Thursday

Headlines for April 17, 2025; Constitutional Crisis: As Trump Ignores Judges Orders, Will the Courts Capitulate?; Need the World to Pay Attention: Sudan Faces World's Worst Displacement Crisis After 2 Years of War; Trump Eyes Congo's Incredible Mineral Riches as Armed Conflict Devastates Region; One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This: Omar El Akkad on Gaza & Western Complicity

Democracy Now! 2025-04-16 Wednesday

Headlines for April 16, 2025; Mohsen Mahdawi's Abduction Should Terrify Us, Says VT Rep. Balint, Whose Grandfather Was Killed in Holocaust; Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen: Breaking Up Meta's Monopoly Would Improve Service, Safety; Unquestionably Unconstitutional: Harvard Law Prof Slams Cuts as School Rejects Trump Demands

Democracy Now! 2025-04-15 Tuesday

Headlines for April 15, 2025; Liberation Seder: Hundreds of Jewish Protesters Demand Release of Foreign Students Abducted by ICE; Trump Weighs Expelling U.S. Citizens as Salvadoran Pres. Says He Won't Return Wrongfully Removed Man; Cover-Up in Ecuador? Disputed Presidential Election Rocked by New Allegation from 2023 Assassination; The Dark Money Game: Director Alex Gibney on How Citizens United Ushered in Legalized Corruption

Democracy Now! 2025-04-14 Monday

Headlines for April 14, 2025; Mahmoud Khalil's Lawyer: Trump Admin Is Delaying in Federal Court While Racing to Deport Activist; Maria Hinojosa: El Salvador's Dictator Key to Disappearing Migrants Like Kilmar Abrego Garcia; I'm Not Really Free: Pulitzer Winners Suave & Maria Hinojosa Examine Life After Prison in Season 2

Democracy Now! 2025-04-11 Friday

Headlines for April 11, 2025; Supreme Court Orders U.S. to Facilitate Return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from El Salvador; Michigan Lawyer Detained at Detroit Airport, Phone Seized; He Represents Pro-Palestine Protester; Microsoft Worker Fired for Israel Protest: Cloud & AI Are the Bombs & Bullets of the 21st Century; The Teacher: Director Farah Nabulsi and Actor Saleh Bakri on New Film Based in Occupied West Bank

Democracy Now! 2025-04-10 Thursday

Headlines for April 10, 2025; From Liberation Day to Chaos: Trump Pauses Most Tariffs While Escalating Trade War with China; Trump Threatens Joint U.S.-Israeli Attack on Iran If Talks on Iran's Nuclear Program Fail; Columbia Prof. Marianne Hirsch: Mahmoud Khalil Arrest Reminds Me of Growing Up Under Authoritarianism

Democracy Now! 2025-04-09 Wednesday

Headlines for April 09, 2025; A War on the First Amendment: David Cole on Trump Targeting Students, Law Firms, Schools & Journalists; Elon Musk Stands to Get Even Richer as Trump Backs $1 Trillion Budget for Pentagon

Democracy Now! 2025-04-08 Tuesday

Headlines for April 08, 2025; What About the Capitalists?: Autoworkers in U.S., Mexico Call for Solidarity, Not Divisive Tariffs; Detained Without Evidence: Maryland Father Remains in El Salvador Prison After SCOTUS Ruling; Black Americans Are Not Surprised: Christina Greer on Trump's Attacks on Students, DEI & History

Democracy Now! 2025-04-07 Monday

Headlines for April 07, 2025; Point-Blank: Israeli Soldiers Execute 15 Gaza Medics & Rescue Workers, Bury in Unmarked Mass Grave; Hands Off!: 1 Million Protest Trump's Cuts, Attacks on Education, Immigration, War on Gaza & More; Terrifying: Poorest Countries & Global Working Class Face Worst Impacts of Trump's Tariffs

Democracy Now! 2025-04-04 Friday

Headlines for April 04, 2025; Reproductive Rights Crackdown: Planned Parenthood CEO on Supreme Court Case, Title X & More; An Attack on Labor: Washington Farmworker Organizer Lelo Detained in Trump Immigration Crackdown; Can't Look Away: New Documentary Examines How Social Media Addiction Can Harm — Even Kill — Kids

Democracy Now! 2025-04-03 Thursday

Headlines for April 03, 2025; American Empire Is in Decline: Economist Richard Wolff on Trump's Trade War & Tariffs; Jewish Students Chain Themselves to Columbia Gates to Protest ICE Jailing of Mahmoud Khalil; ICE Detains Mother & Her Three Children in Farm Raid Near NY Home of Border Czar Tom Homan

Democracy Now! 2025-04-02 Wednesday

Headlines for April 02, 2025; Elon Musk Fails in Attempt to Buy Wisconsin Supreme Court as Judge Susan Crawford Beats Brad Schimel; A ;Coup; at Columbia? Former Law Prof. Katherine Franke on School's Capitulation to Trump; Trump Sends Hundreds of Immigrants to Brutal Salvadoran Prison as Mass Deportations Expand

Democracy Now! 2025-04-01 Tuesday

Headlines for April 01, 2025; Workers vs. Musk: Federal Unions Resist Attacks on Bargaining Rights & Cuts to Essential Services; A Blueprint for Resisting Trump Education Cuts? Chicago Teachers Reach Powerful Tentative Contract; The Darkest Hour of Need: Burmese Junta Continues Bombing in Aftermath of Devastating Earthquake; We Are Killing the Essence of What the University Is: Dr. Joanne Liu on NYU Canceling Her Talk

Democracy Now! 2025-03-31 Monday

Headlines for March 31, 2025; Obsessed: Elon Musk Pours $20 Million into Wisconsin Supreme Court Race as Voter Anger Builds; Taking Down Everything Black: Fired Kennedy Center VP Marc Bamuthi Joseph on Trump's Takeover; Remembering Robert McChesney, Prescient Critic of Media Consolidation & Big Tech

Democracy Now! 2025-03-28 Friday

Headlines for March 28, 2025; Hip-Hop Star Macklemore on New Film The Encampments & Why He Speaks Out Against Israel's War on Gaza; The Encampments: New Film on Mahmoud Khalil & Columbia Students Who Sparked Gaza Campus Protests

Democracy Now! 2025-03-27 Thursday

Headlines for March 27, 2025; Fired Kennedy Center VP Marc Bamuthi Joseph Speaks Out After Trump Guts Social Impact Team; Kidnapped: 1,000+ Protest After Masked ICE Agents Abduct Tufts Ph.D. Student Rumeysa Ozturk; Can Elon Musk Buy Wisconsin? Ari Berman on Billionaire-Funded Attempt to Flip State Supreme Court; Elon Musk's Family History in South Africa Reveals Ties to Apartheid & Neo-Nazi Movements

Democracy Now! 2025-03-26 Wednesday

Headlines for March 26, 2025; Hands Off Social Security: Drastic DOGE Backed Changes Put Benefits for Millions at Risk; 10 Years of War on Yemen: Leaked War Plan Chats Overshadow U.S. Deadly History Targeting Yemen; 1,400+ Arrested in Turkey as Erdoğan Jails Istanbul Mayor & Intensifies Authoritarian Crackdown

Democracy Now! 2025-03-25 Tuesday

Headlines for March 25, 2025; Oscar-Winning Palestinian Filmmaker Hamdan Ballal Brutally Beaten in Mob Attack by Israeli Settlers; Remembering Hossam Shabat: Gaza Journalist Killed by Israel Was Placed on Hit List Before His Death; Much Worse Than Ever Before: Abubaker Abed Reports from Gaza as Israel Weighs Broader Invasion

Democracy Now! 2025-03-24 Monday

Headlines for March 24, 2025; Pro-Palestinian Cornell Student Momodou Taal Ordered to Surrender to ICE, Faces Possible Deportation; Georgetown Scholar Badar Khan Suri Remains in Immigration Jail After Masked Agents Snatched Him in D.C.; Law Prof. Katherine Franke Accuses Columbia of Empowering Trump by Agreeing to $400M Ransom Note

Democracy Now! 2025-03-21 Friday

Headlines for March 21, 2025; Trump vs. Public Schools: Executive Order Aims to Dismantle Department of Education; Mahmoud Khalil Update: From ICE Jail, Khalil Warns of Trump's War on Dissent & Targeting Palestinians; Catch and Revoke: AI-Driven State Dept. Program Targets Pro-Palestinian Students & Visa Holders; Declassified JFK Assassination Files Expose Covert CIA Operations from the Vatican to Latin America

Democracy Now! 2025-03-20 Thursday

Headlines for March 20, 2025; Criminalizing Dissent: Greenpeace Ordered to Pay $667M to Dakota Access Pipeline Firm over Protests; Murder the Truth: David Enrich on Right-Wing Campaign to Silence Journalists & Protect the Powerful; Disappeared: U.S. Sends Venezuelan LGBTQ Asylum Seeker to El Salvador's Version of Guantánamo

Democracy Now! 2025-03-19 Wednesday

Headlines for March 19, 2025; Israeli Strikes Kill 174+ Children in Gaza as Netanyahu Breaks Ceasefire to Save Political Career; We Live in a Fascist Dictatorship: Elie Mystal on Trump's Lawlessness, Attacks on the Judiciary; ICE Agents Detain Immigrant Leader Jeanette Vizguerra, Who Once Sought Sanctuary in Denver Church; Sabotaging Social Security: Trump & Musk Move Ahead with Plan to Cut Agency Staff & Critical Services

Democracy Now! 2025-03-18 Tuesday

Headlines for March 18, 2025; Another Round of Senseless Mass Killing: Report from Gaza Hospital as Israeli Strikes Kill 400+; Endless Trauma: Israeli Strikes Shatter Gaza Ceasefire as Blockade Starves Palestinian Population; U.S. Kills Dozens in Yemen Strikes as Houthis Pledge to Disrupt Shipping in Solidarity with Gaza; On Kennedy Center Stage, Folk Musicians Nora Brown & Stephanie Coleman Protest Trump's Takeover

Democracy Now! 2025-03-17 Monday

Headlines for March 17, 2025; Rep. Jamie Raskin: Trump's Attacks on Critics & Press Are Part of the Authoritarian Playbook; Trump Invokes Wartime Alien Enemies Act, Then Ignores Judicial Order to Turn Around Deportation Flights; Should Schumer Step Down? Calls Grow for New Dem Leadership After He Voted for Trump Spending Bill

Democracy Now! 2025-03-14 Friday

Headlines for March 14, 2025; Never Again for Anyone: 100 Jewish Activists Arrested at Trump Tower Protesting Mahmoud Khalil Arrest; Imperialism and Totalitarianism Go Hand in Hand: M. Gessen on Trump's Policies at Home & Abroad; If Successful, I Would Call It a Coup: A Retired Judge's Warning About Elon Musk's Abuse of Power

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Democracy Now! 2025-03-12 Wednesday

Headlines for March 12, 2025; Trump's Trade War: Why Lack of Universal Healthcare Makes U.S. Less Competitive; Impeach Trump Again: John Bonifaz on Fighting Trump's Lawlessness, Corruption & Attacks on Judges; Monumental Step: Ex-Philippines Pres. Duterte Arrested, Sent to Hague for Crimes Against Humanity

Democracy Now! 2025-03-11 Tuesday

Headlines for March 11, 2025; This Is All Retaliatory: Judge Blocks Mahmoud Khalil's Deportation as Trump Vows More Arrests; Noura Erakat: Trump's Abuses & Mahmoud Khalil's Arrest Are Products of U.S. Imperialism Coming Home; A Devastating Tragedy: 1,000+ People Killed in Syria Amid Reports of Massacres Against Alawites

Democracy Now! 2025-03-10 Monday

Headlines for March 10, 2025; Stand Up for Science: Nationwide Protests Oppose Trump Cuts to Research from Cancer to Climate Change; Mahmoud Khalil: ICE Detains Green Card Holder over Columbia University Gaza Activism

Democracy Now! 2025-03-07 Friday

Headlines for March 07, 2025; Impeachment Is a Remedy for a Runaway President: Rep. Al Green on Why He Disrupted Trump's Address; Bishop William Barber: GOP Tax Cuts Mathematically Impossible Without Gutting Medicaid and More; Nicaragua Is in the Grips of Another Dictatorship, Decades After Sandinista Revolution: Reed Brody

Democracy Now! 2025-03-06 Thursday

Headlines for March 06, 2025; Lift the Freeze: HIV/AIDS Advocates Win Supreme Court Victory in Fight over Trump Foreign Aid Cuts; Leaked USAID Memos Warn 100,000s Will Die from Cuts to Polio, TB, Malaria, Ebola, AIDS Programs; U.S. Humanitarianism Often Reproduces Inequality, But Killing USAID Is Wrong Answer: Kathryn Mathers

Democracy Now! 2025-03-05 Wednesday

Headlines for March 05, 2025; A Declaration of War Against the American People: Ralph Nader on Trump's Address to Congress; Fact-Check: Juan González on Trump's Outrageous Lies About Panama Canal; Deporting Immigrants Like Me Won't Make Eggs Cheaper or Your Family Safer: Erika Andiola on Trump; Betrayal: Canadian Researcher Responds to Trump's Tariffs & Trade War Amid Fears of Recession; War on Trans People: Transgender Journalist Imara Jones Responds to Trump's Speech; Why NJ Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman Brought a Doctor Who Worked in Gaza as Her Guest to Trump's Speech

Democracy Now! 2025-03-04 Tuesday

Headlines for March 04, 2025; Greenpeace on Trial: $300M Lawsuit over Standing Rock Protests Could Shutter Group & Chill Free Speech; Winona LaDuke: DAPL Pipeline Lawsuit Against Greenpeace Aims to Silence Indigenous Protests, Too; Sugarcane: Oscar-Nominated Film Explores Colonial Silence Around Indian Residential Schools; Remembering Aaron Bushnell: How He Inspired People in the Military to Question U.S. Empire

Democracy Now! 2025-03-03 Monday

Headlines for March 03, 2025; Stop the Ethnic Cleansing: Watch Oscar Speech of Palestinian & Israeli Directors of No Other Land; You're Gambling with WWIII: Watch Trump & Vance Clash with Zelensky at White House; U.S.-Europe Rift Widens as Russia Welcomes Trump's Shifting Ukraine Stance Following Zelensky Clash; Ken Roth on Israel's Starvation Strategy in Gaza & Righting Wrongs of Abusive Governments

Democracy Now! 2025-02-28 Friday

Headlines for February 28, 2025; Might Makes Right: Matt Duss on Trump's Foreign Policy Doctrine, from Ukraine to Gaza; Dr. Khaled Alser Speaks from Gaza on Surviving 7 Months in Israeli Prisons After Raid on His Hospital; Detained, Tortured & Starved: Report Details Abuse of Gaza Doctors & Staff in Israeli Detention; Wayback Machine Saves Thousands of Federal Webpages Amid Purge of Government Data Under Trump

Democracy Now! 2025-02-27 Thursday

Headlines for February 27, 2025; Child Dies from Measles in Texas as Disease Comes Roaring Back Amid Anti-Vaccine Disinformation; Report from a Devastated Lebanon: Sharif Abdel Kouddous on Nasrallah's Funeral & Fragile Ceasefire; The Billionaires Government: Branko Marcetic on Trump's Complete Betrayal of His Base

Democracy Now! 2025-02-26 Wednesday

Headlines for February 26, 2025; Cory Doctorow on Elon Musk's Chaotic Blitz at DOGE, Living in a Tech Dystopia, Luigi Mangione & More; Sister Helen Prejean Demands End to Death Penalty as Supreme Court Tosses Glossip Murder Conviction; Advocates: NY Prison Guard Strike Is Part of History of Repression & Violence Against Prison Activism

Democracy Now! 2025-02-25 Tuesday

Headlines for February 25, 2025; As Musk Slashes Federal Gov't & Fires Thousands, Workers, Trump Appointees, Judges & Media Push Back; No Public Oversight: Private Company Running Guantánamo Immigrant Jail Accused of Rights Abuses; Biden, Blinken & Austin Accused of Complicity in Israeli War Crimes in Gaza; ICC Urged to Investigate

Democracy Now! 2025-02-24 Monday

Headlines for February 24, 2025; Conservatives Win German Election, But Far-Right Nazi-Curious AfD Places Second in Historic Rise; Israel Sends Tanks into West Bank Amid De Facto Annexation of Palestinian Lands: Mariam Barghouti; The Injustice of Justice: Keith LaMar Speaks from Ohio Death Row as Movement Grows to Save His Life

Democracy Now! 2025-02-21 Friday

Headlines for February 21, 2025; Will Universities Surrender or Resist? Scholar Slams Trump's Threat to Defund Universities over DEI; Erasing History from the U.S. to Germany: Wars Are Won by Teachers, Says Yale Prof. Jason Stanley; Gum Up the Works: David Sirota's Advice to Democrats on Reversing Trump's Power Grab

Democracy Now! 2025-02-20 Thursday

Headlines for February 20, 2025; Grand Theft Government: Federal Workers Send SOS over Musk-Led Mass Firings, Service Cuts; Crack-Up Capitalism: Historian Quinn Slobodian on Trump, Musk & the Movement to Shatter the State; Congolese Are Paying the Price for Western Demand for Minerals & Support for Rwanda's Paul Kagame