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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

Democracy Now! Wednesday, June 24, 2026

Headlines for June 23, 2026; Remembering Ahmed Wishah, The Latest Palestinian Journalist Killed in Israel; Remembering Mona Khalil, Beloved Lebanese Sea Turtle Conservationist Killed by 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

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

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