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10.23.2020

President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden spar in the second and final debate of the 2020 campaign; We air excerpts of the candidates' takes on the pandemic, healthcare, climate change, racism and U.S. immigration policy.

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10.23.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-10-23 Friday President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden spar in the second and final debate of the 2020 campaign; We air excerpts of the candidates' takes on the pandemic, healthcare, climate change, racism and U.S. immigration policy.
10.22.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-10-22 Thursday Mass protests against police brutality continue in Nigeria after security forces shot and killed 12 peaceful protesters in Lagos; We look at the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, which has already killed over 700 people.
10.21.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-10-21 Wednesday Zephyr Teachout on the Justice Department's antitrust lawsuit against Google and how Senate Democrats can block Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation; Mexico's ex-defense secretary is arrested for working with a major drug cartel while heading the military.
10.20.2020 Jelani Cobb on the History of U.S. Election Violence & Joe Biden's Moral Imperative on Civil Rights Just two weeks ahead of November 3, we continue our conversation with New Yorker contributor Jelani Cobb, about his new PBS “Frontline” documentary “Whose Vote Counts,” election-related violence and Biden’s “moral imperative” to safeguard civil rights.
10.20.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-10-20 Tuesday We go to La Paz, where Bolivia's socialist MAS party has won the presidency a year after former President Evo Morales was ousted in a right-wing coup; Jelani Cobb on "Whose Vote Counts," his new Frontline documentary about voter suppression.
10.20.2020 WATCH: Second Presidential Debate - 90 Minutes Uninterrupted WATCH: Second Presidential Debate - 90 Minutes Uninterrupted
10.19.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-10-19 Monday As the presidential campaign enters its final two weeks, we speak with The Intercept's Jeremy Scahill about "American Mythology," his new seven-part audio documentary on the Trump years.
10.16.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-10-16 Friday Senate Republicans are rushing ahead with confirming Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett; We speak with Kristen Clarke, who testified in the Senate, and hear from a mother, who once had an abortion, on why she opposes Barrett's confirmation.
10.15.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-10-15 Thursday As coronavirus cases spike across the U.S., the Trump administration has reportedly adopted a policy of deliberately letting the virus infect much of the U.S. population. We host a debate on herd immunity and how best to confront the virus.
10.14.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-10-14 Wednesday Judge Amy Coney Barrett refuses to answer questions about the Affordable Care Act, Roe v. Wade, voting rights and more as Republicans rush her confirmation; Dahlia Lithwick on the Supreme Court nomination fight; Samuel Moyn on urgent Supreme Court reform.
10.13.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-10-13 Tuesday People with preexisting conditions protest the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett, who could threaten the ACA; Dark money fuels Barrett's rise and Republican court packing; Barrett's role in Bush v. Gore; Voters face challenges casting early ballots.
10.12.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-10-12 Monday As Trump's COVID-19 infection threatens White House residence staff, we speak to a domestic worker advocate and a man whose father was a butler to eight presidents; On Indigenous Peoples' Day, we look at Indigenous-led protests against the border wall.
10.09.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-10-09 Friday Men tied to armed right-wing militias are arrested for plotting to overthrow the Michigan state government and kidnap Governo Gretchen Whitmer; The World Food Programme wins the Nobel Peace Prize; A look at the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
10.08.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-10-08 Thursday Vice President Mike Pence and Senator Kamala Harris spar in the only vice-presidential debate of the campaign season. We air highlights and speak to global health expert Dr. Craig Spencer and anti-poverty campaigner Rev. William Barber.
10.07.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-10-07 Wednesday Trump's niece Mary Trump on his erratic behavior, COVID infection and how his father viewed illness as a weakness; Two survivors of the 1979 Greensboro massacre by the KKK and Nazis welcome a long-overdue apology and recognition of police complicity.
10.06.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-10-06 Tuesday Trump leaves hospital while still infectious and minimizes the risk of COVID-19 as the U.S. death toll tops 210,000; Kristin Urquiza, whose Trump-backing father died from COVID, speaks out; Meet the college senior running a "White House COVID tracker."
10.05.2020 Kentucky Lawmaker Facing Felony Protest Charges Is "Determined to Get Justice for Breonna Taylor" We speak with Rep. Attica Scott about the Breonna Taylor case and her own arrest in September during a protest in Louisville. She now faces charges of first-degree rioting, failure to disperse and unlawful assembly, along with her daughter and ...
10.05.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-10-05 Monday White House correspondent Jeff Mason says journalists are pushing for transparency on Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis; Dr. Ashish Jha on the outbreak at the White House; Ben Crump says Breonna Taylor's family wants a new special prosecutor and investigation.
10.05.2020 WATCH: The Vice Presidential Debate - 90 Minutes Uninterrupted WATCH: The Vice Presidential Debate - 90 Minutes Uninterrupted
10.02.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-10-02 Friday Just days after mocking his presidential rival Joe Biden for regularly wearing masks, President Trump reveals he and the first lady have both tested positive for COVID-19.
10.01.2020 "The End of October": How Lawrence Wright's New Novel, Written Before COVID, Predicted the Pandemic A global pandemic that “brings the world to its knees.” We’re facing that today, but this is a description of the novel, “The End of October,” which came out in April 2020 to a world under lockdown, as COVID-19 tore ...
10.01.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-10-01 Thursday We go to Mumbia for an update from India, second only to the U.S. in COVID-19 infections; Two years after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a new documentary tracks his death, the rise of MBS, and the decades-long U.S.-Saudi ...
09.30.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-09-30 Wednesday In the chaotic first debate against Joe Biden, President Trump refuses to condemn white supremacists and more. We get analysis from former neo-Nazi Christian Picciolini, professor Marc Lamont Hill, lawyer Kristen Clarke and journalist Kate Aronoff.
09.29.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-09-29 Tuesday Historian Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on election integrity, the case for ending the Supreme Court, the Breonna Taylor case, mass evictions and more; Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Cay Johnston on how Trump is a "criminal-level tax cheat."
09.28.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-09-28 Monday The New York Times reveals President Trump barely paid taxes; Planned Parenthood on how Amy Coney Barrett could shape reproductive rights; New bodycam footage raises questions about the investigation into the police killing of Breonna Taylor.
09.28.2020 WATCH: First Biden vs. Trump Presidential Debate - 90 Minutes Uninterrupted WATCH: First Biden vs. Trump Presidential Debate - 90 Minutes Uninterrupted
09.25.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-09-25 Friday Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Barton Gellman on how Trump could subvert the election results to stay in power; Bernie Sanders warns democracy itself is at stake in November; Bishop Michael Curry on the coronavirus pandemic, the 2020 election and more.
09.24.2020 Father of Jacob Blake: We Want Attempted Murder Charges Against Kenosha Cop Who Shot My Son We continue our conversation with the father of Jacob Blake Jr., who was paralyzed last month after a police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin, shot him in the back seven times in front of three of his children.
09.24.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-09-24 Thursday Protests erupt across the U.S. after the Louisville cops who shot Breonna Taylor escape being charged for her death; We speak to the father of Jacob Blake, who was paralyzed last month when police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, shot him in ...
09.23.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-09-23 Wednesday We look at Trump's top pick for the Supreme Court, Judge Amy Coney Barrett's ties to the cult-like group People of Praise and speak with a former member; Historian Virginia Espino on forced sterilizations of Mexican women at an L.A. ...
09.22.2020 New Film Links Forced Sterilization in California Prisons to Horrific History of Eugenics in U.S. We continue to look at revelations about forced hysterectomies at an ICE facility in Georgia have forced a reckoning with the long history of sterilizations in the U.S. — particularly of Black, Brown, poor and disabled people — and the ...
09.22.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-09-22 Tuesday As COVID spreads in ICE jails, we speak to nurse whistleblower Dawn Wooten, who alleges ICE ignored pandemic safety rules and forced hysterectomies on jailed immigrants; A new film looks at California's history of forced sterilizations of women prisoners.
09.21.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-09-21 Monday Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died at 87. We spend the hour looking at Justice Ginsburg's life and legacy with legal journalist Dahlia Lithwick, "RBG" filmmaker Julie Cohen, and a man Ginsburg once called her favorite plaintiff.
09.18.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-09-18 Friday The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 nears 200,000 as President Trump continues to downplay the pandemic and contradict scientists; We speak with David Goodrich, a former NOAA climate scientist; Remembering historian Howard Zinn.
09.17.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-09-17 Thursday A new report shows the humanitarian crisis in Yemen is deepening after U.S. aid cuts; 13,000 migrants are homeless after a fire destroyed most of Europe's largest refugee camp in Greece; WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange fights extradition to the U.S.
09.16.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-09-16 Wednesday Louisville agrees to a historic $12 million settlement with Breonna Taylor's family; Author Mychal Denzel Smith on racism, police killings, depression and the 2020 election; Noura Erakat says Trump's "peace" deals will boost oppression in the Middle East.
09.15.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-09-15 Tuesday Reporter Ari Berman on attacks on voting rights across the U.S.; As fires continue to devastate the West Coast, Indigenous ways of land management could foster greater climate resiliency; How Amazon increased profits by price gouging during the pandemic.
09.14.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-09-14 Monday As fires char the West Coast, we look at how farmworkers are particularly vulnerable and speak to a wildland fire ecologist in Oregon as Trump blames forest management, not the climate crisis; Rev. Barber on mobilizing voters ahead of November's ...
09.11.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-09-11 Friday Nineteen years after the U.S. 9/11 attacks, the U.S. "global war on terror" launched in 2001 has displaced 37 million; Black feminist scholar and organizer Barbara Smith on combating white supremacy; The need for transparency developing a COVID vaccine.
09.10.2020 Extended Interview: Roberto Lovato on His Memoir About Family, Migration, Gangs & Revolution in the Americas We continue our interview with Salvadoran American journalist Roberto Lovato, author of the new book “Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas.”
09.10.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-09-10 Thursday Major climate change-fueled fires burn across the western U.S.; Dearth of African American and Latinx participants in medical trials could slow a COVID-19 vaccine; The history of medical exploitation of vulnerable groups in the U.S. and around the world.
09.09.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-09-09 Wednesday As a hearing to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange begins, his lawyer says the case sets a chilling precedent; Salvadoran American journalist Roberto Lovato on how decades of U.S. military intervention in Central America led to the migrant crisis.
09.08.2020 Spain Honors Filmmaker Isabel Coixet with National Cinematography Prize Spain’s Ministry of Culture has awarded Spain’s National Cinematography Prize to celebrated filmmaker Isabel Coixet. In 2019, Coixet spoke to Democracy Now! about her work, including her film “Elisa & Marcela.”
09.08.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-09-08 Tuesday The director of "The Killing of Breonna Taylor" on new details in the case; How the Trump administration killed an anti-corruption commission in Guatemala in exchange for Guatemala's support of Trump's policies on the Middle East and immigration.
09.07.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-09-07 Monday In a Democracy Now! special, Harvard professor Cornel West and Ben Jealous discuss Trump's record, Biden's vow to fight systemic racism, and more; Professor Angela Davis on the uprising against police brutality and racism.
09.04.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-09-04 Friday Yale philosopher Jason Stanley, author of "How Fascism Works," says nations don't have to be fascist to suffer fascist politics; Chilean American author Ariel Dorfman on Salvador Allende's victory 50 years ago; David Graeber, dead at 59, in his own ...
09.03.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-09-03 Thursday After 23 deaths at Fort Hood, the commander is ousted. Is it enough?; Belarus protesters call for the removal of President Lukashenko; Rep. Mark Pocan on police violence in his hometown of Kenosha, the Alex Morse race, and cutting the ...
09.02.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-09-02 Wednesday We discuss whether "The End of Oil Is Near" with reporter Antonia Juhasz; NYC teachers' unions reach a deal with the mayor over how to reopen schools; A former editor at Kenosha News on why he resigned over his news ...
09.01.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-09-01 Tuesday Trump's new coronavirus adviser pushes for herd immunity; Jacob Blake's shooting brings scrutiny to the case of Black teenager Chrystul Kizer handled by the same Kenosha DA; Hurricane Laura cuts power to Louisiana immigration jails, prompting protests.
08.31.2020 Democracy Now! 2020-08-31 Monday We speak to author, professor and cancer survivor Ibram X. Kendi about the death of actor Chadwick Boseman, his own fight against cancer, racial disparities in healthcare, Trump, white supremacy and "How to Be an Antiracist."

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