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07.29.2021

Experts warn vaccine inequality could lead to a prolonged pandemic as the Delta variant continues to drive new cases in the U.S. and around the world; Senators reach a deal on a $1.2 trillion infrastructure deal, but critics say it ...

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07.29.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-07-29 Thursday Experts warn vaccine inequality could lead to a prolonged pandemic as the Delta variant continues to drive new cases in the U.S. and around the world; Senators reach a deal on a $1.2 trillion infrastructure deal, but critics say it ...
07.28.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-07-28 Wednesday The House select committee investigating the deadly January 6 insurrection hears testimony from four police officers who were attacked by Trump supporters while defending the Capitol; More than 1,400 workers in West Virginia are set to lose their jobs this ...
07.27.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-07-27 Tuesday The Biden administration adds new sanctions on Cuba despite calls for better relations and an end to the decades-long embargo; We speak with two lawyers who have represented Guantánamo Bay prisoners about ongoing efforts to repatriate detainees and close the ...
07.26.2021 From the Archives: Civil Rights Leader Bob Moses in 2010 on Fighting for Equality in Law & Education As part of our look back at the life of legendary civil rights leader Bob Moses, who has died at the age of 86, Democracy Now! is unearthing this never-before-seen interview from 2010 with Moses and his son, Omo Moses, ...
07.26.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-07-26 Monday COVID-19 cases continue to soar in the United States, especially in areas with low vaccination rates; We look at the case of former Air Force analyst Daniel Hale, who blew the whistle on the secret U.S. drone and targeted assassination ...
07.23.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-07-23 Friday The 2020 Olympics kick off in Tokyo, one year later than planned and amid a new surge in COVID-19 cases; Hundreds of water protectors in Minnesota have been arrested protesting the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline; Reverend Liz Theoharis of the ...
07.22.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-07-22 Thursday As billionaire Jeff Bezos flies his Blue Origin spacecraft into suborbital space, calls grow to tax the rich and let Amazon workers unionize; Bezos's trip to the edge of space receives as much coverage in one day as climate change ...
07.21.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-07-21 Wednesday Journalist Ed Yong on why this year may be worse than 2020 for many communities with low vaccination rates; Demonstrators fill the streets of several cities across Colombia again to protest the right-wing government of Iván Duque; A new Haitian ...
07.20.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-07-20 Tuesday An investigation reveals Israeli cybersurveillance company NSO Group's software is being used by client countries to spy on activists, politicians, dissidents and journalists; A federal judge rules that DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, is unlawful. Get Democracy Now! ...
07.19.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-07-19 Monday As drug overdoses soar to record highs in the United States, a new two-part documentary looks at how pharmaceutical companies fueled the opioid epidemic; The remains of nine Indigenous children were buried by the Rosebud Sioux in South Dakota after ...
07.16.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-07-16 Friday Michael Wolff's new book, "Landslide," provides fresh details about former President Donald Trump's efforts to undermine the 2020 election and how he spurred his supporters to attack the U.S. Capitol; Record temperatures are driving deadly climate crisis-induced heat waves, floods ...
07.15.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-07-15 Thursday As U.S. forces withdraw from Afghanistan after 20 years of war and occupation, Taliban fighters are advancing across the country; Thousands have been arrested and at least 72 people have died in South Africa during protests against poverty and inequality ...
07.14.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-07-14 Wednesday Rare anti-government protests erupt in Cuba amid a devastating economic crisis; Pressure grows on Democrats to scrap the Senate filibuster in order to pass voting rights legislation; New coronavirus cases are on the rise in the United States after months ...
07.13.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-07-13 Tuesday Texas House Democrats aim to stop Republican lawmakers from passing a bill making it harder to vote in the battleground state; As Roe v. Wade faces a Supreme Court hearing that may overturn the landmark ruling, a new book looks ...
07.12.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-07-12 Monday Political turmoil continues in Haiti following the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse; Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on infrastructure funding, the New York City mayoral race and more. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: ...
07.09.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-07-09 Friday We get the latest on the fight to protect voting rights as Republicans in Texas unveil a host of new restrictive measures during a special session; In the southern African nation of Eswatini, the government is cracking down on the ...
07.08.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-07-08 Thursday Haiti declares a state of siege after the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse; As the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan nears completion, the Taliban is escalating its offensive by seizing more districts; Why the Palestinian Authority is cracking down on ...
07.07.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-07-07 Wednesday Haitian President Jovenel Moïse is assassinated at his home after months of unrest in the country; Acclaimed journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones joins Howard University instead of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill following a controversial tenure fight. Get Democracy ...
07.06.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-07-06 Tuesday A former U.S.-trained military officer has been found guilty in Honduras of plotting the 2016 assassination of Lenca land and water defender Berta Cáceres; We air an explosive video from Greenpeace of Exxon lobbyists speaking in their own words about ...
07.05.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-07-05 Monday We air a special holiday show for U.S. Independence Day featuring the words and voices of famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass, actor James Earl Jones, poet Amanda Gorman and author Carol Anderson.
07.02.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-07-02 Friday In a pair of rulings, the Supreme Court has gutted more of the Voting Rights Act while making it easier for billionaires to secretly bankroll campaigns; The family business of Donald Trump faces criminal charges for operating a 15-year tax ...
07.01.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-07-01 Thursday Donald Rumsfeld, who presided over systemic torture, massacres of civilians and illegal wars as defense secretary under George W. Bush, has died at 88; The Ethiopian military withdraws from Mekelle, the capital of the Tigray region, after months of fighting ...
06.30.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-06-30 Wednesday Over 92,000 people died from drug overdoses in 2020 — the highest since the CDC began keeping records; Democratic lawmakers reintroduce the Abolition Amendment to scrap the Constitution's slavery clause; The link between a deadly building collapse in Miami and ...
06.29.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-06-29 Tuesday Dozens of youth climate activists are arrested at the White House as they demand President Biden back an infrastructure bill that includes major investments to confront the climate emergency; A U.S. military base near a Syrian oil field is attacked ...
06.28.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-06-28 Monday One of the main witnesses in the extradition case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has admitted he made false claims against Assange in exchange for immunity from prosecution; Former presidential candidate and Democratic Senator Mike Gravel dies at the age ...
06.25.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-06-25 Friday Fighting continues in Ethiopia's Tigray region as national elections take place; Afghan President Ashraf Ghani meets at the White House with President Joe Biden as Taliban attacks surge ahead of the U.S. military pullout; We look at how a former ...
06.24.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-06-24 Thursday We speak to an anti-violence activist as President Joe Biden vows to boost funding for police departments in an effort to combat gun violence across the country; Over two dozen trans women previously detained by ICE urge the Biden administration ...
06.23.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-06-23 Wednesday Senate Republicans use the filibuster to block debate on the For the People Act, the most sweeping voting rights bill considered by Congress in decades; The White House says it will miss its goal of getting 70% of adults at ...
06.22.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-06-22 Tuesday Senate Republicans are expected to block the For the People Act, but Democrats are vowing to fight to protect voting rights; We look at the debate over infrastructure spending in regard to the climate crisis; Striking coal miners from Alabama ...
06.21.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-06-21 Monday Hard-line cleric Ebrahim Raisi wins the Iranian presidential election; Fears grow over the daughter of Peru's former dictator leading a coup to prevent the socialist teacher and union leader Pedro Castillo from taking power; The Progressive International holds a summit ...
06.18.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-06-18 Friday President Biden signs legislation to make Juneteenth a federal holiday; We look at the other Juneteenth, June 19, 1838, when Jesuit priests in Maryland sold 272 enslaved men, women and children to pay off debts for what is now Georgetown ...
06.17.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-06-17 Thursday Biden and Putin pledge to work together on nuclear arms control and cybersecurity during their summit in Geneva; We look at the major races ahead of the historic New York Democratic primary election on June 22. Get Democracy Now! delivered ...
06.16.2021 Masha Gessen on "Surviving Autocracy": Fight Politics of the Past with Potent Politics of the Future In Part 2 of our conversation with Masha Gessen, staff writer at The New Yorker and award-winning Russian American journalist, we discuss their latest book, “Surviving Autocracy.”
06.16.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-06-16 Wednesday As President Biden meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva for a high-stakes summit, we spend the hour with Russian American journalist Masha Gessen. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
06.15.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-06-15 Tuesday NSA whistleblower Reality Winner is released from prison after serving four years for leaking documents about Russian meddling in the 2016 elections; China warns NATO is adopting a "Cold War mentality" after the military alliance singled out China and Russia ...
06.14.2021 Daniel Ellsberg on Whistleblowers Julian Assange, Daniel Hale, Reality Winner, Ed Snowden & Others This week marks 50 years since The New York Times published the first excerpts of the Pentagon Papers, leaked by our guest, the legendary whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg. He describes why he has been a prominent advocate for other whistleblowers over ...
06.14.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-06-14 Monday We spend the hour with Daniel Ellsberg, the legendary whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers to the press 50 years ago and exposed how the U.S. government had systematically lied about the War in Vietnam. Get Democracy Now! delivered right ...
06.11.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-06-11 Friday As leaders gather in the U.K. for a G7 summit, activists call on rich countries for immediate action on the climate crisis; The Biden administration continues to push for the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from Britain to the ...
06.10.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-06-10 Thursday The United States, Russia and other nuclear-armed nations continue to spend billions of dollars on their nuclear arsenals despite the COVID-19 pandemic; As President Biden pledges to buy and donate 500 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine to more than ...
06.09.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-06-09 Wednesday How the world's wealthiest people get away with paying little or no income tax; Government-run refugee shelters turn migrant children over to police; The new short film "Takeover" revisits the 1970 occupation of a Bronx hospital by Young Lords members ...
06.08.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-06-08 Tuesday Over 100 water protectors are arrested in an Indigenous-led action in Minnesota to halt construction of the Enbridge Line 3 tar sands oil pipeline; As Vice President Kamala Harris arrives in Mexico, we look at the deadly Mexican elections and ...
06.07.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-06-07 Monday Leaders at the G7 summit agree to a minimum global corporate tax rate to clamp down on corporations that hide their wealth in tax havens; Civil liberties attorney Jameel Jaffer on the Department of Justice's efforts to spy on journalists; ...
06.04.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-06-04 Friday The Biden administration unveils plans to send 25 million COVID-19 vaccine doses abroad, but public health experts say far more needs to be done as the pandemic continues to devastate Africa, Latin America and Asia; The pandemic unleashes a new ...
06.03.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-06-03 Thursday We spend the hour with Emory University professor Carol Anderson, whose new book examines the racist roots of the Second Amendment and how the constitutional right has fueled gun violence and racist attacks on Black people in the U.S. Get ...
06.02.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-06-02 Wednesday President Biden visits Tulsa, Oklahoma, to mark the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa race massacre; Naomi Osaka withdraws from the French Open after citing the effect on her mental health; We look at the link between mass shootings and domestic ...
06.01.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-06-01 Tuesday Democratic lawmakers in Texas stage a dramatic walkout to prevent the Republican-controlled Legislature from passing a sweeping voter suppression bill; A new study reveals far more people of color, especially Latinos, are dying at the hands of the police than ...
05.31.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-05-31 Monday We speak with Raoul Peck, acclaimed Haitian filmmaker and director of a new documentary series, "Exterminate All the Brutes," which takes an unflinching look at the legacy of European colonialism and genocide around the world. We also speak with "Native ...
05.28.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-05-28 Friday Jan Egeland, head of the Norwegian Refugee Council, on the destruction in Gaza and why the crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo is the "largest neglected emergency on Earth"; Filmmaker Stanley Nelson on the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa ...
05.27.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-05-27 Thursday Calls grow to cancel the Tokyo Olympics; President Biden orders U.S. intelligence agencies to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic to determine if the virus was accidentally leaked from a Chinese lab.
05.26.2021 Democracy Now! 2021-05-26 Wednesday Protests and vigils take place across the U.S. to mark one year since the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis; We examine the cover-up of the little-known police killing of Marcus Smith, a 38-year-old unhoused Black man, in North ...

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