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Watch an extended conversation with Peter Kornbluh, senior analyst with the National Security Archive, who has been analyzing the newly declassified files related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Wolfgang Kaleck, founder of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, talks about the need for a universal, international criminal justice system instead of one where only some nations are held to account. Kaleck is a longtime human rights attorney who has represented Edward Snowden. He twice filed war crimes suits against former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in Germany.

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

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Extended conversation with David Enrich, author of Murder the Truth: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful. In the book, Enrich chronicles an ongoing campaign by the wealthy and powerful to overturn the landmark Supreme Court decision New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, which in 1964 established bedrock protections against spurious defamation and libel cases in the U.S. legal system.

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

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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

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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

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Folk musicians Nora Brown and Stephanie Coleman perform two songs in the Democracy Now! studio and talk more about their recent appearance at the Kennedy Center, where they unfurled banners to protest President Trump’s takeover of the famed cultural institution.

Brown is a prize-winning guitar and banjo player and has released three other albums on Jalopy Records. Coleman is regarded as one of the premier fiddlers of her generation.

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

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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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