As Hurricane Ian slams Florida, we get an update from Tampa, look at links between the climate crisis and hurricanes and rising sea levels, and hear from a prisoner rights advocate about incarcerated people in the storm's path; As Russia moves to formally annex four Ukrainian areas after referendums widely denounced as sham votes, we speak to a prominent Ukrainian journalist investigating potential war crimes committed by Russia in areas that were recently recaptured during Ukraine's counteroffensive. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
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Update from Tampa as Hurricane Ian bears down on Florida as a possible Category 5 storm; Democratic Senator Joe Manchin stops a vote on his own energy permitting proposal that would have fast-tracked the Mountain Valley Pipeline; NASA climate scientist Peter Kalmus; Slate reporter Dahlia Lithwick on her new book, …
Dozens of people in Iran are killed in a series of escalating protests demanding justice for Mahsa Amini; Jared Kushner's property management company reaches a $3.25 million settlement in a Baltimore housing scandal that was first investigated by ProPublica reporter Alec MacGillis; Philadelphia housing activists are fighting to keep a …
As Italy's first far-right leader since Benito Mussolini declares victory, we look at "the return of fascism in Italy" and its spread in Europe with Ruth Ben-Ghiat, author of "Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present"; Ahead of the next House committee hearing on the January 6 Capitol insurrection, we look at …
Update from Moscow as anger grows over Putin's plans to draft an extra 300,000 troops into the fight in Ukraine; Youth climate activist Mikaela Loach in New York City on Climate Week and the global climate strike; Lessons from the 1990 police killing of Black teenager Phillip Pannell in Teaneck, …
Police Should Not Kill Us: Phillip Pannell's Family Wants Officer Who Shot Him
in Back Held Responsible
Sept. 23, 2022
Part 2 of our interview about the 1990 police killing of Phillip Pannell, and whether the case could be reopened in the wake of the growing movement for police accountability.
Donald Trump has two major legal setbacks related to his business and his handling of classified documents; Iranian protests grow over the death of a 22-year-old woman in police custody; The conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan; Cuban diplomat Carlos Fernández de Cossío. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. …
The head of Oxfam America calls for leaders attending the U.N. General Assembly to address the global hunger emergency; Adnan Syed's first lawyer on how the "Serial" subject gained his freedom; Dissident heiress Abigail Disney on her new documentary, "The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales," about U.S. inequality and …
Health scholar Steven Thrasher on why the pandemic is not "over," as President Biden claimed; As outrage grows over a political stunt by Republican governors to send asylum seekers to Martha's Vineyard and other liberal cities, we look at the "Reverse Freedom Rides" of 1962, when Southern segregationists bused Black …
We go to Puerto Rico for an update on damage from Hurricane Fiona; How the climate crisis has worsened the magnitude of tropical storms; What Black Britons think of mourning the queen. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
Renowned Canadian physician Dr. Gabor Maté discusses his new book, "The Myth of Normal," and the impact of trauma on people's health. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe
For a Labor Day special, we look back at the life and legacy of the late historian Howard Zinn, who would have turned 100 in August.
President Biden denounces former President Donald Trump and MAGA supporters in a primetime speech. We speak with Prof. Nancy MacLean, author of "Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America"; As thousands of unhoused Californians face a heat wave and more face a mass …
Nina Khrushcheva and Katrina vanden Heuvel on the life and legacy of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev; Greenland's melting ice sheet will trigger one foot of global sea level rise by the end of the century; Protests grow inside Google over a $1.2 billion "Project Nimbus" to provide advanced AI …
We get an update on the water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, from Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba and a longtime activist; Yanar Mohammed, president of the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq, on violent protests in Baghdad after Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr announced his resignation; Robin D. G. Kelley on the …
Robin D. G. Kelley on 20 Years of "Freedom Dreams": Occupy & Black Lives
Matter Movements, Abolition
Aug. 31, 2022
Historian and author Robin D. G. Kelley joins us for an extended Part 2 interview about the 20th anniversary edition of his book, “Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination.”
Columbia University economist Jeffrey Sachs on the West's "false narrative" about Russia and China; Afghan refugees struggle to gain "humanitarian parole" one year since the last U.S. troops left Afghanistan; A conversation with Florida House Democratic nominee, 25-year-old Maxwell Alejandro Frost, who is set to make history as the first …
Pakistan declares a national emergency as massive floods continue to devastate the country; The Justice Department releases a redacted version of the affidavit used by the FBI to raid former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate; Hundreds of farmworkers pressure California Governor Gavin Newsom to pass a bill that would make …
Six months after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the war is at a bloody stalemate; Marking one year since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan; The assault on reproductive rights continues as more states enact bans on abortion and punishment for doctors who perform them. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your …
President Biden approves limited student loan forgiveness; Oklahoma's governor orders the execution of James Coddington despite a recommendation of clemency from the state parole board; How a secretive billionaire made the largest known political donation to a right-wing group. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for …