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A growing movement calls for a people's vaccine and suspension of intellectual property rights to expand access in poorer countries. Plus, Dr. Paul Farmer talks about the pandemic and his new book on Ebola, "Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds."

A look back at 2020 with Angela Davis, Cornel West, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on the historic uprising against racism and police violence. Plus we speak to Bree Newsome & Eddie Glaude about the 2020 election.

Black Dr. Susan Moore dies from COVID-19 after posting a video describing racist treatment by medical staff; Two leading African American doctors discuss racial healthcare disparities; The Kansas City Star apologizes for its racist history.

As Trump pardons four Blackwater mercenaries, we re-air an interview with an Iraqi father whose 9-year-old son was killed in the 2007 Nisoor Square massacre and speak with lawyer Paul Dickinson; Economist Joseph Stiglitz on the global economic crisis.

President Trump unexpectedly signs a $900 billion COVID-19 relief package; Dozens of immigrant women detained by ICE in Georgia join a class-action lawsuit over allegations they were subjected to nonconsensual gynecological procedures.

An hour with the the late British writer John le Carré talking about the Iraq War, corporate power and his 2003 essay "The United States of America Has Gone Mad."

Today, we re-air an exclusive Democracy Now! documentary from Western Sahara, which has been under Moroccan occupation since 1976. "Four Days in Western Sahara — A Rare Look Inside Africa's Last Colony."

We speak to an emergency room doctor in Arizona who has gone from treating soldiers in Iraq to fighting the pandemic in the U.S.; Biden picks Miguel Cardona for education secretary; Alex Padilla will be the first Latinx senator to represent California.

Congress approves a $900 billion stimulus package, but many say it does not provide enough relief; We speak to a doctor who was among the first to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine; Trump has raised over $250 million since Election Day.

Senator Bernie Sanders on why working families devastated by the pandemic need far more help; President-elect Joe Biden reveals more members of his climate team, and former head of the EPA's environmental justice program Mustafa Ali responds.

Millions face eviction as a federal moratorium is set to end; Biden picks Rep. Deb Haaland as interior secretary; Activists protest against the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline in Minnesota; An Intercept report reveals the CIA funded death squads in Afghanistan.

It may take years to fully vaccinate people in poor countries as wealthy countries hoard COVID-19 vaccines; U.S. COVID-19 deaths skyrocket; Congress is set to agree on a stimulus package with more corporate giveaways than aid for working people.

We speak to Nina Turner, one of Bernie Sanders's top allies, who has launched her campaign for Congress in Ohio to push a progressive agenda; Jailed immigrants on hunger strike face solitary confinement and demand Biden issue a deportation moratorium.

Attorney General William Barr resigns; As the Electoral College formally certifies Joe Biden's victory, we look at the growing push to elect the president by popular vote; COVID-19 cases are spiking again inside California's prisons.

Greta Thunberg on why bold action is needed to prevent a climate catastrophe five years after the Paris accord; Who should be first to get the COVID-19 vaccine?; The U.S. Army fires or suspends 14 people at Fort Hood after a probe into sexual assaults.