Democracy Now! Audio

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

On the 75th anniversary of the U.S. dropping the world's first atomic bomb in warfare, Hiroshima survivor Hideko Tamura Snider recounts her horrific experience; How the U.S. government controlled the media narrative to justify its use of the atomic bomb.

We speak to a doctor in Beirut after Tuesday’s massive explosion in the port and look at Lebanon’s economic, political and public health crisis with journalist Rami Khouri; Calls grow to break up Big Tech monopolies as their CEOs make record profits.

How Jared Kushner's White House task force abandoned a nationwide coronavirus testing plan; human rights advocates demand the release of jailed asylum seekers and immigrants amid the pandemic; Border Patrol agents raid a humanitarian aid camp in Arizona.

As President Trump floats delaying the 2020 election, we speak with historian Nils Gilman, who gamed out what a contested election would look like, and LaTosha Brown of the Black Voters Matter Fund; Moroccan journalist Omar Radi has just been arrested.

We play excerpts from President Barack Obama's eulogy for civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis at the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta; We also hear remarks from senior pastor Raphael Warnock and Rev. James Lawson, a champion of nonviolence.

Professor Noam Chomsky on why neoliberal policies left the country unprepared for a public health crisis, how Cuba has helped other countries during the pandemic, Israel's threat to annex the West Bank and the upcoming U.S. election.

Moroccan authorities have arrested journalist Omar Radi Wednesday on what press freedom advocates call “retaliatory charges.” We spoke to him before his arrest, when he was being called in several times a week for questioning.