Democracy Now! Audio

Amid the pandemic, calls grow to halt deportations to Guatemala and Haiti; the Supreme Court hears arguments in a case that may shape the outcome of future presidential elections; we look at voting by mail and whether democracy can survive the pandemic.

Is the coronavirus pandemic generating a mental illness crisis? We talk to psychology professor and writer Andrew Solomon; Renowned palliative care specialist Dr. Diane Meier on the pandemic's impact on families when loved ones must battle COVID alone.

We look at solutions and strategies for families when their loved ones are forced to battle COVID alone in hospitals or at home.

We spend the hour with author and journalist Naomi Klein looking at the emerging "pandemic shock doctrine," lawmakers' calls for more surveillance and how Big Tech stands to profit from the coronavirus outbreak.

Two Sioux tribes defy the South Dakota governor's orders to remove coronavirus checkpoints; 70 of the first 100 coronavirus deaths in Chicago were Black people; We speak with Adriana Gallardo about a ProPublica report on New York City essential workers.

We continue our interview with Adriana Gallardo, engagement reporter at ProPublica, who just won a Pulitzer Prize.

Black and Brown communities are disproportionately targeted and policed in New York City's coronavirus response, and protests are banned; A Trump Death Clock billboard goes up in Times Square to mark the toll of government inaction.

Two white men are charged with the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, more than two months after his killing; The pandemic hits African Americans hardest. We speak with NYT Magazine's Linda Villarosa; Dr. Leana Wen on what the U.S. faces as states begin to reopen.

We get an update from Moscow on the pandemic in Russia, which has the second-highest infection rate in the world; We look at who gets access to drugs like remdesivir being developed by pharmaceutical giant Gilead, which is poised to make massive profits.

As President Trump starts to reopen the country, Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Laurie Garrett predicts the pandemic will last at least 36 months; Did a former Green Beret mastermind a failed coup attempt in Venezuela? Two Americans were arrested.

As the Navajo Nation suffers the third most COVID-19 cases, we talk to the partner of a 28-year-old victim and doctors treating patients; 80 percent of prisoners at Marion prison test positive; Prof. Ruth Wilson Gilmore on the case for prison abolition.

As meat plant workers get sick and die from COVID-19, workers protest conditions, and LULAC calls for Meatless May Mondays; McConnell seeks to protect corporations from liability; Dr. Richard Levitan says patients unknowingly suffer oxygen deprivation.

Workers call for a general strike on May Day; Joe Biden denies Tara Reade's sexual assault allegations. We speak with her neighbor from the 1990s who says Reade told her the story decades ago; Protesters demand more COVID-19 relief & tests in Puerto Rico.

French economist Thomas Piketty on how the economic crisis triggered by the pandemic may be a catalyst to address global inequality; longtime WHO adviser Lawrence Gostin on Trump's order barring states from closing meatpacking plants with virus outbreaks.

President Trump lashes out at the U.S. Postal Service. His attacks could threaten voting by mail; We look at the impact of the coronavirus on schools, universities, students, parents and teachers, and who is at the table to shape what happens next.