Democracy Now! Audio

Web-only interview with Maria Ressa, founder, CEO and executive editor of Rappler, an acclaimed Philippine news website.

The Trump administration attacks women's health, at the U.N. and inside the U.S.; Celebrated journalist Maria Ressa talks about her fight for press freedom under Rodrigo Duterte's authoritarian rule in the Philippines.

An investigation finds U.S.-led airstrikes on Raqqa, Syria, killed more than 1,600 civilians in 2017; Unearthing Joe Biden's checkered history in Washington; Navy SEALs were told to keep quiet about war crimes allegedly committed by their platoon chief.

SCOTUS is poised to allow the Trump admin to add a question about citizenship to the 2020 census in a move that could lead to 6 million people not responding; We speak to economist Joseph Stiglitz about his new book, "People, Power, and Profits."

A right-wing vigilante group in New Mexico terrorizes hundreds of migrants near the U.S.-Mexico border; Students in Arizona and at Johns Hopkins protest immigration authorities and police on campus; D. Watkins on his new book "We Speak for Ourselves."

Coordinated bombings in Sri Lanka kill at least 290 and injure hundreds more, with government officials blaming a radical Islamist group for the bloodshed; Indigenous environmental activist Dallas Goldtooth speaks about Trump's pipeline approvals.

Award-winning journalists Glenn Greenwald and David Cay Johnston return to Democracy Now! for a debate on the redacted report by special counsel Robert Mueller, released on Thursday, and what it means for the Trump administration.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez collaborates with The Intercept and illustrator Molly Crabapple to produce a video imagining a future shaped by the Green New Deal; As William Barr prepares to release the Mueller report, we hear from Noam Chomsky on Russiagate.

300 climate activists arrested in Extinction Rebellion protests in London; Over 170 killed in Libya in warlord assault on Tripoli; Bowing to pressure, ICC drops probe into possible U.S. war crimes in Afghanistan.

Paris mourns after a fire rips through the Notre-Dame cathedral; Palestinian activist & BDS co-founder Omar Barghouti speaks out after being denied entry to the U.S.; Ilhan Omar faces a spike in death threats amid new attacks from Trump & the NY Post.

Bill McKibben sounded the alarm on climate change in 1989. Three decades later, he says we haven't done enough to avert disaster; A former general running for president of Indonesia reportedly has plans to purge his political enemies, if elected.

We spend the hour with Noam Chomsky, who spoke with Amy Goodman at Boston's historic Old South Church. The world-renowned dissident discussed threats to democracy from far-right governments around the world, as well as the need for popular resistance.

The descendant of two enslaved people forced to pose for photos in 1850 is suing Harvard University over rights to the images; Former political prisoner Albert Woodfox discusses his new memoir about spending more than four decades in solitary confinement.

Our extended interview with Albert Woodfox, the longest-standing solitary confinement prisoner in the United States. He was held 43 years in isolation in a 6-by-9-foot cell, until he was released just over two years ago. Now he joins us in studio with his his new memoir.

Examining the Green New Deal with Rhiana Gunn-Wright, one of the architects of the plan to fight climate change; How regulatory agencies have been captured by industry under President Trump; Fighting racial bias in an age of hate crimes and mass murder.