Democracy Now! Audio

We discuss John McCain's record with The Intercept's Mehdi Hasan, CodePink's Medea Benjamin and Norman Solomon; Democrats vote to limit the power of superdelegates; the pope faces allegations he knew about sexual abuse and failed to act.

NSA whistleblower Reality Winner is sentenced to 5+ years in prison, the longest sentence ever in federal court for leaking government information to media; a Bangladeshi mother in Connecticut wins a last-minute stay of deportation after public outcry.

Rep. Al Green restates calls for Trump's impeachment in the wake of Michael Cohen's plea deal and Paul Manafort's guilty verdict; a North Carolina commission votes 9-2 to keep Confederate monuments at the state Capitol; Trump ramps up racist commentary.

Part 2 of our conversation with Maya Little, the UNC doctoral student facing charges of property destruction and possible expulsion for pouring red ink and her own blood on the statue during an earlier protest in April.

Stunning legal developments involving Trump's former attorney & campaign chair stir impeachment talk; the administration admits its coal deregulation will be deadly; a UNC student talks about her protest against a now-toppled racist Confederate statue.

Pope Francis issues a letter to the world's Catholics addressing sex abuse in the church as calls grow for women to take leadership roles; prisoners across the U.S. launch a nationwide strike today over inhumane conditions.

In California, ICE arrests man driving his wife to the hospital to give birth; armed guards forcibly reseparate fathers from sons at Karnes detention center in Texas; longtime pacifist and socialist David McReynolds dies in New York City.

We continue our look back at the life and legacy of longtime pacifist and socialist David McReynolds, who died Friday at the age of 88.

Remembering Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul. We speak to professors Angela Davis, Mark Anthony Neal and Farah Jasmine Griffin on the civil rights and feminist icon.

A scathing 1,400-page report exposes the extent of the Catholic Church's child sex abuse cover-up in Pennsylvania; Michigan Democratic congressional candidate Rashida Tlaib talks about tackling civil rights & the importance of her Palestinian roots.

We continue our conversation with Detroit Democratic congressional candidate Rashida Tlaib, who is poised to become the first Palestinian American and one of the first two Muslim women to serve in Congress after winning her Democratic primary last week. Tlaib talks about finding inspiration from her mother, campaigning to end U.S. support for the devastating Saudi-led bombing campaign in Yemen and her support for the women who have accused Donald Trump of sexual assault and harassment.

It's been six months since the shooting massacre at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida; the Trump administration has still not reunited over 550 children forcibly separated from their parents at the border.

As a man with cancer wins a $289M verdict against Monsanto, we look at how the company hid dangers of the Roundup herbicide. Yemen mourns 40 boys killed by a U.S. bomb in a Saudi-led airstrike, as AP reports the U.S. made deals with al-Qaeda there.

A nuclear standoff builds with Iran as the Trump administration reimposes economic sanctions; protesters interrupt Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to ask about his alleged ethical lapses and why he won't address climate change's role in ongoing wildfires.

The left-wing runner-up in Colombia's presidential election discusses Venezuela, the drug war and climate change; a new documentary called "All For One" follows American and Russian filmmakers with disabilities collaborating to tell their own stories.