Democracy Now! Audio

Over a million students walk out of schools protesting gun violence; we remember 17-year-old Courtlin Arrington, shot dead in a Birmingham high school last week; farmworkers lead a boycott of Wendy's over abuses in the fields; Rebecca Solnit talks #MeToo.

Web-only conversation with Stephen Kinzer, author of many books, including “Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq” and “The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire.”

Roundtable discussion on the shake-up in the Trump administration after Trump ousted Rex Tillerson and tapped Mike Pompeo for secretary of state and Gina Haspel to head the CIA.

President Trump has ousted Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and said he will replace him with CIA Director Mike Pompeo. Trump announced the news on Twitter this morning. He also said CIA Deputy Director Gina Haspel will be tapped to succeed Pompeo at the CIA. Both would need to be confirmed by the Senate.

Secretaries of state condemn plan to station Secret Service agents at polling stations; Education Secretary Betsy DeVos under fire after 60 Minutes interview; Louisiana residents face surveillance and investigation for resisting Bayou Bridge pipeline.

Widney Brown of the Drug Policy Alliance on President Trump's call to execute drug dealers; journalist Stephen Kinzer on 100 Years of U.S. interference & regime change, from Iran to Nicaragua to Hawaii to Cuba.

President Trump accepts North Korea's offer to meet Kim Jong-un; as a report finds arsenic, lead, mercury in water around coal plants, Alabama and Puerto Rico residents fight coal ash; The New York Times highlights women omitted from its obituaries.

Women across the world mobilize for International Women's Day, including Spanish women who launched the first nationwide feminist strike in Spain's history; and we speak with Eve Ensler about her new one-woman play "In the Body of the World."

West Virginia teachers celebrate victory in an historic strike and send a message to Oklahoma teachers weighing following in their footsteps; lawmakers consider rolling back key Dodd-Frank financial reforms; Texas primaries kick off 2018 election season.

A debate on President Trump’s plans to impose new tariffs on imports of foreign steel and aluminum; Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy on Congress’s failure to pass gun control in the wake of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting.

West Virginia and British teachers continue their historic strike; 90th Oscars project diversity but hand the majority of the awards to white men.

Special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation closes in on Jared Kushner's business meetings during the transition; former Labor Secretary Robert Reich on President Trump's new budget.

After the Parkland high school massacre, students launch unprecedented effort to demand gun control; five months after Hurricane Maria, San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz speaks out against post-storm privatization and inadequate recovery effort.

Trump blames mental illness for Florida's latest mass shooting, ignoring gun control; the shooter had a history of violence toward women and alleged ties to a white supremacist group; South African business magnate Cyril Ramaphosa sworn in as president.

Headlines for February 15, 2018; When Will This Stop? 17 Shot Dead in Florida School Massacre, the 18th School Shooting of Year; Republican Lawmakers Refuse to Adopt Gun Control Despite 200 School Shootings Since Sandy Hook; Kept Out: Banks Across U.S. Caught Systematically Rejecting People of Color for Home Loans