Democracy Now! Audio

Democracy Now! Audio

Democracy Now! is an independent daily TV & radio news program, hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. We provide daily global news headlines, in-depth interviews and investigative reports without any advertisements or government funding. Our programming shines a spotlight on corporate and government abuses of power and lifts up the stories of ordinary people working to make change in extraordinary times. Democracy Now! is live weekdays at 8am ET and available 24/7 through our website and podcasts.

Episodes

March 31, 2025 59 mins

Headlines for March 31, 2025; “Obsessed”: Elon Musk Pours $20 Million into Wisconsin Supreme Court Race as Voter Anger Builds; “Taking Down Everything Black”: Fired Kennedy Center VP Marc Bamuthi Joseph on Trump’s Takeover; Remembering Robert McChesney, Prescient Critic of Media Consolidation & Big Tech

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March 28, 2025 59 mins

Headlines for March 28, 2025; Hip-Hop Star Macklemore on New Film “The Encampments” & Why He Speaks Out Against Israel’s War on Gaza; “The Encampments”: New Film on Mahmoud Khalil & Columbia Students Who Sparked Gaza Campus Protests

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March 27, 2025 59 mins

Headlines for March 27, 2025; Fired Kennedy Center VP Marc Bamuthi Joseph Speaks Out After Trump Guts Social Impact Team; “Kidnapped”: 1,000+ Protest After Masked ICE Agents Abduct Tufts Ph.D. Student Rumeysa Ozturk; Can Elon Musk Buy Wisconsin? Ari Berman on Billionaire-Funded Attempt to Flip State Supreme Court; Elon Musk’s Family History in South Africa Reveals Ties to Apartheid & ...

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Full interview with Turkish political scientist Ezgi Başaran on rising authoritarianism in Turkey, the arrest of Istanbul’s mayor and the similarities between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and President Donald Trump.
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March 26, 2025 59 mins

Headlines for March 26, 2025; Hands Off Social Security: Drastic DOGE-Backed Changes Put Benefits for Millions at Risk; 10 Years of War on Yemen: Leaked War Plan Chats Overshadow U.S. Deadly History Targeting Yemen; 1,400+ Arrested in Turkey as Erdoğan Jails Istanbul Mayor & Intensifies Authoritarian Crackdown

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March 25, 2025 59 mins

Headlines for March 25, 2025; Oscar-Winning Palestinian Filmmaker Hamdan Ballal Brutally Beaten in Mob Attack by Israeli Settlers; Remembering Hossam Shabat: Gaza Journalist Killed by Israel Was Placed on “Hit List” Before His Death; “Much Worse Than Ever Before”: Abubaker Abed Reports from Gaza as Israel Weighs Broader Invasion

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March 24, 2025 59 mins

Headlines for March 24, 2025; Pro-Palestinian Cornell Student Momodou Taal Ordered to Surrender to ICE, Faces Possible Deportation; Georgetown Scholar Badar Khan Suri Remains in Immigration Jail After Masked Agents Snatched Him in D.C.; Law Prof. Katherine Franke Accuses Columbia of Empowering Trump by Agreeing to $400M “Ransom Note”

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Extended conversation with Peter Kornbluh, senior analyst with the National Security Archive, who has been analyzing the newly declassified files related to the assassination of JFK.
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Wolfgang Kaleck, founder of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, talks about the need for a universal, international criminal justice system instead of one where only some nations are held to account.
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March 21, 2025 59 mins

Headlines for March 21, 2025; Trump vs. Public Schools: Executive Order Aims to Dismantle Department of Education; Mahmoud Khalil Update: From ICE Jail, Khalil Warns of Trump’s War on Dissent & Targeting Palestinians; “Catch and Revoke”: AI-Driven State Dept. Program Targets Pro-Palestinian Students & Visa Holders; Declassified JFK Assassination Files Exp...

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Extended conversation with David Enrich, author of Murder the Truth: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful.
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March 20, 2025 59 mins

Headlines for March 20, 2025; Criminalizing Dissent: Greenpeace Ordered to Pay $667M to Dakota Access Pipeline Firm over Protests; “Murder the Truth”: David Enrich on Right-Wing Campaign to Silence Journalists & Protect the Powerful; Disappeared: U.S. Sends Venezuelan LGBTQ Asylum Seeker to El Salvador’s Version of Guantánamo

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March 19, 2025 59 mins

Headlines for March 19, 2025; Israeli Strikes Kill 174+ Children in Gaza as Netanyahu Breaks Ceasefire to Save Political Career; “We Live in a Fascist Dictatorship”: Elie Mystal on Trump’s Lawlessness, Attacks on the Judiciary; ICE Agents Detain Immigrant Leader Jeanette Vizguerra, Who Once Sought Sanctuary in Denver Church; Sabotaging Social Security: Trump & Musk Move Ahead with Pla...

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Nora Brown and Stephanie Coleman perform two songs and talk more about their recent appearance at the Kennedy Center, where they unfurled banners to protest President Trump’s takeover of the famed cultural institution.
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March 18, 2025 59 mins

Headlines for March 18, 2025; “Another Round of Senseless Mass Killing”: Report from Gaza Hospital as Israeli Strikes Kill 400+; “Endless Trauma”: Israeli Strikes Shatter Gaza Ceasefire as Blockade Starves Palestinian Population; U.S. Kills Dozens in Yemen Strikes as Houthis Pledge to Disrupt Shipping in Solidarity with Gaza; On Kennedy Center Stage, Folk Musicians Nora Brown & Stephanie Coleman Protest ...

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July 22, 2020 59 mins
COVID-19 infections skyrocket in South Africa amid a vaccine study; We look at COVID throughout the African continent with the head of Africa's Centres for Disease Control and Prevention; Latinx workers are hit hard by the pandemic, die at greater rates.
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