Democracy Now!

January 22nd, 2025

Headlines for January 22, 2025

• “Have Mercy”: Watch Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde’s Sermon Challenging Trump at Inaugural Service
• “Profoundly Dangerous”: Public Citizen Sues Trump over Legality of Elon Musk-Led DOGE
• Citizens United at 15: Landmark Ruling Helped Elon Musk & Other Billionaires Bankroll Trump Victory
• Tech’s Rightward Drift: Researcher Becca Lewis on How Trump Captured Silicon Valley
• Immigrant Activist Ravi Ragbir Speaks After Biden’s Last-Minute Pardon Saved Him from Deportation

The program was broadcast januari 22nd, 2025 at 17:00.

January 21st, 2025

Headlines for January 21, 2025

• Trump Grants Clemency to 1,500+ Jan. 6 Insurrectionists
• Elon Musk Is Accused of Giving Nazi Salute
• Trump Threatens Again to Retake Panama Canal While Distorting Deadly History of Waterway
• “A Massive Abuse of Emergency Power”: Legality of Trump’s Move to Deploy Troops to Border Is Questioned
• “People Are Afraid”: Immigrant Communities Brace for Raids and Mass Deportation Under Trump
• Chase Strangio: Trump’s Anti-Trans Executive Orders Threaten LGBTQ+ People While Claiming to Defend Women
• Leonard Peltier to Be Freed After Half-Century in Prison: “A Day of Victory for Indigenous People”

The program was broadcast januari 21st, 2025 at 17:00.

January 20th, 2025

Headlines for January 20, 2025

• Gaza Ceasefire: Palestinian Lawyer Says Women, Children Released by Israel Faced Torture, Starvation
• Bad Deal Better Than No Deal: Ex-Israeli Negotiator Fears Netanyahu Could Resume Attacks
• People’s March: Thousands Rally Against Trump in Washington Ahead of Second Inauguration
• “Infinite Hope”: Angela Davis Speaks at 2025 Peace Ball Ahead of Trump Inauguration
• “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”: In His Final Speech, MLK Spoke of Reaching “Promised Land” of Equality

The program was broadcast januari 20th, 2025 at 17:00.

January 17th, 2025

Headlines for January 17, 2025

• Gideon Levy & Mouin Rabbani on Ceasefire: “Netanyahu Will Do Everything Possible” to Kill It Later
• Breaking All Records, Trump’s Inauguration Set to Bring in $250M from Billionaires & Corporations
• Will Biden Grant Leonard Peltier Clemency? Indigenous Leaders Plead, “Don’t Let Him Die in Prison”

The program was broadcast januari 17th, 2025 at 17:00.

January 16th, 2025

Headlines for January 16, 2025

• Report from Gaza: Ceasefire Announcement Raises Hopes, But Israel Kills 81 in New Attacks
• Daniel Levy, Muhammad Shehada, Jeremy Scahill on Ceasefire Deal, Trump’s Role & Palestine’s Future
• Pam Bondi, Trump’s Attorney General Pick, Has History of Corporate Lobbying and Election Denial

The program was broadcast januari 16th, 2025 at 17:00.

January 15th, 2025

Headlines for January 15, 2025

• Democrats Grill Pete Hegseth on Rape Allegation, Drunkenness and Women in Combat
• Meet the Military Vets Arrested for Disrupting Pete Hegseth’s Senate Confirmation Hearing
• Queer and HIV+ in Gaza: A Young Man’s “Race Against Time” as Israel Blocks Medication

The program was broadcast januari 15th, 2025 at 17:00.

January 14th, 2025

Headlines for January 14, 2025

• White Nationalism, Sexual Assault & Corruption: Trump “Loyalist” Pete Hegseth Faces Senate Confirmation
• “The Party of War”: Matt Duss on Biden, Gaza & How Democrats Lost Foreign Policy Argument to Trump
• “Unbelievable Bravery”: Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya Abducted from Gaza Hospital
• Advocates Call for Release
• Prison Labor in the Spotlight as Incarcerated California Firefighters Risk Lives for $5-10/Day

The program was broadcast januari 14th, 2025 at 17:00.

January 13th, 2025

Headlines for January 13, 2025

• Untold Stories of L.A. Fires: Incarcerated Firefighters, Black Altadena & Octavia Butler’s Warning
• “Tinderbox”: How Fossil Fuel Companies & Electric Utilities Intensified L.A. Wildfires, Climate Chaos
• “Journalism Is Not a Crime”: Gaza Reporter Slams International Press as Journalist Death Toll Rises
• “Seeking Justice”: How the Hind Rajab Foundation Pursues Israeli Soldiers for War Crimes

The program was broadcast januari 13th, 2025 at 17:00.

January 10th, 2025

Headlines for January 10, 2025

• Climate Scientist Peter Kalmus Fled L.A. Fearing Wildfires. His Old Neighborhood Is Now a Hellscape
• “Sabotaged by His Own Democratic Party”: Ralph Nader on Jimmy Carter’s Legacy
• Camp David’s Failures: Why Jimmy Carter’s Opposition to Israeli Apartheid Wasn’t Enough to Secure Peace
• Jimmy Carter Championed Human Rights But Also Funded & Armed Indonesia’s Genocide in East Timor
• Biden Urged to Pardon Immigrant Rights Leader Ravi Ragbir, Who Could Soon Be Deported

The program was broadcast januari 10th, 2025 at 17:00.

January 9th, 2025

Headlines for January 09, 2025

• Zuckerberg Goes “Full MAGA” as Meta Ends Fact-Checking in U.S. & Paves Way for More Hate Speech
• L.A. Fires Should Be a Climate Wake-Up Call: 5 Dead, 130K+ Evacuated in Uncontained Apocalypse

The program was broadcast januari 9th, 2025 at 17:00.

January 8th, 2025

Headlines for January 08, 2025

• “Outrageous”: Rep. Jim McGovern Slams Trump’s Rhetoric on Taking Panama, Greenland & Canada
• Will Biden Exonerate Ethel Rosenberg Posthumously? Declassified Docs Show FBI Knew She Was Innocent
• Will Biden Pardon Steven Donziger, Who Faced Retaliation for Suing Chevron over Oil Spill in Amazon?
• With Trudeau Out & Conservatives Set to Win, Canada Needs a Real Resistance to Trump: Avi Lewis
• 11 Men Freed After 20+ Years of “Extreme Deprivation.” Will Biden Close Guantánamo for Good?

The program was broadcast januari 8th, 2025 at 17:00.

January 7th, 2025

Headlines for January 07, 2025

• The Militia and the Mole: Reporter Josh Kaplan on How a Freelance Vigilante Infiltrated U.S. Militias
• “Requiem for a Refugee Camp”: Mosab Abu Toha on Destruction of Jabaliya, Abduction of Doctors & More
• Jimmy Carter’s “Decency & Humanity” Came with Deadly U.S. Policies in Latin America: Greg Grandin

The program was broadcast januari 7th, 2025 at 17:00.

January 6th, 2025

Headlines for January 06, 2025

• American Historical Assoc. Votes Overwhelmingly to Support Resolution to Oppose Scholasticide in Gaza
• Crack-Up Capitalism: How Billionaire Elon Musk’s Extremism Is Shaping Trump Admin & Global Politics

The program was broadcast januari 6th, 2025 at 17:00.

January 3rd, 2025

Headlines for January 03, 2025

• New Year’s Attacks by Green Beret & Army Veteran: Does U.S. Militarism Abroad Fuel Violence at Home?
• “From Ground Zero”: Oscar-Shortlisted Film Features Stories from Palestinian Filmmakers in Gaza
• U.S./Israeli Yemen Strikes Won’t End Houthi Resistance. Ending Gaza Genocide Will: Shireen Al-Adeimi

The program was broadcast januari 3rd, 2025 at 17:00.

January 2nd, 2025

Headlines for January 02, 2025

• “Exhausted”: Palestinian Journalist Shrouq Aila on Life & Death in Gaza, “Duty” to Report on Genocide
• “Dead Calm”: BBC Film on Greek Coast Guard Abandoning Asylum Seekers at Sea Amid European Crackdown

The program was broadcast januari 2nd, 2025 at 17:00.

January 1st, 2025

A Spy in Your Pocket? Ronan Farrow Exposes Secrets of High-Tech Spyware in New Film “Surveilled”

• “Surveilled”: Ronan Farrow on the Spyware Technology the Trump Admin Could Use to Hack Your Phone
• Trump Escalates War on Press & Some Outlets Are “Capitulating Preemptively” to Pressure

The program was broadcast januari 1st, 2025 at 17:00.

December 31st, 2024

Headlines for December 31, 2024

• Ukraine Faces a “Cold, Dark Winter” as Russia Strikes Energy Infrastructure
• Biden to Send New Aid
• Veteran Israeli Negotiator Gershon Baskin: Netanyahu Remains Obstacle to Ceasefire Deal
• Gaza: Doctors Warn Thousands of Palestinians Could Die This Winter from Cold, Hunger, Disease

The program was broadcast december 31st, 2024 at 17:00.

December 30th, 2024

Headlines for December 30, 2024

• “A Genocidal Project”: Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah on Israel’s Destruction of Gaza Health System
• “Total Moral, Ethical Failure”: Holocaust Scholar Omer Bartov on Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
• Jimmy Carter Dead at 100: Fmr. Pres. Urged “Peace Not Apartheid” in 2007 DN! Interview on Palestine

The program was broadcast december 30th, 2024 at 17:00.

December 27th, 2024

Headlines for December 27, 2024

• Gideon Levy on Israel’s “Moral Blindness”: Gaza Babies Freeze
• Strikes Kill Medical Workers, Reporters
• “We’re Not for Sale”: Greenlandic Member of Danish Parliament Responds to Trump’s Vow to Buy Island
• Imperialist Fantasy: Historian Greg Grandin on Trump Threat to Retake Panama Canal, Invade Mexico
• Big Tech Backs Trump to Cut Taxes, Boost Crypto, Replace Workers with AI: Tech Investor Roger McNamee

The program was broadcast december 27th, 2024 at 17:00.

December 26th, 2024

Headlines for December 26, 2024

• Meet State Dept. Official Michael Casey, Who Resigned over Gaza After U.S. Ignored Israeli Abuses
• Back in Syria After Exile, BBC Reporter Lina Sinjab on “Joy” & Calls for Prosecution, Reconciliation
• 3,100+ Indigenous Students Died at U.S. “Boarding Schools”: WaPo Native American Journalist Dana Hedgpeth

The program was broadcast december 26th, 2024 at 17:00.

December 25th, 2024

A Tribute to Blacklisted Lyricist Yip Harburg: The Man Who Put the Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz

The program was broadcast december 25th, 2024 at 17:00.

December 24th, 2024

Headlines for December 24, 2024

• “Conscience into Action”: Biden Commutes 37 Federal Death Row Sentences Ahead of Trump’s Second Term
• Gaetz-Gate: House Ethics Report on Former Florida Rep. Details Statutory Rape, Drug Use, Corruption
• Kurds Under Threat in Syria as Turkey Launches Attacks and Kills Journalists After Assad Regime Falls

The program was broadcast december 24th, 2024 at 17:00.

December 23rd, 2024

Headlines for December 23, 2024

• Elon Musk’s Opposition to Gov’t Spending Bill a “Smokescreen” for His Business Interests: Robert Kuttner
• Landmark Rape Case of Gisèle Pelicot: As Husband & 50 Men Are Sentenced, Will French Laws Change?
• “Christ Is Still in the Rubble”: Bethlehem Rev. Isaac Calls on U.S. to Stop Funding Gaza Genocide

The program was broadcast december 23rd, 2024 at 17:00.

December 20th, 2024

Headlines for December 20, 2024

• Amazon Workers Launch Historic Strike to Demand New Contracts & End Unsafe Labor Practices
• UnitedHealth vs. Patients: NYC Man’s Battle to Get Lifesaving Drug Highlights Broken Health System
• How to Appeal Insurance Denials, Abolish Medical Debt, and Fight for Medicare for All
• “Do Not Obey in Advance”: Timothy Snyder on How Corporate America Is Bending to Trump

The program was broadcast december 20th, 2024 at 17:00.

December 19th, 2024

Headlines for December 19, 2024

• “Rape Club” Prison in California: U.S. Gov’t to Pay Record $116M to 103 Women Who Sued over Abuse
• “Extermination & Acts of Genocide”: Human Rights Watch on Israel Deliberately Depriving Gaza of Water
• Mass Graves Discovered as Syrian Families Seek Answers to Loved Ones’ Disappearances Under Assad Regime

The program was broadcast december 19th, 2024 at 17:00.