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Nov 13, 2025
"We had the cure for death from malnutrition, and we took it away." We speak to surgeon and health policy expert Atul Gawande about the Trump administration's near-total dismantling of USAID. Gawande, the head of global health at USAID during the Biden administration, is featured in the short film Rovina's Choice, filmed at a refugee camp at the border between Kenya and South Sudan earlier this year. We play an excerpt from the film and discuss the impact of USAID cuts on humanitarian crises around the world. Gawande says hundreds of thousands of deaths have already occurred as a result of the loss of aid. "We're seeing early deaths, like the malnutrition cases, and then we'll see the wave that's more to come."
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Nov 13, 2025
Arizona Democrat Adelita Grijalva was finally sworn into office by House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday, fifty days after winning her seat in Congress. Grijalva won a special election to fill the seat left vacant when her father, longtime Congressmember Raúl Grijalva, died in March. Up until yesterday, Johnson had refused to swear in Grijalva in an effort to block her from submitting the final signature on a discharge petition to force a vote on the Justice Department's full release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. We air Grijalva's first House speech and speak to her from Capitol Hill on her first full day in office.
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Nov 13, 2025
After months of delays, House Republicans have released tens of thousands of pages of documents from Jeffrey Epstein's estate, after Democrats earlier publicized emails suggesting that President Trump was aware that Epstein was abusing and trafficking young girls and women. In one of those emails, Epstein wrote that Trump "knew about the girls." Trump's allies say the larger set of documents released Wednesday afternoon provide evidence of Epstein's later animosity towards Trump and support Trump's claims that he was not previously aware of Epstein's crimes. Still more evidence — namely, photographs and videos — may soon be publicized, as a petition for the House to vote on the full release of the "Epstein files" received its final signature from newly-sworn in Congressmember Adelita Grijalva. "There is a lot more to come," says Spencer Kuvin, a lawyer who represents several survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's abuse and who has reviewed much of the still-unreleased evidence, which is currently under a court protection order. "The FBI does have more information that needs to be released."
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Nov 13, 2025
Trump Signs Stopgap Spending Bill, Ending Longest-Ever U.S. Government Shutdown, "Blatantly Corrupt Self-Dealing": Spending Bill Rider Allows GOP Senators to Sue DOJ for Up to $1M, Speaker Johnson Swears In Arizona Congressmember Adelita Grijalva After 50 Day Delay, Trump "Knew About the Girls": House Democrats Release New Jeffrey Epstein Emails, Israeli Warplanes Continue to Bomb Gaza Cities Despite Ceasefire Deal, Israel's Knesset Advances Death Penalty Bill for Individuals Charged With Terrorism, United Nations Calls for Ceasefire and Humanitarian Aid Corridor in Sudan, Climate Action Tracker: World on Pace to See Global Temperature Rise of 2.6 Degrees Celsius, Climate Activists Launch People's Summit Flotilla at COP30 U.N. Climate Talks in Brazil, Detainees at For-Profit ICE Jail Accuse Prison Guard of Sexual Assault and Harassment, Brother of Detainee Who Died in ICE Custody Sues Government
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Nov 12, 2025
Democracy Now! speaks with the renowned Iranian filmmaker Sepideh Farsi, the director of the new documentary "Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk." The film is based on regular video calls Farsi made with the Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassona in Gaza over the course of a year from April 2024 to April 2025.
Hassona was killed with her family by an Israeli missile that targeted her apartment building in northern Gaza. The strike occurred just one day after she learned that the film centered around her life and work had been selected to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. "It's something that I will never get over," says Farsi.
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Nov 12, 2025
A new series by Drop Site News looks at Jeffrey Epstein's ties to Israeli intelligence and how he secretly brokered numerous deals for Israeli intelligence. Drop Site revealed that Epstein had played a role in brokering a security agreement between Israel and Mongolia and setting up a backchannel between Israel and Russia during the Syrian civil war.
Epstein had an "extensive relationship with Israeli intelligence, U.S. intelligence and the intelligence agencies of other countries as well," says Murtaza Hussain, reporter for Drop Site News. "He was a dealmaker and a fixer at a very, very elite level."
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Nov 12, 2025
The government shutdown has brought attention to food insecurity in the United States, as it disrupted the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, or SNAP, which helps about 42 million people across the country. Delayed and partial payments have occurred despite the availability of contingency funds to keep the program going during the shutdown, because the Trump administration initially chose not to use those funds. "42 million Americans, 16 million of them children, are really struggling to be able to afford nutritious food for their health," says Mariana Chilton, child hunger expert. "It's deeply concerning."
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Nov 12, 2025
The longest U.S. federal government shutdown in history has entered its 43rd day. The House of Representatives is returning to session today to vote on a short-term funding bill to end the shutdown. The Senate approved the measure on Monday after seven Democrats and one independent backed the Republican bill even though the bill did not include an extension of the Affordable Care Act subsidies, which was a key demand for Democratic lawmakers. Some Democrats in the House are now calling for Senator Chuck Schumer to resign his position as minority leader — including Democratic congressmember from California, Ro Khanna. "The President was panicking," says Khanna. "He realized that he had lost the election over this. We caved too soon." Khanna also discusses his bill to force the public release of the Epstein files, surrounding the federal investigation into the serial sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein.
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Nov 12, 2025
Israeli Forces Killed 3 Palestinians in Gaza Despite the U.S.-Brokered Ceasefire, 13-Year-Old Palestinian Boy Dies a Month After Israeli Forces Attacked Him in the Occupied West Bank, France Commits to Help the Palestinian Authority to Draft a Constitution for a Future Palestinian State, UK Suspends Sharing Intelligence With the U.S. Over Pentagon Strikes on Alleged Drug Boats, Protests Continue in Puerto Rico Against Trump Admin's Military Trainings in Arroyo, Speaker Johnson to Swear In Representative-Elect Grijalva as Gov't Shutdown Enters 43rd Day, Jack Schlossberg, Grandson of JFK, Announces Run for Rep. Nadler's Seat, Progressive Jewish Organizations Condemn Anti-Defamation League's "Mamdani Monitor", Marion County in Kansas Agrees to Pay $3 Million After Police Raided Local Paper in 2023, WaPo: Trump Admin Plans to Allow Oil and Gas Drilling Off the California Coast, "Our Land is Not for Sale": Dozens of Indigenous Leaders Protest at COP30 in Brazil
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Nov 11, 2025
The new documentary Free Joan Little chronicles the landmark case of the first woman in U.S. history to be acquitted on the grounds of self-defense against sexual violence. Joan Little's 1975 murder trial inspired a national campaign for racial justice, prisoner's rights, and survivors' rights to self-defense. Director Yoruba Richen calls the movement to free Little a "cry for justice" and Little's trial testimony about her assault by a prison guard "a radical act" that helped expose "the scourge of violence and abuse in jails and in prisons." Free Joan Little premieres this week at the DOC NYC Film Festival.
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Nov 11, 2025
Last week, at the Spanish-immersion daycare center Rayito del Sol in Chicago, employee Diana Santillana was violently abducted and detained by immigration agents in front of parents and young children. "My son was completely shut down emotionally after this happened," says Tara Goodarzi, the parent of a three-year-old who attends Rayito del Sol and witnessed the aftermath of the arrest. "He was just so shocked by the state that his school and his safe place had transformed into." Goodarzi also shares how community members are resisting the Trump administration's anti-immigrant crackdown in Chicago, organizing protests, patrols, meal trains and rideshares to support immigrant neighbors.
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Nov 11, 2025
We speak to The American Prospect's David Dayen about what could be the end to the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, after seven Democratic Senators and one independent struck a deal with Republicans to pass a short-term government funding bill. "Why would you end this?" asks Dayen, echoing many in the Democratic coalition who believe the deal was a poor strategic move for the anti-Trump opposition. Calls are now growing for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to step down. "Donald Trump and the Republicans were being blamed for all of this chaos…and yet, days later this this group of Democrats with the tacit support of Chuck Schumer decide that they're going to end this and cave."
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Nov 11, 2025
U.S. Senate Passes Bill to End Historic Government Shutdown, Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa Meets With President Trump at the White House, Reuters: European Officials Express Concern Over Next Phase of Gaza Ceasefire Deal, Pentagon Announces Strikes on Alleged Drug Boats in the Eastern Pacific, Killing 6 People, Supreme Court Declined to Hear an Appeal to Overturn its Decision on Same-Sex Marriage, Supreme Court Considers Challenge to Mississippi's Mail-In Ballot Laws, Private Prison Company Geo Group Seeking Immunity From Lawsuit in Case Before Supreme Court, Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino Reportedly Leaving Chicago, Trump Admin Attempting to Deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia, British Journalist Sami Hamdi to be Released From ICE Custody, Trump Threatens to Sue BBC for $1 Billion Over Broadcaster's Edit of Jan. 6 Speech, Whistleblower Claims Ghislaine Maxwell Plans to Seek Commutation From President Trump, Car Explosion in New Delhi Kills At Least 13 People, Car Explosion in Islamabad Kills At Least 12 People, Dozens of Prisoners Found Hanged in Ecuadorean Prison, Leaders and Delegates From More Than 190 Countries Gather in Brazil for the Opening of COP30 Climate Summit
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Nov 10, 2025
Jelani Cobb, the acclaimed journalist and dean of the Columbia Journalism School, has just published a new collection of essays, "Three or More Is a Riot: Notes on How We Got Here." The book collects essays beginning in 2012 with the killing of Travyon Martin in Florida. It traces the rise of Donald Trump and the right's growing embrace of white nationalism as well as the historic racial justice protests after the police killing of George Floyd in 2020. "What we're seeing is a kind reactionary push to try to return the nation to the status quo ante, to undo the kind of demographic change, literally at gunpoint, as we are pushing people of color out of the country by force," says Cobb.
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Nov 10, 2025
Over 5000 fossil fuel lobbyists were given access to U.N. climate summits over the past four years, a period marked by a rise in catastrophic extreme weather, adequate climate action and record oil and gas expansion. "This is climate obstruction at work," says Nina Lakhani, senior climate justice reporter for The Guardian US. She notes that lobbyists attend climate conferences to "promote false solutions like carbon based carbon markets, carbon capture and storage — these market based solutions which are not going to save the planet."
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Nov 10, 2025
The 30th U.N. climate change conference begins today in the Brazilian rainforest city of Belem, located at the mouth of the Amazon River. The summit opens as a major typhoon hit the Philippines killing at least eight people and displacing more than 1.4 million others. Typhoon Fung-wong hit as the Philippines is still recovering from Typhoon Kalmaegi which killed at least 224 people last week. Democracy Now! speaks with former Philippine climate negotiator Yeb Saño, chair of the Laudato Si' Movement, who warns that global steps to stop the climate crisis are "too little and probably too late."
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Nov 10, 2025
Trump Pardons Top Allies Involved in Efforts to Overturn Results of 2020 Election, 7 Democratic Senators Join Republicans to Pass Key Bill to End Government Shutdown, Trump Admin. Orders States to Stop Providing Full Benefits to SNAP Recipients, Tens of Thousands of Travelers Nationwide Impacted by Flight Cancellations, Israel Continues Striking Gaza Despite U.S.-Brokered Ceasefire, Killing 2 People, Israeli Settlers Attack Palestinian Villagers, Activists and Journalists in Occupied West Bank, Federal Judge Permanently Blocks Trump Admin From Deploying Troops to Portland, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Calls on UN to Probe U.S. Gov't Over Immigration Crackdown, Video Shows Man Having a Seizure During ICE Arrest, Top BBC Executives Resign Following Backlash Over Edit of Trump Speech, Trump: U.S. to Boycott G20 Summit Hosted by South Africa, UN COP30 Climate Summit Opens Today in Belém, Brazil
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Nov 07, 2025
The trailblazing human rights attorney Peter Weiss died November 3 at the age of 99. Weiss served on the board of the Center for Constitutional Rights for nearly five decades, where he worked to end South African apartheid and the Vietnam War, fought for nuclear disarmament and sought justice for victims of the U.S.-backed Contras in 1980s Nicaragua. He pioneered using the 1789 Alien Tort Statute in human rights cases. He also represented the family of U.S. journalist and human rights activist Charles Horman in a case against Henry Kissinger and others, after Horman was disappeared and killed in Chile soon after the U.S.-backed 1973 coup.
"He never ceased to push for a more just system, a more equitable system, along with his extraordinary wife Cora Weiss," says Peter Kornbluh, senior analyst at the National Security Archive. "There's not enough words to describe how important Peter was to the progressive movement, to human rights, over these last decades."
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Nov 07, 2025
The U.S. is continuing to blow up boats in the Caribbean and the Pacific despite growing international condemnation, while the Trump administration reportedly considers launching airstrikes on Venezuela or even assassinating President Nicolás Maduro.
"We are committing wanton criminal acts of assassination in the Caribbean [against] innocent people who haven't been found guilty of anything, and kind of setting the stage for an attack on Caracas itself in an attempt to take out its leader," says Peter Kornbluh, a senior analyst at the National Security Archive.
Kornbluh also discusses the legacy of the Church Committee 50 years ago, which investigated abuses by U.S. intelligence agencies, including coups and assassinations abroad.
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Nov 07, 2025
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments this week in a case challenging President Donald Trump's tariffs, with plaintiffs arguing that his unilateral levies on imported goods violate the Constitution, which grants Congress the power to impose taxes and regulate foreign commerce. The Trump administration has justified his unprecedented use of tariffs under a 1977 law known as the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, but several justices seemed highly skeptical of that argument, potentially putting President Trump's signature economic policy at risk.
"There is no genuine emergency. There is no war that is the precipitating basis for invoking IEEPA. And even if it were, it would not allow the imposition of tariffs," says legal expert Lisa Graves, founder of True North Research and co-host of the podcast Legal AF.
Graves also discusses her new book, Without Precedent: How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote the Constitution and Dismantled Our Rights.
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Nov 07, 2025
In an unsigned order on Thursday, the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to require U.S. passports to list travelers' sex assigned at birth, another blow to the rights of transgender, nonbinary and intersex people, who had been able to select sex markers aligning with their gender identity or to use a gender-neutral X. Thursday's order is an interim ruling while the passport case makes its way through lower courts.
"The harm and the targeting of this policy towards intersex, nonbinary and trans people is terrifying. It makes it very scary to travel, to trust that you'll be able to get through security, that you'll be able to get on your flight," says Arli Christian, senior policy counsel with the American Civil Liberties Union.
We also get reaction to the order from actress and activist Laverne Cox, who says trans people will persevere despite the discriminatory policy. "No matter what they say about our ID documents, we are still who we are, and we will find a way to be ourselves no matter what," she says.
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Nov 07, 2025
Sudan's Rapid Support Forces Agree to Humanitarian Ceasefire, "The World's Largest Mass Grave": Palestinians Say 10,000 Bodies Are Buried Under Gaza's Rubble, Israel Launches Wave of Airstrikes on Southern Lebanon, GOP Senators Block Resolution to Rein In Trump's Military Actions Against Venezuela, Senate GOP Continues Push to End Health Insurance Subsidies as Government Shutdown Enters 38th Day, Federal Judge Orders Trump Administration to Fully Fund November SNAP Payments, U.S. Airlines Cancel Thousands of Flights as Shutdown Takes Toll on Air Traffic Controllers, Death Toll in Crash of UPS Cargo Plane Rises to 13, Tesla Shareholders Approve Pay Package That Could Make Elon Musk a Trillionaire, Federal Judge Blasts Border Patrol Chief for Lying About Violence at Chicago-Area Protests, Jury Acquits Man Who Threw Sandwich to Protest Trump's Militarized Takeover of D.C., SCOTUS Allows Trump Administration to Restrict Gender Identity Markers on Passports, Typhoon Batters Vietnam After Carving Path of Destruction Through Philippines, Documents Reveal Exxon Funded Climate Denial Campaign Across Latin America, As COP30 Opens, Brazil's Lula Warns Window of Opportunity to Act on Climate Is Rapidly Closing, Nancy Pelosi, Who Served as First-Ever Female House Speaker, to Retire from Congress in 2027, NYC Mayor-Elect Mamdani Outlines Plan to Tax the Rich and Corporations to Fund Affordability, Pioneering Human Rights Attorney Peter Weiss Dies at 99
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Nov 06, 2025
Palestinian writer Tareq Baconi joins us to discuss his new memoir, Fire in Every Direction, a chronicle of his political and queer coming of age growing up between Amman and Beirut as the grandson of refugees from Jerusalem and Haifa. While "LGBTQ labels have also been used by the West as part of empire," with colonial projects seeking to portray Native populations as backward and in need of saving, "there's a beautiful effort and movement among queer communities in the region to reclaim that language," says Baconi. "I identify as a queer man today as part of a political project. It's not just a sexual identity. It expands beyond that and rejects Zionism and rejects authoritarianism, and that's part of my queerness."
Baconi also comments on the so-called ceasefire agreement in Gaza and the election of Zohran Mamdani in New York City. "Palestinians are the ones that have to govern Palestinian territory, not this international force that comes in that takes any kind of sovereignty or agency away from the Palestinians," he says.
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Nov 06, 2025
A new special report from Futuro Media follows the Trump administration's federal immigration raids and the growing community resistance against them. "Taken: The Agents Raiding Communities and the People Trying to Stop Them" documents how Latinos in the U.S. are being racially profiled, "kidnapped," denied due process and forced to sign their own removal orders. "This is psychological terror," says investigative journalist Maria Hinojosa. "Trump is saying we should have ethnic cleansing against Latinos and Latinas, if it hasn't gone far enough."
Hinojosa also comments on the recent public sexual harassment of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and the growing public profile of Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino.
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Nov 06, 2025
Amid federal immigration raids in the Chicagoland area, the mayor of one Chicago suburb is on the frontlines of the anti-ICE protest movement. Mayor Daniel Biss says what he has seen of federal immigration raids in Evanston, Illinois, amounts to an "invasion from our own federal government." His office is now launching investigations into reports of federal agents brutalizing and threatening community members. "They appear to have just started beating people up for no reason," Biss says. "If that was anybody except for a federal agent, they would be under arrest."
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Nov 06, 2025
Israel Kills at Least Two Palestinians in Gaza Despite U.S.-Brokered Ceasefire, Israeli Forces Carry Out Raids in the Occupied West Bank, Killing a 15-Year-Old Boy, FAA Announces It Will Cut Traffic by 10% at 40 U.S. Airports Due to Government Shutdown, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Analysis: 5 Million People Will Receive No SNAP Benefits Despite Court Orders, Drone Strike Kills at Least 40 People at a Funeral in Sudan, DHS to End Deportation Protections for South Sudanese Immigrants, Federal Judge in Chicago Orders Authorities to Improve Conditions at Broadview ICE Jail, Federal Agents in Chicago Arrest Teacher at a Day Care in Front of Parents and Students, Federal Immigration Agents Arrest U.S. Citizen and Drive Off with His Daughter in Los Angeles, Mexican President Sheinbaum Presses Charges After Being Groped by a Man, California Republicans Sue to Block New Congressional Map Benefiting Democrats, Supreme Court Justices Appear Skeptical of Claims Trump Has Power to Impose Sweeping Tariffs, U.S. Asks U.N. Security Council to Lift Sanctions on Syria's President Ahmad al-Sharaa, NYC Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani Pledges to Hold ICE Agents Accountable
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Nov 05, 2025
We get an overview of how Democrats won big across the United States in Tuesday's elections, with Daniel Nichanian, editor-in-chief of Bolts. Democratic Congressmember Mikie Sherrill won New Jersey's governor's race, and Abigail Spanberger flipped Virginia's governorship. In California, voters approved a new congressional map that could help Democrats pick up five additional congressional seats in a move to counter Texas's redistricting plan. Local races across the countries also saw widespread Democratic wins. Nichanian says he has "never really quite seen this level of systematic win for pretty much anything that there was [for Democrats] to win."
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Nov 05, 2025
At Zohran Mamdani's victory party at the Brooklyn Paramount on Tuesday night, Democracy Now! spoke with Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. "We're not going to be intimidated," Ocasio-Cortez said. "We're going to fight for working families. We're going to stand with immigrants. We're going to stand with the diversity of this city."
Brad Lander, former mayoral candidate who cross-endorsed with Mandani in the Democratic primary, commented on the power of having a "Muslim New Yorker and a Jewish New Yorker say we are not going to allow Andrew Cuomo or Eric Adams or Donald Trump or Elon Musk or Stephen Miller to weaponize fear and pit us against each other."
"This is such an incredible proof of concept of how to fight fascism," added the Canadian journalist, author and activist Naomi Klein.
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Nov 05, 2025
Democracy Now! spoke with supporters celebrating Zohran Mamdani's win in the New York City mayoral race Tuesday night. Volunteers with the Democratic Socialists and other campaign organizers at the Brooklyn Paramount victory party described the night as "surreal" and vowed to fight back against President Trump's agenda. Sumaya Awad, a NYC-DSA member, describes Zohran as a politician "that doesn't put the platform and the mission at the expense of anyone."
"When people's needs aren't being met, they need an alternative, and so far, only the far right was providing an alternative in the form of authoritarianism, in the form of fascism, in the form of hate, turning against immigrants, against queer people, against Muslims," says Fahd Ahmed, director of DRUM Beats. "What this campaign and our movement was able to do was offer a left alternative."
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Nov 05, 2025
Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani won the New York mayoral race, defeating former Governor Andrew Cuomo. A year ago, Mamdani was polling at just 1%, but on Tuesday he became the first New York mayoral candidate to win over a million votes since the 1960s. Mamdani won despite being vastly outspent by Cuomo, who was backed by a group of billionaires. We play part of Mamdani's victory speech to supporters at the Brooklyn Paramount, in which he vows to stand up to President Trump and acknowledges his unlikely path to Gracie Mansion: "I am young, despite my best efforts to grow older. I am Muslim. I am a democratic socialist. And most damning of all, I refuse to apologize for any of this."
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Nov 05, 2025
Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani Wins New York City Mayoral Race, Democrats Dominate First Major Elections of Trump's Second Term, Federal Shutdown Becomes Longest in U.S. History, Israel Continues Striking Gaza Despite U.S.-Brokered Ceasefire, U.N. Secretary-General Warns Sudan's Civil War Is "Spiraling Out of Control", Pentagon Announces Another Deadly Strike on Alleged Drug Boat, NBC News: Trump Admin Looking into Possible U.S. Military Mission Inside Mexico, U.N.: World Likely to Surpass 1.5 Degrees Celsius Climate Goal
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Nov 04, 2025
We speak with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Carol Leonnig and Aaron Davis on the day they publish their new book, Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America's Justice Department, which looks at how the DOJ during the Biden administration was overly cautious in pursuing cases against Trump and his allies over 2020 election interference, the January 6 riot and more. Attorney General Merrick Garland felt it was important to "turn the page from Donald Trump" and not look too closely at abuses of power, says Leonnig, who also stresses many "stubbornly brave people … tried to do the right thing and could not succeed in this institution."
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Nov 04, 2025
Dick Cheney, the former vice president and one of the key architects of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, died Monday at age 84. Cheney served six terms in Congress as Wyoming's lone representative before serving as defense secretary under President George H.W. Bush, when he oversaw the first Gulf War and the bloody U.S. invasion of Panama that deposed former U.S. ally Manuel Noriega. From 1995 to 2000, Cheney served as chair and CEO of the oil services company Halliburton, before George W. Bush tapped him as his running mate. As vice president, Cheney was a leading proponent of invading and occupying Iraq, which killed hundreds of thousands of people and destabilized the entire region. Dick Cheney also steadfastly defended warantless mass surveillance programs and the use of torture against detainees of the so-called war on terror. We speak with The Nation's John Nichols, author of multiple books about Cheney, who says the neoconservative leader had a "very destructive" impact on the world.
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Nov 04, 2025
Voters in the United States are casting ballots in several closely watched elections on Tuesday, including mayoral races in New York, Seattle and Minneapolis, and gubernatorial contests in New Jersey and Virginia. The Nation's executive editor John Nichols says Zohran Mamdani's campaign in New York, in particular, has "captured the imagination of the country." He notes many of Tuesday's races could help shape the agenda of the Democratic Party and move it toward being "an activist party that uses government to really tip the balance in favor of the working class."
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Nov 04, 2025
Trump Endorses Cuomo, Threatens to Cancel Funding to NYC If Mamdani Is Elected Mayor, Trump Administration Will Only Partially Fund Expiring SNAP Benefits as Shutdown Drags On, Fed Warns of Weakening Labor Market as U.S. Companies Announce AI-Driven Layoffs, 10 Richest U.S. Billionaires Have Expanded Wealth by $700 Billion Since Trump's Return, Dick Cheney, Architect of Iraq Occupation and U.S. Torture Program, Dies at 84, U.N. Says 36,000 Have Fled North Darfur's Capital Since Paramilitaries Seized Control, Israel Continues to Attack Gaza Despite U.S.-Brokered Ceasefire, Israel and Hamas Exchange Bodies of Captives, with More Signs of Torture Against Palestinians, ICE Agents Shoot U.S. Citizen in Los Angeles Area, U.S. Courts Halt Deportation of Man Wrongfully Jailed Under Murder Charges for 43 Years, At Least 26 People Killed as Typhoon Kalmaegi Strikes Philippines, Trump Admin Says It Will Not Send Any High-Level Officials to COP30 Climate Talks
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Nov 03, 2025
We speak to Wole Soyinka, the 91-year-old celebrated Nigerian writer and first African Nobel laureate, who recently had his U.S. visa revoked after he made comments critical of Trump. As Trump threatens U.S. military action against Nigeria over claims of a "Christian genocide" in the country, Soyinka says, "when religious differences began to be invoked as a means of political power, and even social and economic powers, we've had unquestionably the issue of impunity." By "expanding the force of hostility," he adds, "Trump is not making things easy for there to be a resolution."
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Nov 03, 2025
President Trump is threatening to bomb Nigeria, alleging the country is failing to protect Christians from persecution, even as many victims of the fundamentalist insurgent group Boko Haram are Muslims. "This theme of persecution of Christians is a very politically charged, and actually religiously charged, theme for evangelicals across the world," says Anthea Butler, the author of White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America. Despite the fact that the country's conflict cannot be reduced to religious enmity, for extremist evangelical Christians, Nigeria "is a place where the administration could prosecute a holy war" using a "savior narrative."
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Nov 03, 2025
Democracy Now!'s Anjali Kamat reports on working-class South Asian support for New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. South Asian voter turnout increased by 40% during the Democratic primary, contributing to Mamdani's upset victory against former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who is now running as an independent candidate. "We've had several South Asian or Indo-Caribbean candidates, and none of them elicit this response. And I think the fact that the campaign spoke to the very material issues of working-class people has, first and foremost, has really made a very significant difference," says Fahd Ahmed, director of the South Asian community organization DRUM Beats, whose members have been canvassing for Mamdani's campaign.
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Nov 03, 2025
President Trump held a lavish Great Gatsby-themed Halloween party at Mar-a-Lago Friday, just hours before an estimated 42 million people lost SNAP benefits across the country. Kirk Curnutt, the executive director of the international F. Scott Fitzgerald Society, says that while "Gatsby is famous for its lavish party scenes, [what] people often miss is that the entire thrust of the book is to critique that conspicuous consumption and the wastage that goes on in these sorts of events."
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Nov 03, 2025
As the U.S. federal government shutdown enters its second month, over 40 million people are now struggling to feed themselves and their families after SNAP food assistance was cut off over the weekend. "We are headed for a major public health and economic crisis," says child hunger expert Mariana Chilton. She adds that by refusing to disburse SNAP benefits, "the Trump administration is breaking the law."
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Nov 03, 2025
42 Million Americans Lose Food Benefits as Trump Holds Gatsby-Themed Party, Israel Continues to Carry Out Attacks in Gaza Despite U.S.-Brokered Ceasefire, Israeli Forces and Settlers Kill Two Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank, Former Top Lawyer for Israeli Military Arrested for Leaking Video of Soldiers Raping Palestinian Prisoner, Israel Threatens to Step Up Attacks in Lebanon Despite Last Year's Ceasefire, Trump Says Maduro's Days Are Numbered in Venezuela as U.S. Strikes Another Boat in Caribbean, Trump Threatens to Go into Nigeria "Guns-a-Blazing" over Attacks on Christians, Head of Red Cross: "History Repeating" in Sudan's Darfur Region, Federal Immigration Agents in Evanston Brutally Beat Man, Point Gun At Residents, Mexican Mayor Shot and Killed During Day of the Dead Celebrations, U.N. Security Council Backs Morocco's Plan for Western Sahara
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Oct 31, 2025
Omar Fateh, the son of Somali immigrants and a democratic socialist, is a leading candidate in the mayoral race in Minneapolis and seeking to unseat incumbent Jacob Frey. Fateh made history in 2020 by becoming the first Muslim and first Somali American to be elected to Minnesota's state Senate. Fateh has run for mayor on a platform advocating for rent stabilization, raising the minimum wage and reforming how the city handles public safety. "Minneapolis can have a different kind of politics," says Fateh. "Five years after the murder of George Floyd, [Mayor Frey] doesn't have a plan, or doesn't intend to have a plan."
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Oct 31, 2025
A retired U.S. colonel who investigated the death of Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh has gone public to accuse the Biden administration of "inaction" and a possible "cover-up." Steve Gabavics says the U.S. government soft-pedaled the finding that Israeli forces intentionally killed her to appease the Israeli government. He and his colleagues were left flabbergasted by the Biden State Department's statement attributing Abu Akleh's killing to "tragic circumstances" rather than formally assigning blame. "It all came down to, in my mind, not trying to anger the Israelis by holding them accountable for intentionally killing an American citizen," Gabavics tells Democracy Now!
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Oct 31, 2025
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker is calling for federal agents to pause immigration enforcement in the Chicago area until after Halloween, amid widespread condemnation of violent arrests and confrontations with residents. Meanwhile, the person at the center of much of Chicago's enforcement, Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino, did a five-hour deposition Thursday in a case challenging federal agents' treatment of protesters, journalists, children and immigrants. Bovino is "in charge of the Chicago raids. And that style of aggressive, militarized enforcement is something that the Trump administration loves, because it plays very well for them among their base," says Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, senior fellow at the American Immigration Council. He also discusses the rapid expansion of immigration detention, the normalization of racial profiling by federal agents, arrests of U.S. citizens and more.
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Oct 31, 2025
Israel Continues Striking Gaza Despite Claiming to Abide by U.S.-Brokered Ceasefire, Report: Google and Amazon Violated Their Own Terms of Service in Israel's $1.2 Billion "Project Nimbus" Deal, Death Toll from Hurricane Melissa Rises to 49, Prince Andrew Stripped of Royal Titles and Evicted from Royal Mansion, Trump Urges Republicans to Kill the Filibuster to End the Government Shutdown, Trump Cuts Refugee Admissions to 7,500, Prioritizing White South Africans, 404 Media: ICE and CBP Using Facial Recognition Technology to Identity Immigration Status, Dramatic Video Shows ICE Agents Violently Arresting Mother Driving Her Daughter to School, Federal Judge in Chicago Orders Border Patrol Commander Bovino to Appear for a Deposition, General Orders National Guard in All 50 States to Prepare "Quick Reaction Forces" for Riot Control, Hegseth Orders Pentagon to Provide Lawyers to DOJ to Bolster Immigration Crackdown, U.N. Condemns Massacres in Sudan's Darfur Region: "No One Is Safe in El Fasher", Protesters Demand Justice for Victims of Rio de Janeiro Police Raid That Killed 119
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Oct 30, 2025
The United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to condemn the U.S. embargo on Cuba for the 33rd consecutive year, with just seven opposed, including the United States, Israel and Ukraine. The vote came as Cuba was battered by Hurricane Melissa, causing widespread damage.
We get an update from the eastern Cuban province of Santiago de Cuba with Liz Oliva Fernández, a reporter with Belly of the Beast, who says the U.S. embargo and other economic sanctions make it much harder for Cuba to respond to natural disasters. Nevertheless, it has a robust early warning system, detailed plans for evacuating the most vulnerable and an extensive network of government shelters.
Mikael Wolfe, a historian at Stanford University, notes this system is rooted in lessons from early in the Cuban Revolution when another devastating storm killed hundreds of people across the island. The U.S. could learn much from the Cuban government when it comes to dealing with hurricanes, says Wolfe.
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Oct 30, 2025
Sudan's military is accusing the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces of killing at least 2,000 people since seizing control of El Fasher in the Darfur region, including some 460 at the Saudi Maternity Hospital. Meanwhile, tens of thousands have fled.
"What's happening is no less than a … campaign of destruction and annihilation," says Mathilde Vu, Sudan advocacy manager at the Norwegian Refugee Council, speaking to Democracy Now! from Kenya.
What's unfolding in El Fasher is "the sum of all our fears," adds Nathaniel Raymond, executive director of the Humanitarian Research Lab at the Yale School of Public Health. He urges the United States to put pressure on the United Arab Emirates, which has backed the RSF in the civil war as the group carries out "acts that are tantamount to genocide."
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Oct 30, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping have agreed to a one-year trade truce after meeting in South Korea. China will postpone export controls on rare earth minerals, and the U.S. will lower its tariffs on Chinese goods. China also agreed to resume buying American soybeans. The deal could lower tensions between the world's two leading economies, and "the fact that they met at all has to be a good thing," says Northwestern University economics professor Nancy Qian, an expert on U.S.-China relations. "Talking means not fighting."
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Oct 30, 2025
President Trump has directed the Pentagon to resume testing nuclear weapons for the first time since 1992. He made the announcement just before meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping to discuss trade relations. Dr. Ira Helfand, former president of Physicians for Social Responsibility and a leading campaigner against nuclear proliferation, says the White House needs to "clarify" Trump's intentions, and urges countries to recommit to nuclear disarmament.
"This idea is dismissed sometimes as being unrealistic. I think what's unrealistic is the belief that we can continue to maintain these enormous nuclear arsenals and expect that nothing is going to go wrong," says Helfand. "Our luck is going to run out at some point."
Trump's announcement comes just months before the last major nuclear arms control treaty between the U.S. and Russia — the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or New START — expires in February 2026.
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Oct 30, 2025
Sudanese Paramilitaries Reportedly Kill at Least 2,000 People After Seizing El Fasher, Israel Bombs Khan Younis in Latest Violation of Gaza Ceasefire Agreement, Israel to Deport Activists Who Joined West Bank Olive Harvest in Solidarity with Palestinians, Hegseth Says Pentagon Bombed Another Alleged Narcotrafficking Vessel in Pacific, Trump and Xi Agree to Deescalate U.S.-China Trade War After Face-to-Face Talks, Trump Orders First U.S. Nuclear Weapons Tests in 33 Years, Death Toll Rises to 34 After Hurricane Melissa Batters Caribbean, U.N. General Assembly Condemns U.S. Embargo on Cuba for 33rd Consecutive Year, Senate Majority Leader Thune Blocks Democrats' Bill to Fund SNAP Benefits Amid Shutdown, DOJ Indicts Illinois Congressional Candidate Kat Abughazaleh over ICE Protests, DOJ Suspends Two Prosecutors Who Described Jan. 6 Insurrectionists as "Mob of Rioters", Illinois Sheriff's Deputy Found Guilty in Shooting Death of Sonya Massey, Far-Right Anti-Immigrant Party Loses Seats in Dutch Elections
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Oct 29, 2025
Coexistence, My Ass! is a new documentary opening Wednesday in New York highlighting Noam Shuster Eliassi, an Israeli comedian and peace activist. Shuster Eliassi hopes for justice and equality for Palestinians and "to make present the elephant in the room that a lot of artists [in Israel] prefer to ignore." We also speak with director Amber Fares, who says the film — like others dealing with the topic of Palestine — is struggling to find distribution in the United States but has six screenings already set up, including an opening at the IFC Center in New York City.
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Oct 29, 2025
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is replacing ICE leadership at 12 of the 25 ICE field offices nationwide with Border Patrol officials who will take over immigration enforcement in those regions as President Trump demands more arrests. Meanwhile, Chicago continues to be a focus of the administration's immigration crackdown. We speak with Hoan Huynh, an Illinois state representative, who was confronted by federal agents as he was filming them after getting alerted to their presence in his district by a rapid response network. The "officers came to the passenger window of the car that I was in and pointed a gun to my head," he says, calling the actions of federal agents in Chicago "unconstitutional."
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Oct 29, 2025
Jamaica remains in a state of emergency after being battered by Hurricane Melissa, one of the strongest Atlantic cyclones in history. The Category 5 storm slammed into Jamaica on Tuesday with 185-mile-per-hour winds, and the extent of the damage is not yet known because communication remains limited. Mikaela Loach, a Jamaican British climate justice activist, says the hurricane was "caused by the climate crisis," and says fossil fuel companies are to blame. It's important to "direct that anger towards people who are responsible," Loach says, suggesting that hurricanes be named after oil executives.
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Oct 29, 2025
Israel launched major airstrikes on Gaza, killing at least 104 people, including 46 children, in the deadliest attacks since the U.S.-brokered ceasefire was announced. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered "powerful strikes" on Gaza Tuesday after Israeli officials accused Hamas of killing an Israeli soldier in Rafah — which Hamas has denied. Netanyahu is trying "everything possible to resume the genocide in Gaza," says Muhammad Shehada, a writer and analyst from Gaza. "The only condition is that he needs to maintain the facade of the ceasefire."
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Oct 29, 2025
Israel Kills at Least 104 People in Gaza, Including 46 Children, Hurricane Melissa Makes Landfall in Cuba as a Strong Category 3 Hurricane After Battering Jamaice, Pentagon Carries Out Another Three Strikes Against Vessels in the Pacific Ocean, AP: U.S. Attempted to Capture Maduro by Bribing His Pilot, Amnesty International: U.S. Strike on Yemen Prison Killing Dozens of African Migrants May Be a War Crime, Dozens of States Sue Trump Administration Over Suspending SNAP Benefits, ICE Agents Beat and Choke a Houston Teen and His Father During a Traffic Ambush, Masked ICE Agents Continue to Detain Immigrants Attending Court Hearings in Manhattan's 26 Federal Plaza, Chanthila "Shawn" Souvannarath Deported to Laos Despite Court Order Blocking His Removal, Federal Judge Orders Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino to Report to Her Every Day, Wired: CBP Searched a Record Number of Phones at the U.S. Border Over the Past Year, President Trump Announces Trade Deal with South Korea, Reuters: Trump Organization Earned More Than $800 Million from Crypto Assets, At Least 64 People Killed in Brazil in Police Raid of Favela
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Oct 28, 2025
We speak with journalist David Sirota about his new book, Master Plan: The Hidden Plot to Legalize Corruption in America. Co-authored with Jared Jacang Maher, the book is based on their award-winning investigative podcast of the same name for The Lever.
Sirota says that while the United States is now "immersed in corruption" in a way that seems like an inevitable part of politics, it is the result of a decadeslong agenda by the wealthy to deregulate the campaign finance system and to essentially make anti-bribery laws unenforceable. "This is all part of a plan by a corporate movement that sees democracy — the government providing what people want — sees that as a threat."
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Oct 28, 2025
The central fight in the U.S. federal government shutdown has been over healthcare costs, with Democrats demanding that Republicans agree to extend subsidies for the Affordable Care Act set to expire this Saturday. Without an extension of those subsidies, health premiums could more than double for millions of people across the country. The enhanced subsidies were first put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"The purpose of healthcare has increasingly become profit-making rather than a public service," says Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, professor of public health at Hunter College and co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program. She says that while extending the Obamacare subsidies is vital, the United States should move toward universal public healthcare like every other major Western economy "and away from our private, profit-oriented healthcare system."
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Oct 28, 2025
More than 1.4 million federal employees missed their first full paychecks on Friday as the government shutdown enters its fifth week. Meanwhile, the Department of Agriculture warns that food aid to 42 million people could be cut off starting November 1, as the Trump administration refuses to use a $5 billion contingency fund to maintain SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, popularly known as food stamps.
Gina Plata-Nino from the Food Research and Action Center says the loss of SNAP benefits will have cascading impacts as credit card debt soars, rent payments are delayed and food banks get overrun. "We are going to see a decrease in people's well-being," says Plata-Nino.
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Oct 28, 2025
Sudan's military has withdrawn from El Fasher, its last stronghold in the country's Darfur region, ceding control of the city to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces after an 18-month siege. The United Nations and the African Union have called for safe passage for civilians and an immediate ceasefire, condemning reports of war crimes by RSF fighters including summary executions of civilians. Fighting between the Sudanese military and RSF has killed more than 150,000 people and displaced about 12 million since 2023.
"This just shows us that what the Sudanese Armed Forces have been promising, which is a military victory that is going to end the war, is nowhere near happening," says Sudanese activist Marine Alneel, joining us from Nairobi, Kenya. She says the capture of El Fasher raises fears of "basically two governments" and calls on external powers, including the United Arab Emirates, which backs the RSF, and the United States, to push for humanitarian measures.
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Oct 28, 2025
Jamaica Faces "Catastrophic" Winds and Flooding as Hurricane Melissa Strikes, U.N.'s Guterres Warns of "Devastating Consequences" as Nations Fail to Cap Global Heating at 1.5°C, Humanitarian Groups Say Israel Is Allowing Just a Fraction of Aid Promised Under Ceasefire Deal, Israeli Forces Kill 3 Palestinians Near Jenin, Call in Airstrikes, "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt": U.S. Colonel Says Israeli Sniper Intended to Kill Shireen Abu Akleh, Venezuelan Government Says It Captured CIA-Backed Mercenaries Plotting False Flag Attack, Head of Federal Workers' Union Calls for End to Government Shutdown, GOP Governor Braun Calls for Special Legislative Session to Redraw Indiana's Congressional Maps, Trump Admin Instructs DOJ to Send Election Observers to New Jersey and California, Trump Meets with Japan's Newly Elected Ultra-Nationalist Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, World's Oldest President Paul Biya Reelected in Cameroon, Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara Wins Fourth Term After Rivals Disqualified
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Oct 27, 2025
A record 164,000 people cast ballots in New York on the first two days of early voting in the city's mayoral race. If elected, Zohran Mamdani would be the city's first Muslim mayor. In recent days, he has faced a string of Islamophobic attacks. "I see a dynamic that I think lots of Muslims have experienced in the United States, which is when they're given positions of power or are in a position of public scrutiny, that their faith is often the first thing that gets scrutinized," says Meher Ahmad, staff editor for The New York Times opinion section.
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Oct 27, 2025
Israel has carried out repeated attacks in Gaza and killed about 100 Palestinians over the past two weeks since the U.S.-backed ceasefire deal with Hamas came into effect. Jeremy Scahill, co-founder of Drop Site News, is one of the few Western journalists in regular contact with Hamas leaders. "It's utter malpractice on the part of all of these news organizations that have not regularly been interviewing the leaders, the negotiators of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. This is, by default, allowing the dehumanization narrative of Palestinians to just take hold," he says.
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Oct 27, 2025
The Trump administration has now killed at least 43 people in 10 strikes against so-called drug boats in the Caribbean and Pacific Ocean. The threat of war against Venezuela and the surrounding region is growing as the Pentagon deploys the world's largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald Ford, to the Caribbean. Alejandro Velasco, associate professor at New York University, says the Latin American policy is "primarily Marco Rubio's ideological project," motivated by a desire to oust the government of Venezuela and weaken the allied government of Cuba.
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Oct 27, 2025
Venezuela Denounces the U.S. for Docking Warship in Trinidad and Tobago, Israel Kills 2 People in Southern Gaza, Israel Strikes Lebanon, Killing 3 People, U.S. Federal Government Shutdown Enters 27th Day, U.S. and China Agree to Framework of New Trade Deal, Trump Announces 10% Tariffs on Canada in Response to Ad Featuring Ronald Reagan, Far-Right President Milei's Party Wins Decisive Victory in Argentina's Midterm Elections, Independent Socialist Catherine Connolly Wins Irish Presidency, RSF Claims It Has Captured Sudanese Army Base in Darfur, Hurricane Melissa Intensifies to Category 5 Hurricane, Honduran Immigrant Josué Castro Rivera Dies While Fleeing ICE Agents, Federal Judge Rules ICE Agents Illegally Detained Chicago Man Whose Daughter Is Fighting Cancer, Activists Call on Maryland to End State's Contract on Avelo Airlines Responsible for Deportation Flights, U.S. Detains Prominent British Muslim Journalist Sami Hamdi, Zohran Mamdani Holds Massive Rally in Queens as Early Voting in NYC Mayoral Race Begins
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Oct 24, 2025
The new short film Criminal highlights the injustices of the criminal legal system with a look at how for-profit bail preys on the poor and mentally ill. We're joined by three contributors to the film, musician Stew Stewart and bail reform advocates Krish Gundu and Alec Karakatsanis, to discuss how what Karakatsanis calls the "unconstitutional" system of cash bail leads to "millions of coerced guilty pleas every single year all across the country, just because people are so desperate to get out." Criminal focuses on Texas's notorious Harris County Jail, where at least 15 people have died in pretrial detention just this year. Gundu explains, "We have criminalized mental illness. We've criminalized homelessness. We've criminalized reproductive rights. And so, the jail has become the emergency room of our community."
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Oct 24, 2025
"The Republican Party has really become an extremist movement." Amid a growing political divide in the Republican Party over the release of federal documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, we speak to former Republican political operative Stuart Stevens about the erosion of support for Donald Trump from some of his most prominent backers. Stevens traces the MAGA takeover of the Republican Party and shares how the Lincoln Project, a Republican-led anti-Trump organization where he is a senior adviser, is working to stop Trump's anti-democratic agenda.
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Oct 24, 2025
Israel's Knesset has advanced legislation that would effectively annex the West Bank, prompting rare criticism from the Trump administration, which says it does not support annexation. We get a report on the state of illegal settlement activity in the Palestinian territory from the Norwegian Refugee Council's Jan Egeland, who has just returned from the occupied West Bank. "I think the settler movement felt they had a free hand to do whatever they wanted on the West Bank, and it happened in the shadows of the war in Gaza," he says about the growth in settlements and widespread impunity for settlers. "Every single day, Palestinian houses are demolished. Every single day, their communities are attacked. Every single day, people are beaten up, thousands of olive trees are uprooted. I mean, it's happening as we speak."
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Oct 24, 2025
U.N. Urges Israel to Open Rafah Border Crossing to Allow Aid into Gaza, Trump: "Israel's Not Going to Do Anything with the West Bank", Israeli Minister Smotrich Resorts to Stereotypes When Talking About Saudi Arabia, "We're Going to Kill Them": Trump Claims Broad Authority to Launch Strikes Against Alleged Drug Boats, Trump Suspends Canada Trade Talks over Ad Criticizing Tariffs, Civil Rights Groups Demand ICE Stop Jailing Pregnant Immigrants Amid Reports of Medical Neglect, States Prepare to Cut Off Food Assistance as Government Shutdown Enters 24th Day, New York AG Letitia James Faces Arraignment in Federal Court as Trump Seeks "Retribution", Trump Administration Opens 1.5 Million Acres of Alaskan Wildlife Refuge to Oil and Gas Drilling, Trump Pardons Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, Who Aided Trump Family's Crypto Firm, White House Releases List of Donors to Trump's Ballroom as Demolition Crews Raze East Wing, Trump Reverses Plans to "Surge" Federal Forces to San Francisco at Request of CEO "Friends"
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Oct 23, 2025
New York mayoral candidates held their final debate Wednesday before the November 4 election, with early voting beginning Saturday. Democratic nominee and front-runner Zohran Mamdani faced off against Republican Curtis Sliwa and former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, running as an independent after losing the primary to Mamdani. While the debate itself is unlikely to have much impact, the fact that a pro-Palestine democratic socialist is leading the race is very significant, says writer Ross Barkan. Assuming he wins, "Zohran Mamdani is going to run one of the great and massive and important cities in the world. And all eyes are going to be on him," Barkan says. His latest book is Fascism or Genocide: How a Decade of Political Disorder Broke American Politics.
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Oct 23, 2025
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is the latest top U.S. official to visit Israel as part of a push to maintain the Gaza ceasefire. Reports suggest the Trump administration is worried about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu undermining the agreement, with the U.S. visits dubbed "Bibi-sitting" missions to prevent any sabotage. Meanwhile, lawmakers in the Knesset have advanced a bill to apply Israeli sovereignty to all illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank — a move that would effectively annex the territory and kill already dim hopes for a future Palestinian state on that land.
For more on the state of the Gaza ceasefire and the future of Palestine, we speak with Robert Malley, co-author with Hussein Agha of the new book Tomorrow Is Yesterday: Life, Death, and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel/Palestine. Malley is a veteran negotiator involved in previous U.S.-backed peace talks between Israel and Palestinian leadership. He says despite the many flaws in the Trump plan, including "deciding everything for Palestinians without Palestinians having a voice," it has at least halted the worst of the violence. He also notes the "double standard" in how all U.S. administrations have dealt with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as "the search for a two-state solution became a gimmick" while the U.S. allowed Israel to entrench its occupation.
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Oct 23, 2025
The International Court of Justice ruled Wednesday that Israel, as an occupying power, must allow United Nations humanitarian aid into Gaza and may not use starvation as a method of warfare. In its advisory opinion, the World Court also found that Israel had failed to provide evidence for its claims that UNRWA, the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, lacks neutrality or that a significant number of its staff are affiliated with Hamas. Israel denounced the ruling and said it would not comply with the court's instructions. The Trump administration also condemned the opinion.
"The opinion is unambiguous. It's an opinion by the highest legal authority of the U.N.," says UNRWA spokesperson Tamara Alrifai, speaking to Democracy Now! from Amman, Jordan. She adds that for the Trump-backed ceasefire to succeed, aid groups must have unrestricted access to Gaza and be allowed to "flood" the territory with food and other basic supplies.
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Oct 23, 2025
"Starvation as a Weapon of War": ICJ Orders Israel to Restore Access to U.N.-Led Aid Agencies, Mass Funeral Held in Gaza for Unidentified Palestinians Whose Bodies Show Signs of Torture, Israeli Lawmakers Advance Bills to Annex West Bank, Drawing Rare U.S. Criticism, U.S. Lawmakers Call on Israel to Release 16-Year-Old Palestinian American Held Months Without Trial, Pentagon Says It Blew Up Two Boats Allegedly Carrying Drugs Near Colombia's Pacific Coast, Trump Administration Announces New Sanctions on Russia's Largest Oil and Gas Companies, Federal Government Shutdown Enters Its 23rd Day, Trump Administration Dispatches More Than 100 Federal Agents to San Francisco Bay Area, Protesters Confront Masked Federal Agents Carrying Out Arrests in Illinois, Protesters in New York March in Solidarity with Street Vendors Detained by Federal Agents, Cuban Man Deported to Eswatini Launches Hunger Strike, North Carolina Lawmakers Approve New Congressional Map, NYT: Amazon Plans to Replace More Than Half a Million Jobs with Robots, Peru's Interim President José Jerí Declares 30-Day State of Emergency, National Trust for Historic Preservation Asks to Pause Construction of White House Ballroom
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Oct 22, 2025
In recent weeks, the United States has conducted several deadly airstrikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean Sea, which the Trump administration has claimed, without providing evidence, were being used to traffic drugs. A group of United Nations experts said U.S. strikes targeting boats in the Caribbean off the coast of Venezuela amount to "extrajudicial executions."
"There seems to be a much bigger political context behind this than really going after drug traffickers, which seems to be … not at all the main goal of the U.S. administration," says Guillaume Long, senior research fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research and former foreign minister of Ecuador. Long says "regime change in Venezuela" and anger over Colombian President Gustavo Petro's pro-Palestinian politics are also motivating factors in the U.S. campaign. Meanwhile, Manuel Rozental, a Colombian physician and activist, says the drug war is about economic control.
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Oct 22, 2025
Tensions are escalating between Colombia and the United States as President Trump conducts deadly airstrikes on supposed "drug boats" in the Caribbean. Colombian President Gustavo Petro accused the U.S. of committing murder for killing a Colombian fisherman in one attack in mid-September and just recalled the country's ambassador, Daniel García-Peña.
"Even if they were in fact carrying drugs, the procedure is to capture them, to seize them, to arrest them and to find information about who was behind them, and not blowing them up," García-Peña tells Democracy Now! from Bogotá.
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Oct 22, 2025
Virginia Roberts Giuffre's posthumous memoir has just been released, detailing how she was groomed by Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, whom she met at Donald Trump's Mar-A-Lago resort. In Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice, she writes that she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew three times, beginning when she was 17, and was beaten and raped by a "well-known prime minister." Virginia Giuffre died by suicide earlier this year in Australia at age 41.
Democracy Now! speaks with Amy Wallace, Giuffre's ghostwriter, who says Giuffre experienced the "depths of hell" with Maxwell and Epstein. "It's not just a catalog of horrors. It's a woman who is terribly abused as a child, escapes from that terrible abuse — valiantly — forms a family, which is in itself a triumph, and then becomes an advocate," says Wallace.
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Oct 22, 2025
Israel Continues Deadly Attacks in Gaza Despite U.S.-Brokered Ceasefire, Israeli Forces Detain 45 People in the West Bank as UN Warns About Settler Violence, Mahmoud Khalil Files Appeals to Prevent ICE from Detaining Him Again, Federal Government Shutdown Has Entered Its 22nd Day, Jan. 6 Rioter Pardoned by Trump Arrested for Allegedly Threatening to Kill Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, Trump Demands DOJ to Pay Him $230 Million in Compensation for Federal Probes Against Him, Arizona Attorney General Sues Speaker Johnson for Refusing to Seat Rep.-Elect Adelita Grijalva, Trump's Special Counsel Nominee Withdraws Following Backlash over Racist Texts, Federal Agents Shoot U.S. Marshal and Undocumented Immigrant in Los Angeles, WaPo: Secretary of State Rubio Offered MS-13 Informants to Secure El Salvador Prison Deal, Guardian: CIA Played Central Role in Sharing Intel Used for U.S. Strikes in the Caribbean, Trump-Putin Summit in Budapest Is Canceled, Former French President Sarkozy Begins 5-Year Prison Sentence, Court Overturns Conviction of Colombia's Former President Álvaro Uribe, Flotilla Led by Indigenous Activists Heading to Brazil for COP30
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Oct 21, 2025
Armed Only with a Camera, the documentary chronicling the life of the late filmmaker Brent Renaud, premieres Tuesday on HBO. Renaud was the first Western journalist killed during the war in Ukraine. He was shot by Russian soldiers during the 2022 invasion while filming Ukrainian refugees with another photojournalist, Juan Arredondo, who was wounded in the attack. Armed Only with a Camera, directed by Renaud's brother Craig, also a filmmaker, traces Brent Renaud's long career covering conflict and post-conflict regions around the world. We speak to Craig Renaud and Juan Arredondo about Brent's work and memory. "He was a very compassionate person," says Renaud, emphasizing that Brent's focus on conflict zones "was never about just trying to get to the frontlines … He wanted to humanize the people that were there."
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Oct 21, 2025
We look at the influence of Trump's top budget adviser and the architect of Project 2025, Russell Vought, over the Trump administration's policies and Trump himself. Vought is "the driving force behind the [government] shutdown" and "basically a second commander-in-chief, a shadow president," says ProPublica reporter Andy Kroll, who spent months researching Vought for an extensive profile on the Office of Management and Budget director. During this second Trump administration, Vought's deeply conservative ideology has been unchallenged by a compliant Congress, Kroll explains, placing unprecedented power into the hands of the executive branch.
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Oct 21, 2025
"We are under attack by our own federal government," says Democratic Congressmember for Illinois Delia Ramirez about Trump's immigration crackdown in Chicago. "What we're seeing is an agency that has gone rogue, that has been emboldened and that thinks that they're above the law." She urges Americans to report and record ICE activity to strengthen future legal battles, "because what ICE is stating and what we're seeing in the community in the streets is inconsistent." Congressmember Ramirez also comments on the ongoing federal government shutdown, which she calls "a clear embodiment of Donald Trump's leadership: starve and let people die while the billionaires and his cronies enrich themselves," the Republican leadership's continued refusal to swear in new Democratic Congressmember-elect Adelita Grijalva, and the Trump-backed Gaza ceasefire.
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Oct 21, 2025
Top U.S. Officials Travel to Israel for Talks as Netanyahu Threatens to Collapse Gaza Ceasefire, Palestinian Woman Beaten Unconscious as Israeli Settlers Attack West Bank Olive Farmers, Federal Court Gives Trump Green Light to Deploy Troops to Portland, "Blatantly Immoral": DHS Secretary Kristi Noem Draws Fire for $170M Purchase of Luxury Private Jets, Colombia Recalls Ambassador to U.S. over Strikes in Caribbean as Trump Issues Threats, Sanae Takaichi, Opponent of Gender Equality, Becomes Japan's First Female Prime Minister, Trump Admin Fires Two Prosecutors Who Opposed Criminal Case Against Letitia James, DOJ Whistleblower Says He Received Illegal Orders from Trump Appointee Emil Bove, Politico: Trump Nominee Texts Group of Republicans He Has a "Nazi Streak", Seven Universities Decline to Sign Trump Administration's "Compact", White House Begins Demolishing Part of East Wing to Make Way for Trump's Ballroom
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Oct 20, 2025
Immigrant rights and labor icon Dolores Huerta, now 95 years old, is continuing her lifelong activism as immigration raids intensify across the country. She addressed the No Kings rally in Watsonville, California, this weekend to speak out against the Trump administration's mass deportation agenda. "This is ethnic cleansing," Huerta tells Democracy Now! "We have never seen such horrific, horrific attacks on our people."
Huerta is president and founder of the Dolores Huerta Foundation; she co-founded the United Farm Workers of America with Cesar Chavez in the 1960s. Amid intensifying immigration raids, she describes how she has joined with People for the American Way and the Dolores Huerta Foundation to release a short dramatized film that shows neighbors joining together in nonviolent civil disobedience to protect an immigrant elder from being disappeared by ICE.
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Oct 20, 2025
An estimated 7 million people took part in No Kings rallies Saturday to protest President Trump's authoritarian policies. Organizers say protests were held at about 2,600 sites across all 50 states in what was one of the largest days of protest in U.S. history, surpassing the first No Kings day of action in June. One of the biggest mobilizations was in Washington, D.C., where Trump has fired thousands of federal workers and sent in National Guard troops to patrol the streets. Democracy Now! covered the action and spoke to people about what brought them out to protest. "We need to make it clear that we can't have an authoritarian government, a government that's turned into nothing but a weapon," says Paul Osadebe, who says he was fired from his job as a HUD civil rights lawyer for challenging Trump's refusal to enforce the Fair Housing Act.
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Oct 20, 2025
"Even after having released almost 2,000 people last week, the Israeli military is still holding about 9,000 Palestinians, in what it calls security prisoners or detainees," says Sari Bashi, an Israeli American human rights lawyer and former program director at Human Rights Watch. "Only about a thousand of them have actually been convicted of any crime. The vast majority of people being held are being held without trial."
Bashi also says the genocide has "been hell" for her Palestinian husband, whose family is based in Gaza. Their relationship is chronicled in Bashi's forthcoming memoir, Upside-Down Love.
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Oct 20, 2025
We speak with Al Jazeera reporter Ibrahim al-Khalili in Gaza, where the shaky ceasefire between Israel and Hamas appears to be holding despite sporadic violence. Gaza officials say Israeli forces have repeatedly violated the agreement, including when they opened fire on a civilian bus, killing 11 members of a Palestinian family attempting to return home in Gaza City. Israel killed dozens more over the weekend when it unleashed a wave of airstrikes after it said militants attacked some of its soldiers, although there are reports the soldiers died when their bulldozer ran over unexploded ordnance. Israel also continues to restrict humanitarian aid into Gaza, despite its commitments in the ceasefire agreement.
"Israel is breaching the ceasefire," says al-Khalili. "The war has not really ended for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who are still struggling to survive the next day with the lack of basic necessities."
Al-Khalili, who has reported from Gaza since the outbreak of the war in October 2023, lost several family members in a deadly Israeli attack on their apartment building. His brother Mohammed was also taken captive by Israeli forces for 19 months and only released last week as part of the prisoner exchange.
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Oct 20, 2025
No Kings: An Estimated 7 Million People Participate in Nationwide Anti-Trump Rallies, Israel Kills Dozens in Gaza and Temporarily Halts Aid Deliveries, President Trump Threatens to Send National Guard Troops to San Francisco, Federal Government Shutdown Enters 20th Day, Trump Threatens to Cut Off Foreign Aid to Colombia and Launch Attacks Inside Venezuela, Rodrigo Paz Wins Bolivian Presidential Election, Trump Urges Ukrainian President Zelensky to Accept Putin's Terms to End the War, Prince Andrew Announces He's Giving Up Royal Titles Ahead of the Publication of Virginia Giuffre's Memoir, Vermont Republican Legislator Resigns over Racist and Antisemitic Group Chat, Trump Commutes Sentence of Former Republican Congressman George Santos, Kaiser Permanente Healthcare Workers End Five-Day Strike
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Oct 17, 2025
Even as President Trump has cracked down on dissent and sent troops into multiple cities, organizers of Saturday's anti-authoritarian "No Kings" protests expect millions to join at least 2,500 rallies across all 50 states and several U.S. territories. The turnout could surpass the 5 million protesters who turned out for "No Kings Day" events in June.
"We are engaging in the most American activity in the world, which is coming together in peaceful protest of our government," says Leah Greenberg, co-founder and co-executive director of the progressive organization ?Indivisible. Trump's threats against the protests are a "classic exercise of the authoritarian playbook, to try to create fear, to try to threaten, to try to make people back off preemptively," she adds.
"There will be no fear, but the fear of what will happen to us if we don't mobilize," says Byron Sigcho Lopez, alderperson of the 25th Ward in Chicago, where mass protests are expected.
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Oct 17, 2025
There are growing questions over the legality of U.S. strikes on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. "These are sitting ducks, and we are simply engaged in cold-blooded murder of individuals who may or may not be drug smugglers," says David Cole, professor at the Georgetown University Law Center. Cole says that President Trump is "committing homicide" by killing people without trial. "These individuals who have now been sent to the bottom of the sea by this president, if they were tried, at most, would face a sentence of some period of years," says Cole. "There would be no death penalty authorized under the Constitution for these individuals, even assuming they're guilty."
This comes as Trump has authorized the CIA to carry out covert operations inside Venezuela aimed at regime change, raising fears of a military confrontation between the two countries.
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Oct 17, 2025
Just days after the U.S.-backed ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas went into effect, President Trump has issued new threats against Hamas, saying Thursday the United States would back a military intervention against the group if it fails to uphold the ceasefire agreement.
"There is the fear all the time that the war will be renewed," says Amira Hass, Haaretz correspondent for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, who joins us from Ramallah. Hass is the daughter of Holocaust survivors and is the only Israeli Jewish journalist to have spent 30 years living in and reporting from Gaza and the West Bank.
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Oct 17, 2025
Palestinians in Gaza Attempt to Identify Bodies Released by Israel, Israeli Defense Minister Calls on Military to Prepare a "Comprehensive Plan" to Defeat Hamas If Ceasefire Fails, Jewish Voice for Peace Protesters Occupy Senator Cory Booker's Office Building Lobby, Trump's Former National Security Adviser John Bolton Indicted by a Grand Jury, U.S. Launches Another Strike on a Suspected Drug Boat Off the Coast of Venezuela, U.S. Admiral Overseeing Strikes on Alleged Drug Boats in the Caribbean to Step Down, Ukrainian President Zelensky to Meet with Trump Today and Request Tomahawk Cruise Missiles, ProPublica: More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Detained by ICE Agents, Federal Judge Lifts Travel Restrictions for Mahmoud Khalil, Federal Government Shutdown Enters 17th Day, WSJ: Trump Admin to Overhaul IRS to Pursue Left-Leaning Groups and Major Democratic Donors, Organizers of "No Kings" Protests Expect Millions of People to Join at Least 2,500 Rallies Nationwide, New York City Mayoral Candidates Face Off in First Debate Ahead of Nov. 4 Election, Federal Judge Orders ICE Agents to Wear Body Cameras in Chicago
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Oct 16, 2025
The Department of Defense has introduced a new press policy requiring the Pentagon to authorize any reporting on itself. Top TV news outlets have rejected the pledge; only the far-right outlet One America News has agreed to sign on. Dozens of reporters with the Pentagon Press Association turned in their government-issued press badges and left the building Wednesday rather than agree to the rules. "The Trump administration has made the suppression of speech that it doesn't like a governing principle since it took office," says David Schulz, who advised the Pentagon Press Association on their response. He warns the "desire of the Pentagon officials to control what is said about them" is "alarming" and signals a major rupture in U.S. press freedoms.
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Oct 16, 2025
The Supreme Court appears ready to strike down Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, threatening the equal representation of Black voters, and potentially greenlighting Republican gerrymandering ahead of the 2026 midterm election. The case concerns Louisiana's six congressional districts, two of which are majority-Black, in approximate proportion to the Black population of the state. A previous map that gave Black voters only one district in which they were a majority was ruled to have violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act last year. Now a group of conservative activists have brought the battle to the Supreme Court, challenging Section 2 itself. "The stakes of this case are enormous. This is a case about whether districts that represent all Americans fairly will remain possible in this country," says ACLU lawyer Megan Keenan, who is part of the legal team defending Louisiana's current congressional map. "We have a wretched history of racial discrimination in voting in this country," and "for 40 uninterrupted years, we have applied this rigorous, data-driven test to figure out when discrimination exists and how to stop it. That's the test that's at stake in this case."
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Oct 16, 2025
We speak to Argentine journalist Pablo Calvi about the U.S. government's multibillion-dollar bailout for Argentina, which could grow from $20 billion to $40 billion as Argentina is rocked by an ongoing economic crisis. "I don't see that the bailout would benefit the Argentine people or the American people, for that matter," says Calvi. Instead, he believes the tech industry will reap the financial rewards from its ties to U.S. President Trump and his ally, far-right Argentine President Javier Milei, who attended the conservative CPAC conference in the U.S., where he gifted billionaire Elon Musk a chain saw.
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Oct 16, 2025
Palestinians who have been released from Israeli prisons as part of the hostage exchange with Hamas are describing physical and psychological torture, medical neglect, deprivation and more. Moureen Kaki, a Palestinian American aid worker with Glia International who has been interviewing the returnees, joins us from Khan Younis to share some of their stories. Most were captured and imprisoned without charge by the Israeli military in the past two years. "They were being illegally imprisoned as captives by the Israeli military and then the Israeli government," Kaki explains. "Some of them were held captive for as little as three months, and some of them for several years."
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Oct 16, 2025
We get an update from Gaza as the ceasefire there concludes its first week. Despite the agreed-upon cessation of hostilities, the Israeli military has continued its deadly attacks on Palestinians. Israel's pledge to let in the 600 aid trucks needed daily to fill the dire need among the starving population has likewise fallen short. "We do not have enough supplies entering Gaza," says Rachael Cummings, who is with Save the Children International in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza.
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Oct 16, 2025
Israel Delays Reopening Gaza Border Crossing, Continues Deadly Attacks Despite Ceasefire, Palestinian Political Prisoners' Group Says Israeli Guards Brutally Beat Marwan Barghouti, Spanish Unions and Students Hold Nationwide Strike Demanding Government Sever Ties with Israel, Greta Thunberg Describes Israeli Guards' Torture of Gaza Aid Flotilla Activists, Maduro Says "No to Regime Change" as Trump Says He's Ordered Covert CIA Operations in Venezuela, Reporters Turn In Badges and Vacate Pentagon En Masse Rather Than Sign Restrictive Press Policy, Supreme Court Appears Poised to Strike Down Key Provision of Voting Rights Act, Judge Puts Temporary Hold on Trump's Mass Firing of Federal Workers During Government Shutdown, U.S. to Deport Exonerated Prisoner Held 43 Years for Crime He Did Not Commit, Trump Admin Plans to Limit Refugee Admissions, Giving Preference to English Speakers, Democratic Women's Caucus Marches Through Capitol Demanding Rep.-Elect Grijalva Be Sworn In, WSJ: Ghislaine Maxwell Receiving Preferential Treatment at Minimum-Security Prison
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Oct 15, 2025
There are just weeks to go before the November 4 New York City mayoral election, a virtual rematch of the Democratic primary from earlier this year, when democratic socialist state lawmaker Zohran Mamdani defeated former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo for the party nomination. Cuomo is now running for mayor as an independent, but former aide Lindsey Boylan says New Yorkers must not forget why he was forced out of the governor's mansion four years ago. She was the first of about a dozen women to accuse Cuomo of sexual harassment, setting in motion events that would lead to his fall from power — even as he continues to claim innocence.
"He resigned because he did these things," says Boylan, who backs Mamdani in the mayoral race. "People powerful within his own party forced that resignation because they knew he did these things. So he's lying. … We have to repeat it, because people have to know what an abuser he is."
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Oct 15, 2025
As Israel and Hamas exchange living and dead captives as part of a U.S.-backed ceasefire agreement, questions are growing about how sustainable the truce is and whether the two sides will progress to the second and third stages of the plan.
"My family is very happy that the families of other hostages that have been returned, dead and alive, are reaching some degree of closure," says Middle East historian Joel Beinin, whose Israeli niece, Liat Beinin Atzili, was held captive in Gaza for 54 days after she was taken by Hamas militants on October 7, 2023, while her husband Aviv was killed. The family's story is the focus of a new documentary, Holding Liat.
"All of the rest of the 20-point plan is very dubious, and I have grave doubts about whether any of the rest of it will actually be implemented," says Beinin, who also discusses one-sided Western media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and how he came to "abandon Zionism" despite having family in Israel.
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Oct 15, 2025
We speak with Rutgers University professor Mark Bray, who fled from the U.S. to Spain with his family after receiving death threats over his scholarship. He is the author of the 2017 book Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, which explores the history and tactics of anti-fascist movements in Europe, the United States and beyond. Turning Point USA, the conservative campus group founded by Charlie Kirk, had called for Bray's firing and branded him "Dr. Antifa." This comes as the Trump administration has dramatically escalated its war on dissent following Kirk's assassination, using his death as pretext to launch an assault on activists, organizations and speech it disagrees with.
"What we're seeing today in the U.S. is increasingly fascist. MAGA, I believe — and I study fascism, I don't say this lightly — is a fascist movement," says Bray, referring to Trump's political movement.
President Trump signed an executive order designating antifa as a terrorist organization, but Bray stresses there is no such organization; anti-fascism is a loose political movement or ideology akin to feminism, but Trump is using the label to "demonize resistance" to his policies.
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Oct 15, 2025
Pressure Grows on Israel to Allow More Aid into Gaza, Amazon Fires Software Engineer Who Criticized Cloud Computing Project with Israel, Pro-Palestinian Protesters Clash with Authorities During Soccer Match Between Israel and Italy, ICE Agents Disperse Protesters with Tear Gas After High-Speed Chase in Chicago, State Department Revokes Visas of Foreign Nationals over Charlie Kirk Comments, "I Love Hitler": Racist Messages by Young Republican Leaders Exposed in New Leak, Speaker Johnson Continues to Delay Swearing-In of Rep.-Elect Adelita Grijalva, Senate Fails to Pass Funding Bill as Federal Government Shutdown Enters Its 15th Day, Trump Conditions $20 Billion Bailout to Argentina on Milei's Party Winning Elections, Reuters: China Buying Argentine Soybeans Amid U.S. Tariffs, U.S. Strikes Another Boat Off Coast of Venezuela, Killing 6 People, Five Major Broadcast Outlets Refuse to Sign Pentagon's New Press Policy, Elite Military Unit Seizes Power After Ouster of Madagascar President, Reuters: Assad Regime Moved Mass Graves to Cover Up Killings, Tens of Thousands of Kaiser Permanente Frontline Medical Staff Go on Strike, Transgender Activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy Dies at 78
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Oct 14, 2025
As Trump threatens to send more federal troops to Chicago, grassroots movements have mobilized to protect immigrants from ICE raids. Democracy Now!'s Juan González, who is based in Chicago, reports that there have been "meetings all around the city, at college campuses and in neighborhoods, to build this self-defense group."
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