Democracy Now! Audio

Amid new allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh we speak with "Me Too" movement founder Tarana Burke; journalist Marcy Wheeler on the state of Mueller’s Russia probe; Naomi Klein on Puerto Rico’s recovery one year after Hurricane Maria.

New questions arise about Brett Kavanaugh's views on Roe v. Wade and racial profiling; the Trump administration introduces plans to detain migrant children indefinitely; in Syria, 3 million people in rebel-held Idlib face an imminent assault.

Web bonus interview with the Indian author and activist Arundhati Roy.

Judge Brett Kavanaugh's role in torture and domestic spying remain unknown as documents are suppressed; Arundhati Roy responds to India's growing militarization and crackdown on dissent as the country decriminalizes gay sex.

We talk about Brett Kavanaugh's chaotic confirmation hearings with Heidi Sieck of VoteProChoice, Parkland shooting victim father Fred Guttenberg and Public Citizen's Robert Weissman; as Amazon's value reaches $1 trillion, what about its workers?

As Sen. Bernie Sanders introduces a bill to tax corporations for every dollar their low-wage workers receive in government assistance, we speak with James Bloodworth, who went undercover as an Amazon warehouse “picker” to expose working conditions.

Charlene Carruthers, national director of the Black Youth Project 100, joins us to discuss her timely new book, “Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements.”

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings begin amid major outcry over his record on civil rights, abortion, labor, voting and environmental justice; Canada's Federal Court of Appeals halts expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline.

A coalition of environmental and civil liberties groups are launching a new campaign called “Protect the Protest,” to fight back against lawsuits aimed at limiting free speech.

Filmmaker, musician and activist Boots Riley on his new film "Sorry to Bother You," capitalism, the labor movement, The Coup and more.

Today, we premiere a Democracy Now! documentary from Western Sahara, which has been under Moroccan occupation since 1976. "Four Days in Western Sahara—A Rare Look Inside Africa's Last Colony."

The GOP opponent of Florida's black progressive gubernatorial candidate, Andrew Gillum, warns voters not to "monkey it up," and activists who worked with Gillum respond; Mississippi prisoners are dying at record rates; update on the nationwide prison stri

The top student loan watchdog resigns over the Trump admin favoring predatory lenders; opposition grows to Betsy DeVos's plan to spend federal funds on arming teachers; a formerly incarcerated Texas woman faces more than five years in prison for voting.

We continue our conversation with Black Panther Bobby Seale and SDS activists and organizers Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers.

50 years ago this week, protests at the 1968 DNC in Chicago culminated in a police riot. We speak with Black Panther Bobby Seale, arrested for inciting a riot and gagged during the Chicago 8 trial, and SDS activists Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers.