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Extended conversation with three leading international campaigners fighting to stop violence against women and girls.

Reuters journalists are jailed after exposing a massacre of Rohingya; Rep. Pramila Jayapal responds to Trump's budget, abuse revelations in the White House and stalled progress on DACA; it's the 20th anniversary of V-Day.

Journalist Anne Barnard of the NY Times' Beirut bureau and Syrian-Canadian writer Yazan al-Saadi on the worsening war in Syria; Austin's City Council will vote on paid sick leave, a policy under attack by a Koch-backed lobbying group.

Ravi Ragbir wins a stay of deportation after filing a free speech lawsuit; judges across the U.S. block deportations; leading Pakistani human rights lawyer and activist Asma Jahangir dies at 66.

Congress votes to end a brief government shutdown without any protection for DREAMers; Unified Koreans march together at Olympics while Trump threatens war with N. Korea; Col. Lawrence Wilkerson on his fear the U.S. is heading to war with Iran.

As the U.S. intensifies its air war in Afghanistan, we speak to Steve Coll, author of “Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan.” Plus, we remember Black Lives Matter activist Muhiyidin d’Baha.

NY Taxi Workers Alliance's Bhairavi Desai on how Uber is pushing NYC taxi drivers to despair & suicide; Sherrilyn Ifill of the NAACP LDF on Baltimore's massive police scandal; and Bresha Meadows is freed after being jailed for killing her abusive father

New Yorker journalist Sarah Stillman on when deportation is a death sentence; longtime movement historian Dr. Harry Edwards on the MLK Dodge Ram advertisement; and professor Jeanne Theoharis on the uses and misuses of civil rights history.

Thousands of DHS and TSA deployed in 70+ countries; an airport facial scanning program is at 9 U.S. airports; ICE stays the deportation of Mexican journalist Emilio Gutiérrez Soto; Committee to Protect Journalists reports on journalists killed and jailed.

As cities give thousands of homeless people one-way tickets to leave town, a Guardian investigation reveals many remain homeless and soon return; Jaime Lowe on her memoir about bipolar disorder, "Mental: Lithium, Love, and Losing My Mind."

We continue our interview with journalist and author Jaime Lowe about her remarkable memoir, “Mental: Lithium, Love, and Losing My Mind.”

Erica Garner, a nationally recognized anti-police brutality activist, is in a coma after suffering a heart attack. Watch some of her interviews on Democracy Now!

Former federal Judge Shira Scheindlin on how President Trump's record number of judicial appointments "will radically change American society"; New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito reflects on her progressive achievements as her term ends.

As the U.S. congratulates incumbent Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández on what it says is his re-election, we examine the U.S. role in the disputed outcome with investigative journalist Allan Nairn. Then, a look back at stories that shaped 2017.

In a Democracy Now! special, we spend the hour with the professor and political dissident Noam Chomsky, featuring a public conversation we had in April, about President Trump, climate change, nuclear weapons, North Korea, Iran, Syria and more.