Democracy Now! Audio

Headlines for October 19, 2016; "Ramshackle" Battle to Retake Mosul from ISIS Led by U.S. Despite Obama Vow Against Boots on Ground; The Real Vote Rigging: Republicans Make It Harder for Millions to Vote in 2016 Election; "The Police Killings No One Is Talking About": Native Americans Most Likely to be Killed by Cops

Headlines for October 18, 2016; Press Freedom Victory: Riot Charges Dropped Against Amy Goodman Over Dakota Pipeline Coverage; "We're Going to Call That a Win": Water Protectors Promise More Protests as Felony Charges Dropped; Why Is North Dakota Strip-Searching Dakota Access Pipeline Protesters Charged with Misdemeanors?; Standing Rock Sioux Pediatrician: Threat from Fracking Chemicals is "Environmental Genocide"; Midwives at Dakota Access Resistance Camps: We Can Decolonize, Respect Women & Mother Earth; Charges Dropped Against Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Member; Surveillance of DAPL Resistance Continues

Headlines for October 17, 2016; Amy Goodman Broadcasts from North Dakota Across from Court Where She Faces Riot Charge Today; Report from Standing Rock: 100+ Militarized Police Deployed Against Native American Water Protectors; Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Chair: Obama's Legacy Rests on Whether He Stops Dakota Access Pipeline; Dakota Excess Pipeline? Standing Rock Protectors Strip-Searched, Jailed for Days on Minor Charges

Headlines for October 14, 2016; Central Park Five's Yusef Salaam: Donald Trump Needs to Be Fired from Running for President; ACLU & HRW Call to Decriminalize Drug Use & Possession After Documenting Arrests Every 25 Seconds; Is Trump's Rise a Result of America Declaring War on Institutions That Make Democracy Possible?

Headlines for October 13, 2016; The White Helmets: As Syria Death Toll Mounts, Meet the Rescue Workers Saving Thousands of Lives; Surviving Torture in a CIA Secret Prison: Khaled al-Sharif of Libya Recounts Horrors; Journalist James Risen: CIA Torture Methods Caused Long-Term Psychological Harm to Former Prisoners

Headlines for October 12, 2016; Leaked Hillary Clinton Emails: Could Bernie Sanders Have Won Primary If Leak Occurred Earlier?; Climate Direct Action: Activists Halt Flow of Tar Sands Oil by Shutting Off Valves of Five Pipelines; Will Racist, Anti-Immigrant Trump Supporter Sheriff Joe Arpaio Be Jailed for Contempt of Court?; Women's Boat to Gaza: 13 Activists Detained by Israel, Weeks After U.S. OKs $38B in Military Aid

Former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal calls from prison to discuss mass incarceration under Obama, being denied hepatitis C treatment, and the 50th anniversary of the Black Panther Party and its Ten-Point Platform. "It will shock you to see what hasn’t changed," he says.

Headlines for October 07, 2016; Edwidge Danticat Predicts "Ongoing Disaster" in Impoverished Haiti After Hurricane Matthew; As Hurricane Matthew Lashes U.S., Are TV Networks the Last Bastion of Climate Denial?; Reporter Cracks Serial Killer Cold Case After Receiving a Tip Based on His Democracy Now! Interview; Colombian President Wins Nobel Prize for Peace Accord, Days After Deal Loses National Referendum

Headlines for October 06, 2016; Amid Media Blackout over Climate Change Links to Hurricane Matthew, Top Scientist Speaks Out; Scientist Michael Mann: Trump & Pence are a Climate Change Denial Dream Team; "America Divided": New TV Series Explores Inequality from Water to Housing to Mass Incarceration

Headlines for October 05, 2016; Expanding the Debate: Green Ajamu Baraka "Debates" Pence & Kaine in Democracy Now! Special - Part 1; Allan Nairn: Regardless of Who Wins in November, U.S. Wars & Aggression Will Continue; Katherine Franke on How Religion Impacts Views of VP Nominees Mike Pence & Tim Kaine; Expanding the Debate: Ajamu Baraka Spars with Pence & Kaine in Democracy Now! Special - Part 2; Andrew Bacevich: Election Pits Hawkish Clinton vs. Ill-Prepared, "Strategically Illiterate" Trump

Headlines for October 04, 2016; Does Donald Trump Pay Taxes? Records Given to NYT Show How He May Have Avoided Taxes for 18 Years; A Trump Presidency Could End Press Freedom, Say Reporters Threatened for Reporting on His Taxes

Headlines for October 03, 2016; Colombians Reject Peace Deal in Stunning Referendum, Advocates Cite Climate of "Intimidation & Fear"; From Slavery to Mass Incarceration, Ava DuVernay's Film "13th" Examines Racist U.S. Justice System; Advocates: The U.S. Still Profits from Slavery Because the 13th Amendment Perpetuates Prison Labor; How ALEC & the Kochs Publicly Back Criminal Justice Reform & Privately Expand Mass Incarceration; What are the Ties Between Dakota Access Pipeline Company & North Dakota's Attorney General?

Headlines for September 30, 2016; As Earth Reaches Frightening CO2 Milestone, Bill McKibben Calls for War on Climate Change; Bill McKibben: Dakota Access Pipeline Resistance Powerful Enough to Overwhelm Fossil Fuel Industry; Medea Benjamin: If Americans Can Sue Saudis over 9/11, Drone Victims Should Be Able to Sue U.S.; Report: Donald Trump Violated US Embargo on Cuba in 1990s Even as He Called Castro a Brutal Dictator

Headlines for September 29, 2016; Protests Continue in San Diego After Police Kill Mentally Ill, Unarmed Ugandan Refugee Alfred Olango; California Cop Who Shot Unarmed Black Man Was Demoted in 2015 for Sexually Harassing Female Officer; Study: People with Mental Illness are 16 Times More Likely to Be Killed During a Police Encounter; Worse Than a Slaughterhouse: 250,000 Trapped in East Aleppo Amid Devastating Bombing Campaign

Part 2 of our interview with famed sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild. She spent much of the last five years with some of Donald Trump’s biggest supporters, researching her new book, "Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right." It has just been nominated for a National Book Award.