Cover to Cover – July 1, 2025
A celebration of the art of poetry and prose with Jack Foley, Nina Serrano, and Jovelyn Richards.
Featured Episode
Join Renée Camila for a look at a beloved summer drink: the iced tea. She explores the different herbs and preparations that make a delicious iced tea. Hosted and produced by Emiliano Lemus and Renée Camila. Find archived episodes of The Herbal Highway here.
Massive amounts of money are needed to address the multiple social and ecological crises besetting societies around the globe. According to Thomas Marois, the lion’s share of that financing will need to come from public banks. But many public banking institutions, he argues, must be democratized and definancialized. Gregory Albo and Stephen Maher, eds. Socialist … Continued
This week on the show, we take a break from the news cycle for a special episode that looks at the history of Zionism and why it is a racist and colonial ideology. Dissident Israeli historian Illan Pappé speaks with hosts Nora Barrows-Friedman and Ali Abunimah about Zionism’s roots in European colonial ambitions. Longtime Palestine … Continued
I. A Perspective on Zohran Mamdani’s Campaign Guest: India Walton is former Democratic candidate for mayor in Buffalo who won the Democratic primary 2021 but the party turned against her and helped re-elect the incumbent mayor through a write in campaign. She is now the senior strategist for the national activist group Roots Action in Buffalo. … Continued
Democracy Now 9am (rebroadcast) – July 1, 2025
Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. This hour rebroadcasts the 6am hour. For daily episode descriptions, see Democracy Now! (6am).
Pink and Purple Washing as Tools of Zionism w/ Yaffa AS- Resistance in Residence Artists are Sarah and Ian Hoffman
Pinkwashing and purplewashing are tools of Israeli propaganda that build a narrative around the Jewish state as a haven for women and queer people. The Zionist arguments for these themes include statements like: Hamas would kill queer people or trans people, and that on the far opposite side Israel’s legal system protects those groups. It’s … Continued
Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” Passes the Senate
00:08 — David Dayen, Executive Editor of the American Prospect. 00:33 — John Nichols is National Affairs Correspondent for the Nation.
Democracy Now 6am – July 1, 2025
Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.
Corey Brettschneider / Mike Lofgren / Assal Rad
The Supreme Court Has Sold Out the Constitution and the Rule of Law to Reward a Lawless Trump, and Now The Republican Legislative Branch is Selling Out Their Constituents to Reward the Super-Rich
From Authoritarianism to Totalitarianism, as Trump Erases the Distinction Between Civil Society and the State
Signs That Iran Was Not “Obliterated” and Could Quickly Resume Their Nuclear Program