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Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.
Local Lawmakers Fight Back Against AG Sessions’s Threats to Cut Funding to Sanctuary Cities; Rebecca Solnit on Climate Change, Resistance, Misogyny and “The Mother of All Questions”; ICE Retaliates Against Immigrants in Austin After Sheriff Limits Cooperation with Federal Agents; As ICE Retaliates Against Austin, Learn How New Haven Fought Back Against a 2007 ICE … Continued
Several progressive groups are backing a single-payer system, including the Working Families Party, the Progressive Campaign Change Committee, CREDO, Social Security Works and National Nurses United. For more, we speak with Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program. Then we speak with Chris Woods, founder of Airwars, a nonprofit group that monitors … Continued
House Republicans have pulled a bill to repeal major parts of the Affordable Care Act after failing to secure enough votes despite heavy lobbying from President Trump. The bill was opposed by the entire Democratic party as well as some moderate Republicans and many members of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus. House Republicans have pulled … Continued
We look at Robert Mercer, the man who is said to have out-Koched the Koch brothers in the 2016 election. The secretive billionaire hedge-fund tycoon, along with his daughter Rebekah, is credited by many with playing an instrumental role in Donald Trump’s election. To talk more about the Mercers, we speak with Jane Mayer, staff … Continued
Yesterday Neil Gorsuch faced particularly intense scrutiny over his decision to rule against a truck driver whose employer fired him for deserting a trailer so he wouldn’t freeze to death. For more on this case and the rest of Gorsuch’s record, we speak with Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil … Continued
Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch is heading back to Capitol Hill today for a second day of confirmation hearings. For analysis we speak with Ian Millhiser, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress Action Fund and editor of ThinkProgress Justice. His recent piece is headlined “The Judge Gorsuch who spoke in the Senate today is … Continued
We speak with Zephyr Teachout, a Fordham law professor and author of the recent Washington Post article, “Neil Gorsuch sides with big business, big donors and big bosses.” She recently ran for a congressional seat in upstate New York.
Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.
On Wednesday, a federal judge in Hawaii issued a nationwide halt to the executive order. This morning, a federal judge in Maryland also blocked part of the travel ban. For more, we speak with Lee Gelernt, an ACLU attorney who presented the first challenge to the executive order on immigration. His argument resulted in a … Continued
David Cay Johnston is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, who obtained part of Trump’s 2005 tax returns. They show that Trump earned $153 million, and paid out $36.6 million in federal income taxes, much of it in the form of what’s known as the alternative minimum tax, which he now wants to eliminate.
