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Headlines for July 27, 2026; “Frontlines of a Burning World”: Climate Change-Fueled “Megafires” Sweep Europe & North America; “Iraq 2.0”?: Rep. Jim McGovern on Iran War, New Red Scare, Israeli War Crimes & Dem Party Divide; Israeli Army & Settlers Are Working Together to “Ethnically Cleanse” West Bank: Mariam Barghouti

Headlines for July 10, 2026; “Now or Never”: DSA & Justice Democrats on Changing the Democratic Party, Mamdani, Gaza & More; “Exposing Instagram’s Darkest Secret”: BBC’s Divya Arya on Ads for Child Sex Abuse Material in India; FOIA Under Attack: Landmark Transparency Law Turns 60; Fed Gov’t Blocking More Documents Than Ever

Headlines for July 07, 2026; Report from Tehran: Millions Attend Ali Khamenei’s Funeral Amid Widespread Sense of Victory in War; Calls Grow for Israel to Release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya; U.S. Doctor Says “Nobody Is Safe” in Gaza; Hamas Renouncing Rule Over Gaza Signals Commitment to Ceasefire Despite Israeli Attacks: Amjad Iraqi

Headlines for July 06, 2026; Trump’s Corruption, Birthright Citizenship & Olympian Charged w/ Touching Reflecting Pool: Norm Eisen; Record Heat Waves Are Preview of Our Future on a Warming Planet: Climate Writer David Wallace-Wells; Meet Rafael Rubio, NY City Council Employee Released from Delaney Hall After 5 Months in ICE Jail

“What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?”: James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass’s Historic Speech; “Empire of AI”: Karen Hao on How AI Is Threatening Democracy & Creating a New Colonial World; Journalist Karen Hao on Sam Altman, OpenAI & the “Quasi-Religious” Push for Artificial Intelligence

Headlines for July 02, 2026; Profiting from the Presidency: Trump and Family Rake In Billions from Crypto, Real Estate & More; “Rule of Law vs. Rule of Billionaires”: Supreme Court Says Trump Can Fire Regulators, Except at Fed; “The American Revolution Was Hardly an Anti-Colonial Movement”: UCLA Historian Robin D. G. Kelley

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We continue our discussion with actor, writer and producer Elliot Page, an Oscar nominee and author of the memoir Pageboy, about his trans identity, transgender rights and his work on the groundbreaking new documentary directed by Drew Denny, Second Nature, about gender and sexuality in nonhuman animal species.

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Part 2 of our conversation with the Nigerian British photographer and activist Misan Harriman, an outspoken advocate of Palestinian rights. His photographs of the Black Lives Matter movement went viral, and he became the first Black photographer to shoot the cover of British Vogue. There’s a new documentary about Harriman called Shoot the People.

Democracy Now! Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Amy Goodman speaks with Irish filmmaker Seán Murray in Belfast, where tens of thousands of people attended an anti-racism rally recently to protest a wave of far-right anti-immigrant violence. The riots broke out after an asylum seeker from Sudan was charged with attempted murder. Murray discusses the rise of the Irish far right, the historical context of British colonial racism and the impact on Irish society. Murray’s latest documentary is Journacide: The War on Truth, documenting Israeli killings of journalists in Lebanon.

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Part 2 of our conversation with Kat Abughazaleh & Michael Rabbitt. They were indicted for protesting last year outside the Broadview ICE jail during Trump’s so-called “Operation Midway Blitz” crackdown. During a recent court hearing, the U.S. Attorney’s Office admitted federal prosecutors committed misconduct during the grand jury proceedings and, in a stunning move, the U.S. attorney’s office dismissed the charges against the four who had been indicted.

Democracy Now! Tuesday, June 2, 2026

Part 2 of conversation with Steven Thrasher, author of the new book The Overseer Class: A Manifesto. In the book he explores how members of historically marginalized groups rise to positions of power within institutions in lieu of structural change.

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