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Democracy Now! Tuesday, July 28, 2026

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 24, 2026; “America First or Israel First?” Ex-Israeli Negotiator Daniel Levy on Saudi Nuclear Deal, Iran & More; “Cockroach Democracy”: Arundhati Roy on India’s Youth-Led Protest Movement & Modi’s Collapsing Support; Report from San Juan: New Bill Targets Citizenship Rights as Puerto Rico Marks 10 Years of PROMESA; “Farmers of the Sea”: PBS Film Profiles Puerto Rican Fishermen on the “Frontlines of Climate Change”

Headlines for July 23, 2026; Meet Milwaukee Muslim Leader Salah Sarsour. ICE Detained Him for 80 Days; “Enough Is Enough”: Mohsen Mahdawi Says New Deportation Threat Seeks to Silence Palestine Activism; As Mamdani Calls on Trump to Arrest Netanyahu, Genocide Scholar Decries Israel’s Ongoing Impunity

Headlines for July 22, 2026; “Empire of Abuse”: MAGA Influencers Andrew & Tristan Tate Arrested on Rape & Sex Trafficking Charges; “Unlimited Money for Bombs”: Democrats Slam Hegseth for Seeking $67B for Iran War; Trump Says Images of Bombed Iran School Could Be “AI” But Study Confirms U.S. Killed 140+ in Strike

Headlines for July 21, 2026; As the U.S. Commits War Crimes in Iran, Trump Admin Vows to Dismantle Int’l Criminal Court: Reed Brody; What Spain’s Victory Means: Jules Boykoff on the World Cup, FIFA, Trump, “Collectivity” & More; “A Company That Trades Privacy for Profit”: ACLU on Flock’s Growing Nationwide Surveillance Network

Headlines for July 20, 2026; U.S. Escalates War on Iran, Targeting Civilian Infrastructure as 3 U.S. Soldiers Are Killed; “Justice for Lorenzo”: Houston Community Demands Accountability After ICE Killing of Mexican Father; Texas Rep. Al Green Accuses Trump Admin of Attempting to Cover Up ICE Killings; Nearly 1,000 Wildfires in Canada Continue to Burn as Trump & Carney Double Down on Fossil Fuels

Headlines for July 17, 2026; Denise Oliver-Vélez, Pioneering Young Lord & Black Panther, Dies at 78; Trump’s Election Integrity Speech Lays Groundwork for Midterm Interference: Ari Berman; Report from Houston: Family of ICE Shooting Victim Lorenzo Salgado Araujo Holds Public Viewing; “Disrupt, Identify, Defund, Debank, Arrest & Prosecute”: Trump Admin Threatens Leftist Groups; Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” Faces Boycott Calls over Filming in Occupied Western Sahara

Helado Tropical is the new collaborative album by Roberto Carlos Lange, better known by his stage name Helado Negro, and Fabi Reyna, who fronts the band Reyna Tropical.

Born in Lebanon to a family of musicians, Huda Asfour grew up in Tunis before moving to Gaza at 14, where she joined the National Conservatory of Music, and then lived in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, where she studied under Khaled Jubran at the Edward Said Music Conservatory. She now divides her time between New York and Egypt. Her latest project is “Naqus.”

Headlines for July 16, 2026; Todd Blanche Is “Not Fit” to Be AG, from Epstein Files to Trump’s $1.8B Slush Fund: Rep. Jayapal; We Are Sending a Message to Netanyahu: Rep. Jayapal on 100+ Dems Voting to Cut Israeli Military Aid; Victor Salgado Araujo Saw ICE Agent Kill His Brother in Texas. He Is Now Detained, Faces Deportation; A “Forever War” in Iran? Ali Vaez on Escalating War, U.S. “Diplomatic Malpractice”; Earthjustice Sues to Block Trump’s Move to Gut Endangered Species Act

Headlines for July 15, 2026; “Fighting Back”: Mahmoud Khalil Sues Trump Admin, Pro-Israel Groups for Conspiracy to Suppress Speech; Israeli Settlers Attack Convoy of Journalists & Father of Palestinian American Killed 1 Year Ago; “Block the Merger”: California AG Rob Bonta on 12 States Suing to Stop Paramount-Warner Mega Deal

Headlines for July 14, 2026; “They Were Hunting for Latinos”: LULAC CEO on ICE Killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston; “Our Community Is Hurting”: ICE Kills 25-Year-Old Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine; “Vote Her Out”: After Maine ICE Shooting, Sen. Collins Under Fire for Deciding Vote on ICE Funding; “Completely Unprecedented”: Ari Berman on Trump’s Attack on Elections Ahead of Midterms

Headlines for July 13, 2026; “Iran Is Not Going to Capitulate”: Jeremy Scahill on Renewed War, Strait of Hormuz & More; Lindsey Graham “Never Met a War of Aggression He Didn’t Passionately Back”: Jeremy Scahill; “Disgraceful”: Rashid Khalidi Slams Israeli Attacks on Journalists, Detention of Rep. Ro Khanna; U.S. Plans “Illegal Embassy” in Jerusalem on Land Stolen from Palestinian Families: Rashid Khalidi

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 09, 2026; “A Disastrous Development”: Trita Parsi on Breakdown of U.S.-Iran Ceasefire; “Demanding the Truth”: Family Wants Answers After ICE Kills Houston Dad Lorenzo Salgado Araujo; Homicide by Asphyxiation: What Happened to Geraldo Lunas Campos, Who Died in a Texas ICE Jail?; Albania’s Flamingo Revolution: Protests Against Kushner-Trump Luxury Resort Could Bring Down Gov’t

Headlines for July 08, 2026; As Calls Mount for Graham Platner to Drop Out of Senate Race, What Happens Next in Maine?; NATO Meets in Turkey Amid Crackdown on Civil Society; Trump Praises Erdoğan & Considers F-35 Sales; “Inside the Secret Network Fueling Sudan’s War”: Filmmaker Julia Steers on UAE Backing RSF Atrocities

We continue our conversation with documentary filmmaker Julia Steers about her reporting on the conflict in Sudan.

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

Headlines for July 01, 2026; “America Is a Multiracial Democracy”: Supreme Court Denies Trump’s Bid to End Birthright Citizenship; “We Continue to Fight”: Chase Strangio on the Supreme Court’s Ban on Trans Girls & Women in Sports; Supreme Court Approves Mail-In Voting, But Trump Keeps Pushing Extremist SAVE Act Ahead of Midterms; Reparations Efforts “Sweeping the Country” Despite DOJ Attack on Evanston, IL Groundbreaking Program

Headlines for June 30, 2026; “Merciless Indian Savages”: Cherokee Podcaster on Racist Slur in the Declaration of Independence; Meet Aber Kawas, DSA-Backed Palestinian American Who Won New York State Senate Primary; “Keep Supporting the Venezuelan People”: Thousands Missing as Earthquake Rescue Efforts Continue

Headlines for June 29, 2026; “America, U.S.A.”: Eddie Glaude on the 250th Anniv., Race & “The Madness at the Heart of the Country”; “Meet a Stranger”: StoryCorps Facilitates Conversations Across the U.S. for 250th Anniversary

Headlines for June 26, 2026; In “Devastating” Immigration Ruling, Supreme Court Allows Trump Admin to “Turn Back” Asylum Seekers; Venezuela Earthquakes: U.S. Sanctions Impede Rescue Efforts as Death Toll Soars; Supreme Court Strips Protections for Haitian & Syrian Immigrants in “Racially Inflected” Decision; Bayer/Monsanto Wins Roundup Case as Supreme Court Blocks Suit over Link Between Herbicide & Cancer

Headlines for June 25, 2026; “Utter Devastation”: Thousands Feared Dead in Venezuela After Double Earthquakes; Prairieland Nine: Texas ICE Protesters Get Up to 100 Years in Prison as Trump Targets Anti-Fascists; “How to Think About AI”: Cory Doctorow on Big Tech, Understanding AI, Labor Automation & More

Headlines for June 24, 2026; “Babies, Not Bombs”: DSA’s Darializa Avila Chevalier Beats 5-Term Rep. Espaillat. 1st Post-Win Intvw.; Seismic Shift: DSA and Mamdani-Backed Pro-Palestine Democrats Sweep New York Primaries; “Second Nature”: Elliot Page on New Film Exploring Animal World Beyond the Binary

Headlines for June 23, 2026; Remembering Ahmed Wishah, the Latest Palestinian Journalist Killed by Israel in Gaza; Remembering Mona Khalil, Beloved Lebanese Sea Turtle Conservationist Killed in Israeli Airstrike; DSA vs. Establishment: New York Primary Tests Growing Antiwar Split in Democratic Party; ”MAGA Inc.”: CorpWatch on Trump’s World of Tech Titans, Crypto Czars & Prison Profiteers

Headlines for June 22, 2026; “Document of Capitulation”: Spencer Ackerman & Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi on the U.S.-Iran Deal; U.K. Political Crisis: PM Keir Starmer Resigns & Palestine Action “Terrorism” Sentencing of “Elbit 4”; “Criminal Approach to Politics”: Trump Ally Abelardo de la Espriella Wins Colombian Presidency

Juneteenth Special: Historian Clint Smith on Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America; Rhiannon Giddens on Pulitzer-Winning Opera “Omar” About Enslaved Muslim Scholar Omar ibn Said; “Another Wasted Life”: Rhiannon Giddens on How Death of Kalief Browder Inspired Her Song

Headlines for June 18, 2026; Trump’s War on Iran Ends with a “Triumphant” Tehran and a Diminished U.S.: Vali Nasr; G7 Summit Highlights Global Economic System “Captured” by Billionaires: Oxfam; DOJ Takes Elon Musk’s Side in NAACP Lawsuit Against xAI for Polluting Black Neighborhoods; “Shoot the People”: Meet Misan Harriman, Celebrated Photographer & Outspoken Advocate for Palestine

Headlines for June 17, 2026; “The Point Is to Spread Fear”: DOJ Charges 15 with Conspiracy for Anti-ICE Protests in Minnesota; Has Trump Had Enough of Netanyahu? Israel Defies U.S., Vows to Continue War in Lebanon; “Journacide: The War on Truth.” New Film Investigates Israel’s Killing of Reporters in Lebanon

Headlines for June 16, 2026; Trita Parsi on What May Be in the U.S.-Iran Peace Deal & Being Threatened with Deportation; “Land Grab”: Trillionaire Elon Musk Sued in South Texas to Block SpaceX’s Takeover of Wildlife Refuge; Hands Off the Arts: Fired Kennedy Center Artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph Speaks Out as Trump Name Removed

Headlines for June 15, 2026; Will Israel Blow Up Trump’s Deal? Jeremy Scahill on Iran Talks, Strait of Hormuz, Nukes & More; Major Antiracist Rally Held in Belfast to Condemn Anti-Immigrant Riots Egged On by Elon Musk; DOJ Approves Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Amid Fears Trump Allies Will Tighten Grip on Media

Headlines for June 12, 2026; “New Form of Imperialism”: Renowned U.N. Scientist on AI Boom’s Huge Water, Carbon & Land Footprint; U.S. Attacks Iranian Water Reservoirs Amid “Normalization” of Targeting Civilian Infrastructure; “Cautionary Tale”: NYC’s The New School Guts Faculty & Staff as Colleges Intensify Austerity; Palestinian Activist Mohsen Mahdawi: Trump Admin “Weaponizing Immigration Laws” to Deport Me; “Hell’s Army”: New Film Tracks Russia’s Wagner Group & Rise of Mercenary Armies

Headlines for June 11, 2026; “They Have Never Faced an Adversary Like Iran”: Rami Khouri on Latest U.S.-Iran Strikes; “World Cup of Exclusion”: Games Begin Amid U.S. Visa Restrictions, High Ticket Costs & Iran War; World Cup Kicks Off in Mexico Amid Protests Against Austerity and Forced Disappearances; “Keep the Game Beautiful”: Why ICE Crackdown & FIFA Greed Could Spoil the World Cup; Will Congress Renew Controversial Surveillance Law? Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Cindy Cohn

Headlines for June 10, 2026; Report from Tehran: Amid More U.S./Iran Bombing, Trump Warns Iran Is ”DEAD…Will Pay the Price”; The Shocking Secrets of MSG’s Surveillance Machine: Noah Shachtman on Knicks’ Owner James Dolan; Trump Admin Guts Vital Sea Monitoring, “Tears Out the Eyes and Ears of Science”: David Helvarg; “I Was Just Forced to Resign from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory”: Climate Scientist Peter Kalmus

Headlines for June 09, 2026; “The Word 'Ceasefire' Has Lost Its Meaning”: Lylla Younes on Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing of South Lebanon; SpaceX IPO Could Make Musk a Trillionaire at Your Expense in “Massive Wealth Transfer”: Eric Gardner; “Tech-Driven Prosperity & Right-Wing Racist Politics”: Quinn Slobodian on Elon Musk and SpaceX IPO; Why New Yorkers “Thunderously Booed” Trump at Knicks-Spurs Game: Sportswriter David Zirin

Headlines for June 08, 2026; Iran Warns Israel over Escalating Attacks on Lebanon After Iran, Israel Exchange Strikes: Trita Parsi; Graham Platner’s Billionaire-Bashing Message Resonates in Maine Senate Race, Despite Controversies; Peru Votes for President Amid Trump’s “Unprecedented Program of Aggression” Against Leftists in Region

Headlines for June 05, 2026; Adam Hamawy, Ex-Volunteer Doctor in Gaza, Wins NJ House Primary Calling for End to Israeli Aid; Hasan Piker on Being Banned from U.K., Traveling to Cuba & Supporting Candidates Critical of Israel

Headlines for June 04, 2026; Voices from Delaney Hall: Family and Community Members Demand Release of Loved Ones from ICE Jail; Far-Right Leaders, Including Ex-CBP Chief Greg Bovino, Convene in Portugal for “Remigration Summit”; “Notes from an ICE Chaser”: Tracking Trump’s Mass Deportation Campaign on the Ground; Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian Ada Ferrer on Cuba’s Crisis, U.S. Sanctions and Family Separation

Headlines for June 03, 2026; “Fraud on the Court”: Even as DOJ Drops $1.8B Settlement Fund, Judge Reopens Case over Collusion; MAGA Loyalist Bill Pulte Tapped to Be New U.S. Spy Chief, Led Efforts to Target Trump Critics; “Appalling Misconduct”: Chicago Federal Prosecutors Under Fire; “Broadview 6” Charges Dropped; The Government Tried to Villainize Us: Broadview 6 Defendants Speak Out After Charges Dropped

Headlines for June 02, 2026; Iran Suspends U.S. Talks as Israel Kills 8 More in Lebanon & Expands Occupation; “Murder as Policy”: Amnesty Int’l Decries U.S. Strikes on Latin American Boats as Death Toll Tops 200; “The Overseer Class”: Steven Thrasher on Black Cops, Pro-Palestine Protests, DEI & More

Headlines for June 01, 2026; NJ State Police Join Crackdown Against Supporters of Hunger-Striking Immigrants at Delaney Hall; “We Closed Our Account”: Advocates Call for Boycott of Citizens Bank for Financing ICE Jails; “Revolving Door”: Former GEO Group VP David Venturella Is New Interim ICE Chief; Meet Bajun Mavalwalla, Veteran Convicted for ICE Protest in Unprecedented Use of Conspiracy Charges

Headlines for May 29, 2026; “Subversion of Law and Order”: ICE Violence Escalates at Newark’s GEO-Run Jail, Delaney Hall; Meet Nadia Milleron: Jury Awards Family $50M for Daughter’s Death in Boeing Crash; “It’s About People Feeding Their Families”: Indigenous-Led Anti-Austerity Protests Rock Bolivia

Headlines for May 28, 2026; No End in Sight: Israel Expands War on Lebanon, Orders Evacuation of 14% of Country; Ex-Nuclear Negotiator on U.S.-Iran Talks, Abraham Accords & Trump’s Threat to Blow Up Oman; “From Bogotá to El Fasher”: How UAE Trained Colombian Mercenaries to Fight Alongside RSF in Sudan; Trump’s Enemies List: DOJ Launches “Egregious” Criminal Probe into Trump Accuser E. Jean Carroll

Headlines for May 27, 2026; “They Are Not Alone Inside”: Protests Outside Newark ICE Jail Support Hunger-Striking Detainees; Capitol Police Officers Sue Trump over Slush Fund for Jan. 6 Rioters & Other Allies; “How Oligarchs Dominate Our Democracies”: Northwestern Prof. Jeffrey Winters on Book “The Blind Spot”

Headlines for May 26, 2026; U.S. Bombs Iran Despite Peace Talks; Israel Strikes Lebanon to “Force Trump’s Hand”: Negar Mortazavi; “Designed to Break You”: Gaza Flotilla Activists Faced Violence, Sexual Abuse in Israeli Detention; “He Was in Agony”: Tennessee Issues 1-Year Stay for Tony Carruthers After Botched Execution Attempt

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