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Headlines for August 29, 2025; “A Dark Path”: Ex-State Dept. Official Blasts Trump’s Plans for Postwar Gaza; “Steal This Story, Please!”: Documentary on Democracy Now! Premieres at Telluride Film Festival; “Race Against Time”: 20 Years After Hurricane Katrina, Docuseries Reckons with Aftermath Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan...

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan It’s been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina made landfall on August 29th, 2005, breaching New Orleans’ protective levees, unleashing unprecedented destruction.

Headlines for August 28, 2025; 2 Children Killed in Minneapolis School Shooting as Trump Rolls Back Gun Safety Regs; Remembering Hurricane Katrina, 20 Years After Storm Killed 1,800 in New Orleans; New Orleans Is Unprepared for Another Katrina, Warns Community Activist Malik Rahim Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Vis...

Headlines for August 27, 2025; Gaza Doctor Says Israel’s Deadly Attack on Nasser Hospital “Crosses All Red Lines”; DNC Panel Rejects Resolution Demanding U.S. Arms Embargo on Israel; First Black Fed Governor, Lisa Cook, Sues Trump over His Attempt to Fire Her; Katrina Declaration: FEMA Suspends Staff Who Warn Trump Cuts Risk Another Disaster Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted b...

Headlines for August 26, 2025; “Time to Cut Ties with Israel”: U.N. Expert Francesca Albanese on Gaza Hospital Bombing; “We Must Defeat Fascism”: Chicago Alderman on Trump’s Threat to Deploy Troops to City; Trump Targets Bail Reform, Wants to Let Rich “Buy Their Way Out of Jail” Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Visit...

Headlines for August 25, 2025; Israel Bombs Gaza Hospital, Kills 5 Journalists from AP, Al Jazeera, Reuters, NBC ; UNICEF Report from Gaza City: U.N. Declares Famine as Children Starve; Abrego Garcia Detained Again, Faces Deportation to Uganda After 3 Days of Freedom; Meet George Retes, Disabled Army Vet to Sue Trump Admin over Unlawful ICE Detention Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour...

Headlines for August 22, 2025; “Commander-in-Cheat”: After Texas, Trump’s Redistricting Push Goes National; EXCLUSIVE : Fired State Dept. Official Speaks Out, Suggested Condolences for Killed Gaza Journalists; Day Laborer Dies Fleeing ICE : Family Mourns, Community Demands Answers Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Vis...

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Yes, slavery was bad, President Trump. It was evil and remains a stain on this country. We should never stop talking about it.

Headlines for August 21, 2025; “I Just Want to Die”: Desperate Med Student in Gaza Sends Messages to Doctor Denied Entry; “The West Bank Is the Prize”: Israel Approves New Settlements to “Bury” Palestinian State; Smithsonian Head Lonnie Bunch in 2020 on Telling “Unvarnished” History, Meeting Trump & More Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodma...

Headlines for August 20, 2025; Occupied D.C.? Six GOP States Send National Guard to Washington as Outcry Grows over Trump Power Grab; For-Profit Presidency: New Yorker Mag Reveals Trump Family’s Frenzy to Cash In on the White House; “Unprecedented and Not Normal”: ACLU Sues over Legal Black Hole at “Alligator Alcatraz” ICE Jail Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winnin...

Headlines for August 19, 2025; Will Russia-Ukraine War End with Diplomacy or on Battlefield? John Mearsheimer vs. Denys Pilash; “They Kidnapped Me”: L.A. Immigrant Rights Activist Recounts Violent Arrest by Masked Federal Agents Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Visit democracynow.org to watch and listen to the latest...

Headlines for August 18, 2025; Is Peace Possible? Nation Publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel on Trump Summits with Putin, Zelensky; In Largest Israeli Protest to Date, 1 Million Israelis Demand Gaza Ceasefire to Free Hostages; “Whitewashing of History”: Harvard Historian on Trump’s Targeting of School Curricula, Smithsonian Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journa...

Headlines for August 15, 2025; Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Tells Trump to Stay Out; Decries Authoritarianism, War on Poor People; John Mearsheimer vs. Matt Duss: A Debate on Trump-Putin Summit, Ukraine, Russia & Paths to Peace Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Visit democracynow.org to watch and listen to the latest...

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Anas Al-Sharif and his colleagues were among the last journalists in northern Gaza, prepared to report on Israel’s renewed invasion of Gaza City to depopulate the city of 1 million Palestinians.

Headlines for August 14, 2025; “The Fort Bragg Cartel”: Book Exposes U.S. Special Forces’ Involvement in Drug Trafficking & Murder; Colombian Sen. Cepeda on Sentencing of Far-Right Ex-Pres. Uribe, U.S. Ally, Paramilitary Accomplice Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. Visit democracynow.org to watch and listen to the lat...

Headlines for August 12, 2025; Trump’s Takeover: ACLU on Federalizing D.C. Police & Deploying 800 National Guard; “Slide Towards Fascism”: Khalil Gibran Muhammad on Racist Roots of Trump D.C. Takeover; Trump’s New Secret Directive OKs Military Action in Latin America Under Guise of Drug War; Israel Has “Deliberate Strategy” of Killing Palestinian Journalists Like Anas al-Sharif: U.N. Expert Democr...

Headlines for August 11, 2025; “Silencing the Coverage”: Israel Assassinates 5 Al Jazeera Journalists in Targeted Strike in Gaza; “This Is Orchestrated Killing”: MSF Condemns GHF Aid Sites, Saying They Were Set Up to Be Death Traps; “They Will Be Held Accountable”: California AG Takes Trump to Court for Deploying National Guard; Community Organizer Slams “Fascist ICE Agents” After Arrest of U.S. C...

Headlines for August 08, 2025; Gaza Takeover: Mouin Rabbani on Israel’s “Indefinite, Genocidal Military Campaign”; “They Poisoned the World”: The Corporate Cover-Up & Fightback Against PFAS , “Forever Chemicals”; Epstein Survivor Jess Michaels: Victims Want “Accountability & Justice,” Not Political Grandstanding Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journalists Am...

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan We are standing at a real-world version of Rodin’s Gates of Hell, where thinking about the problem is no longer enough.

Headlines for August 07, 2025; “War in Perpetuity”: M. Gessen Warns Putin Won’t Make Peace with Ukraine Because It Risks His Own Survival; From India to Brazil, Trump Intensifies Trade War Against BRICS Nations as New Tariffs Take Effect; “Tightening the Chokehold”: Amjad Iraqi on Israel’s Plans to “Empty Out” Gaza and Annex West Bank; The Global Plastic Threat: Research Finds Plastics Can Lead to...

Headlines for August 06, 2025; Trump’s War on the Truth: Robert Reich on Firing of BLS Head & Push to Replace Fed Chair; “Coming Up Short”: Robert Reich on His Memoir, Rising U.S. Inequality & Fighting Against Bullies; 80 Years After Hiroshima & Nagasaki, U.S. Keeps Covering Up Horrors of Atomic Bombing: Greg Mitchell Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-winning journali...

Headlines for August 05, 2025; Oscar-Winning Director Demands Israel Return Body of Palestinian Activist After Settler Killed Him; “End the Starvation”: Jewish Rabbis & Allies Outside NY Trump Hotel Call for U.S. to Stop Arming Israel; Labor Leader Chris Smalls Describes Israeli Arrest & Assault After Military Raids Gaza Flotilla; Texas Showdown: Dem. Lawmakers Flee State to Stop Gerrymandering, W...

Headlines for August 04, 2025; Prof. Rashid Khalidi Slams “Crushing Repression” at Columbia, Cancels Course over Trump Settlement; “It Is Our War”: Palestinian American Scholar Rashid Khalidi on U.S. Complicity in Gaza Genocide; Torture at CECOT : Venezuelan Men Freed from Salvadoran Mega-Prison Describe Brutal Beatings, Humiliation Democracy Now! is a daily independent news hour hosted by award-w...

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By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Sereen Haddad has finally won her degree. More importantly, this talented young graduate, in challenging starvation and genocide in Gaza, has gotten an education.