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Headlines for October 08, 2026; “She Put Her Body on the Line”: Maricarmen, 87, Dies; Her Eviction Sparked Spain Housing Protests; “The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist”: Daniel Roher, Tristan Harris Discuss New Film; Afghanistan, 25 Years Later: Journalist Emran Feroz on the Legacy of “America’s Longest War”

Celebrated Chilean American composer, musician and electronic music producer Nicolás Jaar recently stopped by the Democracy Now! studio to perform and talk about his work. He has released seven solo albums, including Piedras 1 and Piedras 2, both of which came out in 2025. He’s also known for his film scores, including for Dheepan by Jacques Audiard and Ema by Pablo Larraín.

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Headlines for October 02, 2026; “Cruel & Torturous”: Christa Pike in Critical Condition After Botched Tennessee Execution; “The School That Became a Grave”: Jeremy Scahill on U.S Bombing of Minab, Killing 120+ Iranian Kids

Democracy Now! Thursday, October 1, 2026

Part 2 of our discussion with Wolfgang Kaleck, German human right lawyer and founder of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights.

Headlines for September 30, 2026; “No Land to Stand On”: Mahmoud Khalil on His Memoir, Palestine, Fighting Deportation & Suing Columbia; 80 Years After Nuremberg Trials, U.S. Leads Assault on ICC & International Law: Wolfgang Kaleck

Headlines for September 29, 2026; Greenland Deal: Trump Drops Threat to Annex Denmark Territory in Favor of Greater U.S. Military Role; “Buying More Time for the Genocide”: Muhammad Shehada on Trump’s Gaza Plan 1 Year Later; Afghans “Have Been the Victims” of U.S. Military, Taliban, Cartels & More for Decades: Nagieb Khaja

Part 2 of conversation with longtime national security reporter and editor Sharon Weinberger, author of the new book Valley of Death: How Big Tech Is Fueling the Future of War.

Headlines for September 28, 2026; Forcible Eviction of 87-Year-Old Madrid Woman Sparks Protest Encampment over Spain’s Housing Crisis; “Britain’s Gaza Secrets Exposed”: How U.K. Downplayed Israeli Crimes to Keep Selling Weapons; “Valley of Death”: Sharon Weinberger on Big Tech, AI Warfare & the CIA’s Secret Backing of Steve Jobs

Headlines for September 25, 2026; “Stop Arming Israel”: 100+ Arrested at Jewish Voice for Peace Sit-In Outside Netanyahu U.N. Speech; “Grotesque”: Ex-Israeli Negotiator Daniel Levy on Netanyahu’s U.N. Speech & Israel’s Impunity; The Hague Group: South Africa Leads Coalition Against U.S./Israel’s “Unilateral Bullying” of the ICC ; “Cro...

Full interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning, two-time Grammy-winning multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens. Her new album, Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, has just been released. She recently came into the Democracy Now! studio to talk about her work and perform her song “Wish in Vain” with Dirk Powell.

Extended interview with Jacob Silverman, author of Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley.

Headlines for September 24, 2026; Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa on Trump’s Media Ban, Regulating AI & the “Tech Coup in Plain Sight”; Should U.N. Help Set Global AI Rules? AI Tech Billionaires Address Security Council; “Colonial AI”: African Countries Seek Tech Sovereignty But Fear a New Digital Colonialism; “Gilded Rage”: Jacob Silverman on How a Radical...

Headlines for September 23, 2026; “New Low in U.N. History”: Trita Parsi on Trump’s Threat to Annihilate Iran at General Assembly; Bernie Sanders: The World Is “Moving in the Wrong Direction” on War, Climate, Inequality & AI Tech; Nepali Activist at U.N. Rally Calls for Climate Justice After Deadly Glacier Floods Kill Thousands; “Secretary of Measlesland&#82...

Headlines for September 22, 2026; Climate Activists Target AI Data Centers & Amazon’s Plan to Build Largest U.S. Gas Power Plant; “Politics Are Desperately Important at the Moment”: Bill McKibben on Midterms, Trump & Climate Crisis; Could Cuba Become a “Silent Gaza”? U.S. Fuel Blockade Aims to “Asphyxiate” Island: Top Cuban Diplomat; “Pedagog...

Headlines for September 21, 2026; “War on the Press”: Trump Bans CNN , MS NOW & Politico from White House over Critical Coverage; “Extraordinary Rendition All Over Again”: U.S. Deportees Sent to Equatorial Guinea Beaten, Imprisoned; “America, Who Hurt You?”: Tony-Winning Performer Sarah Jones on New NY Solo Show & Art as Resistance

Headlines for September 18, 2026; “Inequality Emergency”: Ahead of U.N. General Assembly, Oxfam Urges Action on Climate, AI & Gaza; “Hope Is the Thing with Feathers”: Rhiannon Giddens on New Album, AI, Ed Sheeran, Macklemore & Trump; “We Are the 99%”: 15 Years Later, Occupy Wall Street’s Impact Is Still Being Felt

Headlines for September 17, 2026; “Fast Food Nation,” Mystery Meat & Trump’s Dismantling of U.S. Food Safety System: Eric Schlosser; “Call It Evil”: Philosopher Susan Neiman on Why Moral Clarity Matters in the Trump Era

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 Res...

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

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