Democracy Now! Audio

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

<p>Headlines for September 17, 2026; “Fast Food Nation,” Mystery Meat &amp; 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</p>

<p>Headlines for September 16, 2026; A Russian Oligarch Secretly Funded Donald Trump Jr.'s Bahamas Wedding; Democrats Demand Probe; “The Elimination Project”: Israel’s Systematic Dismantling of Palestinian Life in West Bank: B'Tselem; “Architects of Atrocities”: Amnesty Says Iran Committed Crimes Against Humanity in 2022 Crackdown</p>

We speak with the economist Mariana Mazzucato, author of the new book The Common Good Economy: A New Compass.

<p>Headlines for September 15, 2026; “End Times Fascism”: Naomi Klein &amp; Astra Taylor on Billionaires, Bunkers, AI, Gaza &amp; the Far Right</p>

<p>Headlines for September 14, 2026; ”<span class="caps">NAZA</span>” Film on Gaza Genocide Wins Venice Special Jury Prize; Israel Threatens Directors’ Citizenship; “One Betrayal After Another”: 9/11 Widow Blasts U.S. Cover-Up of Saudi Role in Attacks; Trove of Evidence Sheds New Light on How Saudi Intelligence Asset Helped 9/11 Hijackers Before Attack; Is Yemen Heading Back to All-Out War? Saudis Launch Strikes as Houthis Take Control of Red Sea Coast</p>

<p>Headlines for September 11, 2026; “Horror to Last a Lifetime”: Juan González on Covering 9/11 Attacks in <span class="caps">NYC</span> 25 Years Ago Today; Forever War: How 9/11 Unleashed U.S. Violence on Civilians Abroad &amp; Attacks on Rights at Home</p>

<p>Headlines for September 10, 2026; 25 Years Later: Afghan New Yorker Masuda Sultan Remembers 9/11 &amp; 19 Relatives Killed in U.S. Bombing; Report from Kabul: <span class="caps">NRC</span> Head Jan Egeland on Global Aid Cuts, Poverty &amp; Taliban Repression of Women; “Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump”: Spencer Ackerman; 4.7 Million Dead, $8 Trillion: Counting the Devastating Human &amp; Economic Costs of the Post‑9/11 Wars</p>

<p>Headlines for September 09, 2026; Meet 9/11 Health Watch, <span class="caps">NYC</span> Group Behind Mayor Mamdani’s Release of 170K Pages on Ground Zero Toxins; “Let’s Just Round Them Up”: The Rise of Islamophobia in the Post-9/11 Domestic War on Terror</p>

<p>Headlines for September 08, 2026; “Toxic Nightmare”: 25 Years After 9/11, Juan González on His Predictions of Worker Illness &amp; Death; Firefighter, <span class="caps">EMT</span>, Stuyvesant High School Student Describe 9/11 Exposure &amp; Long Fight for Healthcare; “People I Flew with All the Time”: Flight Attendant Union Head Sara Nelson Remembers 9/11 Victims; 25 Years After 9/11: Cover-Up of Air Quality Risk Proved to Be “Death Sentence” for Thousands</p>

<p>Democracy Now! Marks 30 Years with Angela Davis, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, Michael Stipe &amp; More</p>

<p>Headlines for September 04, 2026; Stanford Student Newspaper Wins Suit over Trump’s Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Speech; “They Got Zero Notice”: 2,500 Workers Laid Off as Tyson Foods Shutters Meatpacking Plant in Illinois; “Terrorizing Our City”: <span class="caps">ICE</span> Targets Immigrants in Danbury, CT, Including at School Bus Stops; “Top of the World”: Remembering the Restaurant Workers Killed Atop World Trade Center in 9/11 Attack</p>

<p>Headlines for September 03, 2026; Gloria Steinem, Feminist Icon &amp; Ms. Magazine Co-Founder, Dies at 92; “Catastrophic Failure”: Postal Service Whistleblower Warns Mail-In Voting Rules Could Derail Election; “Modern-Day Poll Tax”: Dem. Texas Commissioner Slams <span class="caps">GOP</span> Vote to Close 92 Polling Sites; AI Could Revolutionize Medicine, But Humans Must Be in Charge: Researcher Shreya Johri</p>

<p>Headlines for September 02, 2026; U.S. Empire in Decline: Richard Wolff on Iran War, Rising Inequality, $40T National Debt &amp; More; “Went to Sea and Never Came Back”: Families of Fishermen Seek Answers After Deadly U.S. Boat Strikes; “Stand Up for Multifaith Democracy”: U.S. Activists, Lawmakers Protest India’s <span class="caps">RSS</span> &amp; Hindu Supremacy</p>

<p>Headlines for September 01, 2026; The Biggest Oil Deal or Theft at Gunpoint? U.S. Claims Majority Control of Venezuela’s Oil Reserves; U.S. Deports Thousands to Countries They Don’t Know Under Secretive “Third Country” Deal; Amid Severe Water Crisis &amp; Drought, Puerto Rico Marks 10 Years of “La Junta” Oversight</p>

<p>Headlines for August 31, 2026; “Catastrophe of Unimaginable Proportions”: Nepal Flood Death Toll Tops 900; Near 5,000 Still Missing; The Real Reason There’s a Munitions Shortage? Too Many Wars &amp; a Dysfunctional Pentagon: William Hartung; “Left Behind and Overlooked”: Indiana Energy Company Left Majority-Black Gary Powerless for Weeks; “We’re Not Going Back”: Ron Daniels on the Legacy of 1972 Gary Convention &amp; 1963 March on Washington; Jane Fonda Exclusive: Dolly Parton, a Feminist, Wrote the Anthem for Working Women with “9 to 5”</p>

<p>Headlines for August 28, 2026; “Shut Down Dilley”: Rep. Joaquin Castro on “Abusive” <span class="caps">ICE</span> Family Jail, Targeting of Military Families; Glacier Collapse: 2K Dead or Missing in Nepal-Tibet Flood Is “Glaring Example of Climate Injustice”; “Don’t Be Squeamish About Squamous, Get a Checkup!” Amy Goodman’s Personal Health Update; “Who Paid, Who Gained”: Juan González on How Chicago Funded Real Estate Instead of Social Services; “The Lion King” in Quechua?: New Film “Runa Simi” Profiles Indigenous Artist Keeping Language Alive</p>

Filipino filmmaker Rafael Manuel discusses his debut feature film Filipiñana. Set at an upscale golf country club outside Manila, the film explores inequality, colonialism, structural violence and patriarchy. Filipiñana premiered at Sundance, where it won the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Creative Vision. It opens in New York at Film Forum on Friday.

<p>Headlines for August 27, 2026; As Meta Agrees to $17B Settlement, Now Is the Time to Regulate AI Before It’s Too Late: Amba Kak; Exploited Data Workers in the Global South Are “the Secret Ingredient of AI Itself”; “Platform Extractivism”: Inside Venezuela’s Hidden Workforce Training AI Algorithms for Pennies</p>

Part 2 of our conversation with Jack Crosbie of Rolling Stone, who has been reporting on the Prairieland Nine — the nine activists in Texas who were sentenced to between 30 and 100 years in connection to an anti-ICE protest outside the Prairieland ICE jail in Alvarado, Texas. Crosbie’s recent articles include “Incarcerated for Life in Trump’s War on the Left” and “How Trump’s War on the Left Will Come for the Center.”