Texas Showdown: Anti-Abortion Bill Fails After Protesters Fill Capitol to Cheer Marathon Filibuster

Democracy Now Democratic lawmakers and pro-choice demonstrators in Texas battled into the early hours of this morning to successfully block ...

The Other James Gandolfini: "Sopranos" Actor Remembered For Support of Injured Vets, Community Media

Democracy Now James Gandolfini, the celebrated actor best known for his role as mob boss Tony Soprano on the hit TV series, "The Sopran...

Victory for Community Radio as FCC Puts 1,000 Low-Power FM Frequencies Up For Grabs

Democracy Now In a major victory for the community radio movement after a 15-year campaign, the Federal Communications Commission has announ...

As Judge Weighs Legality of NYPD's Stop and Frisk, Justice Dept. Calls for Court-Appointed Monitor

Democracy Now The Obama administration is backing calls for a court-appointed monitor to oversee New York City's controversial Stop ...

Medgar Evers' Murder, 50 Years Later: Widow Myrlie Evers-Williams Remembers "A Man for All Time"

Democracy Now Fifty years ago today — June 12th, 1963 — 37-year-old civil rights organizer Medgar Evers was assassinated in the driveway ou...

Digital Blackwater: How the NSA Gives Private Contractors Control of the Surveillance State

Democracy Now As the Justice Department prepares to file charges against Booz Allen Hamilton employee Edward Snowden for leaking classified ...

"A Massive Surveillance State": Glenn Greenwald Exposes Massive NSA Program Collecting Calls, Emails

Democracy Now We speak with Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald , who broke the story Thursday that the National Security Agency has obtained...

Democracy Now: Civil Rights Veteran Chokwe Lumumba Elected Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi

Democracy Now Just days before the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Medgar Evers in Jackson, Mississippi, the city's voters have...

NAACP Head Ben Jealous on Assata Shakur, Black Political Prisoners and Unsolved Lynchings

Democracy Now Earlier this month, former Black Panther Assata Shakur was added to the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist List, becoming the fir...

Did Public Television Commit Self-Censorship to Appease Billionaire Funder David Koch?

Democracy Now Filmmakers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal say plans for their new documentary to air on public television have been quashed after bi...

Killing Americans: Jeremy Scahill on Obama Admin's Admission 4 U.S. Citizens Died in Drone Strikes

Democracy Now The Obama administration has admitted for the first time to killing four U.S. citizens in drone strikes overseas. Three died i...

Editor of The Progressive Calls For Eric Holder to Resign Over Spying on Press, Occupy Protesters

Democracy Now As the Obama administration faces criticism for the Justice Department's spying on journalists and the IRS targeting of ri...

Seattle Teachers, Students Win Historic Victory Over Standardized Testing

Democracy Now After months of protest, teachers, students and parents in Seattle, Washington, have won their campaign to reject standardized...

Democracy Now: Is Obama Administration Worse Than Bush on Press Freedoms?

Democracy Now We ask David Clay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and current president of Investigative Reporters and Editors, to...

Chris Hedges on Last Moments of Press Freedom, Corporate Consolidation of Power & Media Propaganda

Democracy Now Chris  Hedges discusses the terrifying precedent that is being set by the U.S. government's intrusion into the phone recor...

Are the FBI and IRS Secretly Reading Your Email Without a Warrant?

Democracy Now The American Civil Liberties Union has obtained documents revealing that the FBI and IRS may be reading emails and other elect...

Cleveland Kidnappings and Military Rapes: When Will We Take on the Pandemic of Sexual Violence?

Democracy Now Horrific details of the Cleveland kidnapping victims' brutal physical and sexual abuse are emerging just as the military h...

Assata Shakur in Her Own Words: Rare Recording of Activist Named to FBI Most Wanted Terrorist List

Democracy Now The FBI has added the former Black Panther Assata Shakur to its Most Wanted Terrorist List 40 years after the killing for whic...

Angela Davis on the "Racialization" of Terrorism, From Assata Shakur to Boston Marathon Bombings

Democracy Now The legendary activist and scholar Angela Davis tells Democracy Now! that the FBI's adding of former Black Panther Assata ...

Forgotten Women of the War on Terror: Author Victoria Brittain on the Wives and Families Left Behind

Democracy Now As pressure grows for President Obama to close the Guantánamo military prison, we speak with British journalist Victoria Britt...