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Democracy Now! Tuesday, April 15, 2025

As the Pulitzer Prize-winning podcast Suave returns for its second season, we continue our conversation with journalist Maria Hinojosa and David Luis “Suave” Gonzalez, the subject of the series. Gonzalez was sentenced to life in prison at age 17, but got an unexpected second chance when he was paroled in 2017 following a Supreme Court ruling that found sentences like his unconstitutional. The first season of the podcast followed Gonzalez’s case, his decadeslong friendship with Hinojosa and his eventual release from prison. The second season looks at his struggle to reintegrate into society.

Democracy Now! 2025-04-14 Monday

• Headlines for April 14, 2025
• Mahmoud Khalil's Lawyer: Trump Admin Is Delaying in Federal Court While Racing to Deport Activist
• Maria Hinojosa: El Salvador's "Dictator" Key to Disappearing Migrants Like Kilmar Abrego Garcia
• "I'm Not Really Free": Pulitzer Winners "Suave" & Maria Hinojosa Examine Life After Prison in Season 2

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Watch our extended interview with British Palestinian filmmaker Farah Nabulsi and Palestinian actor Saleh Bakri, who discuss the new feature film The Teacher. Inspired by true events, the drama looks at how Israel’s decadeslong military occupation impacts Palestinian children. Nabulsi details the challenges of filming The Teacher in the occupied West Bank, and Bakri discusses how he drew on his own experience as a father to play the titular role.

Democracy Now! Friday, April 11, 2025

Democracy Now! 2025-04-10 Thursday

• Headlines for April 10, 2025
• From "Liberation Day" to Chaos: Trump Pauses Most Tariffs While Escalating Trade War with China
• Trump Threatens Joint U.S.-Israeli Attack on Iran If Talks on Iran's Nuclear Program Fail
• Columbia Prof. Marianne Hirsch: Mahmoud Khalil Arrest Reminds Me of Growing Up Under Authoritarianism

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Democracy Now! 2025-04-09 Wednesday

• Headlines for April 09, 2025
• A War on the First Amendment: David Cole on Trump Targeting Students, Law Firms, Schools & Journalists
• Elon Musk Stands to Get Even Richer as Trump Backs $1 Trillion Budget for Pentagon

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Democracy Now! 2025-04-08 Tuesday

• Headlines for April 08, 2025
• "What About the Capitalists?": Autoworkers in U.S., Mexico Call for Solidarity, Not Divisive Tariffs
• "Detained Without Evidence": Maryland Father Remains in El Salvador Prison After SCOTUS Ruling
• "Black Americans Are Not Surprised": Christina Greer on Trump's Attacks on Students, DEI & History

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In Mali, thousands of mourners gathered in Bamako Sunday for the funeral of Amadou Bagayoko, half of the the world-renowned duo Amadou & Mariam. Bagayoko died on Friday at the age of 70. The blind husband-and-wife music duo came to the Democracy Now! studio in 2018 to perform and talk about their music.

Democracy Now! 2025-04-07 Monday

• Headlines for April 07, 2025
• "Point-Blank": Israeli Soldiers Execute 15 Gaza Medics & Rescue Workers, Bury in Unmarked Mass Grave
• "Hands Off!": 1M+ Protest Trump's DOGE Cuts, Attacks on Education, Immigration, War on Gaza & More
• "Terrifying": Poorest Countries & Global Working Class Face Worst Impacts of Trump's Tariffs

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Can’t Look Away: The Case Against Social Media is a new documentary that examines the tragic consequences that the algorithms of big tech companies can have on children and teens. This is our extended conversation with director Matthew O’Neill and a lawyer featured in the film, Laura Marquez-Garrett, from the Social Media Victims Law Center in Seattle.

The legendary folk singer Michael Hurley has died at the age of 83. Born in Bucks County Pennsylvania in 1941, he had a remarkable career that stretched from the 1960s until his sudden death this week at his home in Oregon. In 2020 Hurley stopped by the Democracy Now studio. The initial plan was just for him to record a few songs. He ended up staying in the studio for over an hour for what turned out to be an impromptu concert and discussion about his life and music. He performed many of his most beloved songs including “Oh My Stars,” “Wildegeeses,” “Sweedeedee,” “Portland Water” and “Hog of the Forsaken.”

Democracy Now! Friday, April 4, 2025

Democracy Now! 2025-04-03 Thursday

• Headlines for April 03, 2025
• "American Empire Is in Decline": Economist Richard Wolff on Trump's Trade War & Tariffs
• Jewish Students Chain Themselves to Columbia Gates to Protest ICE Jailing of Mahmoud Khalil
• ICE Detains Mother & Her Three Children in Farm Raid Near NY Home of Border Czar Tom Homan

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Democracy Now! 2025-04-02 Wednesday

• Headlines for April 02, 2025
• Elon Musk Fails in Attempt to Buy Wisconsin Supreme Court as Judge Susan Crawford Beats Brad Schimel
• A "Coup" at Columbia? Former Law Prof. Katherine Franke on School's Capitulation to Trump
• Trump Sends Hundreds of Immigrants to Brutal Salvadoran Prison as Mass Deportations Expand

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Democracy Now! 2025-04-01 Tuesday

• Headlines for April 01, 2025
• Workers vs. Musk: Federal Unions Resist Attacks on Bargaining Rights & Cuts to Essential Services
• A Blueprint for Resisting Trump Education Cuts? Chicago Teachers Reach "Powerful" Tentative Contract
• "The Darkest Hour of Need": Burmese Junta Continues Bombing in Aftermath of Devastating Earthquake
• "We Are Killing the Essence of What the University Is": Dr. Joanne Liu on NYU Canceling Her Talk

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Democracy Now! 2025-03-31 Monday

• Headlines for March 31, 2025
• "Obsessed": Elon Musk Pours $20 Million into Wisconsin Supreme Court Race as Voter Anger Builds
• "Taking Down Everything Black": Fired Kennedy Center VP Marc Bamuthi Joseph on Trump's Takeover
• Remembering Robert McChesney, Prescient Critic of Media Consolidation & Big Tech

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Democracy Now! 2025-03-28 Friday

• Headlines for March 28, 2025
• Hip-Hop Star Macklemore on New Film "The Encampments" & Why He Speaks Out Against Israel's War on Gaza
• "The Encampments": New Film on Mahmoud Khalil & Columbia Students Who Sparked Gaza Campus Protests

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Democracy Now! Thursday, March 27, 2025

Full interview with Turkish political scientist Ezgi Başaran on rising authoritarianism in Turkey, the arrest of Istanbul’s mayor and the similarities between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and President Donald Trump.