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Democracy Now! 2025-11-21 Friday

• Headlines for November 21, 2025
• No Fossil Fuel Phaseout, No Deal! At COP30, Vanuatu Climate Minister Joins 30+ Dissenting Nations
• "We Need to Be Heard": Indigenous Amazon Defender Alessandra Korap Munduruku on COP30 Protest
• "Inviting the Arsonists": Indian Climate Activist Slams Fossil Fuel Lobbyists at U.N. Climate Summit

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Democracy Now! 2025-11-20 Thursday

• Headlines for November 20, 2025
• Climate Crisis Displaces 250 Million Over a Decade While U.S. & Other Polluting Nations Close Borders
• Brazilian Indigenous Minister Sônia Guajajara on Fossil Fuel Phaseout, Bolsonaro's Conviction & More
• The Race to Save the Amazon: Top Brazilian Scientist Says Rainforest Is at "Tipping Point"

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Democracy Now! 2025-11-19 Wednesday

• Headlines for November 19, 2025
• "Bring the Truth Out of the Shadows": Survivors Hail Congressional Vote to Release Epstein Files
• Susana Muhamad, Ex-Colombian Environment Minister, on COP30 Talks, Trump, Gaza & More
• Sudanese Researcher Lina Yassin on COP30 Climate Talks, UAE-Funded Proxy War in Sudan over Gold & More
• "Data Crunch": AI Boom Threatens to Entrench Fossil Fuels and Compromise Climate Goals

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Democracy Now! 2025-11-18 Tuesday

• Headlines for November 18, 2025
• Brazil's Contradictory Climate Policies: Lula Gov't Reduces Deforestation, Boosts Oil & Gas Production
• Indigenous Leaders Converge in Belém, Brazil, Demanding Greater Role at U.N. Climate Talks
• Kumi Naidoo on U.S. Skipping COP30, Why Rich Nations Must Pay a Climate Debt, Gaza, Sudan & More

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Democracy Now! Monday, November 17, 2025

Democracy Now! 2025-11-14 Friday

• Headlines for November 14, 2025
• “Gunboat Diplomacy”: U.S. War in Latin America Feared as Hegseth Launches "Operation Southern Spear"
• “You Have Arrived in Hell”: Venezuelans Sent By U.S. to El Salvador Faced Torture, Sexual Abuse
• “The Trillion Dollar War Machine”: William Hartung on How U.S. Military Spending Fuels Wars
• How Mamdani Won: Field Director Tascha Van Auken on Grassroots Organizing Behind Historic Victory

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Democracy Now! Thursday, November 13, 2025

Democracy Now! 2025-11-12 Wednesday

• Headlines for November 12, 2025
• “Caved Too Soon”: Ro Khanna on Senate Shutdown Deal, Why Schumer Should Step Down & Epstein Files
• “Food is A Fundamental Human Right”: U.S. Hunger Expert Decries Trump Withholding Food Assistance
• Epstein & Israel: Drop Site News Investigates Jeffrey Epstein’s Ties to Israeli Intelligence
• “Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk”: New Film on Gaza Photojournalist Killed in Israeli Strike

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Democracy Now! Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Watch Part 2 of our interview with acclaimed journalist Jelani Cobb, Dean of the Columbia Journalism School, about his new collection of essays, Three or More Is a Riot: Notes on How We Got Here. Cobb discusses many of the pieces in-depth, and also addresses the Heritage Foundation’s support for Tucker Carlson’s interview with white nationalist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes; New York City’s Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani; his students’ coverage of the Gaza encampment; ICE’s arrest of former Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil; and how he got his start in journalism.

Democracy Now! Monday, November 10, 2025

Democracy Now! 2025-11-07 Friday

• Headlines for November 07, 2025
• "The Fight Is Not Over": LGBTQ Advocates Challenge Supreme Court's Anti-Trans Passport Ruling
• "Without Precedent": Lisa Graves on the Supreme Court, Tariffs, Voting Rights & Legacy of John Roberts
• Is the U.S. Planning to Assassinate Maduro? Peter Kornbluh on "Trump's Gunboat Diplomacy"
• Remembering Peter Weiss: Legendary Human Rights Lawyer Dies at 99

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Part 2 of our conversation with Tareq Baconi, author of the new memoir Fire in Every Direction. The book is a chronicle of his political and queer coming of age growing up between Amman and Beirut as the grandson of refugees from Jerusalem and Haifa.

Democracy Now! 2025-11-06 Thursday

• Headlines for November 06, 2025
• "My Community Is Under Invasion from Our Own Federal Gov't": Evanston Mayor Decries ICE Raids in Illinois
• "Taken: The Agents Raiding Communities and the People Trying to Stop Them": Maria Hinojosa
• "Fire in Every Direction": Palestinian Author Tareq Baconi on Gaza, Zionism & Embracing Queerness

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Democracy Now! 2025-11-05 Wednesday

• Headlines for November 05, 2025
• Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani Wins Historic NYC Mayoral Race: "The Future Is in Our Hands"
• The Movement Behind Mamdani: Organizers & Supporters Celebrate Stunning Victory & Repudiation of Trump
• This Is How to Fight Fascism: Naomi Klein, AOC & Brad Lander on Mamdani Victory
• "Epic Night for Democrats": Party Wins Races Across the U.S. in Voter Rebuke to Trump

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