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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.

Democracy Now! 2025-03-26 Wednesday

• Headlines for March 26, 2025
• Hands Off Social Security: Drastic DOGE-Backed Changes Put Benefits for Millions at Risk
• 10 Years of War on Yemen: Leaked War Plan Chats Overshadow U.S. Deadly History Targeting Yemen
• 1,400+ Arrested in Turkey as Erdoğan Jails Istanbul Mayor & Intensifies Authoritarian Crackdown

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Democracy Now! 2025-03-25 Tuesday

• Headlines for March 25, 2025
• Oscar-Winning Palestinian Filmmaker Hamdan Ballal Brutally Beaten in Mob Attack by Israeli Settlers
• Remembering Hossam Shabat: Gaza Journalist Killed by Israel Was Placed on "Hit List" Before His Death
• "Much Worse Than Ever Before": Abubaker Abed Reports from Gaza as Israel Weighs Broader Invasion

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Democracy Now! Monday, March 24, 2025

Wolfgang Kaleck, founder of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, talks about the need for a universal, international criminal justice system instead of one where only some nations are held to account. Kaleck is a longtime human rights attorney who has represented Edward Snowden. He twice filed war crimes suits against former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in Germany.

Watch an extended conversation with Peter Kornbluh, senior analyst with the National Security Archive, who has been analyzing the newly declassified files related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Democracy Now! 2025-03-21 Friday

• Headlines for March 21, 2025
• Trump vs. Public Schools: Executive Order Aims to Dismantle Department of Education
• Mahmoud Khalil Update: From ICE Jail, Khalil Warns of Trump's War on Dissent & Targeting Palestinians
• "Catch and Revoke": AI-Driven State Dept. Program Targets Pro-Palestinian Students & Visa Holders
• Declassified JFK Assassination Files Expose Covert CIA Operations from the Vatican to Latin America

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Extended conversation with David Enrich, author of “Murder the Truth: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful.” In the book, Enrich chronicles an ongoing campaign by the wealthy and powerful to overturn the landmark Supreme Court decision New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, which in 1964 established bedrock protections against spurious defamation and libel cases in the U.S. legal system.

Democracy Now! 2025-03-20 Thursday

• Headlines for March 20, 2025
• Criminalizing Dissent: Greenpeace Ordered to Pay $667M to Dakota Access Pipeline Firm over Protests
• "Murder the Truth": David Enrich on Right-Wing Campaign to Silence Journalists & Protect the Powerful
• Disappeared: U.S. Sends Venezuelan LGBTQ Asylum Seeker to El Salvador's Version of Guantánamo

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Democracy Now! Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Folk musicians Nora Brown and Stephanie Coleman perform two songs in the Democracy Now! studio and talk more about their recent appearance at the Kennedy Center, where they unfurled banners to protest President Trump’s takeover of the famed cultural institution. Brown is a prize-winning guitar and banjo player and has released three other albums on Jalopy Records. Coleman is regarded as one of the premier fiddlers of her generation.

Democracy Now! 2025-03-18 Tuesday

• Headlines for March 18, 2025
• "Another Round of Senseless Mass Killing": Report from Gaza Hospital as Israeli Strikes Kill 400+
• "Endless Trauma": Israeli Strikes Shatter Gaza Ceasefire as Blockade Starves Palestinian Population
• U.S. Kills Dozens in Yemen Strikes as Houthis Pledge to Disrupt Shipping in Solidarity with Gaza
• On Kennedy Center Stage, Folk Musicians Nora Brown & Stephanie Coleman Protest Trump's Takeover

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Democracy Now! 2025-03-17 Monday

• Headlines for March 17, 2025
• Rep. Jamie Raskin: Trump's Attacks on Critics & Press Are Part of the "Authoritarian Playbook"
• Trump Invokes Wartime Alien Enemies Act, Then Ignores Judicial Order to Turn Around Deportation Flights
• Should Schumer Step Down? Calls Grow for New Dem Leadership After He Voted for Trump Spending Bill

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Democracy Now! 2025-03-14 Friday

• Headlines for March 14, 2025
• "Never Again for Anyone": 100 Jewish Activists Arrested at Trump Tower Protesting Mahmoud Khalil Arrest
• "Imperialism and Totalitarianism Go Hand in Hand": M. Gessen on Trump's Policies at Home & Abroad
• If Successful, I Would Call It a Coup: A Retired Judge's Warning About Elon Musk's Abuse of Power

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Democracy Now! Thursday, March 13, 2025

Democracy Now! 2025-03-12 Wednesday

• Headlines for March 12, 2025
• Trump's Trade War: Why Lack of Universal Healthcare Makes U.S. Less Competitive
• "Impeach Trump Again": John Bonifaz on Fighting Trump's Lawlessness, Corruption & Attacks on Judges
• "Monumental Step": Ex-Philippines Pres. Duterte Arrested, Sent to Hague for Crimes Against Humanity

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Democracy Now! 2025-03-11 Tuesday

• Headlines for March 11, 2025
• "This Is All Retaliatory": Judge Blocks Mahmoud Khalil's Deportation as Trump Vows More Arrests
• Noura Erakat: Trump's Abuses & Mahmoud Khalil's Arrest Are Products of U.S. Imperialism Coming Home
• "A Devastating Tragedy": 1,000+ People Killed in Syria Amid Reports of Massacres Against Alawites

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Democracy Now! Monday, March 10, 2025

Democracy Now! 2025-03-07 Friday

• Headlines for March 07, 2025
• "Impeachment Is a Remedy for a Runaway President": Rep. Al Green on Why He Disrupted Trump's Address
• Bishop William Barber: GOP Tax Cuts "Mathematically Impossible" Without Gutting Medicaid and More
• Nicaragua Is in the Grips of Another Dictatorship, Decades After Sandinista Revolution: Reed Brody

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