We speak with journalist Alissa Quart, executive director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, about her new book, Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream, which examines myths about individualism and self-reliance that underpin the U.S. economy and the inequality it fosters.
“I’m not sure either side ideologically is prepared for that, I don’t think the punditocracy is prepared for that, I don’t think you and I are prepared for that,” said the MSNBC anchor.
“This is too great an assault on our system,” said the Fox News host who called insurrectionists “sightseers.
The ex-president was indicted in Manhattan after an investigation of his role in a $130,000 hush money payment to Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election.
Larry Kudlow, Trump’s former economic adviser, made the comments less than an hour before the indictment news broke.
Republicans will likely hand $25 million annually to anti-abortion pregnancy centers with the passage of a six-week ban on abortions.
We speak with writer and filmmaker Jennifer Fox, whose 2018 movie The Tale dealt with childhood sexual abuse. She has now come forward to name her abuser. The film is a narrative memoir based in part on Fox’s own life experience about being abused by a coach as a young girl. While the main character is named Fox, the name of the abusive coach was fictionalized. Now Fox has revealed the man who abused her as Ted Nash, the legendary Olympic rower and coach who died in 2021.
We speak with Jaysin Saxton, one of the witnesses who testified at the Senate hearing Wednesday on Starbucks’ union-busting record. Saxton was a former Starbucks shift manager, fired after leading the union drive at a store in Augusta, Georgia. He tells Democracy Now! he and fellow workers were motivated to organize their store to address the “insane” working conditions, including understaffing and inconsistent schedules.
Just weeks after the National Labor Relations Board accused Starbucks of engaging in “egregious and widespread misconduct” to prevent employees from unionizing, the company’s longtime CEO Howard Schultz appeared before the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on Wednesday to answer questions. Committee Chair Bernie Sanders of Vermont grilled Schultz on the company’s union-busting record and demanded an end to retaliation against workers.
We continue to remember the lawyer and human rights activist Randall Robinson, the founder of the racial justice group TransAfrica, who died last week at age 81. Robinson was a leader in the U.S. movement against South African apartheid and was a prominent critic of U.S. policy in Haiti, including the U.S.-backed coup against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 2004.
“We went from ‘backing the blue’ to ‘backing the coup,’” the California Democrat said as he took aim at a post from Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
“Tells you all you need to know,” Democratic Rep. Brendan Boyle responded on Twitter.
New York Rep. Jamaal Bowman lost it at Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky in a congressional hallway after yet another school shooting.
Louisiana Rep. Clay Higgins defended unborn fetuses while downplaying the role of guns as the leading cause of death for American children.
The state’s bill joins the 435 anti-transgender bills and ongoing efforts from lawmakers nationwide restricting the rights of transgender and LGBTQ+ people.
We speak with journalist Alissa Quart, executive director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, about her new book, Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream, which examines myths about individualism and self-reliance that underpin the U.S. economy and the inequality it fosters.
A bipartisan group of senators has introduced the RESTRICT Act, which would allow the federal government to potentially ban technology from countries the U.S. considers to be adversaries, including China. Last Thursday, congressmembers grilled TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew during a five-hour hearing on the app’s ties to the Chinese government, its data practices and its effects on children’s mental health.
We go to Ciudad Juárez for an update on the fire that killed at least 38 men held at a Mexican immigration detention center just across the U.S. border from El Paso, Texas. Surveillance video from the jail shows guards walking away as flames spread inside the jail cells, making no effort to open the jail cells or help the migrants who were trapped.
We remember the human rights activist and lawyer Randall Robinson, the founder of TransAfrica, who died Friday at the age of 81. Robinson played a critical role in the anti-apartheid movement in the United States and was a prominent critic of U.S. policy in Haiti. In 2004, he helped expose the U.S. role in the coup that ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. We air excerpts from a 2013 interview Robinson did with Democracy Now! about his work.
Philip Bump explained the subtext to the former president’s comments on the 2024 campaign trail.
The Fox News host amped up the chorus of right-wing anti-trans hate following a school shooting in Nashville.
GOP Rep. Andy Ogles, whose district contains the Nashville school where six people were killed, said he has no regrets about the holiday photo.
A source familiar with the investigation told HuffPost there is “no evidence to prove any specific religion motivated the actions of the shooter.
“We’re doing something majorly, majorly wrong,” the host of “The Story” said to her colleague following the mass shooting at a Nashville school.
We continue to remember the lawyer and human rights activist Randall Robinson, the founder of the racial justice group TransAfrica, who died last week at age 81. Robinson was a leader in the U.S. movement against South African apartheid and was a prominent critic of U.S. policy in Haiti, including the U.S.-backed coup against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 2004.
Nashville is in mourning after a gunman killed six people at a private Christian elementary school Monday before being killed by police. The victims were three adults who worked at the school and three 9-year-old students. Police identified the shooter as 28-year-old Audrey Hale, a former student, who entered the school through a side door armed with two assault-style weapons and a handgun.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to delay a push to overhaul and weaken Israel’s judiciary until the next parliamentary session. The retreat came after months of unprecedented mass protests and a general strike on Monday that shut down much of Israel. Netanyahu had earlier fired his defense minister, Yoav Gallant, for suggesting a delay to judicial changes.
Police arrested a suspect in the attack that occurred in broad daylight in Washington, D.C.
“Even though he is winning in the polls, that will not help,” the “Fox & Friends” host said.
Sean Hannity asked the former president about his “death & destruction” and baseball bat posts targeting the Manhattan district attorney.