Watching Allen v. Farrow, HBO’s new four-part miniseries about the 29-year-old allegations of child molestation against the director Woody Allen, I kept having a feeling that I couldn’t entirely identify. Since revelations about Harvey Weinstein emerged in late 2017—broken, in part, by Allen’s son, Ronan Farrow—harrowing stories about abusive men in the workplace have been reported one after another.
The visionary Black science-fiction writer Octavia Butler died 15 years ago on February 24, 2006, but her influence and readership has only continued to grow since then. In September, Butler’s novel “Parable of the Sower” became her first to reach the New York Times best-seller list. We speak with adrienne maree brown, a writer and Octavia Butler scholar, who says Butler had a remarkable talent for universalizing Black stories.
As Democracy Now! marks 25 years on the air, we are revisiting some of the best and most impactful moments from the program’s history, including one of the last television interviews given by the visionary Black science-fiction writer Octavia Butler. She spoke to Democracy Now! in November 2005, just three months before she died on February 24, 2006, at age 58.
The United States has passed 500,000 COVID-19 deaths, by far the highest toll in the world. The morbid milestone comes as new COVID-19 cases continue to fall across the country amid an accelerating vaccine rollout, but the head of the World Health Organization is calling on rich countries not to undermine efforts to get vaccines to poorer nations by buying up billions of doses — in some cases ordering enough to vaccinate their populations more than once.
Among the visible remnants of Donald Trump’s presidency is a blank patch of wall along a hallway a short distance from Capitol Hill.
I’m now working up to 75 hours a week, including late nights and weekends.
Parenting advice on favoritism, safety, and birthday parties.
The rebuild from a devastating earthquake was Christchurch, New Zealand’s chance to reimagine what a city could be.
“Hatchet houses” survived a terrible year by providing a valuable public service.
President Biden’s plan would actually do a lot of good—but it could do even more.
I don’t want to pressure her, but she is wrong.
Allies laud Brian Deese’s leadership on the stimulus negotiations, but he’s rubbed some the wrong way.
The U.S. wants to stop new coal projects, but risks losing poor countries to Beijing’s “Belt and Road” agenda.
Investors are pumping up bubbles across markets, with excitement growing about more stimulus and widespread vaccinations.
As the critical swing vote in a 50-50 Senate, Joe Manchin has emerged as the most powerful man in Washington.
Democracy Now! first aired on nine community radio stations on February 19, 1996, on the eve of the New Hampshire presidential primary. In the 25 years since that initial broadcast, the program has greatly expanded, airing today on more than 1,500 television and radio stations around the globe and reaching millions of people online.
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You can read the text of Biden’s speech here.
Today, Daily Kos delivered over 260,000 signatures in support of Rep. Deb Haaland as the Senate is about to begin hearings to confirm her as the new secretary of the Department of the Interior under the Biden-Harris administration. Haaland currently serves as the representative from New Mexico’s 1st Congressional District and was nominated to lead the Department of Interior by President Joe Biden in December 2020.
A few days ago, I was talking on the phone with the mayor of a medium-sized “red state” city about how his town was weathering the public-health and financial crises of this era. I told him I was mainly curious about his observations, rather than looking at the moment for on-the-record quotes.
For more than three years, asylum-seeker Edith Espinal has been in sanctuary at Columbus Mennonite Church in Ohio. She’d lived in the state for 20 years. She has no criminal record. She’d been checking in regularly with the government. But in October 2017, she was forced to go into sanctuary after becoming a priority for deportation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
That church has been her home since.
“We’ll remember each person we lost, the lives they lived and the loved ones they’ve left behind,” the president said. “We will get through this.
When video of George Floyd being killed under the literal weight of Minneapolis law enforcement officer Derek Chauvin surfaced, it touched off months of protests across the country.
When we celebrate Black History Month, we should also ensure that we don’t erase its ugly underbelly. Watching the television news shows this weekend as a host of Republican white supremacy supporters and insurrectionists got interviewed, and continued to spew lies, I was thinking about this portrait.
Do you know this family? My guess would be probably you don’t—because so much of Black folks’ history gets erased.
The company has applied to the Food and Drug Administration for emergency authorization.
Joe Biden, soon after being sworn in, predicted the nation would hit half a million deaths by the end of February.
Joe Biden’s attorney general nominee brushed off the senator’s “defund the police” question with a reference to the Jan. 6 riot.
If they don’t act, they’ll give many Americans a surprise tax bill—and every right to be furious.
Spotify’s “Renegades: Born in the USA,” which debuted Monday, features the two men discussing “their lives, music, and enduring love of America.
He will recall his mother’s life-threatening hemorrhaging during a miscarriage when he was a child during testimony Tuesday.
