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Ibram X. Kendi on the police killing of unarmed Black man, George Floyd, the viral video of a white woman threatening a Black Central Park birder, and the new COVID Racial Data Tracker; Two die f...

https://www.democracynow.org/shows/2020/05/27

We continue our interview with an epidemiologist in New Zealand about how the country’s response compares to government actions in the United States and worldwide.

https://www.democracynow.org/2020/05/26/as_new_zealand_eliminates_covid_advisor

We look at the pandemic's devastating impact on Brazil's Indigenous peoples, who are dying at double the rate of the rest of the country; New Zealand, which implemented one of the earliest lockdo...

https://www.democracynow.org/shows/2020/05/26

Special broadcast: We spend the hour with Noam Chomsky as he discusses President Trump's disastrous coronavirus response, his threats against China and the World Health Organization, and much mor...

https://www.democracynow.org/shows/2020/05/25

“A volcanic rage is rapidly rising to the surface in this country,” says historian Mike Davis, “and we need to harness it to defend and build unions, ensure Medicare for all, and knock the ...

https://www.democracynow.org/2020/05/22/mike_davis_as_workers_face_dangerous

Authorities arrest a third White man for the killing of Ahmaud Arbery; We speak with renowned Indian journalist P. Sainath; As all 50 states partially reopen this weekend, historian Mike Davis sa...

https://www.democracynow.org/shows/2020/05/22

We get an update from Bangladesh, where a cyclone threatens a camp, home to 1 million Rohingya refugees, and look at COVID-19's threat to refugees across the globe; a new report finds 1 million c...

https://www.democracynow.org/shows/2020/05/21

Reverend William Barber calls for a Mass Poor People's Assembly on June 20; New York City shuts down its subways overnight, removing people who rely on the trains for shelter; a largely immigrant...

https://www.democracynow.org/shows/2020/05/20

States begin to reopen even as U.S. deaths from the coronavirus top 90,000; The pandemic batters journalism, with at least 36,000 media workers experiencing layoffs, furloughs or pay cuts since t...

https://www.democracynow.org/shows/2020/05/19

How will the pandemic end, and how will the world look when it's over? We spend the hour with renowned medical historian Frank Snowden, author of the new book "Epidemics and Society: From the Bla...

https://www.democracynow.org/shows/2020/05/18

Amid the pandemic, calls grow to halt deportations to Guatemala and Haiti; the Supreme Court hears arguments in a case that may shape the outcome of future presidential elections; we look at voti...

https://www.democracynow.org/shows/2020/05/15

Is the coronavirus pandemic generating a mental illness crisis? We talk to psychology professor and writer Andrew Solomon; Renowned palliative care specialist Dr. Diane Meier on the pandemic's im...

https://www.democracynow.org/shows/2020/05/14