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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg first gained fame in the 1970s when she co-founded the Women's Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union and argued six gender discrimina...

http://www.democracynow.org/2020/9/21/rbg_stephen_wiesenfeld

In her later years, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was internationally known simply as her initials — RBG — and a 2018 documentary film by the same name about Ginsburg's legal care...

http://www.democracynow.org/2020/9/21/rbg_julie_cohen

We look at the life and legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, as well as the future of the Supreme Court, in a wide-ranging interview with Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor at Slate, where she is the senio...

http://www.democracynow.org/2020/9/21/rbg_scotus_seat

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dies at 87, Sparking a Deluge of Tributes and a Fierce Succession Battle, U.S. COVID-19 Death Toll Poised to Top 200,000, U.N. Says 150 Million More Children May Face ...

http://www.democracynow.org/2020/9/21/headlines

This week President Trump described the work of the legendary historian Howard Zinn, who died in 2010, as "propaganda" meant to "make students ashamed of their own history." But Zinn believed the...

http://www.democracynow.org/2020/9/18/howard_zinn_us_history

As climate-fueled wildfires continue to ravage the West, the Trump administration has tapped a well-known climate change denier for a top position at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administ...

http://www.democracynow.org/2020/9/18/noaa_david_legates_climate_crisis

As the official United States death toll from COVID-19 approaches 200,000 people, we speak with infectious disease expert Dr. Monica Gandhi, who says President Trump's refusal to promote face mas...

http://www.democracynow.org/2020/9/18/dr_monica_gandhi_face_masks

White House Scuttled Plan to Mail 650 Million Face Masks to U.S. Households, NYC Schools Delay In-Person Classes Amid Staffing Shortages and Coronavirus Fears, CDC Watered Down Coronavirus Testin...

http://www.democracynow.org/2020/9/18/headlines

Legendary Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg says Julian Assange's extradition hearing in London could have far-reaching consequences for press freedoms. The WikiLeaks founder faces an...

http://www.democracynow.org/2020/9/17/daniel_ellsberg_julian_assange_extradition_case

We get an update on the massive fire at the Moria refugee camp in Lesbos, Greece, which has left 13,000 refugees and migrants from Afghanistan, African countries and Syria without access to shelt...

http://www.democracynow.org/2020/9/17/greece_moria_refugee_camp_fire

The humanitarian crisis in Yemen is deepening amid the pandemic and cuts to international aid from the United States and its allies, leaving millions of Yemenis facing famine after years of a bru...

http://www.democracynow.org/2020/9/17/yemen_crisis_us_uae_saudi_arabia

Trump Sidelines Science as He Contradicts CDC Director on Vaccines and Masks, Israeli Journalists Quarantine After White House Staffer Tests Positive for Coronavirus, Big Ten Football to Resume w...

http://www.democracynow.org/2020/9/17/headlines

As the Trump administration celebrates deals establishing diplomatic ties between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, we speak with Palestinian American legal scholar Noura Erakat, w...

http://www.democracynow.org/2020/9/16/noura_erakat_trump_israel_middle_east

Journalist and author Mychal Denzel Smith joins us for a wide-ranging discussion on the uprising against racist police, the upcoming presidential election and why he says a Biden win won't cure h...

http://www.democracynow.org/2020/9/16/mychal_denzel_smith_stakes_is_high

The city of Louisville, Kentucky, will pay a historic $12 million settlement to the family of Breonna Taylor, more than six months after police shot and killed the 26-year-old Black emergency roo...

http://www.democracynow.org/2020/9/16/breonna_taylor_historic_settlement

Louisville, KY Reaches Wrongful Death Settlement over Breonna Taylor's Killing by Police, Trump Says "Herd Mentality" Will Make COVID-19 "Go Away", LSU Coach Says Most Football Players Have Alrea...

http://www.democracynow.org/2020/9/16/headlines

The online giant Amazon has made an extraordinary amount of money during the COVID-19 pandemic, as many people shelter at home and shop online. A new Public Citizen report documents how Amazon se...

http://www.democracynow.org/2020/9/15/pandemic_profiteering_amazon_caught_price_gouging

We examine California's history of forest management and how a century of fire suppression has made the current climate fires even more destructive. For thousands of years, Native American tribes...

http://www.democracynow.org/2020/9/15/california_wildfires_indigenous_land_stewardship

With just seven weeks to go before the U.S. presidential election, the battle for the White House is increasingly being fought in courts across the country. From Wisconsin to Florida, Pennsylvani...

http://www.democracynow.org/2020/9/15/ari_berman_voting_rights

Trump Doubles Down on Climate Crisis Denial as West Coast Burns, World's Largest Vaccine Maker Says It Could Take 5 Years for Universal COVID-19 Vaccination, Trump Calls COVID-19 "The Plague" in ...

http://www.democracynow.org/2020/9/15/headlines

With less than two months before November, the Poor People's Campaign has launched a push to register tens of millions of poor and low-income voters, who could decide the fate of the election. "V...

http://www.democracynow.org/2020/9/14/rev_william_barber_mobilizing_poor_voters

President Trump has said little about the wildfires raging in California, Oregon and Washington for three weeks, other than to suggest poor forest management was primarily to blame. But the state...

http://www.democracynow.org/2020/9/14/oregon_wildfires_forest_management_climate_crisis

As devastating fires burn across the West Coast, some of the most vulnerable people are farmworkers — many of whom are undocumented. Despite the risks of the pandemic and the climate-fueled fir...

http://www.democracynow.org/2020/9/14/us_wildfires_farmworkers

Historic Climate-Fueled Wildfires Kill 35 People, Burn 5 Million+ Acres Across West Coast, Trump Holds Packed Rally as U.S. Coronavirus Deaths Near 200,000 , ICE Flew Migrant Prisoners to Virgin...

http://www.democracynow.org/2020/9/14/headlines

As the world races to find a COVID-19 vaccine, one of the most promising vaccine trials has hit a major roadblock. AstraZeneca paused its Phase 3 COVID-19 vaccine trial after a woman in the trial...

http://www.democracynow.org/2020/9/11/astrazeneca_oxford_vaccine_trial

Since the police killing of George Floyd in May sparked a nationwide uprising against police brutality, armed white supremacists have taken to the streets of U.S. cities in response to Black Live...

http://www.democracynow.org/2020/9/11/barbara_smith_ending_white_supremacy

As the United States marks 19 years since the September 11 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people, a new report finds at least 37 million people in eight countries have been displaced ...

http://www.democracynow.org/2020/9/11/9_11_war_on_terror_report

500,000 Evacuated Across Oregon as Record-Shattering Fires Rage in Western States, AstraZeneca CEO Warned Investors of Vaccine Recipient Who Became Ill, Trump Admin Fines Pork Processor $13,500 f...

http://www.democracynow.org/2020/9/11/headlines

We look at the history of clinical vaccine trials and exploitation of vulnerable people in the U.S. and India, which recently surpassed Brazil as the country with the second most infections world...

http://www.democracynow.org/2020/9/10/vaccine_trials_developing_world

As President Trump pushes to release a coronavirus vaccine before the November election, a National Institutes of Health report details how the process could be slowed by a lack of participation ...

http://www.democracynow.org/2020/9/10/vaccine_trials_black_participants_medical_ethics

The skies of the Bay Area and Northern California turned a dark orange as 90 major fires burn in the western United States, from San Diego to the Canadian border. At least seven people have died ...

http://www.democracynow.org/2020/9/10/leah_stokes_west_coast_fires

Wildfires Destroy Oregon Towns, Bringing "Apocalyptic" Orange Skies to West Coast, Human Activity Blamed for 68% Drop in Animal Population Since 1970, President Donald Trump Acknowledges Downplay...

http://www.democracynow.org/2020/9/10/headlines

We look at how decades of U.S. military intervention in Central America have led to the ongoing migrant crisis, with Salvadoran American journalist Roberto Lovato, author of the new book "Unforge...

http://www.democracynow.org/2020/9/9/roberto_lovato_unforgetting_memoir

As the long-awaited extradition hearing for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gets underway in London, his legal adviser, Jennifer Robinson, says the case could set a chilling precedent for press ...

http://www.democracynow.org/2020/9/9/julian_assange_extradition_hearing_jennifer_robinson

California Governor Has "No Patience for Climate Change Deniers" Amid Historic Fires, Report Estimates Sturgis Motorcycle Rally Led to Quarter-Million COVID-19 Cases, Peru COVID-19 Death Toll Rea...

http://www.democracynow.org/2020/9/9/headlines