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As hunger grows across the globe during the pandemic, the United Nations faces intense criticism for giving corporations an outsized role at the Food Systems Summit; We look at AUKUS, the new military partnership between the United States, Australia and…

As U.S. students and teachers return to the classroom amid surging cases of the COVID-19 Delta variant, the debate over mask mandates has turned to the schools. We speak with Texas mother Julia Longoria, whose 8-year-old daughter Juliana has asthma. She’s…

The Cuban government denounces the U.S. for intensifying its economic blockade while the island nation is facing a surge in COVID-19 cases and deaths; How a drug-trafficking mayor in Honduras fueled the U.S. migration crisis.…

Democrats remain divided over President Biden's sweeping $3.5 trillion spending plan; Marking 10 years since the execution of Troy Davis by the state of Georgia for a crime many believe he did not commit.…

The U.S. begins deporting Haitian asylum seekers from a makeshift camp in Texas despite opposition from immigrant advocates; An abortion provider in Texas talks about the state's near-total ban on abortions; Public health advocates call on Johnson & Johnson to…

Simone Biles and other top gymnasts blast the FBI for failing to investigate credible reports of serial sexual abuse by USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar; We speak with three veterans of the Occupy Wall Street movement on the 10th anniversary of the historic…

Writer Anand Gopal on "the other Afghan women" and how decades of war devastated rural communities in Afghanistan; Public health experts denounce the Biden administration's plans for booster shots as much of the world still lacks access to COVID-19 vaccines;…

California voters vote no in the Republican-led recall election targeting Governor Gavin Newsom; A U.S. drone strike in Kabul that the Pentagon claimed took out an ISIS-K militant appears to have only killed civilians; Counting the undocumented immigrants who…

How Islamophobia has driven foreign policy and impacted the United States over the last 20 years; Canadian authorities arrest nearly 1,000 people at Fairy Creek in British Columbia, where activists have sustained a months-long blockade to stop old-growth…

We spend the hour marking the 50th anniversary of the 1971 Attica prison rebellion, the deadliest prison uprising in the history of the United States. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Congressmember Barbara Lee discusses her lonely vote against war in 2001; We revisit a conversation in 2002, when a New Yorker who lost her brother in the World Trade Center attacks and an Afghan American woman who lost 19 family members in the U.S. bombing of…

We speak with the filmmakers behind the new Netflix docuseries "Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror"; Historian Samuel Moyn on how efforts to make war more "humane" have fueled U.S. military interventions abroad.…