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This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has fired at least five members of its social impact team, including its artistic director, the renowned artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph. The team aimed to expand the art center’s reach to diverse audiences […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: We begin today in Massachusetts, where over a thousand protesters gathered near Tufts University Wednesday after masked, plainclothes immigration agents snatched Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts Ph.D. student, from the streets of Somerville. Ozturk is a doctoral student in the school’s […]

Israel’s Gaza offensive claims over 100 Palestinian lives daily, rights monitor reports Daily casualties in Gaza average 103 killed and 223 injured since Israel resumed military operations on March 18. Entire families, journalists, and educators are among civilian victims of airstrikes and shelling. Humanitarian aid remains blocked, leaving Gaza with only […]

Major Earthquake Strikes Burma and Thailand, Collapsing Buildings as Rescuers Rush to Find Survivors Israeli Attacks on Gaza Continue After It Broke Ceasefire, Killing More Students and Aid Workers Israel Attacks Southern Lebanon, Beirut in Flagrant Breach of Ceasefire Marco Rubio Says Rumeysa Ozturk Is One of "More Than 300" Visa Holders Targeted by Trump […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman. The Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on international students. On Thursday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended the State Department’s role in the arrest of Tufts […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman, as we continue our look at this new documentary, The Encampments, about the historic Columbia University Gaza solidarity encampment and the nationwide student uprising against U.S. support […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman. Not content with spending more than a quarter of a billion dollars to elect Donald Trump, we look now at how the richest man in the world, senior adviser to President Trump, […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman. We end today’s show with Part 2 of my recent interview with the reporter Chris McGreal, who was the Johannesburg correspondent for The Guardian during the last years of apartheid through 2002. […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org. I’m Amy Goodman. Several Democratic lawmakers are calling for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and national security adviser Mike Waltz to resign, after they discussed plans to bomb Yemen on a Signal group chat. Waltz had […]

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman. We end today’s show in Turkey, where protesters took to the streets for a seventh consecutive night, defying a ban, following the jailing of the Istanbul Mayor […]