Politics

Both Republican and Democratic leaders have joined together in paying homage to the late Rep. John Lewis.

John Stumpf is undoubtedly decompressing somewhere right now, waiting in comfort for the heat to die down.

Ireland joins France, Germany and Bulgaria in banning fracking onshore.

“The $1.7 trillion student loan crisis is crushing individuals, families, and our economy, and the weight of this burden is disproportionately borne by women and Black and Latino borrowers.”

In running a social system, we really need to decide when and how wealth can be used to “buy your way” into a better level of treatment.

The White House confirmed its decision to block the testimony of Redfield and other CDC officials, saying the director "has testified on the Hill at least four times over the last three months."

Iran finally seems to be besting the United States in a significant fashion across the region. It’s a story that needs to be told.

Trump is using sympathetic out-of-work miners as a cover for what is really just a handout to dirty industry.

Under the state of emergency, French police can raid any home without judicial oversight. The vast majority of those targeted in the raids have been Muslim. Watch the interview with Yasser Louati, spokesperson and head of the International Relations Desk for the Collective Against Islamophobia in France.

In his first interview since his release, Eric McDavid, environmental activist who has just been released from prison 10 years early, discusses his release exclusively with Democracy Now! Watch it in its entirety here.