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The Taliban decree that women can no longer work for NGOs, just days after banning women from university; Journalists Ray Suarez and Alissa Quart discuss “Insecurity,” a new series on poverty during the pandemic. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

John Nichols on the final report from the January 6 committee; Hakeem Jefferson on the role of race and racism in the insurrection; Meet the Guyanese environmental lawyer taking on ExxonMobil. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

More than 1,000 faith leaders in the United States call for a Christmas truce in Ukraine; Will Trump be charged by the Department of Justice over his attempts to overturn the 2020 election? Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

About 190 countries reach a historic conservation deal at COP15, the U.N. biodiversity conference; The end of Title 42 is delayed again as thousands of asylum seekers wait at the border; Atlanta residents fight the construction of “Cop City,” a massive police training camp. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Highlights from the final January 6 committee hearing and reaction from Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Robert Weissman. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Border communities call for support as they brace for an increase in asylum seekers following the expected end of Title 42; Supporters of Mumia Abu-Jamal celebrate a legal decision that could reopen the case and clear the way for a new trial; A corruption scandal involving Qatar and Morocco rocks the European Parliament. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Women’s rights activist Sussan Tahmasebi on the protests sweeping Iran and the government’s intensifying crackdown; The case of imprisoned World Cup whistleblower Abdullah Ibhais, who has been imprisoned in Qatar since November 2019 after speaking out for abused migrant workers. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

In an exclusive joint interview, Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and John Young, the founder of Cryptome.org, both ask the Department of Justice to indict them with Julian Assange for possessing or publishing the same documents; As Mumia Abu-Jamal faces what could be his last chance for a new trial based on newly discovered evidence, we speak with a judge calling for his release. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

The Biden administration hosts leaders from 49 African nations for a three-day summit in Washington; Arizona’s outgoing Republican Governor Doug Ducey erects a makeshift border wall of shipping containers; Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema registers as an independent, further antagonizing Democrats. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

We hear speeches from Nobel Peace Prize recipients as they are awarded to human rights groups in Ukraine and Russia, as well as an imprisoned Belarusian activist; The documentary “Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power” looks at the pivotal role voter registration activists in Alabama played in the Black Power movement. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

WNBA star Brittney Griner returns to U.S. soil after a prisoner swap with Russia for the convicted arms dealer Viktor Bout; Sarah Leah Whitson on continued efforts to hold Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman responsible for the 2018 murder of Jamal Khashoggi. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Peru’s President Pedro Castillo is ousted and jailed after attempting to dissolve Congress; Boris Kagarlitsky in Moscow on how Russians are weary of Putin’s war in Ukraine; The Supreme Court considers “independent state legislature theory” in a North Carolina redistricting case with far-reaching implications for voting rights. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Senator Raphael Warnock defeats Republican Herschel Walker in Georgia’s closely watched Senate runoff; The new “Death By Policy” investigative podcast examines how U.S. Border Patrol has pushed many migrants into dangerous journeys near the U.S.-Mexico border. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Jeffrey Sachs on hopes for a negotiated end to fighting in Ukraine; Journalists from the award-winning Central American outlet El Faro sue NSO Group in U.S. court, alleging the firm’s Pegasus spyware was used to track their phones; Voters in Georgia decide the runoff election between Senator Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

A group of current and former Yale students has sued the Ivy League school for discriminating against students with mental health challenges in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act; We look at a fight in Chinatown, New York, against the city’s plans to build the tallest jail in the world. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

A new Al Jazeera documentary investigates “The Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh” six months after the Palestinian American journalist was shot dead by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank; Civil rights activist Angela Davis on the controversy that erupted when she was deemed “too radical” to speak in Rockland County, New York. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Jurors convict Oath Keepers leaders of seditious conspiracy over their role in the January 6 Capitol attack; American Prospect editor David Dayen on a busy lame-duck session in Congress; New York Mayor Eric Adams alarms advocates with a plan to involuntarily hospitalize people with mental illness. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Railroad Workers United organizer and labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein on Biden’s push to block a rail strike; Academic workers in the University of California system on why they are part of the largest higher education strike in U.S. history; An update on LUMA Energy and Puerto Rico’s frequent blackouts. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Abdullah Al-Arian on “Why the World Cup Belongs in the Middle East” and Jules Boykoff on why the World Cup in Qatar is a “Climate Catastrophe”; Reporter Victoria Law on the Manhattan district attorney’s move to drop murder charges against domestic violence survivor Tracy McCarter after a campaign against her criminalization. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Protests erupt in China over the government’s strict zero-COVID policies; Pressure mounts to stop Missouri’s Tuesday execution of Kevin Johnson, whose conviction was tainted by racism; Sahrawi climate activist Mahfud Bechri on greenwashing at COP27, and Western Sahara International Film Festival executive director María Carrión on the Moroccan occupation. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

The situation in Iran is “critical” as authorities tighten their crackdown on anti-government protests; Noam Chomsky on the life and legacy of radical peace and civil rights activist Staughton Lynd; Filipino activist Yeb Saño on what the “loss and damage” fund negotiated at COP27 means for the climate crisis. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

We speak with the family of imprisoned Egyptian dissident Alaa Abd El-Fattah on the state of his health following a six-month hunger strike and amid the growing movement to free him. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Rich countries agree to establish a climate reparations fund at the close of COP27 but fail to commit to fossil fuel phaseout; The Colorado Springs LGBTQ community reels from Saturday’s deadly shooting; Human rights violations in Qatar, host country of the World Cup that kicked off Sunday. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s aunt describes the activist’s condition after visiting him in prison; A Ukrainian climate activist and a Ukrainian climate scientist discuss how Russia’s war intensified calls for a transition to renewable energy; Russian environmentalist Vladimir Slivyak at COP27. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

As climate justice activists protest at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, calling on world leaders to do more to address the climate crisis and demanding wealthy nations pay climate reparations, we spend the hour with Indigenous land defenders from Venezuela, Guatemala, Mexico, the United States and Canada. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Broadcasting from COP27, we look at how “loss and damage” financing is now a key split at COP27; How military spending exacerbates the climate crisis; African climate activists mobilize against construction of EACOP, the East African Crude Oil Pipeline. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

We continue our coverage from COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, where activists are decrying a crackdown on dissent and inaction by world leaders to address the climate crisis. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

An interview with Congressmember-elect Delia Ramirez, the first Latina elected to Congress from Illinois and the daughter of Guatemalan immigrants; More cities and states moved toward ranked-choice voting in the midterm elections; Oxfam’s new report “Carbon Billionaires” links wealth inequality to the climate crisis and calls for a wealth tax. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

How New York election results could tip the balance of power in the House; Voters elect progressive prosecutors across the country, rejecting a tough-on-crime message; The Supreme Court hears oral arguments in Haaland v. Brackeen, a case that could dismantle Native sovereignty. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Democrats outperform expectations in Tuesday’s midterm elections, but control of Congress remains too close to call. We speak with The Nation’s John Nichols in Wisconsin, Black Voters Matter’s LaTosha Brown in Georgia, Aimee Allison with She the People. We also get updates on anti-abortion measures from Amy Littlefield and speak to Prof. Robert Reich about the role of inflation in the economy and next steps. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Egyptian activist Sanaa Seif is in Sharm el-Sheikh amid COP27 to demand authorities release her brother Alaa Abd El-Fattah, who is on a hunger strike and may be close to death; Sunrise Movement’s Varshini Prakash on what’s at stake for the climate in Tuesday’s midterms; How Arizona Republicans disenfranchised Native American voters after they helped swing the state to the Democrats in 2020; The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law on efforts to protect the vote in Tuesday’s midterm elections. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Justice Democrats spokesperson Waleed Shahid on which midterm races progressives could win; Voters weigh abortion access, cannabis legalization and other major issues in ballot initiatives across the United States; The impact of Elon Musk’s Twitter acquisition on communities of color and election disinformation. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Egypt arrests hundreds ahead of COP27; We discuss new diplomatic efforts between Russia and Ukraine and look at the war's impact on Africa; Ethiopia and the Tigray People's Liberation Front reach a peace deal to end years of brutal conflict. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Matt Duss and Ray McGovern debate the Russian invasion of Ukraine and how the left should respond to the war; SEIU president Mary Kay Henry on what’s at stake for working people in the midterm elections. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

The majority-conservative Supreme Court appears poised to strike down affirmative action in college admissions; Israel votes in its fifth national elections in four years amid increasing violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank; New York pays millions for wrongfully convicting two men for the assassination of Malcolm X. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defeats far-right President Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil’s runoff elections in a remarkable political comeback, but Bolsonaro has yet to concede; Democratic Congressmember Ro Khanna of California on the war in Ukraine, U.S.-Saudi relations, midterm elections and more. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Carol Anderson on Democrats losing ground in the closely watched Senate and gubernatorial races in Georgia; Mother Jones reporter Ari Berman on how Republicans used extreme gerrymandering to take over the Wisconsin legislature and what this means for 2024; Voting rights activist Desmond Meade on how Republicans in Florida are trying to intimidate formerly incarcerated people from voting. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Progressive House lawmakers send, then retract, a letter urging diplomacy with Russia; Peace talks begin in South Africa to end the Ethiopian conflict; Children’s hospitals across the United States see a rise in respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

As the war in Ukraine enters its ninth month, we look at the Biden administration’s unprecedented military spending on Ukraine and how U.S. arms sales fuel war and weaken national security; Prompted by the NAACP, the EPA files a civil rights investigation into the Jackson water crisis; The ACLU asks the Supreme Court to overturn an Arkansas anti-BDS law that penalizes companies that support boycotts of Israel. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

As protests in Iran enter their second month, with more than a thousand protesters arrested, we speak with Iranian human rights lawyer and activist Shirin Ebadi, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

An update on the political and economic crisis in Haiti; Biden expands the Trump-era Title 42 program to turn away Venezuelan asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border; Congressmember Cori Bush on her new memoir, “The Forerunner: A Story of Pain and Perseverance in America.” Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

How police in Missouri ignored warnings about a killer targeting Black women until a woman escaped from captivity; As hate crimes against Asian Americans are linked to anti-China rhetoric by politicians, we speak with Gina Kim, executive producer of the new PBS film, “Rising Against Asian Hate: One Day in March”; As nuclear powers ratchet up tensions, activists call on U.S. lawmakers to “Defuse Nuclear War.” Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

We look at “The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks,” a new documentary by filmmaker Yoruba Richen based on the award-winning biography by historian Jeanne Theoharis. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Excerpts from Thursday’s public hearing by the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Iranian American scholar Reza Aslan and Amnesty International’s Raha Bahreini on the escalating protests in Iran; an exiled Russian activist and Ukrainian activist discuss the war. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad on U.S. global empire; Legendary Indigenous singer and activist Buffy Sainte-Marie on the significance of Indigenous Peoples’ Day; Remembering the late Indigenous activist and actress Sacheen Littlefeather. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

The 2022 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to human rights champions in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine; President Biden issues a blanket pardon for all federal convictions of simple marijuana possession. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

As President Biden surveys damage from Hurricanes Fiona and Ian, we get an update from Florida and Puerto Rico; Mass protests in Haiti demand the resignation of the prime minister amid skyrocketing fuel costs; The seditious conspiracy trial of leaders of the far-right group the Oath Keepers is underway in Washington. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Elie Mystal on the new Supreme Court term and the historic investiture of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson; Burkina Faso faces its second military coup of the year; Marking the 103rd anniversary of the Elaine massacre in Arkansas, when white mobs backed by federal troops killed hundreds of African Americans and stole their land. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe

Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad, co-authors of a new book on U.S. foreign policy, discuss the Brazilian election, the war in Ukraine and more. Get Democracy Now! delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Digest: democracynow.org/subscribe