Pope Francis is set to make history by issuing the first-ever comprehensive Vatican teachings on climate change, which will urge 1.2 billion Catholics worldwide to take action.
Democracy Now! is an independent, daily global news hour anchored by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan González. We air live weekdays 8-9AM ET and rebroadcast throughout the day on nearly 1,400 TV & radio stations in 43 countries. Here we post excerpts from our interviews and key moments from our daily show.
It’s a crazy thing when the leading law enforcement official of the nation comes out and says that some companies are just so big that we can’t prosecute them no matter what they do … This became the unofficial official policy of the Justice Department. And this greatly affected how they dealt with companies like JPMorgan Chase, CitiGroup, and Bank of America.
Matt Taibbi, investigative reporter for Rolling Stone who featured JPMorgan Chase whistleblower Alayne Fleischmann in his new article. Watch the exclusive Democracy Now! interview with both of them.
Mitch McConnell, probably more than any other politician in the United States, is associated with being the architect of Citizens United. He has often said that money is speech … So this race, in many ways, was Mitch McConnell’s dream come true — and you did see somewhere north of $80 million spent in it.
Phillip Bailey, Kentucky-based reporter explains in an interview on Democracy Now! today. Click here to learn more about how the Citizen United ruling impacted this election.
We unfortunately don’t know a lot about the donors in this election … We’re seeing hundreds of millions of dollars being poured into campaigns through 501©(4) nonprofits or 501©(6) business leagues. These are groups that do not have to report their donors.
Lee Fang, a reporter trying to follow the “dark money” trail. Watch his report on Democracy Now! today. The most expensive midterms in history could see one of the lowest turnouts in years. This despite a record estimate of $4 billion in spending. One quarter of that money, some $1 billion, will come from anonymous, so-called dark money groups.
“We should know who’s buying our government,” notes longtime journalist Bill Moyers on Democracy Now! today. “Democracy is supposed to check the excesses of private power and private greed."
Watch extended clips from the new documentary, "State of Conflict: North Carolina,” which aired recently on "Moyers & Company.“