Newt Gingrich's attacks on reporters who have asked him tough questions during the 2012 Republican presidential primary may sound familiar to Democracy Now! listeners and viewers.

Watch the video below to see Amy Goodman question Gingrich about the GOP's "war on women," first in 1995...

Two months ago, legendary hip-hop entrepreneur Russell Simmons was one of the first high-profile public supporters to come to the Occupy Wall Street encampment at Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan.

On Thursday's day of action, he was there again to speak to Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman....

The campaign of Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain took another hit on Monday when a fourth woman emerged to accuse him of sexual harassment in the 1990s. But the allegations of sexual harassment are not the only controversies surrounding Cain.

Also on Monday, the Wisconsin-based Center for...

Watch the Democracy Now! exclusive report from the "Freedom Waves to Gaza" flotilla this morning, shortly before the Israeli Navy intercepted the two ships attempting to reach the Gaza coast.

Just when Democracy Now! went on the air today at 8 a.m. EDT, we lost contact with...

Oscar-winning filmmaker, best-selling author and provocateur laureate Michael Moore elaborated on his support of the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City today live on Democracy Now!, the independent, daily TV/radio news hour.

"This is literally an uprising of people who have had it," Moore told Democracy...

Today, postal workers and their supporters are holding events across the country to press their demand for repealing the benefit-funding mandate and push back against calls for their workplace to be privatized.

For months, Americans have heard dire warnings about the impending collapse of the United States Postal Service...

During the most recent Republican presidential debate on Monday, Rep. Ron Paul of Texas drew boos and jeers from the crowd and his fellow debaters for his views on the roots of 9/11 attacks. Paul criticized U.S. foreign policy as the catalyst stating, "we're under great threat because we occupy...

The much anticipated memoir of former Vice President Dick Cheney, In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir, was published yesterday.

To reflect on Cheney's tenure in the George W. Bush administration, Democracy Now! speaks with Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell.

Thousands of environmental activists from across the continent plan to gather in Washington, D.C., this weekend to launch a two-week protest against the proposed Keystone XL pipeline that would carry tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada, to U.S. oil refineries in the Gulf of Mexico.

Environmentalists plan to hold sit-ins...

On Democracy Now!, veteran journalist Tavis Smiley and Princeton University Professor Cornel West offer a stinging critique of President Barack Obama and discuss the upcoming 2012 elections.

"He's rightly associated much more with the oligarchs than with poor people," says West.

Adds Smiley, "I don't think...

The debt ceiling agreement reached this week by the White House and Congress could deal a serious blow to women's well-being, according to leading women's rights groups. The deal will potentially impose $1 trillion in cuts to programs that mostly serve and employ women, such as family planning...

After giving a nearly six-month tryout for the Internet talk show host Cenk Uygur, the cable news channel MSNBC is preparing to instead award its 6 p.m. primetime slot to the Reverend Al Sharpton. MSNBC President Phil Griffin offered Uygur a well-paid, but lower-profile on-air slot, but Uygur rejected the...

To discuss the phone-hacking scandal engulfing the Rupert Murdoch media empire from Britain to the United States, Democracy Now! interviews longtime journalist Sarah Ellison, a former veteran reporter who spent ten years working for the Wall Street Journal. She has chronicled the changes at the publication after Rupert...

British Prime Minister David Cameron has announced plans to hold an emergency session of Parliament on Wednesday to discuss the growing phone-hacking scandal that has threatened Rupert Murdoch's media empire and rocked the British government.

Democracy Now! hosts an extensive interview with Ian...

Human Rights Watch has released a new report calling on the U.S. government to launch a broad criminal investigation into alleged crimes of torture committed by former President George W. Bush and other top officials under his administration.

The report comes on the heels of a Department of Justice...

Today on Democracy Now!, The Nation investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill provides Yves van Loo, an International Committee of the Red Cross spokesperson, with the location of the secret prison used by the CIA he uncovered in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, which the Red Cross says it did...

In a Democracy Now! interview before the U.S. ship "The Audacity of Hope" left a port in Greece, Consul General of Israel in New York Ido Aharoni defends the Israeli government's campaign against the flotilla, claiming there is no need for humanitarian aid to be shipped to Gaza...

Protests continue in Greece after lawmakers approved a new round of sweeping austerity measures amidst a general strike that has brought tens of thousands into the streets.

Riot police have fired volleys of tear gas, smoke bombs and stun grenades in a bid to clear the masses of Greek...

Up to 50 Americans are set to sail from a Greek port on a U.S.-flagged ship that is part of an international flotilla carrying humanitarian aid and letters of support for Gaza's 1.5 million Palestinian residents. Its fate is now in limbo under the weight of U.S.-Israeli pressure and Greece's...

On Wednesday, a bipartisan group of 10 members of Congress sued President Obama for violating the War Powers Act of 1973 by failing to obtain congressional approval for military operations in Libya longer than 60 days.

Democracy Now! hosts a heated debate...