Democracy Now! is a news program that broadcasts a grassroots, listener-funded investigative weekday newscast. Executive producer and host Amy Goodman, alongside co-hosts Juan Gonzalez and Nermeen Shaikh, share stories from the U.S. and abroad with a perspective that allows people to speak for themselves.
Weekday broadcasts cover the impacts of war, climate change, AI, working class struggles, political repression, racial and gender/sexuality-based oppression, and so much more. Often, the mainstream corporate media even picks up Democracy Now!’s coverage on these underreported stories.
Amy Goodman and her co-hosts are committed to covering what other media won’t. In Goodman’s early career, she worked at New York City’s community radio station Pacifica for 10 years, then traveled across the world reporting on stories about the U.S. Empire including the U.S.-backed Indonesian occupation of East Timor, U.S. oil companies’ activities in the Niger Delta, the 1999 WTO Battle of Seattle, and much more. In 2000, Goodman even conducted a half-hour interview with then-President Bill Clinton asking questions that made Clinton call her hostile, combative and disrespectful. Goodman responded that journalists have a duty to ask tough questions of those in power.
Goodman believes in the media as a “major force for peace”— that the media “can build bridges between communities because you say “that sounds like my baby, it sounds like my grandma, that sounds like my aunt or my uncle, it sounds like family—even if we disagree—it sounds like someone I want to protect, who has a right to exist.” She believes that the people have a right to know when their country goes to war and what is happening in that war.
The 2025 film Steal This Story, Please! covers the careers of Amy Goodman and her experience covering all these events and participation in global resistance.
Ordinary people want to watch news about OUR world, from OUR perspective, not the billionaires’ perspectives. Democracy Now lets everyday people speak to their own experiences, hosting experts from across a wide variety of disciplines and everyday working people alike.
Tune into Democracy Now! and share with everyone you know. You can watch or listen to the full newscast every weekday on the Democracy Now! website (democracynow.org), YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts.
