Bell’s palsy. It hit suddenly a month ago. I had just stepped off a plane in New York, and my friend noticed the telltale sagging lip.

The “Step It Up” campaign is making the link between environmental crises and global warming. It’s time for politicians to do the same.

On John Lennon’s birthday, peace activist and artist Yoko Ono realizes a dream they shared.

¨I teach government at high school. I have been using DN for about a year. One of my favorite in DN is ACLU files…¨

¨The curriculum of sixth grade reading is predominantly focused on sequence, vocabulary and comprehension so I play a pre-recorded segment of DN! ten minutes a week in my classroom and then we discuss things like words they didn’t understand or on-going news stories…¨

¨I use Democracy Now! fairly regularly now in the classroom. I teach philosophy at California State University, San Bernardino--about 70 miles east of Los Angeles. 40% of my students are first-generation college students. Many of them know very little about the media; in an intro to philosophy class 80-90% of them have not heard of PBS. I will show clips from Democracy Now! to illustrate points about what is occurring in the world…¨

Troy Anthony Davis and his sister, Martina Correia, are fighting for their lives.

“I often used your transcribed interviews and reportage to illustrate and/or introduce many of the usually-unreported topics of the American (and Russian) news media to my students. Many of my students were very interested in the various subjects which your program covers. I constantly recommended the use of your site and anything it links to as high-quality info resources. The fact that your program is transcribed makes it wonderfully useful—students can listen for meaning, and they often can learn a lot from context alone.”

The barbarous military regime depends on revenue from the nation’s gas reserves and partners such as Chevron to buy bullets for the guns it points at monks, a detail conveniently ignored by the Bush administration.