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The Philadelphia Eagles stunned the sports world by beating the New England Patriots Sunday night in Minneapolis with a 41-to-33 win in Super Bowl LII, the first-ever title for the Eagles. The game capped a historic season for the National Football League, in which African-American players staged league-wide protests against racial injustice and police brutality by taking the knee during the national anthem before games. Meanwhile, Patriots wide receiver Brandin Cooks was knocked out on the field and left the game with a concussion on Sunday. For more on the protests and new research on concussions, we speak with Mel Reeves, longtime human rights activist and organizer with Take a Knee Nation. And we speak with Dr. Harry Edwards, professor emeritus of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of several books, including "The Revolt of the Black Athlete," reissued last year for its 50th anniversary edition.

This weekend, House Speaker Paul Ryan touted a story of a woman whose paycheck increased by $1.50 cents a week as a major benefit to middle-class workers. On Saturday, Ryan tweeted a link to an Associated Press report, writing, "A secretary at a public high school in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, said she was pleasantly surprised her pay went up $1.50 a week ... she said [that] will more than cover her Costco membership for the year." After a deluge of ridicule and outrage, Ryan deleted the tweet hours later. For more, we speak with Richard Wolff, emeritus professor of economics at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and visiting professor at The New School. He's the author of several books, including, most recently, "Capitalism's Crisis Deepens: Essays on the Global Economic Meltdown."

A treaty intended to limit the United States and Russia's long-range nuclear arsenals officially takes effect today. But the once-promising treaty, signed eight years ago by President Obama, is overshadowed by a new nuclear arms race sparked by President Trump. On Friday, the Trump administration unveiled its new nuclear weapons strategy, which involves spending at least $1.2 trillion to upgrade the United States' nuclear arsenal, including developing some completely new nuclear weapons. Prominent anti-nuclear advocates have denounced the Pentagon's plan as "radical" and "extreme." For more, we speak with Beatrice Fihn, executive director of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.

New U.S. Nuclear Policy Calls for More Nukes, New Scenarios When Nukes Could Be Used, Nunes Memo Confirms FBI Probe of Trump Campaign Began Independent of Steele Dossier, Tillerson Suggests U.S. Would Back Military Coup in Venezuela, NYT: Egypt Allowed Israel to Carry Out 100 Airstrikes in Northern Sinai, U.S. Airstrikes Increased Sixfold in Yemen in 2017, Two Die, 116 Injured in Amtrak Accident in South Carolina, Report: Dozens of Girls Abused by Larry Nassar After FBI Began Probe, Father of Molested Girls Attempted to Attack Larry Nassar in Court, Uma Thurman Accuses Harvey Weinstein of Sexually Assaulting Her in 1990s, French Police Arrest Tariq Ramadan on Rape Charges, Over 100 Migrants Die Off African Coast in Recent Days, Italian Neo-Nazi Shoots Six African Migrants in Drive-By Shooting, 17 Arrested at Super Bowl Protest in Minneapolis

As President Trump continues his crackdown on immigrant communities, a growing number of people are taking sanctuary in churches across the country to avoid deportation. A new report called "Sanctuary in the Age of Trump" says more people are now taking sanctuary than at any time in the United States since the 1980s. We end today's show in Colorado, speaking to another immigrant rights leader, Sandra Lopez, who has taken sanctuary at the parsonage of the Two Rivers Unitarian Universalist church in Carbondale, Colorado. She is now facing deportation to Mexico after living in Colorado for 17 years. She's a mother of three U.S.-born children: Alex, Edwin and Areli.

Historian Gar Alperovitz has revealed for the first time the key role he and a handful of other activists played in helping whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg leak to journalists the Pentagon Papers—a 7,000-page classified history outlining the true extent of U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Daniel Ellsberg told The New Yorker the secret role this group played was so crucial in releasing the Pentagon Papers that he gave them a code name: "The Lavender Hill Mob." Alperovitz went by the alias "Mr. Boston." Ellsberg told The New Yorker, "Gar took care of all the cloak-and-dagger stuff." We speak to historian and political economist Gar Alperovitz about why he is going public now.

Defying Democrats and FBI, Trump to Release Controversial Russia Probe Memo, 12-Year-Old Girl Arrested as 4 Injured by Gunfire at Los Angeles Middle School, Toxic Air Pollution at U.S. Schools Most Impacts Students of Color, U.N. Envoy Warns Burma Mass Graves Show "Hallmarks of Genocide", Jailed Reuters Journalists Denied Bail by Burmese Court, At Arab League, Warnings over U.S. Cuts to U.N. Palestinian Refugee Agency, Fidel Castro Díaz-Balart, Son of Late Cuban Leader, Commits Suicide, Kenyan Government Defies Court Order to Reopen TV Stations, U.K. Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn Pledges Homes for the Homeless, Maldives Court Drops "Terrorism" Conviction for Ex-President Mohamed Nasheed, South Africa: Cape Town Faces "Day Zero" as Water Supplies Dwindle, California Snowpack Ominously Low, Prompting Fresh Drought Fears, Austin, TX, City Council Votes to Divest from Border Wall Contractors, San Francisco DA to Drop, Reduce Thousands of Pot Convictions, Dennis Peron, Medical Marijuana Pioneer, Dies at 72

The United States is one of the most depressed countries in the world. Could it be because of the country's adoption of neoliberal economic policies? We speak to Johann Hari, author of a controversial new book, "Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression—and the Unexpected Solutions." He writes, "Junk food has taken over our diets, and it is making millions of people physically sick. A growing body of scientific evidence suggests that something similar is happening with our minds—that they have become dominated by junk values, and this is making us mentally sick, triggering soaring rates of depression and anxiety."

On Tuesday night, President Trump became the third president in a row to attempt to put a positive spin on the war in Afghanistan—the longest war in U.S. history. Five years earlier, President Barack Obama predicted at his 2013 State of the Union that the war would soon be over. And back in 2006, President George W. Bush used his State of the Union to praise Afghanistan for building a "new democracy." More than 16 years after the U.S. War in Afghanistan began, the country remains in a state of crisis. On Saturday, more than 100 people died in Kabul when an ambulance packed with explosives blew up. Then, on Monday, Islamic State militants carried out an early-morning attack on a military academy in the western outskirts of the capital of Kabul, killing at least 11 troops and wounding 16. We speak to investigative reporter May Jeong in Kabul. Her most recent piece for The Intercept is titled "Losing Sight: A 4-Year-Old Girl Was the Sole Survivor of a U.S. Drone Strike in Afghanistan. Then She Disappeared."

A showdown is brewing in Washington as the White House prepares to release a controversial Republican memo despite opposition from the FBI, the Justice Department and Democratic lawmakers. The four-page memo, written by House Intelligence Committee chair, Republican Congressmember Devin Nunes of California, purports to show that the FBI abused its power when it began surveilling Trump campaign adviser Carter Page in 2016 due to his dealings with Russia. Supporters of President Trump claim the memo offers proof that the FBI's investigation was tainted by politics from the start, in part because the FBI won approval of the wiretap by citing a dossier funded by supporters of Hillary Clinton. On Wednesday, the FBI, which is led by Trump appointee Christopher Wray, issued an unusual statement criticizing the imminent release of the memo, saying, "[W]e have grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo's accuracy." We speak to independent journalist Marcy Wheeler, who runs the website EmptyWheel.net.

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On Tuesday night at President Trump's first State of the Union, there were two words conspicuously missing from Trump's lengthy address: climate change. Trump did, however, celebrate "beautiful, clean coal" and the rollback of key regulations to protect the environment. For more on the State of the Union, we speak with 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben and with The Nation publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel.

During President Trump's first State of the Union, he called on Congress to pass an immigration overhaul and repeatedly tried to conflate immigrants, including DREAMers, with terrorists and gang members. Among Trump's guests to the State of the Union were the parents of two young girls who were killed by members of the MS-13 gang two years ago in Long Island, New York. MS-13 is a gang that originated in Los Angeles in the 1980s and has since spread to Central America as a result of the U.S. mass deportation policies. For more on the history of MS-13 and the United States' relationship with El Salvador, we speak with Daniel Denvir, writer-in-residence at Harvard Law School's Fair Punishment Project. His 2017 article for The Washington Post is titled "Deporting people made Central America's gangs. More deportation won't help."

On Tuesday, Republican Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona asked the U.S. Capitol Police to arrest undocumented immigrants attending President Trump's State of the Union address. Gosar's threat didn't stop many undocumented activists from attending after they were invited by Democratic lawmakers. We speak to Maru Mora Villalpando, an activist and undocumented immigrant with the group Northwest Detention Center Resistance and the group Mijente. She attended the State of the Union as a guest of Washington Senator Maria Cantwell.

During President Trump's first State of the Union address Tuesday night, he repeatedly tried to conflate immigrants, including DREAMers, with terrorists and gang members—the latest in a string of racist or xenophobic statements Trump has made throughout his time in office. Yet, on Tuesday night, many lawmakers with the Congressional Black Caucus protested against Trump's racism—and his recent comments calling African nations "shithole countries"—by wearing traditional African kente cloth. For more on the State of the Union, we speak with Minnesota state Representative Ilhan Omar, the highest-elected Somali-American public official in the United States.

President Trump delivered his first State of the Union Tuesday night. During the lengthy address, Trump announced he'd signed an executive order keeping the Guantánamo Bay military prison open, and escalated his warmongering rhetoric against North Korea, calling the North Korean government "depraved" and warning it poses a nuclear risk to the United States. For more, we speak with Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation, America's oldest weekly magazine.

In Xenophobic Speech, Trump Attacks Immigrants, Pushes War with North Korea, Judge to Consider Trump's "Vicious" Anti-Latino Rhetoric in Suit over DACA, Pfizer Reaping $11 Billion Gain from Trump's Tax Overhaul, State Department Imposes No New Sanctions Against Russia, Despite Law, FEMA Ending Food & Water Shipments to Puerto Rico Today, Honduras: American Faith Group Denounces U.S. Support for Hernández, Colombia: Buenaventura Strike Leader Temístocles Machado Assassinated, Polish Parliament Passes Law Criminalizing References to Poland's Role in Holocaust, Turkey Arrests 300+ for Criticizing Afrin Military Offensive Online, Egypt: Pro-Democracy Coalition Calls for Boycott of Upcoming Elections, Japanese Woman Sues Gov't for Forced Sterilization, France: Renowned Islamic Scholar Tariq Ramadan Detained Amid Rape Charges, Nonviolent Resistance Advocate Gene Sharp Dies at 90

In New Jersey, immigrant rights advocates and faith leaders are speaking out against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency for detaining multiple parents while they were taking their children to school. On Thursday, Roby Sanger was detained by ICE after dropping his two daughters off at school, while Gunawan Liem was detained after he dropped his daughter off at the school bus stop. Both men are Indonesian. A third man, also from Indonesia, Harry Pangemanan, has taken sanctuary at the Reformed Church of Highland Park in New Jersey, after he says he saw undercover ICE agents waiting outside his home as he was preparing to drive his daughter to school. All three are parents of U.S.-born children. For more, we speak with Seth Kaper-Dale, pastor of the Reformed Church of Highland Park, where Harry Pangemanan has sought sanctuary. And we speak with Gunawan Liem’s pastor, Steven Rantung, pastor of the First Indonesian Seventh-Day Adventist Church in South Plainfield, New Jersey.

Last month, Ravi Ragbir was one of several nationally recognized activists to be taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He was handcuffed and arrested during his routine check-in on January 11, prompting a mass protest that ended with 18 arrested, including two members of the New York City Council. Ravi was then quickly flown by ICE, in shackles, to the Krome Detention Center in Florida. As he faced imminent deportation to his native Trinidad, public outcry grew. Then ICE informed his lawyers that he would be brought back to detention in the New York City area. On Monday, U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest said Ragbir's detention was "unnecessarily cruel," and ordered ICE to free him. But he still faces deportation. For more, we hear from Ravi Ragbir himself, executive director of the New Sanctuary Coalition.

On Monday, a federal judge in New York City ordered the immediate release of immigrant rights leader Ravi Ragbir from immigration jail, calling his detention "unnecessarily cruel." In a decision read aloud from the bench, District Judge Katherine Forrest said Ragbir had "the freedom to say goodbye," and compared his treatment to that of "regimes we revile as unjust, regimes where those who have long lived in a country may be taken without notice from streets, home, and work. And sent away. We are not that country; and woe be the day that we become that country under a fiction that laws allow it." Ragbir is the executive director of the New Sanctuary Coalition. He's one of a handful of high-profile immigrant rights activists who have been targeted by the Trump administration. For more on his release and what's next, we speak with Ravi Ragbir; his wife, immigrant rights advocate Amy Gottlieb; and Ravi's lawyer, Alina Das, co-director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic at NYU School of Law.

FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe Resigns Abruptly, Alex Azar Sworn In to Head Health and Human Services Dept., House Intelligence Committee to Declassify Nunes Memo, Gov't Watchdog: Pentagon Restricting Key Information on U.S. War in Afghanistan, Trump's Friend, Billionaire Steve Wynn, Resigns as RNC Chair, U.S. Oil Extraction to Surpass Saudi Arabia's This Year, New Sanctuary Coalition Director Ravi Ragbir Released from Detention, Court Rules Immigrant Children Have No Right to Government-Appointed Lawyer, DHS Imposes Further Restrictions on Refugees Seeking to Enter U.S., U.N.: 30 African Refugees Drowned Off Coast of Yemen, Report: 33 People Killed by Airstrikes in Idlib, Syria, Yemen: 15 Killed in Suicide Bomb; 36 Killed in Fighting in Aden, Gaza: 13,000 UNRWA Workers Launch Strike to Protest Trump's Funding Cuts, Kashmir: Protests & Strike After Indian Soldiers Kill 2 Students, Brazil: Landless Workers' Movement Leader Márcio Oliveira Matos Assassinated, In Victory for Native Activists, Cleveland Baseball Team Drops Its Racist Logo, Historian Gar Alperovitz Reveals His Role in Helping Ellsberg Leak Pentagon Papers

We speak with Ari Berman, senior writer at Mother Jones and a reporting fellow at The Nation Institute, about his new for piece for Rolling Stone titled "How the GOP Rigs Elections." "We like to think in this country, if you get the most votes, you're the winner. But that's not how it works, because of gerrymandering right now," Berman notes.

The Trump administration says its request to add a question on citizenship status to the 2020 census is under legal review. Data from the once-a-decade census has major implications for shaping the political landscape. The population count is used to determine how congressional seats are distributed across the country and where hundreds of billions of federal dollars are spent. Critics say that including a citizenship question on the census will deter undocumented residents from participating in the questionnaire out of fear that the government could use the information against them. Trump's request to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census would "sabotage the entire census," says Ari Berman, senior writer at Mother Jones, and "massively depress responses among immigrant groups."

Michigan's attorney general has launched an investigation into Michigan State University, and the entire board of directors of USA Gymnastics is resigning, after team doctor Larry Nassar was sentenced to up to 175 years in prison last week for sexually assaulting and abusing more than 160 young female athletes. We speak with reporter Mark Alesia, part of the investigative team at The Indianapolis Star, which broke the story, and discuss his latest story, "What's next for USA Gymnastics? A long, tough road at best."

In Afghanistan, Islamic State militants have carried out an early-morning attack on a military academy in the western outskirts of the capital of Kabul, killing at least 11 troops and wounding 16. This marks the latest in a wave of deadly attacks this month. Monday was already declared a national day of mourning in Afghanistan, after a Taliban attacker drove an ambulance filled with explosives into the heart of the city on Saturday, killing at least 103 people and wounding as many as 235. One week earlier, Taliban militants killed 22 people at Kabul's Intercontinental Hotel. Last week, another six people were killed in an assault claimed by the Islamic State on the office of aid group Save the Children in the eastern city of Jalalabad. This comes as the United States has stepped up its assistance to Afghan security forces and its airstrikes against the Taliban and other militant groups. We get an update from Lotfullah Najafizada, news director of TOLOnews, a 24-hour news channel based in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Afghanistan Reels After 103 Killed in Suicide Attack in Kabul, Dr. Nassar Scandal: USA Gymnastics Board Resigns, Michigan Opens Investigation, Trump to Ask for $716 Billion in Boost to Military Spending, Fitness Tracking Company Reveals Locations of Secret U.S. Military Bases, Protesters Rally at White House to Denounce Trump for Racism, Xenophobia, Lawmakers Battle over Whether to Declassify Nunes Memo, Honduras: U.S.-Backed President Hernández Inaugurated Amid Massive Protests, Albania: 10,000 Protesters Demand Prime Minister's Resignation, Protesters in Germany & France Demand End to Turkish Offensive in Afrin, Syria, New Jersey: ICE Detain 2 Fathers After Dropping Their Daughters Off at School, Some Immigrant Rights Activists to Attend Trump's State of the Union, "Are You a Citizen?": Justice Dept. Seeks to Add 2020 Census Question, Longtime Investigative Journalist Robert Parry Dies at 68, Time's Up & #MeToo Movements Take Center Stage at Grammy Awards

We speak with Oscar-winning musician and actor Common, who was nominated again for an Oscar on Tuesday for his song "Stand Up for Something" from the film "Marshall" about former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. Common is also starring in "The Tale," a film about child sexual abuse. On Saturday, Common also performed at the Respect Rally in Park City. He discusses civil and voting rights, Colin Kaepernick, the late anti-police brutality activist Erica Garner and President Trump.

We are joined by the political activist, feminist and Academy Award-winning actress Jane Fonda for an in-depth interview at the Sundance Film Festival, where she is the focus of a new HBO documentary, "Jane Fonda in Five Acts." As actresses in Hollywood are being recognized for speaking out in the Time's Up movement, Fonda discusses how she has consistently challenged power, from opposing the war in Vietnam to organizing around civil rights and economic justice.

We are broadcasting from the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, which has been surging with energy from the #MeToo and #TimesUp movement. It was at Sundance two decades ago that movie mogul Harvey Weinstein allegedly assaulted actress Rose McGowan. McGowan told The New York Times in October that Weinstein offered her $1 million in a hush money payment if she signed a nondisclosure agreement to not come forward with her charges that he raped her in a hotel room during the 1997 festival. We speak with longtime women's rights attorney Gloria Allred, who represents one of the women who have accused President Trump of sexual assault, and feature an excerpt from a new documentary on her life and path-breaking legal career, called "Seeing Allred."

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Fifty years ago this April, Rev. Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. He was just 39 years old. Today we look back at the last three years of King's life, beginning after President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Despite passage of the monumental legislation, King set his eyes on new battles by launching a Poor People's Campaign and campaigning to stop the Vietnam War. King's decision to publicly oppose the war isolated him from many of his closest supporters. We feature clips from a new HBO documentary about King's last years, titled "King in the Wilderness," and speak with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Taylor Branch, who wrote the "America in the King Years" trilogy and is featured in the film, as well as the film's director Peter Kunhardt and writer Trey Ellis.

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Two weeks before he was assassinated 50 years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. spent the night in Hale County, Alabama, in the heart of the Black Belt of Alabama. He came to Greensboro on March 21, 1968, in an effort to rally support for his Poor People's Campaign. Supporters of King had to hide him in a small wooden house on the outskirts of Greensboro as members of the Ku Klux Klan tried to hunt him down. It would be the last time King was in Hale County, Alabama. Two weeks later, he was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. The safe house where King stayed is now a museum. Now Hale County is the subject of a new documentary: "Hale County This Morning, This Evening." The film just premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and looks at life in the predominantly African-American county, which is named after a Confederate general. In the film, director RaMell Ross paints an impressionistic portrait of life in the Black Belt in the 21st century. We speak with director RaMell Ross and producer Joslyn Barnes.

We speak with Yance Ford, who on Tuesday became the first trans director to be nominated for an Academy Award. His film "Strong Island" is up for best documentary. Ford, who is African-American, chronicles what happened to his own family after his brother, William Ford Jr., was shot dead by a white mechanic in Long Island, New York, in 1992. The killer was questioned by police but never charged. "My brother's case, 25 years ago, simply affirms what we are seeing now," Ford says. "It doesn't matter if you follow the rules. The justice system isn't meant to work for people of color in this country." We also speak with producer, Joslyn Barnes, co-founder of Louverture Films.

Celebrated fantasy novelist Ursula Le Guin has died at the age of 88. The feminist writer was the author of more than 20 novels, more than a dozen collections of poetry and another dozen children's books. Among her most famous works was her 1969 novel "The Left Hand of Darkness," which is set on a planet where people are "ambisexual"—neither male nor female—and contains one of the most famous sentences ever written in a fantasy novel: "The King was pregnant." Ursula Le Guin's 1974 novel "The Dispossessed" is also one of the most celebrated explorations of utopia, dystopia, capitalism, anarchism and oppression. We play an excerpt of Le Guin accepting the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2014.

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At the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, we speak with former President Anote Tong about his desperate efforts to save his small Pacific Island state of Kiribati from rising sea levels from global warming, as told in the new documentary "Anote's Ark." Kiribati is a collection of 33 coral atolls and reef islands located over 1,000 miles south of Hawaii and nearly 4,000 miles northeast of Australia. It is home to 100,000 people. Already, an entire village was inundated, and its residents forced to flee, as the sea wall broke into a freshwater pond. Tong predicts his country will become uninhabitable in 30 to 60 years as rising tides displace more and more people, wash away infrastructure, degrade fragile coral reefs and disrupt the remote island's food supply.

Broadcasting from the Sundance Film Festival, we are joined by three guests who personally battled with DuPont and are featured in the new documentary called "The Devil We Know," that looks at how former DuPont employees, residents and lawyers took on the chemical giant to expose the danger of the chemical C8, found in Teflon and countless household products—from stain- and water-resistant apparel to microwave popcorn bags to dental floss. The chemical has now been linked to six diseases, including testicular and kidney cancers. We speak with Bucky Bailey, whose mother worked in the Teflon division of a DuPont plant in West Virginia while she was pregnant with him, and who was born with only one nostril and a deformed eye and has undergone more than 30 surgeries to fix the birth defects; Joe Kiger, lead plaintiff in a class action lawsuit against DuPont, and a school teacher in Parkersburg, West Virginia, who suffered from liver disease; and Rob Bilott, the attorney that brought DuPont to court.

Gov't Shutdown Ends as Democrats Capitulate on DACA, Palestinians Launch General Strike as Pence Says U.S. Embassy Will Move Next Year, Germany Halts Weapons Sales to Saudi Arabia over War in Yemen, Trump Imposes Tariffs on Solar Panels, in Blow to Renewable Energy Industry, Mexico: Presidential Candidate Marichuy's Caravan Attacked in Michoacán, Thousands of Haitians Rally in Protest of Trump's Racist "Shithole" Comments, Global Clothing Brand Forced to Pay $2.3 Million for Safer Factories in Bangladesh, Two Journalists Killed in Brazil Within the Last Week, Top Leadership of USA Gymnastics Resigns over Team Doctor's Sexual Abuse, Court Rules Pennsylvania's Congressional Map is Unconstitutional, Puerto Rico Gov. Moves to Privatize Island's Public Power Authority After Maria, Tsunami Warning Issued After Earthquake Off Alaska's Coast, Hugh Masekela, Father of South African Jazz, Dies at 78

One of the most talked-about documentaries at this year's Sundance Film Festival looks at the groundbreaking life of the nearly 85-year-old Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. 2018 marks her 25th year on the court, and she has no plans to retire. Ginsburg first gained fame in the 1970s when she co-founded the Women's Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union, where she argued six gender discrimination cases before the Supreme Court. In recent years, Ginsburg's public profile has soared as the court has swerved to the right. Ginsburg often now finds herself on the dissenting side of opinions. We feature excerpts from the new film and speak with its directors, Julie Cohen and Betsy West.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was at Sundance for the premiere of the new documentary "RGB" and spoke to Amy Goodman about the her thoughts on the #MeToo movement and the Women's March. When Ginsburg argued before the Supreme Court the first time in 1972, she quoted Sarah Grimke, the noted abolitionist and advocate of equal rights for men and women, who said, "I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks." Goodman asked if this demand still stands.

Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets across the country this weekend to mark the first anniversary of last year's historic Women's March protesting President Trump's inauguration. As Democracy Now! broadcast from the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, protesters braved freezing temperatures and a snowstorm to take part in a Respect Rally. We feature the voices of longtime women's rights attorney Gloria Allred and actress Jane Fonda, and speak with actress Tessa Thompson, who played the superhero Valkyrie in the film "Thor," Samantha "Sam" White in "Dear White People" and Diane Nash in "Selma."

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We speak with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor about the new collection of essays she edited that is titled "How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective." Taylor is an assistant professor of African American studies at Princeton University and the author of "From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation."

As President Trump completes his first year in office, activists in cities across the country will hold mass protests Saturday on the first anniversary of the historic Women's March. This comes as a slew of lawmakers have joined members of the Black Congressional Caucus in backing a resolution to censure President Trump over his racist comments in which the president reportedly used an expletive to refer to African nations, El Salvador and Haiti. Several Democratic lawmakers say they will also skip the State of the Union address on January 30 over Trump's racist remarks. Meanwhile, Trump himself denies being a racist, claiming on Sunday that he is "the least racist person." To discuss Trump's first year in office, the direction of the Democratic Party and where racial justice movements go from here, we are joined by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, assistant professor of African American studies at Princeton University. She is the author of "From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation" and editor of a new collection of essays titled "How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective."

As Senate Democrats say they'll vote against a government spending bill that fails to protect DACA recipients, setting up a potential government shutdown, we look at the worldwide refugee crisis. The United Nations Refugee Agency reports the number of displaced people worldwide has hit a record high, with more than 65 million people forcibly displaced from their homes. As the humanitarian crisis grows, the United States and many other nations are limiting immigration and closing their borders. During his first year in office, President Trump sought to ban all refugees and citizens of many majority-Muslim nations. When federal judges struck down multiple versions of the so-called Muslim travel bans, Trump then slashed the number of refugees who could be resettled in the United States this year, capping the number at 45,000—the lowest level in three decades. We speak with David Miliband, president of the International Rescue Committee, former British MP and author of the new book, "Rescue: Refugees and the Political Crisis of Our Time."

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White House doctor Ronny Jackson said Tuesday President Trump is in good health and displayed a normal score on a cognitive exam, amid mounting questions about President Trump's mental health. But on Wednesday, medical experts said that the results from Trump's recent physical exam show the president has high levels of cholesterol and is at serious risk of a heart attack. We speak to journalist David Cay Johnston about the possibility of impeachment or the invocation of the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office.

As President Trump's own chief of staff, John Kelly, calls his boss "uninformed," we will look at how Trump is transforming the nation by slashing taxes on the rich, gutting the nation's regulatory system and muzzling climate scientists. We speak to David Cay Johnston, author of "It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America."

On Capitol Hill, Democrats are preparing a bill that would formally censure Donald Trump over racist comments in which the president reportedly called African nations, El Salvador and Haiti "shithole countries." The effort is being led by New York Congressmember Jerrold Nadler and Representative Cedric Richmond, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. It comes as several Democratic lawmakers have announced they will skip the State of the Union address on January 30 over Trump's racist remarks. Among them are Earl Blumenauer of Oregon, Frederica Wilson of Florida, Pramila Jayapal of Washington, Maxine Waters of California and John Lewis of Georgia. We speak to David Cay Johnston, author of "It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America."