Democracy Now! correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous reports from Cairo as Al Jazeera journalists Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed are ordered released on bail after over a year in prison.
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Billed as "the most trusted name in fake news," Jon Stewart is stepping down as host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central. He has hosted the program since 1999. Watch his 2008 interview on Democracy Now! when Amy Goodman spoke to him at the Minneapolis airport ahead of the Republican National Convention in St. Paul. We also featured Stewart in 2010 when he and Stephen Colbert, then-host of The Colbert Report, led the massive rally to "Restore Sanity and/or Fear."
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The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard has honored Amy Goodman with the 2014 I.F. Stone Lifetime Achievement Award. The nominating committee stated: "As a journalist and independent media advocate, Amy Goodman exemplifies the ethos of I.F. Stone. By insulating herself against commercial pressures, she has fought vigilantly for a free press and has ensured that her reporting would always be done in service of speaking truth to power."
Watch Part 2 of our conversation with British journalist Johann Hari about the century-old failed drug war and how much of what we know about addiction is wrong. Over the past four years, Hari has traveled to the United States, Mexico, Canada, Uruguay and Portugal to research his new book, Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War of Drugs.
Click here to watch Part 1 of the interview.
