From New York, this is Democracy Now.

The only way American democracy can function is through compromising consensus.

And that's what I work to do as your president.

We know to forge bipartisan agreement where it's possible and where it's needed.

President Biden addresses the nation just before signing a bipartisan bill to suspend the

debt ceiling to a verdict of historic default.

Biden calls it a big win, but many progressive disagree.

We'll speak to David Sarota of the lever.

Then we continue our conversation with a father who spent two decades trying to hold the billionaire

Sackler family accountable for their role in the opioid epidemic.

Eddie was a high school senior, normal kid.

The first time I heard the word oxy cotton, my son was in his bed dead.

We'll talk to Ed Beech, the founder of RAP, relatives against Purdue Pharma, against the

Sackler's receiving immunity last week from civil lawsuits as part of a six billion dollar

settlement that allow the founders of Purdue Pharma to preserve much of their fortune.

All that and more coming up.

Welcome to Democracy Now.

Democracy Now.

The War and Peace Report by Mimi Goodman.

In India at least 275 people were killed and over 1000 injured in the Eastern state of

Odisha Friday, when a packed passenger train crashed into an oncoming freight train causing

another passenger train to derail.

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