Behind the News

01.22.26 - 12:00pm

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David Bier of the Cato Institute on what’s behind Trump’s war on immigrants • Aurélie Daher on the state of Hezbollah and why Israel is bombing Lebanon

01.15.26 - 12:00pm

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Forrest Hylton on Venezuela, past, present, and future

01.08.26 - 12:00pm

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Alejandro Velasco on Venezuela • Eric Blanc defends Victor Berger, Milwaukee’s sewer socialist, against charges of racism

01.01.26 - 12:00pm

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Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global.

12.25.25 - 12:00pm

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Highlights of 2025: Emile Torres on the posthumanists • Quinn Slobodian on eugenics and neoliberalism • Femi Taiwo on DEI and the war on it • Kristin Du Mez on white Christian nationalism • Anatol Lieven on the Trumpian worldview • Laleh Khalili on the relationship between the Pentagon and US capitalism • and Susannah … Continued

12.18.25 - 12:00pm

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Thea Riofrancos, author of Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism, on the complications of using lithium batteries to green our future (think tank here)

12.11.25 - 12:00pm

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Anatol Lieven analyzes the Trump national security strategy • Susannah Glickman on the transformation of the US government into a private equity firm (NYRB interview here)

12.04.25 - 12:00pm

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David Adler and Matt Kirkegaard of the Progressive International on the Honduran elections • Elfadil Ibrahim on the Sudanese civil war • Eric Blanc on the lessons of Milwaukee’s decades of “sewer socialism” for Mamdani and Wilson

11.27.25 - 12:00pm

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Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global.

11.20.25 - 12:00pm

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Paul Heideman, author of Rogue Elephant, on how the Republican party went from a staid vehicle of American business to the frothy lunacy of today