Behind the News

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

11.13.25 - 12:00pm

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Mosaab Baba, author of this article, on what’s behind the horrendous civil war in Sudan • Jake Adelstein, an American journalist who’s been living in Japan for almost 40 years, on that country’s reactionary new Prime Minister

11.06.25 - 12:00pm

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Gabriel Hetland, author of this article, looks to Venezuela for a model of municipal socialism • Lea Ypi, author of Indignity, looks into her grandmother’s story and unfolds a rich history of Albania and its environment

10.30.25 - 12:00pm

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Jacob Silverman, author of Gilded Rage, on the rightward move of the Silicon Valley elite • Forrest Hylton conducts a political tour d’horizon of South America