Behind The News typically consists of some opening comments by Doug Henwood on the recent news, followed by two or three interviews with authors, activists, academics, and other knowledgeable sorts. Since mystification is one of the tricks that power uses to maintain itself, emphasis is always placed on clarifying the complex. Topics covered include the broad economy and the financial markets, trade and globalization, income distribution and poverty, political candidates (with an emphasis on their general bogosity), Latin American resistance to neoliberalism, crime and imprisonment, financing health care, environmental economics, and the culture of money. Of course, that list will evolve as circumstances warrant.
Doug Henwood
Producer/Host
Doug Henwood has been hosting Behind the News since 1996; his radio career began in 1989, with commentaries delivered on the late and deeply missed Samori Marksman’s show on WBAI in New York. His day job is as a writer and editor. From 1986 to 2013 he published Left Business Observer, a newsletter on economics and politics. His writing has appeared in Harper’s, Jacobin, The Nation (where he’s a contributing editor), and The New Republic. He is the author of four books: The State of the USA Atlas (1994), Wall Street (1997), After the New Economy (2004), and My Turn (2016). He is currently at work on a study of the American ruling class, whoever that might be.