Sochie Nnaemeka, director of the New York State Working Families Party, on the awfulness of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and Susie Bright, the original “sexpert,” on what the pandemic has done to our libidos.
Behind the News
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Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global.
Texas-based immigration attorney Brianna Rennix talks about conditions at the US–Mexico border: how many of Trump’s brutal policies is Biden continuing, and was Trump that much of a departure from his predecessors? And sociologist Gianpaolo Baiocchi outlines a proposal to keep distressed housing out of the hands of private equity and turn it instead into … Continued
Behind the News – March 4, 2021
Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global.
Fundraising special: former Republican Congressional staffer Mike Lofgren talks about the cultural devolution of the GOP, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti reads his poetry (from a 1956 KPFA broadcast). Photo Wikimedia
Behind the News – February 18, 2021
Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global.
Katya Kazbek, a Russian-born, New York-based writer, explores the unsavory background and politics of Alexi Navalny, the fashionable Russian dissident. And Marianela d’Aprile, a member of DSA’s National Political Committee, offers a socialist critique of the anarchist concept of mutual aid.
Sarah Buehler, a BC-based climate activist, talks about Biden’s cancellation of the Keystone pipeline and his climate politics more generally. And Jacobin contributing editor Chris Maisano reviews the work of the political scientist Leo Panitch, who died in December. (His article is here.) photo: Markus Spiske on Unsplash
Economist Réka Juhász looks at the move from home to factory in early 19th century for precedents for today’s move to working from home: will it stick? And Brookings fellow Vanessa Williamson explores the roots of the concept of “taxpayers,” popular in conservative discourse, in Southern elites’ successful efforts to disenfranchise black citizens and undo … Continued
Political scientist Jodi Dean reflects on whether Trump is a fascist and the future of the right in the US. And historian Quinn Slobodian, co-author of this article, looks at the “Querdenker”—the odd coalition of out-of-the-box thinkers in Germany who hate masks and lockdowns. photo: LOGAN WEAVER via Unsplash
Indian farmer strikes, minimum wage, tech worker union
• Vijoo Krishnan on the Indian farmer strikes • Yannet Lathrop, author of this report, on state and local minimum wage increases • Alex Peterson on the Alphabet Workers Union [if you’re interested in organizing a union at your tech workplace, contact the CWA’s tech worker project]