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

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The war in Ethiopia, and a common currency for Brazil and Argentina?

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02.02.23 - 12:00pm

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Ann Neumann, author of this article (sorry, probably paywalled), on the bloody war in Ethiopia • two views on a proposed South American currency arrangement launched by Brazilian president Lula, one from Andres Arauz, the other from Brian Mier


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The rot of Britain and the fight for abortion rights 50 years ago

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01.26.23 - 12:00pm

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Josh White, author of Goodbye United Kingdom, on that country’s trajectory of decline • Felicia Kornbluh, author of A Woman’s Life Is a Human Life, talks about the fight for abortion rights in the late 60s and early 70s, and how it must be part of a larger struggle for reproductive justice


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The state of Afghanistan and the ecology of the port of LA

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01.19.23 - 12:00pm

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Matthieu Aikins, author of this article (among many), on the situation in Afghanistan with the US gone and the Taliban in control. And Christina Dunbar-Hester, author of Oil Beach, on the ecology of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.


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A look rightward: what’s the GOP all about, and one of these left–right hybrids

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01.12.23 - 12:00pm

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Emily Jashinsky of The Federalist on the GOP: the meaning of the speaker fight, and what is the base of the Freedom Caucus anyway? And Sohrab Ahmari, co-founder of Compact Magazine, offers a left–right hybrid.


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Segregation and the right’s war on public schools; how cities can live with heavier rains and higher seas

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01.05.23 - 12:00pm

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Nancy MacLean, author of this paper, on how Milton Friedman’s war on public education fit nicely with Southern massive resistance to desegregation • Klaus Jacob, a geophysicist, on how we can live with rising seas and heavier rains


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Middle-classness, racial wealth gap

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12.29.22 - 12:00pm

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Holiday-season encore presentation: historian David Roediger, author of The Sinking Middle Class, on the uses of that term in US politics, and economist Ellora Derenoncourt, co-author of this paper, on the US racial wealth gap, 1860–2020


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Rumbles on the right, AI hype

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12.22.22 - 12:00pm

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Kathryn Joyce on the far right and its internal battles and Edward Ongweso Jr on tech, AI, and Luddism


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Fundraising special: class struggle in rail and higher ed

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12.15.22 - 12:00pm

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Intercept reporter Ryan Grim, author of this article, on the fight between workers and bosses in the rail industry, and economist Sanjay Reddy on the fight between adjuncts and bosses in the neoliberal university.


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Fundraising special: the history of fitness culture in the US

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12.08.22 - 12:00pm

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Historian Natalia Mehlman Petrzela on her new book, Fit Nation, a history of physical culture in the US. Plus fundraising pleas.


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The right reinvents its approach to schools, and black communist women of the 20th century

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12.01.22 - 12:00pm

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Jennifer Berkshire on the latest version of right-wing school politics (since the last versions haven’t been working for them), and Jodi Dean, co-editor (along with Charisse Burden-Stelly) of Organize, Fight, Win, a collection of black communist women’s writings from the late 1920s into the early 1950s.


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