Behind the News

03.05.26 - 12:00pm

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Behrooz Ghamari, author of The Long War on Iran, on the politics and culture of the country • Anatol Lieven on the effects of the war on Iran on the region and world

02.26.26 - 12:00pm

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David Harvey, author of The Story of Capital, looks at the political economy of the present through a Marxist lens

02.19.26 - 12:00pm

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Naomi Hossain on politics in Bangladesh generally and the recent election specifically • Stuart Schrader on “authoritarianism from below”—the role of local cops in the Trump crackdowns (article here)

02.12.26 - 12:00pm

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Stacy Horn, author of The Killing Fields of East New York, on the damage mortgage fraud did to that neighborhood • David Backer, author of As Public as Possible, on how we finance schools and how we could do better

02.05.26 - 12:00pm

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David Harvey on his new book, The Story of Capital • excerpt from Mark Carney’s Davos speech • Adam Federman on Trump’s Greenland obsession

01.29.26 - 12:00pm

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David Austin Walsh, author of Taking America Back, on the relationship between the kooks and respectables on the right • Laura Field, author of Furious Minds, on the intellectual wing of Trumpism

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.