Venezuela, again
Forrest Hylton on Venezuela, past, present, and future
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.
Venezuela and setting Victor Berger’s record straight
Alejandro Velasco on Venezuela • Eric Blanc defends Victor Berger, Milwaukee’s sewer socialist, against charges of racism
Behind the News – January 1, 2026
Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global.
Year-end roundup: some of the best of BtN 2025
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
Fundraising special: the problem with lithium
Thea Riofrancos, author of Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism, on the complications of using lithium batteries to green our future (think tank here)
Fundraising special: Trump’s natsec strategy, the US gov as private equity firm
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)
Honduras, Sudan, sewer socialism
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
Behind the News – November 27, 2025
Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global.
Republicans: how did they go from Eisenhower to Trump?
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
Sudan, and Japan’s new PM
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