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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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Fundraising special: what’s driving the populist right?

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12.05.24 - 12:00pm

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Political scientist Larry Bartels, author of this article, on how it’s politicians, not public opinion, that’s driving the right-populist upsurge


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Stashing money offshore, a new government in Sri Lanka

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11.28.24 - 12:00pm

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Brooke Harrington, author of Offshore, on how and where the mega-rich stash their cash • Mahendran Thiruvarangan on a new leftish government in Sri Lanka


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Ethel Rosenberg’s innocence, problems of masculinity

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11.21.24 - 12:00pm

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Michael Meeropol, son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, on how the government executed his mother despite knowing her innocence (docs here) • Ruth Whippman, author of BOYMOM: Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity, on the challenges of raising boys


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Trump prognostications: foreign policy, criminal justice

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11.14.24 - 12:00pm

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Anatol Lieven tries to divine a Trump foreign policy out of unreliable rhetoric and early appointments • Alex Vitale tries similar on Trump and criminal justice


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Comments on Trump • Israeli public opinion • the role of Ukraine in Western politics

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11.07.24 - 12:00pm

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DH comments on the Trump victory, especially the role of inflation • Dahlia Scheindlin on Israeli public opinion • James Foley and Vladimir Unkovski-Korica, authors of this article, on the role of Ukraine in the Western political imagination


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The right’s war on higher ed • What Israel’s wars are all about

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10.31.24 - 12:00pm

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Laura Jedeed, author of this article, on the right’s war on North Idaho College • Mouin Rabbani on what’s driving Israel’s multiple wars, and on the state of the Axis of Resistance


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How much US aid goes to Israel? • people actually like their jobs, a study shows

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10.24.24 - 12:00pm

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William Hartung, co-author of this paper, on how much aid the US has given to Israel over the last year (plus some wacky stuff on AI weapons) • sociologist Scott Schieman on his surprising research showing that people actually like their jobs


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The Biden/Harris vision of the world, the emptying of the Balkans

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10.17.24 - 12:00pm

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Anatol Lieven on the ambitiously aggressive grand design of the Biden/Harris foreign policy • Lily Lynch, author of this article, on the emptying out of the Balkans


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Translating Marx’s Capital, Israeli society after October 7

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10.10.24 - 12:00pm

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Paul North and Paul Reitter on their new translation of Marx’s Capital • Nimrod Flaschenberg and Alma Itzhaky, authors of this article, on the political culture of Israel after October 7


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A century of war on Palestinians, a look at Hezbollah after Nasrallah

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Rashid Khalidi, author of The Hundred Years War on Palestine, talks about Israeli settler-colonialism and its imperial patrons • Aurélie Daher looks at Hezbollah and the challenges it faces after the assassination of its leader


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