12:00 PM (Noon) Pacific Time: Thursdays
Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global.
Vijay Prashad, journalist and historian, on the reconfigurations of global power prompted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and environmental economist and activist Charlie Komanoff, author of this Nation article, on why it’s a bad idea to shut nuclear power plants only to have them replaced by burning more fossil fuels.
Annelle Sheline of the Quincy Institute, author of this policy brief on the Yemen war, on the reasons behind Saudi Arabia’s brutal war on that country. And Natalia Petrzela, author of this column, on how we went from Muscle Beach to gender neutral cosmetics products.
Richard Seymour, author of this article, on the cultural politics of the war in Ukraine • Emily Drabinski on the war against libraries • Annie Levin on the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the fiction of the Cold War. photo: Alfons Morales via Unsplash
Historian Lily Geismer, author of Left Behind, on the market-friendly New Democrats, from the 1970s into the 1990s and beyond. And Barry Eichengreen discusses the role of the dollar and threats to its pre-eminence. photo: Joshua Sukoff via Unsplash
Alexander Zaitchik, author of Owning the Sun, on how the pharmaceutical industry became such a high-priced racket. photo: Myriam Zilles via Unsplash
Anatol Lieven of the Quincy Institute on what provoked the Russian invasion of Ukraine, what motivates Putin, and where it might all go. Plus, fundraising.
Christopher Leonard, author of The Lords of Easy Money, on the damage done by over a decade of hyper-easy monetary policy from the Federal Reserve, and Lea Ypi, a political philsopher and author of Free, on growing up in the last days of Communist Albania and the early days of its neoliberal successor.
Toronto-based activist and organizer John Clarke on the politics and personnel behind the Ottawa convoy, Dave Zirin on racism in the NFL (and Brian Flores’s lawsuit over it), and Justine Medina on working at Amazon and trying to unionize it. photo: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 2.0
Thomas Sugrue and Caitlin Zaloom, authors of The Long Year: A 2020 Reader, talk about the common and varied impacts of the pandemic around the world. And Laura Kipnis, author of Love in the Time of Contagion, talks about the challenges of living together, a steep climb even in the best of times.
Wanda Bertram of the Prison Policy Initiative on how prison makes people sick and kills them. Psychiatrist Terry Kupers, from a 2013 interview, on the effects of solitary confinement on mental health. And refinery worker and union VP BK White talks about worker safety and health at the Chevron refinery in Richmond, California, where workers … Continued
