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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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Wars in Ukraine and Gaza; preferences in economic policies

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11.09.23 - 12:00pm

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Anatol Lieven on the wars in Gaza and Ukraine and the global standing of US power • Ilyana Kuziemko and Suresh Naidu, co-authors of this paper, on class differences in economic policy preferences (predistributionist vs. redistributionist)


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Palestinians in Israel and Israel’s plans for Palestinians, and how Nagorno-Karabakh is a taste of the newest world disorder

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11.02.23 - 12:00pm

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Amjad Iraqi on what it’s like to be a Palestinian citizen of Israel, and when what the Israeli state has in mind for Gaza • Georgi Derluguian (author of this article) on how the expulsion of Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh is an example of the latest iteration of the new world disorder


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A Palestinian American view of the Gaza war; the life and work of Joan Didion

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10.26.23 - 12:00pm

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Rami Khouri, a Palestinian American journalist and scholar, analyzes the war in Gaza • Evelyn McDonnell, author of The World According to Joan Didion, on her life and work


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The UAW’s innovative strike strategy, and how corporate America steals public research

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10.19.23 - 12:00pm

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Stephanie Ross on the UAW’s innovative strike strategy against the Big Three automakers • Christopher Morten and Amy Kapczynski on how Corporate America profits off publicly funded research and how to stop them from doing that


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The decade of disappointing protest, and an Israeli leftist’s view of the current horror

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10.12.23 - 12:00pm

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Vincent Bevins, author of If We Burn, on the decade of protest movements that began with high hopes and ended up with things little changed or worse • Haggai Matar, executive director of +972 Magazine, on the latest horror in Israel–Palestine


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Fundraising special: two looks at Haiti’s chronic crisis

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10.05.23 - 12:00pm

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Two views of Haiti: Jake Johnston of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and Robert Fatton of the University of Virginia.


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Fundraising special: the coup in Niger and the biology of sexuality

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09.28.23 - 12:00pm

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Samar Al-Bulushi on the coup in Niger, political unrest in France’s former colonies in Africa, and the US-led “war on terror” on that continent • Joanna Wuest, author of Born This Way, on the biology of sexuality


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Capitalism: how sick is it?

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09.21.23 - 12:00pm

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Aaron Benenav, sociologist and frequent contributor to New Left Review, and Seth Ackerman, an editor at Jacobin and author of this article, discuss the long-term health of capitalism: is stagnation really the problem?


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Postliberalism; the meaning of the G20 and the BRICS

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09.14.23 - 12:00pm

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Jodi Dean, author of this review, on the postliberalism of Ahmari, Vermeule, Deneen, et al. • Sarang Shidore of the Quincy Institute on the G20, the BRICS, and the erosion of US imperial power


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The Teamsters, class-struggle unionism and UPS • How liberalism ate itself

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Sam Gindin, writer and activist on labor issues, on the shortcomings of the UPS–Teamster deal • Samuel Moyn, author of Liberalism Against Itself, on how the Cold War crushed the tendency’s emancipatory side


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