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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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transcending the family, questioning homeownership

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12.28.23 - 12:00pm

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slaying sacred cows: M.E. O’Brien, author of Family Abolition, on doing that and “communizing care” • Jane Chung, author of this article, on what’s wrong with our cult of homeownership [holiday encore presentation of a show first broadcast in June]


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COP28 and Argentina’s new president

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12.21.23 - 12:00pm

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environmental journalist Tina Gerhardt on the recently concluded COP28 environmental summit, where limited good intentions were uttered and oil contracts were signed • historian Forrest Hylton on Javier Milei, the new libertarian/authoritarian president of Argentina


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Fundraising special: problems of philanthropy, and what in Israel is producing the carnage in Gaza?

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12.14.23 - 12:00pm

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Amy Schiller, author of The Price of Humanity, on what’s wrong with philanthropy and how to fix it • Joel Schalit, editor of The Battleground, on what it is in Israeli politics and society that’s behind the carnage in Gaza


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Fundraising special, featuring Angela Davis

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12.07.23 - 12:00pm

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Fundraising special featuring a speech from a November 1 teach-in on Gaza by Angela Davis.


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Cats and capitalism, understanding capitalism in order to fight it

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11.30.23 - 12:00pm

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Leigh Claire La Berge, author of Marx for Cats, on political economy and the human–feline relationship • Michael Zweig, author of Class, Race, and Gender, on understanding capitalism in order to transform it


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Small island nations, libertarian enclaves

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11.23.23 - 12:00pm

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Tina Gerhardt, author of Sea Change, on the effects of rising oceans on small island nations • Quinn Slobodian, author of Crack-Up Capitalism, on libertarian enclaves insulated from democracy [rebroadcast of a May 2023 show]


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Profile of an “ecoterrorist” • What makes Israel do the things it does

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Christopher Ketcham, author of this article, looks inside the mind of an “ecoterrorist” • Neve Gordon on what in Israeli society leads to bombing hospitals


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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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