By Doug Henwood
Behind the News with Doug Henwood
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Behind the News, 4/25/24 - guests: Jodi Dean on her cancellation, Keri Leigh Merritt on the backward social structure of the South, Sam Bazzi on the Confederate diaspora - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 4/18/24 - guest: Yanis Varoufakis, talking about being banned in Germany, and the new era of techno feudalism - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 4/11/24 - guests: Heidi Matthews on the World Court, Elijah Wald on Jelly Roll Morton - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 4/4/24 - Trita Parsi on Israel's widening of its war; Natasha Lennard on Zionists' weaponization of "safety"; Stefan Yong on the shipping industry and the Baltimore disaster - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 3/28/24 - guests: Pankaj Mishra on the Shoah after Gaza, Nancy Folbre on valuing care work - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 3/21/24 - guests: David Moore on AIPAC's spending, Meron Rapoport on Schumer and the ICJ in Israel, Jamieson Webster on social causes of youth mental distress - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 3/14/24 - guests: Robert Fatton on Haiti • Steve Fraser on the death of the future - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 3/7/24 - guests: Vijay Prashad on the emptiness of Northern elites • Volodymyr Ishchenko on Ukraine during and after the USSR - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 2/29/24 - guests: Donna Murch on the Black Panthers; Saadia Toor and Rabia Mehmood on Pakistan - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 2/22/24 - guests: Jeet Heer on the Desi diaspora; Steve Maher and Scott Aquanno on finance capital today - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 2/14/24 - guests: Gerald Epstein on the bankers club and how to bust it up • Anna Kornbluh on immediacy - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 2/8/24 - guests: Ajay Singh Chaudhary on climate and exhaustion • Matt Notowidigdo on how recessions raise life expectancy - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 2/1/24 - guests: Sean Jacobs on why SA brought Israel to court, Eric Blanc on sprawl and union organizing, Hassan El-Tayyab on the widening war in the Middle East - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 1/25/24 - guests: Shireen Al-Adeimi on the Houthis • Aurélie Daher on Hezbollah - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 1/18/24 - guests: Wanda Bertram on electronic monitoring • Joseph Daher on Hezbollah - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 1/11/24 - guests: Jacqueline Behrend on Argentina’s new president, Javier Milei • Benjamin Fong on Americans’ love/hate relationship with drugs - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 1/4/24 - guests: Samuel Moyn on the perils of striking Trump from the ballot, Alex Press on the (good) year in organized labor - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 12/21/23 - guests: Tina Gerhardt on COP28, Forrest Hylton on Argentina's new libertarian/authoritarian president - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 12/14/23 - guests: Joel Schalit on what's driving Israel's war on Gaza, Amy Schiller on philanthropy - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 12/7/23 - guests: Trita Parsi on the global context for the war on Gaza; James Bamford on Israel's spying on US campuses; Alberto Toscano on fascism today - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 11/30/23 - guests: Leigh Claire Le Barge Marxes cats; Michael Zweig explains capitalism in order to destroy it - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 11/16/23 - guests: Christopher Ketcham on an "ecoterrorist"; Neve Gordon on what drives Israel - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 11/9/23 - guests: Anatol Lieven on Gaza and Ukraine • Ilyana Kuziemko and Suresh Naidu on class and economic policy preferences - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 11/2/23 - guests: Amjad Iraqi on Arab citizens of Israel and Israel's plans to empty Gaza • Georgi Derluguian on Nagorno-Karabakh and the latest version of the new world disorder - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 10/26/23 - guests: Rami Khouri on Gaza, Evelyn McDonnell on Joan Didion - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 10/19/23 - guests: Stephanie Ross on the UAW's strike strategy; Christopher Morten and Amy Kapczynski on intellectual property and industrial policy - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 10/12/23 - guests: Vincent Bevins on failed protests; Haggai Matar on Israel–Palestine - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 10/5/23 - guests: Jake Johnston and Robert Fatton on Haiti in light of the UN approving the deployment of a Kenyan-led police force - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 9/28/23 - guests: Samar Al-Bulushi on Niger etc. • Joanna Wuest on the biology of sexuality - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 9/21/23 - guests: Aaron Benanav and Seth Ackerman on the state of capitalism - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 9/14/23 - Jodi Dean on postliberals; Sarang Shidore on the G20, the BRICS, and US imperial decline - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 9/7/23 - guests: Sam Gindin on the UPS/Teamster contract • Samuel Moyn on the Cold War debasement of liberalism - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 8/31/23 - guests: Tina Gerhardt on small island countries facing climate change; Quinn Slobodian on libertarian enclaves (rerun of a May 2023 show) - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 8/24/23 - guests: Lisa Corrigan on cuts at WVU and what they mean for higher ed, Taylor Lorenz on the social history of the internet - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 8/17/23 - guests: Sohrab Ahmari on the tyranny of capital; Erin Reed on trans politics - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 8/9/23 - guests: Francisco Pérez, Caitlin Chandler - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 8/3/23 - guests: Sara Goldrick-Rab on hunger on the campus, David Broder on polishing Giorgia Meloni's rep - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 7/27/23 - guests: Tim Shorrock on Korea, Christopher Morten on pharma and IP - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 7/20/23 - guests: Gabriel Hetland on popular participation in Bolivia and Venezuela • Leigh Cowart on people who seek out pain on purpose - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 7/13/23 - guests: Harrison Stetler on the riots in France • Peter Turchin, complexity theorist, on why the US is heading for a smashup - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 7/6/23 - guests: Clara Mattei on austerity and fascism; Edwin Ackerman on AMLO - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 6/29/23 - guests: Anatol Lieven on the Wagner uprising; Samuel Bazzi on the Confederate diaspora - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 6/22/23 - guests: M.E. O'Brien on family abolition, Jane Chung on the cult of homeownership - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 6/15/23 - guest: Corey Robin on Clarence Thomas (rerun of October 2019 show) - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 6/8/23 - guests: Christopher Layne on why we're in Ukraine, Marcus Brown on his AR sculptures showing the history of US slavery - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 6/1/23 - guests: Wanda Bertram on parole, probation, and civil commitment • Francisco Perez on the mystifications of mainstream economics and a course around them - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 5/25/23 - guests: Tina Gerhardt on the plight of small island countries as the seas rise; Quinn Slobodian on democracy-free libertarian enclaves - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 5/18/23 - guests: Jeff Sharlet on Trumpism and fascist creep; Claire Dunning on governance via nonprofits - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 5/11/23 - guests: Michaela Chen on unionizing content moderators; Micah Herskind on the political economy behind Atlanta's Cop City - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 4/27/23 - guests: Micah Uetricht on the Chicago mayoral election, Lily Lynch on the Ukraine war and the end of Scandinavian neutrality - Doug Henwood