Political scientist Clyde Barrow explains how Texas, a complex, diverse, urbanized state, is run by a bunch of white guys who think they're cowboys (rebroadcast of a September interview). And Jesse Eisinger of ProPublica explains why very rich people pay almost nothing in taxes.

The political economy of Texas, and why do rich people pay so little in taxes?

Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global.

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Aziz Rana, author of  The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document that Fails Them, on how our founding document constrains democracy
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The Constitutional fetish

Mouin Rabbani on the war on Gaza, and the broader context of the Israel–Palestine conflict
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Fundraising special: Mouin Rabbani on Israel–Palestine

Annelle Sheline, who’d been on BtN three times before, on her resignation from the State Department as a protest against the war on Gaza (her statement is here).
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Fundraising special: a rare resignation on principle

Derek Seidman looks into the Alabama corporate elite and its terror at the incursion of the UAW (articles here and here) • Quinn Slobodian on Peter Brimelow and the white supremacist wing of neoliberalism
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Fundraising special: the Alabama ruling class confronts the UAW, the white supremacist wing of neoliberalism

Adam Federman on the criminalization of protest (article here) • Kay Gabriel on how the right is using the anti-trans panic to make war on public schools and teachers’ unions (article here)
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The political economy of Texas, and why do rich people pay so little in taxes?

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