Behind the News with Doug Henwood

Behind the News, 6/26/25 - guests: Sohrab Ahmari on Iran etc., Leigh Claire La Berge on fake work - Doug Henwood

Behind the News, 6/19/25 - guests: Mouin Rabbani and Joel Schalit on Israel's attack on Iran - Doug Henwood

Behind the News, 6/12/25 - guests: Paolo Gerbaudo on BYD • Andrew Hartman on Marx in America - Doug Henwood

Behind the News, 6/5/25 - guests: Laleh Khalili on war and industry • Kyle Chan on China overtaking the US - Doug Henwood

Behind the News, 5/29/25 - guests: John Cassidy on capitalism and its critics • Sandeep Vaheesan on abundance, neoliberal and genuine - Doug Henwood

Behind the News, 5/22/25 - guests: Mouin Rabbani on Israeli politics • Meron Rapoport on how Israel has been destroying Gaza - Doug Henwood

Behind the News, 5/15/25 - guests: Barry Eichengreen on the dollar • Courtney Rawlings and Alex Jordan on why the US is always at war - Doug Henwood

Behind the News, 5/8/25 - guests: Jeet Heer on Canadian politics, Natasha Piano on the Italian school of elitism - Doug Henwood

Behind the News, 5/1/25 - guests: Vijay Prashad on the US empire and the global working class • Becca Rothfeld in praise of big - Doug Henwood

Behind the News, 4/24/25 - guest: Aziz Rana on the constitutional order and Trump - Doug Henwood

Behind the News, 4/17/25 - guest: Quinn Slobodian on the successor gang to the Mont Pelerin OGs - Doug Henwood

Behind the News, 4/10/25 - guests: Charlie Eaton and Alina Gibadulina on financiers on university boards • Malcolm Harris on political approaches to climate - Doug Henwood

Behind the News, 4/3/25 - guests: Jason Wade on the UAW's support of Trump's auto tariffs • Sam Gindin on what the tariffs obscure, and what they mean for the US empire - Doug Henwood

Behind the News, 3/27/25 - guests: Samuel Moyn on Trump & the courts • Chris Maisano on class & elections • Evgenia Kovda on hipster nihilists - Doug Henwood

Behind the News, 3/20/25 - guests: Brent Cebul and Lily Geismer on professional class liberalism • Gabriel Winant on the PMC - Doug Henwood

Behind the News, 3/13/25 - guests: Vanessa Wills on Marx's ethics; Mathis Ebbinghaus on the effects of BLM demos on police budgets - Doug Henwood

Behind the News, 3/6/25 - guests: Ben Tarnoff on Silicon Valley politics, Jodi Dean on neofeudalism - Doug Henwood

Behind the News, 2/27/25 - guests: Eric Blanc on worker-led organizing • Molly O'Neal on the German election - Doug Henwood

Behind the News, 2/20/25 - guests: Anatol Lieven on the global aspects of Trumpism • Quinn Slobodian on whether Trump is a neoliberal, and the roots of DOGE - Doug Henwood

Behind the News, 2/13/25 - guests: Olufemi Taiwo on DEI, Sophia Rosenfeld on the history of choice - Doug Henwood

Behind the News, 2/6/25 - guests: Kristin Du Mez on Christian nationalism • Jennifer Mittelstadt on Trump & the soverigntists - Doug Henwood

Behind the News, 1/30/25 - guests: Eoin Higgins on tech bros and the scribes who work for them; Ronnie Grinberg on the New York intellectuals - Doug Henwood

Behind the News, 1/23/25 - guests: Mouin Rabbani on Gaza deal; Angela Jones and Bernadette Barton on sex work today - Doug Henwood

Behind the News, 1/16/25 - guests: Laura Jedeed on SF and its reactionary saviors • Yasha Levin on the Resnicks and water in California - Doug Henwood

Behind the News, 1/9/25 - guests: Colette Shade on the Y2K era, Tim Shorrock on South Korea - Doug Henwood

Behind the News, 1/2/25 - Best of 2024: Rashid Khalidi, Pankaj Mishra, Annelle Sheline, Aziz Rana, Anna Kornbluh, Brooke Harrington, and in memoriam Jane McAlevey - Doug Henwood

Behind the News, 12/26/24 - guests: Branko Marcetic, Santiago Pérez - Doug Henwood

Behind the News, 12/19/24 - guests: Trita Parsi and Joshua Landis on Syria, Tina Gerhardt on COP20 - Doug Henwood

Behind the News, 12/5/24 - guests: Larry Bartels on right populism, Sopo Japaridze on Georgia - Doug Henwood

Behind the News, 11/28/24 - guests: Brooke Harrington on offshore capital, Mahendran Thiruvarangan on Sri Lanka - Doug Henwood

Behind the News, 11/21/24 - guests: Michael Meeropol on his mother Ethel Rosenberg's innocence, Ruth Whippman on raising boys - Doug Henwood

Behind the News, 11/14/24 - guests: Anatol Lieven on Trump's foreign policy • Alex Vitale on Trump and the cops - Doug Henwood

Behind the News, 11/7/24 - DH on Trump • Dahlia Scheindlin on Israeli public opinion • James Foley and Vladimir Unkovski-Korica what Ukraine means for the West - Doug Henwood

Behind the News, 10/31/24 - guests: Laura Jedeed on right-wingers vs. higher ed in Idaho • Mouin Rabbani on Israel's goals - Doug Henwood

Behind the News, 10/22/24 - guests: William Hartung on arming Israel, Scott Schieman on how people actually like their jobs - Doug Henwood

Behind the News, 10/17/24 - guests: Anatol Lieven on the Biden/Harris grand design • Lily Lynch on the emptying Balkans - Doug Henwood

Behind the News, 10/10/24 - guests: Paul North and Paul Reitter on their new edition of Marx's Capital vol. 1 • Nimrod Flaschenberg and Alma Itzhaky on the political culture of Israel after October 7 - Doug Henwood

Behind the News, 10/3/24 - guests: Rashid Khalidi on a century of war on Palestinians, Aurélie Daher on Hezbollah after Nasrallah - Doug Henwood

Behind the News, 9/26/24 - guests: Forrest Hilton on fires in Brazil and Lula's political impotence • Edwin Ackerman on AMLO, Sheinbaum, and judicial reform - Doug Henwood

Behind the News, 10/19/24 - guests: Niobe Way on masculinization, Branko Milanovic on economists' view of inequality over the centuries - Doug Henwood

Behind the News, 9/12/24 - guests: Neil Sehgal on the durability of slaveowner wealth • Emily Jashinsky on Trump, Vance, et al • Melissa Lyon on teachers' strikes - Doug Henwood

Behind the News, 9/5/24 - guests: Robert Pausch on the German far right • Rob Larson on the superrich - Doug Henwood

Behind the News, 8/29/24 - guests: Naomi Hossain on Bangladesh, Sandipto Dasgupta on India's constitution - Doug Henwood

Behind the News, 8/22/24 - guests: Jake Werner on a progressive approach to China, Gabriel Hetland on Colombian president Gustavo Petro - Doug Henwood

Behind the News, 8/8/24 - guests: Arielle Klagsbrun on right-wing moneybags Jeff Yass • Sohrab Ahmari and Hamilton Nolan on the "pro-worker" GOP - Doug Henwood

Behind the News, 8/1/24 - guests: Heidi Matthews, Molly White, Nausicaa Renner - Doug Henwood

Behind the News, 7/25/24 - guests: Cole Stangler on the French elections, David Palumbo-Liu on the world that produced JD Vance, a bit of Jane McAlevey on power - Doug Henwood

Behind the News, 7/18/24 - guests: Brandon Mancilla on the Vance populist fraud; Adam Hilton on American political parties, esp the Dems - Doug Henwood

Behind the News, 7/11/24 - guests: Richard Seymour on British elections, Trita Parsi on Iranian elections, remembering Jane McAlevey - Doug Henwood

Behind the News, 7/4/24 - guests: Robert Pape on how Hamas is winning • Wanda Bertram on the US carceral state - Doug Henwood

Behind the News, 6/20/24 - guests: Steven Simon on Israel & the Arab states; Jennifer Berkshire on vouchers and other right-wing school reforms - Doug Henwood