Fresh audio product: durability of slaveholder wealth, a conservative looks at the election, effects of teachers’ strikes
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): September 12, 2024 Neil Sehgal, co-author of this paper, on the durability of slaveholder wealth, via a look at Congress • Emily Jashinsky with a conservative’s view of the election • Melissa Lyon, co-author of this paper, on the effects of teachers’ strikes
fresh audio product: German neo-Nazis, the superrich
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): September 5, 2024 Robert Pausch of Die Zeit on the far right’s strong showing in German regional elections • Rob Larson, author of Mastering the Universe, looks at the superrich
Fresh audio product: upsurge in Bangladesh, writing the Indian constitution
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): August 29, 2024 Naomi Hossain explains the uprising in Bangladesh that deposed PM Shekih Hasina • Sandipto Dasgupta, author of Legalizing the Revolution, examines the transformation of India from colony to nation through the exercise of constitution-writing
Fresh audio product: better approach to China, reviewing Petro in Colombia
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): August 22, 2024 Jake Werner on a progressive China policy (paper here) • Gabriel Hetland, author of this article, on the record of Colombian president Gustavo Petro, a leftist trying to govern a deeply conservative country
Fresh audio product: a look at Jeff Yass, another look at the “pro-worker” GOP
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): August 8, 2024 Arielle Klagsbrun of the All Eyes on Yass Campaign on the insufficiently known right-wing funder Jeff Yass • Sohrab Ahmari and Hamilton Nolan debate the existence, real or imagined, of pro-worker Republicans
Fresh audio product: World Court v Israel, crypto throwing money at politicians, psychoanalyzing Biden
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): August 1, 2024 Heidi Matthews analyzes the World Court’s declaration of Israel’s occupations illegal • Molly White on how crypto is spending its money in politics • Nausicaa Renner psychoanalyzes Joe Biden (article here)
Fresh audio product: French elections, the world that launched Vance, power
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): July 25, 2024 Cole Stangler on the monumentally inconclusive French elections • David Palumbo-Liu on the Silicon Valley world that launched JD Vance as a politician • a brief bit from Jane McAlevey on power
Fresh audio product: Vance, fake friend of the working class; American political parties are weird
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): July 18, 2024 Brandon Mancilla of the UAW looks behind the GOP’s pro-worker facade • Adam Hilton, author of True Blues, on the bizarre nature of the US political party system
Fresh audio product: British and Iranian elections, remembering Jane McAlevey
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): July 11, 2024 Richard Seymour discusses the British election (Sidecar article here) • Trita Parsi, the Iranian election • remembering Jane McAlevey with a 2017 BtN interview excerpt (catalog of interviews here)
Jane McAlevey: the Behind the News interviews
Jane McAlevey, the organizer, writer, and frequent BtN guest, died on July 7. To remember her, I ran an excerpt from a March 2017 interview with her. Here’s what I said to introduce the interview, and below that is a list of her appearances on the show. The dates are links to the entry in my radio archive. Jane McAlevey, the organizer, writer, and human dynamo, who appeared on this show nine times over the years, starting in 2012, died on Sunday, July 7, at the age of 59. I met Jane… Read More
Fresh audio product: Hamas is winning, updates on the US carceral state
Just added to my radio archive (after a week off): July 4, 2024 Robert Pape on how, despite Israel’s murderous onslaught on Gaza, Hamas is winning (article here) • Wanda Bertram on how US incarceration rates stack up against the rest of the world (massively), and other news on crime & punishment (report here)
fresh audio product: Israel and its Arab neighbors, school scheming
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): June 20, 2024 Steven Simon on Israel and the Arab states’ relations with it • Jennifer Berkshire, co-author of The Education Wars, on the right-wing’s latest educational ploys (and here’s Marcus Brown’s website that I mentioned in the intro)
fresh audio product: Mexico and radicals on the run
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): June 13, 2024 Edwin Ackerman on the Mexican elections, and the reasons for AMLO’s immense popularity (Sidecar piece here) • Joel Whitney, author of Flights, on radicals’ and revolutionaries’ battles with the CIA
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Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): June 6, 2024 Siddhartha Deb, author of Twilight Prisoners, on the Hindu right and its poor showing in India’s elections • Sean Jacobs, New School prof and publisher of Africa Is a Country, on the ANC’s poor showing in South Africa’s elections
Fresh audio product: the Constitution cult
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): May 30, 2024 Aziz Rana, author of The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document that Fails Them, on how our founding document constrains democracy but we worship it anyway
LBO News from Doug Henwood 