Fresh audio product: the Epstein gang, AI, mass incarceration

Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): February 26, 2026 Tessa West on the social dynamics that kept the Epstein gang together • Nick Srnicek, author of Silicon Empires, on AI • Wanda Bertram on the costs of mass incarceration (report here)

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

I’ve been very delinquent about posting radio shows to the archive—sorry. Here’s a batch. There’s a break in the middle for KPFA fundraising (three weeks) and my racing to finish my book on Hillary Clinton (one week). Speaking of KPFA fundraising, this Behind the News would not exist were it not for that excellent radio station. Please contribute (and mention BtN if you do). October 15, 2015 Greg Grandin, author of Kissinger’s Shadow, on the ghoulish diplomat’s five-decade rampage October 8, 2015 David Bloomfield talks edu-policy as Arne Duncan leaves • Elizabeth Bruenig, both journalist and Catholic (and author of this), on… Read More