Behind the News, 11/20/25 - guest: Paul Heideman on the Republican Party - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 11/13/25 - guests: Mosaab Baba on Sudan, Jake Adelstein on Japan's new PM - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 11/6/25 - guests: Gabriel Hetland on municipal socialism • Lea Ypi investigates her grandmother's past, and Albania's - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 10/30/25 - guests: Jacob Silverman on tech's move to the right • Forrest Hylton offers a tour d'horizon of South American politics - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 10/23/25 - guests: Margaux MacColl, Susannah Glickman - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 10/16/25 - guests: Ilan Pappé on the ceasefire and a crisis in Israeli society that could lead it to a better place • Jennifer Berkshire on the Trump education agenda - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 10/9/25 - guests: Jake Werner on China, Jeet Heer on Bill Buckley - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 10/2/25 - guests: Erin Thompson on the politics of public monuments • Mouin Rabbani on Trump's “peace plan” • Ted Hamm on Zohran Mamdani - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 9/25/25 - guests: Mouin Rabbani on the mass recognitions of Palestine • Ernesto Semán on Milei's crisis and bailout - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 9/18/25 - guests: Quinn Slobodian on the eugenics branch of neoliberalism • Molly White on stablecoins - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 9/11/25 - guests: Émile Torres on transhumanism • Daniel Wortel-London on the fiscal history of NYC - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 9/4/25 - guests: John Roosa on Indonesia, David Duhalde on DSA - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 8/28/25 - guest: Sam Tanenhaus on Bill Buckley - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 8/21/25 - guests: Osita Nwanevu on democracy, Derek Guy on upper-class menswear - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 8/14/25 - guests: Aaron Benanav on postcapitalist planning • Jerome Nikolai Warren on co-ops - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 8/7/25 - guests: Jodi Dean on what's wrong with anti-wokeness • Emily Jashinsky on GOP dissent over Israel - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 7/31/25 - guests: Alex Vitale on Zohran and the cops • Dwayne Monroe on the lies of AI - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 7/24/25 - guests: Anatol Lieven on the US and the world under Trump • Samuel Moyn on checks & balances and the importance of elites - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 7/15/25 - guests: Adam Gaffney on Trump's health and research cuts • Alan Beattie on Trump’s whimsical trade policies - Doug Henwood
Behind the News, 7/10/25 - guests: Juliet Schor on the four-day week; Katherine Moos and Noé Martin Wiener on teachers & overwork - Doug Henwood
Martin Smith
Great podcast with interesting and knowledgeable guests. The interview with Sam Tanenhaus on Bill Buckley was superb.