Who are the Houthis? • more on Hezbollah
Shireen Al-Adeimi of Michigan State and the Quincy Institute, on the Houthis • political scientist Aurélie Daher with another view of Hezbollah
Behind the News
12:00 PM (Noon) Pacific Time: Thursdays
Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global.
Electronic monitoring, and who is Hezbollah?
Wanda Bertram of the Prison Policy Initiative on electronic monitoring (the ankle bracelet kind) • Joseph Daher, author of Hezbollah: The Political Economy of the Party of God, on that demonized organization
More on Argentina, and Americans’ complicated relationship with psychoactive drugs
political scientist Jacqueline Behrend on Argentina’s new president, Javier Milei • Benjamin Fong, author of Quick Fixes, on Americans’ love/hate relationship with drugs
Perils of striking Trump from the ballot and the year in organized labor
Samuel Moyn, law prof and historian, on the political and legal dubiousness of excluding Trump from the presidential ballot • labor journalist Alex Press on the year in labor (articles on that topic here and here)
transcending the family, questioning homeownership
slaying sacred cows: M.E. O’Brien, author of Family Abolition, on doing that and “communizing care” • Jane Chung, author of this article, on what’s wrong with our cult of homeownership [holiday encore presentation of a show first broadcast in June]
COP28 and Argentina’s new president
environmental journalist Tina Gerhardt on the recently concluded COP28 environmental summit, where limited good intentions were uttered and oil contracts were signed • historian Forrest Hylton on Javier Milei, the new libertarian/authoritarian president of Argentina
Fundraising special: problems of philanthropy, and what in Israel is producing the carnage in Gaza?
Amy Schiller, author of The Price of Humanity, on what’s wrong with philanthropy and how to fix it • Joel Schalit, editor of The Battleground, on what it is in Israeli politics and society that’s behind the carnage in Gaza
Fundraising special, featuring Angela Davis
Fundraising special featuring a speech from a November 1 teach-in on Gaza by Angela Davis.
Cats and capitalism, understanding capitalism in order to fight it
Leigh Claire La Berge, author of Marx for Cats, on political economy and the human–feline relationship • Michael Zweig, author of Class, Race, and Gender, on understanding capitalism in order to transform it
Small island nations, libertarian enclaves
Tina Gerhardt, author of Sea Change, on the effects of rising oceans on small island nations • Quinn Slobodian, author of Crack-Up Capitalism, on libertarian enclaves insulated from democracy [rebroadcast of a May 2023 show]