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Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global.
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Ruling parties take a hit in India and South Africa
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
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The Constitutional fetish
Aziz Rana, author of The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document that Fails Them, on how our founding document constrains democracy
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Fundraising special: Mouin Rabbani on Israel–Palestine
Mouin Rabbani on the war on Gaza, and the broader context of the Israel–Palestine conflict
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Fundraising special: a rare resignation on principle
Annelle Sheline, who’d been on BtN three times before, on her resignation from the State Department as a protest against the war on Gaza (her statement is here).
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Fundraising special: the Alabama ruling class confronts the UAW, the white supremacist wing of neoliberalism
Derek Seidman looks into the Alabama corporate elite and its terror at the incursion of the UAW (articles here and here) • Quinn Slobodian on Peter Brimelow and the white supremacist wing of neoliberalism
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Criminalizing protest, exploiting transphobia
Adam Federman on the criminalization of protest (article here) • Kay Gabriel on how the right is using the anti-trans panic to make war on public schools and teachers’ unions (article here)
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