Behind the News with Doug Henwood

Behind the News with Doug Henwood
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Recent Episodes

September 17, 2026
Behind the News, 9/17/26
Doug Henwood interviews Jennifer Berkshire on the anti-voucher backlash and Heather Berg on sex worker politics, offering insights into current social movements.

September 10, 2026
Behind the News, 9/10/26
Doug Henwood interviews Garrison Lovely about AI and Dave Zirin on Howard Zinn, offering insights into current events and historical perspectives.

September 3, 2026
Behind the News, 9/3/26
Doug Henwood interviews Alejandro Velasco on Trump's oil grab in Venezuela and Alex Vitale on life after policing and incarceration.
37 total episodes available with 15 transcripts
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Behind the News, 9/17/26
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[…] And then there's no oversight, none at all. You're just supposed to look at reviews online. And so it's this very bleak and dystopian vision because whatever power parents currently have to band together and demand that things get better when they're not working is just completely gone in this vision. Years ago, I read a paper that argued that parents who switch their kids out of public schools to charter schools don't really know that they're switching them to schools with actually worse outcomes. They're just not equipped to make these sorts of judgments. It sounds like these kinds of schemes raise this to or lower this to a new level. […]
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