Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): August 21, 2025 Osita Nwanevu, author of The Right of the People, on the flaws of American democracy—and some cures • Derek Guy on the evolution of upper-class men’s dress over the decades| LBO News from Doug Henwood
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): August 14, 2025 Aaron Benanav, author of this article, outlines possibilities for a democratically planned economy • Jerome Nikolai Warren on the possibilities for cooperatives| LBO News from Doug Henwood
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): August 7, 2025 Jodi Dean, author of this article, on why going anti-woke is very wrong • Emily Jashinsky on Marjorie Taylor Greene’s use of …| LBO News from Doug Henwood
While the jobs numbers had this big kind of mysterious revision, if they didn’t have the revision, then the jobs numbers were fully consistent with a 3% GDP growth we also so last week, and that’s even before the Big Beautiful Bill passes… — Kevin Hassett on Fox By now, the news that the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported weak job growth for July and revised its estimates for May and June down very substantially has spread beyond the usual audience of connoisseurs. Though those...| LBO News from Doug Henwood
As Trump and his ICE Sturmabteilung troop stormingly about the country deporting people, there’s an important fact that’s being overlooked: deporting undocumented workers destroys domestic jobs as well. Of course, their nativist campaign is grotesque and revolting in itself, and would be were no native-born bystanders injured by the expulsions. But we should be clear on what damage we’re doing to ourselves as well. As Ben Zipperer shows in work for the Economic Policy Institute, almost ...| LBO News from Doug Henwood
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): July 31, 2025 Alex Vitale on Zohran Mamdani, the NYPD, and policing generally (Nation article here) • Dwayne Monroe on the AI mania| LBO News from Doug Henwood
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): July 24, 2025 Anatol Lieven looks at US relations with the world under the Trump regime, specifically Russia–Ukraine, Israel–Palestine, and …| LBO News from Doug Henwood
July 17, 2025 Adam Gaffney, co-author of this article, on Trump & Co.’s cuts to health care and research • Alan Beattie tries to make sense of Trump’s nonsensical trade policy| LBO News from Doug Henwood
July 10, 2025 Juliet Schor, author of Four Days a Week, on experiments in reducing the workweek • Katherine Moos and Noé Martin Wiener, authors of this paper, on overwork among teachers| LBO News from Doug Henwood
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): July 3, 2025 Lily Lynch, author of this report, on the NATO summit • Megan Greenwell, author of Bad Company, on the depredations of private …| LBO News from Doug Henwood
5 posts published by Doug Henwood during February 2025| LBO News from Doug Henwood
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): February 27, 2025 Eric Blanc, author of We Are the Union, on worker-led organizing (Amazon, Starbucks, etc.) • Molly O’Neal, Quincy In…| LBO News from Doug Henwood
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): February 20, 2025 Anatol Lieven looks at the global dimensions of Trumpism • Quinn Slobodian muses on whether Trump is a neoliberal, and exa…| LBO News from Doug Henwood
Among the leading fantasies of the moment are that federal employment and spending are “out of control,” so drastic action is needed to put things back in order. These are lies. Some people who utt…| LBO News from Doug Henwood
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): February 13, 2025 Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò picks apart the contradictory strands of the DEI obsession • Sophia Rosenfeld, author of The Age of Choice,…| LBO News from Doug Henwood
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): February 6, 2025 Kristin Du Mez, author of Jesus and John Wayne, on Christian nationalism • Jennifer Middlestadt, author of this article, on…| LBO News from Doug Henwood
A follow-up to yesterday’s post about historical trends in union density. Today, a look at demographics and geography. Once upon a time, the stereotypical union member was a factory worker. That ha…| LBO News from Doug Henwood
Here are the headlines for my last five writeups of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ annual accounting of union density: Union density: yet another low (2020) Pandemic boosts union density (20…| LBO News from Doug Henwood
This is a lightly edited transcript of an interview that I did with Mouin Rabbani on the January 23, 2025, edition of Behind the News. Rabbani is a journalist and analyst with a deep understanding …| LBO News from Doug Henwood
Our new emperor has a well-advertised love of tariffs. They appeal to his grandiosity, as dramatic imperial gestures that will bring the world to heel at no cost to Americans, given his stubborn de…| LBO News from Doug Henwood
Dan Davies, The Unaccountability Machine: How Systems Make Terrible Decisions and How the World Lost Its Mind Profile Books, £22.00 by Michael Pollak why Hayek was wrong Here is what mainstream eco…| LBO News from Doug Henwood
Jane McAlevey, the organizer, writer, and frequent BtN guest, died on July 7. To remember her, I ran an excerpt from a March 2017 interview with her. Here’s what I said to introduce the inter…| LBO News from Doug Henwood
6 posts published by Doug Henwood during May 2024| LBO News from Doug Henwood
