Show overview
KPFA - Behind the News launched in 2025 and has put out 55 episodes in the time since. That works out to roughly 50 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-US-language News show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 5 days ago, with 45 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2026, with 45 episodes published. Published by KPFA.org - KPFA 94.1 Berkeley, CA.
Episodes
55
Running
2025–2026 · 1y
Median length
1h
Cadence
Weekly
From the publisher
Host Doug Henwood covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global.
Latest Episodes
View all 55 episodesTexas goes solid blue • Saudi Arabia hits a wall
Nov 5, 202659 min
Lula’s prospects in Brazil, foundations and food
Oct 29, 202659 min
What a socialist economy might look like
Oct 22, 202659 min
Brazil and the global right • the life of Eugene V. Debs
Oct 15, 202659 min
Fundraising Special: Three Views of AI
Oct 8, 202659 min
fundraising special: the hidden rich, China–US relations
Oct 1, 202659 min
fundraising special: Kristin Du Mez on the world of right-wing evangelical women
Sep 24, 202659 min
School politics, sex worker politics
Sep 17, 202659 min
AI may kill us all, so it must be stopped • the life of historian Howard Zinn
Sep 10, 202659 min
Grabbing Venezuela’s oil • a future without cops and jails
Sep 3, 202659 min
The political economy of slavery • building postcarbon futures
Aug 27, 202659 min
How and why is Israel pummeling Lebanon? • nonstandard forms of work
Aug 20, 20267 min
the perils of AI, the horrors of the Russia–Ukraine war
Aug 13, 202659 min
The Cockroach movement in India • transforming the US economy: a suite of proposals
Aug 6, 202659 min
DSA’s platform • why we fear AI
Jul 30, 202659 min
Fundraising special: a look at the right, intellectual side mostly but not all
Jul 23, 202659 min
American anti-egalitarians, AIPAC’s black front group
Jul 16, 202659 min
The private equity racket
Jul 9, 202659 min
Designing the socialist future, taking the measure of muscular Christianity
Jul 2, 202659 min
What’s going on with the Iran negotiations?
Jun 25, 202659 min
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