Show overview
KPFA - Behind the News launched in 2025 and has put out 48 episodes in the time since. That works out to roughly 45 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 2 days ago, with 38 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2026, with 38 episodes published. Published by KPFA.org - KPFA 94.1 Berkeley, CA.
Episodes
48
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 48 episodesSchool 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
Cop power, sex and the social
Jun 18, 202659 min
Against money, hating theory
Jun 11, 20260
Two views of the right: the sordid side of “respectable,” and Trump’s court intellectuals
Jun 4, 20260
Latin America’s influence on Pope Leo • the Cultural Marxist conspiracy
May 28, 202659 min
fundraising special: the Xi–Trump summit, the dark doings of Opus Dei
May 21, 202659 min
Fundraising special: two views on the Iran war
May 14, 202659 min
fundraising special: imperialism and the homeland
May 7, 202659 min
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