Behind the News: The US Tradition of Inequality w/ Kim Phillips-Fein

Kim Phillips-Fein, author of Country of Lords (wwnorton.com/books/9781324074441), traces the anti-egalitarian tradition in American politics. Aziz Rana discusses the tensions between the Declaration and the Constitution (from a 2024 interview). And Jasmine Wynn, author of a recent Jacobin article (jacobin.com/2026/07/aipac-nbec-black-voters-is…), looks at the National Black Empowerment Coalition, basically an AIPAC front group.

Behind the News (leftbusinessobserver.com/radio.html), hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global.