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

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Podcast: [Jacobin Radio](https://stenobird.com/podcast/jacobin-radio-756401)
Published: 2026-07-20T16:20:00+00:00
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## Resource

Kim Phillips-Fein, author of Country of Lords , 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 , looks at the National Black Empowerment Coalition, basically an AIPAC front group. Behind the News , hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global.

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