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Doug Henwood (born December 7 1952) is an American journalist who writes frequently about economic affairs. He publishes a newsletter, Left Business Observer, that analyzes economics and politics from a left-wing perspective, and is a contributing editor at The Nation. He also hosts Behind the News, a weekly program on New York City's listener-sponsored radio station WBAI. He is married to journalist Liza Featherstone. They live in New York City with their son Ivan, born New Year's Day 2006.

Early years

Henwood was born in Teaneck, New Jersey, and grew up in Westwood, New Jersey. He received a B.A. in English from Yale University in 1975.
From 1976 to 1979, Henwood did graduate work in English at the University of Virginia, concentrating on British and American poetry and critical theory but left before obtaining his doctorate. He then worked for two years as a copywriter and assistant to a medical publisher in New York.

Writing

In 1986, Henwood launched Left Business Observer. Topics to which he's devoted coverage include:

income distribution and poverty in the U.S. and elsewhere in the First World
the globalization of finance and production
the worldwide attack on pensions
Third World debt and development
the IMF and World Bank
the media business
the influence of foundations on politics and culture
what it means to be a leftist in a world that seems to have forgotten what that means

Every issue includes a report on the world's financial markets and central banks.
Henwood has also written three books. His first, The State of the USA (1994), is a social atlas of the U.S. in the Pluto atlas series. This was followed in 1997 by Wall Street (Diane Publishing), in which Henwood described the workings of high finance. His most recent work is After the New Economy (New Press, 2003), an analysis of the 1990s boom and bust.
His writing has also appeared in The Nation, Grand Street, Village Voice, Newsday, Los Angeles Times, and The Guardian (UK).

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