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Current Affairs
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A podcast of politics and culture, from the editors of Current Affairs magazine.
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Drop Site's Julian Andreone on His Wildest Capitol Hill Encounters
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Julian Andreone is a Capitol Hill reporter for Drop Site News, where he confronts lawmakers with tough questions they’re often unprepared to answer. He joins Current Affairs editor in chief Nathan...
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Before Bernie and Mamdani, There Was Eugene Debs
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Shawn Gude is the former editor of Jacobin and author of American Socialist: The Life and Legacy of Eugene V. Debs. He joins Current Affairs editor in chief Nathan J. Robinson to discuss how Debs...
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The Consultants Will Kill You
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership In Michigan and Maine, a tale of two campaigns. 🌹 Full article by Nathan J. Robinson: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-consultants-will-kill-you 🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs:...
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In Praise of Suit Socialism
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership If there’s a visual language that connotes credibility and authority, why not take advantage of it? 🌹 Full article by Nathan J. Robinson:...
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Democrats Paved the Way for Fascism — Jennifer Welch on MAGA, Socialism, and Political Revolution
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Jennifer Welch, co-host of I’ve Had It and author of Not Today, Fascists, joins Current Affairs editor in chief Nathan J. Robinson to discuss the rise of Christian nationalism, her political...
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Israel Is Stealing the West Bank in Plain Sight (w/ Jasper Nathaniel)
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Jasper Nathaniel is an independent journalist who recently returned from reporting in the occupied West Bank, where he documented Israeli settler violence, land seizures, military raids, home...
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How 9/11 Normalized Endless War
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership CODEPINK co-founders Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans, along with national co-director Danaka Katovich, join Current Affairs to reflect on 25 years of the post-9/11 War on Terror, the founding of...
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How Trump Made a Broken DOJ Even Worse
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Rachel Cohen is an attorney and organizer who previously resigned from the law firm Skadden Arps amid the Trump administration’s pressure campaign against major law firms. She joins Current…
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MAGA Stole Animal Rights from the Left
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Astra Taylor is a writer, activist, and co-author of End Times Fascism, and Aaron Regunberg is a climate lawyer and contributing editor at The New Republic. They join Current Affairs to discuss…
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Palestinians Shouldn’t Have to Be Perfect Victims (w/ Mohammed el-Kurd)
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Mohammed el-Kurd is a Palestinian writer from Jerusalem, The Nation’s Palestine correspondent, and editor-at-large at Mondoweiss. He joins Current Affairs to discuss his book, Perfect Victims and...
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AIPAC Knows Its Money Is Toxic (w/ Track AIPAC)
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Track AIPAC is an advocacy and watchdog project that tracks AIPAC and other pro-Israel political spending in U.S. elections. Co-founders Cory Archibald and Casey Kennedy join Current Affairs to...
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Both Parties Are Failing Working People (w/ Dan Osborn)
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Dan Osborn is an independent candidate for U.S. Senate in Nebraska and a former union leader who first gained national attention during the 2021 Kellogg’s strike. He joins Current Affairs…
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The Israel Lobby Is More Desperate Than Ever
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Eli Clifton is an investigative journalist and co-founder of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, and Ian Lustick is a political scientist specializing in U.S. foreign policy and...
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The “Silent Genocide” in Cuba (w/ Abby Martin)
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Abby Martin is a journalist, filmmaker, and creator of The Empire Files. She joins Current Affairs editor in chief Nathan J. Robinson to discuss her new film, Cuba After Castro, which features a...
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Socialist Defends Medicare for All on Fox News
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Nathan J. Robinson returns to The Will Cain Show to defend Medicare for All, California’s proposed billionaire tax, and Zohran Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax. 🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs:...
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Send Ben Shapiro to Iran
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Why should other people’s children be the ones who die in the wars he promotes? 🌹 Full article by Alex Skopic: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/send-ben-shapiro-to-iran 🦩Subscribe to Current...
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Graham Platner and the Left’s Misogyny Problem (w/ Yasmin Nair)
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Yasmin Nair is a writer, activist, and longtime contributor to Current Affairs. In this conversation with Current Affairs editor in chief Nathan J. Robinson, she discusses what Graham Platner’s…
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AIPAC Couldn't Stop Abdul El-Sayed
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership If he wins in November, this could be end of the road for AIPAC and the Democratic establishment. 🌹 Full article by Nathan J. Robinson:...
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A Socialist Appears on Fox News
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Nathan J. Robinson appears on The Will Cain Show to discuss socialism and the future of the Democratic Party. 🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership 🦩 Merch:...
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Centrists Are Not More "Electable"
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Whether a candidate can inspire people, organize them, and deliver for them matters more than where they stand on an imaginary ideological continuum. 🌹 Full article by Nathan J. Robinson:...
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America Is Just Guns and Diarrhea Now
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Our politicians won't keep parasites out of our food, but they'll make it easier to buy guns through the mail. 🌹 Full article by Alex Skopic:...
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Socialists Humiliate Clueless NewsNation Host
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership We don’t think NewsNation’s Katie Pavlich knew what she was getting into when she invited Current Affairs Editor-in-Chief Nathan J. Robinson and Monte Mader on to debate socialism. 🦩 Read our...
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Daniel Ellsberg's Final Warning to America
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Daniel Ellsberg was the Pentagon Papers whistleblower whose decision to expose government lies about the Vietnam War changed American history. In this conversation with Current Affairs editor in...
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America Is Headed for Another Endless War (w/ Trita Parsi)
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Trita Parsi is the co-founder of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and one of the leading analysts of U.S.–Iran relations. He joins Current Affairs editor in chief Nathan J. Robinson...
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Keir Starmer’s Downfall is a Warning for the Democrats
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership When you stand for nothing, nobody wants to stand with you. 🌹 Full article by Alex Skopic: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/keir-starmers-downfall-is-a-warning-for-the-democrats 🦩Subscribe to...
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Neoliberal Economics Has Always Been Bogus
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Eric Beinhocker is a professor at the University of Oxford and executive director of the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School. Nick Hanauer is an entrepreneur, venture...
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How an AIPAC Smear Campaign Works
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership The Israel lobby’s attempt to destroy Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign is a disturbing example of how money warps democracy. 🌹 Full article by Nathan J. Robinson:...
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Kshama Sawant Is Taking On a Pro-War Democrat
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Kshama Sawant is a socialist organizer, former Seattle City Council member, and candidate for Congress in Washington’s 9th congressional district. Sawant joined Current Affairs editor-in-chief...
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Trump Might Really Invade Cuba
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership There’s barely any pretense that Trump cares about Cuban democracy. This is about privatizing Cuba’s public assets and getting them into the hands of Trump’s cronies. 🇨🇺 Read the article:...
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Of Course The Founding Fathers Would Have Hated Trump
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership They rejected kings and were sincerely concerned about the possibility of a dictatorship. But we need to move past founder-worship and focus on justice. 👑 Full article by Nathan J. Robinson:...
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Charles Booker Has a Plan to Win Kentucky
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Charles Booker is a former Kentucky state representative and the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Kentucky. His campaign centers on Medicare for All, ending endless war, strengthening labor...
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The Internet Is Being Erased
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Mark Graham is the director of the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive, and Chris Freeland is the Internet Archive’s director of library services and one of the co-authors of the new report...
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A Trillion Dollars Isn’t Worth It If You Have to Be Elon Musk
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Elon Musk is a miserable deadbeat whom no amount of money can make loved, cool, or happy. 🌹 Full article by Nathan J. Robinson & Alex Skopic:...
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The Left Is Rising
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Electoral victories by socialists around the country show that the Democratic establishment is weak and can be overthrown. 🌹 Read the article…
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The Hidden Surveillance Network Spreading Across America
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Jessica Burbank is an investigative journalist, content creator, and host of The Jessica Burbank Show. Her reporting for Drop Site News and The Counterprogramming Club has exposed the rapid spread...
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Judith Butler Explains the Gender Panic
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Judith Butler is one of the world's leading scholars and philosophers on issues of gender, sexuality, and the cultural phenomena that surround them. They are the author of the landmark 1990 book...
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The Anti-Zionist Jewish Movement Israel Doesn’t Want You to Know About (w/ Molly Crabapple)
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Molly Crabapple is an artist, journalist, and author of the new book Here Where We Live Is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund. She joins Current Affairs editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson…
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Money Is a Measure of Nothing But Itself
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership J. W. Mason and Arjun Jayadev are economists and authors of the new book Against Money. They join Current Affairs editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson to discuss why money is so widely…
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The Fight to Unionize Amazon Isn’t Over (w/ Chris Smalls)
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Chris Smalls is the co-founder and former president of the Amazon Labor Union and author of the new book When the Revolution Comes. He joins Current Affairs associate editor Alex Skopic in Havana,...
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Norman Finkelstein on the Insane Racism of Israeli Society and the Plan to Erase Gaza
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Norman Finkelstein is one of the leading scholars of the Israel-Palestine conflict and author of the new book Gaza’s Gravediggers: An Inquiry into Corruption in High Places. He joins Current…
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Secret Cable Exposes U.S. Role in Imran Khan’s Ouster
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Waqas Ahmed is a Pakistani journalist whose work has appeared in The Intercept and Drop Site News. He joins Current Affairs to discuss his recent reporting with Murtaza Hussain and Ryan Grim on…
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The Heinous Evil of Cutting USAID
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Nicholas Enrich worked at USAID for more than 12 years, including in its Bureau for Global Health and Bureau for Management. He joins Current Affairs to discuss his new book, Into the Wood…
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The Democratic Establishment Can Be Defeated
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership It’s not 2016 anymore. We can throw out the party’s sclerotic leadership. 🌹 Read the article: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-democratic-establishment-can-be-defeated 🦩SUBSCRIBE TO…
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Israel OCCUPIES Lebanon During Fake "Ceasefire" (w/ Rania Khalek)
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Rania Khalek is a Lebanese-American journalist based in Beirut and the host of Dispatches on BreakThrough News. She returns to Current Affairs to give an update on Lebanon, where Israel has...
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Abdul El-Sayed GOES AFTER Trump, AIPAC, and Corporate Dems
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Abdul El-Sayed is a physician, public health official, Current Affairs contributor, and Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Michigan. He joined Nathan Robinson to discuss his campaign, the…
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“Progress” Is Making Things Worse (w/ Sam Miller McDonald)
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Sam Miller McDonald is a writer and longtime Current Affairs contributor. He joins Nathan Robinson to discuss his new book Progress: How One Idea Built Civilization—and Now Threatens to Destroy…
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Meanwhile, Zohran Is Just Getting Things Done
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership As Trump creates economic havoc and commits war crimes, the socialist mayor of New York City demonstrates what serious, responsible government looks like. 🗽 Read the article:...
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The Phony Virtue of Cory Booker
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership After being a leading Democratic enabler of the genocide of Palestinians, Cory Booker now has the audacity to publish a book about moral virtue. 🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs:...
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Liberal Media Helped Destroy Gaza (w/ Adam Johnson)
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Adam Johnson is a media analyst and co-host of the podcast Citations Needed, whose work has appeared in The Nation, The Intercept, and other major outlets. He joined Current Affairs…
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Trump Has No Idea What He’s Doing (w/ Mouin Rabbani)
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Mouin Rabbani is a Middle East analyst and researcher, and one of the most incisive commentators on U.S. foreign policy in the region. He joined Current Affairs Editor-in-Chief Nathan Robinson to...
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