Current Affairs
A podcast of politics and culture, from the editors of Current Affairs magazine. It covers a wide range of topics including current events, political analysis, and cultural commentary. The show aims to provide insightful and progressive perspectives on the issues of the day.
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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/membershipShawn 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 went from moderate railroad unionist to one of America’s most influential socialist leaders.✊ Get the boo
The Consultants Will Kill You
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In Praise of Suit Socialism
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Democrats Paved the Way for Fascism — Jennifer Welch on MAGA, Socialism, and Political Revolution
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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 evolution from establishment Democrat to outspoken progressive, and why she believes the Democratic Party ne
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/membershipJasper 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 demolitions, and the daily realities of life under occupation.🇵🇸 Subscribe to Infinite Jaz: https://www.infin
How 9/11 Normalized Endless War
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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 CODEPINK, and the politics of fear that have fueled endless war.
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How Trump Made a Broken DOJ Even Worse
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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 Affairs to discuss her article “Business as Usual at the Department of Injustice,” which examines how T
MAGA Stole Animal Rights from the Left
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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 how the right has begun co-opting animal welfare politics, why the left has neglected animal rights, and h
Palestinians Shouldn’t Have to Be Perfect Victims (w/ Mohammed el-Kurd)
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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 the Politics of Appeal, which examines how even sympathetic discourse about Palestine can reproduce raci
AIPAC Knows Its Money Is Toxic (w/ Track AIPAC)
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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 discuss how the Israel lobby intervenes in Democratic primaries, how its money is routed through a growing
Both Parties Are Failing Working People (w/ Dan Osborn)
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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 associate editor Alex Skopic to discuss why he rejects the two-party system, the crisis facing rural hospitals,
The Israel Lobby Is More Desperate Than Ever
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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 Israel-Palestine.
They join Current Affairs editor in chief Nathan J. Robinson to discuss their new book, Isr
The “Silent Genocide” in Cuba (w/ Abby Martin)
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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 rare, in-depth interview with Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel.
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Socialist Defends Medicare for All on Fox News
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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.
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Send Ben Shapiro to Iran
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Why should other people’s children be the ones who die in the wars he promotes?
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Graham Platner and the Left’s Misogyny Problem (w/ Yasmin Nair)
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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 rise reveals about misogyny on the left, why sexism is too often excused or minimized in progressive polit
AIPAC Couldn't Stop Abdul El-Sayed
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If he wins in November, this could be end of the road for AIPAC and the Democratic establishment.
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A Socialist Appears on Fox News
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Nathan J. Robinson appears on The Will Cain Show to discuss socialism and the future of the Democratic Party.
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Centrists Are Not More "Electable"
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Whether a candidate can inspire people, organize them, and deliver for them matters more than where they stand on an imaginary ideological continuum.
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America Is Just Guns and Diarrhea Now
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Our politicians won't keep parasites out of our food, but they'll make it easier to buy guns through the mail.
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Socialists Humiliate Clueless NewsNation Host
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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.
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Daniel Ellsberg's Final Warning to America
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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 chief Nathan J. Robinson, Michael Ellsberg, Jan R. Thomas, and Robert Ellsberg discuss Truth and Conseque
America Is Headed for Another Endless War (w/ Trita Parsi)
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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 to explain how the ceasefire between the United States and Iran unraveled, why he believes both Washing
Keir Starmer’s Downfall is a Warning for the Democrats
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When you stand for nothing, nobody wants to stand with you.
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Neoliberal Economics Has Always Been Bogus
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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 capitalist, and founder of Civic Ventures. Together, they are the authors of the booklet Markets Built f
How an AIPAC Smear Campaign Works
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The Israel lobby’s attempt to destroy Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign is a disturbing example of how money warps democracy.
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Kshama Sawant Is Taking On a Pro-War Democrat
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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 Nathan J. Robinson to discuss Adam Smith’s record on war, why she believes Democrats cannot be relied on t
Trump Might Really Invade Cuba
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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.
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Of Course The Founding Fathers Would Have Hated Trump
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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.
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Charles Booker Has a Plan to Win Kentucky
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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 rights, raising wages, and building a multiracial working-class coalition from “the hood to the holler.”
The Internet Is Being Erased
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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 Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record. Their work focuses on preserving digital mater
A Trillion Dollars Isn’t Worth It If You Have to Be Elon Musk
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Elon Musk is a miserable deadbeat whom no amount of money can make loved, cool, or happy.
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The Left Is Rising
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Electoral victories by socialists around the country show that the Democratic establishment is weak and can be overthrown.
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The Hidden Surveillance Network Spreading Across America
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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 of Flock Safety, a multi-billion-dollar surveillance company whose license plate readers and camera net
Judith Butler Explains the Gender Panic
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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 Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, and more recently the 2024 follow-up work Who's
The Anti-Zionist Jewish Movement Israel Doesn’t Want You to Know About (w/ Molly Crabapple)
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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 to discuss the history of the Bund, its fierce anti-Zionism, its vision of Jewish self-determination with
Money Is a Measure of Nothing But Itself
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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 misunderstood, how it shapes our lives in ways we often fail to see, and how rethinking money can change the way we u
The Fight to Unionize Amazon Isn’t Over (w/ Chris Smalls)
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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, Cuba, during the Nuestra América aid mission to discuss the U.S. blockade, labor organizing, his fight
Norman Finkelstein on the Insane Racism of Israeli Society and the Plan to Erase Gaza
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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 Affairs editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson to discuss Israel’s plan to make Gaza unlivable, the racism of Isr
Secret Cable Exposes U.S. Role in Imran Khan’s Ouster
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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 the U.S.-Pakistan relationship, the ouster and imprisonment of Imran Khan, and how Washington went from su
The Heinous Evil of Cutting USAID
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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 Chipper, a whistleblower account of how the Trump administration and Elon Musk’s DOGE allies shredded one of th
The Democratic Establishment Can Be Defeated
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It’s not 2016 anymore. We can throw out the party’s sclerotic leadership.
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Israel OCCUPIES Lebanon During Fake "Ceasefire" (w/ Rania Khalek)
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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 continued bombing, occupying territory, issuing displacement orders, and demolishing villages during what is b
Abdul El-Sayed GOES AFTER Trump, AIPAC, and Corporate Dems
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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 fight over Gaza and AIPAC inside the Democratic Party, Chuck Schumer’s leadership, Medicare for All, corpor
“Progress” Is Making Things Worse (w/ Sam Miller McDonald)
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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 It, a sweeping critique of the belief that history is a story of constant improvement.
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Meanwhile, Zohran Is Just Getting Things Done
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As Trump creates economic havoc and commits war crimes, the socialist mayor of New York City demonstrates what serious, responsible government looks like.
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The Phony Virtue of Cory Booker
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After being a leading Democratic enabler of the genocide of Palestinians, Cory Booker now has the audacity to publish a book about moral virtue.
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Liberal Media Helped Destroy Gaza (w/ Adam Johnson)
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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 Editor-in-Chief Nathan Robinson to discuss his new book How to Sell a Genocide: The Media’s Complicity in the Destruct
Trump Has No Idea What He’s Doing (w/ Mouin Rabbani)
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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 discuss the latest escalation in Gaza, Lebanon, Iran, and the broader Middle East, including ceasefire n
Ben and Jerry's Co-Founder Takes on America's War Machine (w/ Ben Cohen)
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Ben Cohen is the co-founder, along with Jerry Greenfield, of the Ben and Jerry's ice cream company. But he has also been involved throughout his life with a number of major activist efforts on issues of peace, social justice, anti-racism, and climate change.
He is currently heading the Up In Arms
How Media Silences Anti-War Voices (w/ Amy Goodman)
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Amy Goodman is the longtime host of Democracy Now!, the independent news program she helped launch 30 years ago, which has since grown from a small network of community radio stations into a global media institution.
She spoke to Current Affairs Editor-in-Chief Nathan Robinson and Digital Editor Joh
California’s Democratic Field Is Embarrassingly Weak (w/ Dr. Butch Ware)
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Dr. Butch Ware is a historian, public intellectual, and the Green Party candidate for Governor of California. He is an associate professor at UC Santa Barbara, a former Green Party vice presidential nominee, and an advocate for universal healthcare, housing, and divestment from war.
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Israel’s Most Genocidal Law Yet (w/ Jasper Nathaniel)
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Jasper Nathaniel is an independent journalist who recently returned from documenting Israeli settler and state violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, where he has spent years reporting on land seizures, settler attacks, military raids, and the daily realities of life under Israeli
Iran Historian: War Makes The Government "MORE REPRESSIVE" (w/ Afshin Matin-Asgari)
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Afshin Matin-Asgari is an Iranian historian and professor of Middle East history at California State University, Los Angeles, and the author of Axis of Empire: A History of Iran–U.S. Relations. He spoke to Current Affairs about the long history of U.S. involvement in Iran—from the 1953 CIA-backed co
Current Affairs Is Going to Cuba
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Donald Trump is trying to starve the island nation into submission, but an international coalition of volunteers is coming to Cuba’s aid. We’re joining them.
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Israel Wants to Turn Lebanon Into Gaza (w/ Rania Khalek)
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Rania Khalek is a journalist based in Beirut and the host of Dispatches on BreakThrough News.
In this conversation with Current Affairs editor in chief Nathan J. Robinson, she describes life under bombardment in Lebanon as Israel’s assault displaces over a million people and spreads fear across Beir
What Really Happened at the Washington Post (w/ Becca Rothfeld)
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Becca Rothfeld is a staff writer at The New Yorker, an editor at The Point, and the former nonfiction book critic at The Washington Post, where she wrote until the paper eliminated its books section amid sweeping layoffs.
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Joe Biden Set the Stage for Trump's War on Iran (w/ Annelle Sheline)
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Annelle Sheline is a research fellow in the Middle East program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and a former U.S. State Department official who resigned in protest over the Biden administration’s support for Israel’s war in Gaza.
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America Will Pay the Price for Israel’s War on Iran (w/ Trita Parsi)
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Trita Parsi is the co-founder and Executive Vice President of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and one of the leading analysts of U.S.–Iran relations.
In this conversation with Current Affairs editor in chief Nathan J. Robinson, he explains how the escalating U.S.–Israel war on Iran i
The Democrats Still Don't Get It
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Trump's fake-anti-imperialism only works because Democrats refuse to embrace the real thing.
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The Iran War Is Unfathomably Depraved
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Our media’s sanitized coverage obscures the human toll. Are we able to confront the full sickening evil of what the U.S. is doing?
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Wait, Why Is Israel Allowed To Have Nukes?
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According to our elected leaders, we should be very scared of the possibility that Iran could get a nuclear bomb. But Israel already has them, and its government is increasingly unstable and belligerent.
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The U.S. Military is Destroying the Planet (w/ Abby Martin)
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In their new documentary “Earth’s Greatest Enemy,” Abby Martin and Mike Prysner reveal that the climate and anti-war movements are really one and the same—because the U.S. military is the worst polluter of all.
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How the Cold War Changed Everything (w/ Daniel Bessner)
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Daniel Bessner is a historian and professor at the University of Washington’s Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, and the co-host of the foreign policy podcast American Prestige. He’s also the editor of the new Cambridge University Press volume Cold War Liberalism: Power in a Time of E
The Left is Always Right Too Early
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From slavery and child labor in the 19th century to the Iraq War and Gaza, the Left position has been accepted only after horrible human costs. Next time, how about listening before the damage is done?
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Current Affairs News Briefing ❧ February 20, 2026
A convoy to Cuba, Grok doxxes a sex worker, Mamdani cuts the library, Pakistan has really fast jets, MGP declares war on sea lions, Andrew is arrested, and bugs are more popular than Trump.
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Abigail Thorn of Philosophy Tube on Parasocial Relationships
Abigail Thorn is an actor, writer, and the creator of the widely acclaimed YouTube channel Philosophy Tube, where she explores politics, culture, and philosophy through performance and storytelling. She is currently starring in BLINK, a London stage play about livestreaming, voyeurism, and parasocial intimacy written years before those concepts entered mainstream discourse.🎭 Subscribe to Philosoph
Why Conservatives Hate the Government But Love the Cops
🦩 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership The core right-wing principle is a belief in hierarchy, not the limitation of state power. 🐍 Read the article: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2022/07/why-conservatives-hate-the-government-but-love-the-cops 🦩SUBSCRIBE TO CURRENT AFFAIRS MAGAZINE: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership 🦩 PATRE
How the Right Abuses Tolkien
🦩 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membershipFor Peter Thiel, JD Vance, and other figures on today’s far right, the works of J.R.R. Tolkien have become a cultural touchstone. Pity they don’t understand the first thing about them.🧙♂️ Read the article: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-the-right-abuses-tolkien🦩SUBSCRIBE TO CURRENT AFFAIRS
Current Affairs News Briefing ❧ January 28, 2026
EPA to stop animal testing, Palestinians go on general strike, Ye apologizes for his Nazism again, TikTok claims apparent censorship was caused by a power outage, and the government repeals workplace protections because they protect trans people.📰 SUBSCRIBE TO THE BRIEFING: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership🦩 SUBSCRIBE TO CURRENT AFFAIRS MAGAZINE: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership🦩
Ro Khanna: “Newsom Doesn’t Want to Offend the Donor Class”
Ro Khanna is the U.S. representative for California’s 17th Congressional district, more commonly known as “Silicon Valley.” He was a co-chair of Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign in 2020, and there’s been speculation he may run for president himself in 2028. He joined Current Affairs associate editor Alex Skopic to discuss his bipartisan efforts to release the Epstein files, a “new FDR moment”
How Corporations Convinced America that Litter is Our Fault
The "Keep America Beautiful" campaign urged Americans to pick up their trash—so that companies could keep producing it.🗑️ Read the full article: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-sinister-origins-of-americas-anti-litter-movement🦩SUBSCRIBE TO CURRENT AFFAIRS MAGAZINE: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership🦩 PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/c/CurrentAffairs🦩THE MYTH OF AMERICAN IDEALISM: ht
Current Affairs News Briefing ❧ January 21, 2026
Climate change is sinking posh London homes, pro-Palestine protesters face felony charges, Ugandan president cuts internet during election, Trump’s new Board of Peace, and Nike’s tone-deaf MLK Day basketball shoe.🦩SUBSCRIBE TO CURRENT AFFAIRS MAGAZINE: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership🦩 PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/c/CurrentAffairs🦩THE MYTH OF AMERICAN IDEALISM: https://www.penguinrand
Ed Wood and the Politics of Bad Taste (w/ Will Sloan)
Will Sloan is a film critic and writer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, Jacobin, and the Toronto Star. He is the co-host, with Luke Savage, of the podcast Michael and Us, which examines politics and ideology through popular film and television.He is the author of Ed Wood: Made in Hollywood USA, a critical reappraisal of the famously maligned filmmaker that challenges conventional ideas o
The Coup In Venezuela Is An Assault on the Whole World
Donald Trump's overthrow of Nicolás Maduro sets a terrible precedent that severely erodes international sovereignty. Can other countries depose any leader they accuse of a crime?🇻🇪 Read the article: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-coup-in-venezuela-is-an-assault-on-the-whole-world🦩SUBSCRIBE TO CURRENT AFFAIRS MAGAZINE: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership🦩 PATREON: https://www.patreon
How Zohran Mamdani Defeated the Democratic Establishment
In the fall of 2024, Zohran Mamdani was a long-shot challenger taking on New York City’s political establishment. Today, he’s the mayor. In this early interview with Current Affairs, recorded shortly after he announced his campaign, Mamdani lays out his vision for transforming the city.🦩SUBSCRIBE TO CURRENT AFFAIRS MAGAZINE: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership🦩 PATREON: https://www.patreon.c
Michael Pollan Is Lying to You About "Ethical" Meat
John Sanbonmatsu is a professor of philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and the author of The Omnivore’s Deception: What We Get Wrong about Meat, Animals, and Ourselves.The book is a response to Michael Pollan’s 2006 bestseller The Omnivore’s Dilemma, and as the title suggests, Sanbonmatsu thinks writers like Pollan are dead wrong about the ethics of food. He maintains that killing and ea
What the Government Shutdown Actually Revealed for Democrats (w/ Ettingermentum)
Joshua Cohen is a political theorist and writer of the Ettingermentum Substack: an exceedingly thorough and insightful resource for anyone hoping to understand what the hell is going on in American politics these days. Cohen sat down with Current Affairs to discuss the recent government shutdown, what Democrats actually pay attention to, and what the future looks like for a party controlled by pun
Gaza, Ukraine, and Why Trump’s "Anti-War" Rhetoric Is a Lie (w/ Medea Benjamin)
Medea Benjamin is an anti-war activist and one of the co-founders of CODEPINK: Women for Peace. She’s spent decades fighting the American military-industrial complex, organizing protests against the invasion of Iraq in the early 2000s and interrupting speeches by both Barack Obama and Donald Trump. She’s also the co-author, with David Swanson, of NATO: What You Need to Know. She joined Current Aff
Candace Owens and the Decay of the American Brain
How can someone so delusional attract an audience of millions? What does it say about us that Owens is listened to by anyone other than a psychiatrist?🧿 Read the article: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/candace-owens-and-the-decay-of-the-american-brain🦩SUBSCRIBE TO CURRENT AFFAIRS MAGAZINE: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership🦩 PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/c/CurrentAffairs🦩THE MYTH OF
