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Current Affairs
A podcast of politics and culture, from the editors of Current Affairs magazine.
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Zionism Is a Racist Ideology (w/ Benjamin Moser)
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Benjamin Moser is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of…
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The Case for Centrism Is Collapsing
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership There is no such thing as a red state. The toxic Republican…
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Mamdani’s “Richard Scarry Socialism” Can Make City Life Simple Again
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership The NYC mayor is trying to build a city that functions like…
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Zombie Simpsons and How Capitalism Killed Culture
🌹 Use the code "ZOMBIES" for a 20% discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Jon Greenaway is a writer, critic, and co-host of the…
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Why We’re Banning AI
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How Bill Maher Lost His Mind (w/ Kyle Kulinski)
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Israel’s Election Won’t End the Genocide
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Will McCaffery is a leftist content creator focused on…
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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…
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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…
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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
🌹 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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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AIPAC Couldn't Stop Abdul El-Sayed
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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…
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Centrists Are Not More "Electable"
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America Is Just Guns and Diarrhea Now
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Socialists Humiliate Clueless NewsNation Host
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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…
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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…
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Keir Starmer’s Downfall is a Warning for the Democrats
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Trump Might Really Invade Cuba
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Of Course The Founding Fathers Would Have Hated Trump
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Charles Booker Has a Plan to Win Kentucky
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The Anti-Zionist Jewish Movement Israel Doesn’t Want You to Know About (w/ Molly Crabapple)
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Money Is a Measure of Nothing But Itself
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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…
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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…
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Secret Cable Exposes U.S. Role in Imran Khan’s Ouster
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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…
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The Democratic Establishment Can Be Defeated
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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…
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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…
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“Progress” Is Making Things Worse (w/ Sam Miller McDonald)
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Meanwhile, Zohran Is Just Getting Things Done
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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…
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Liberal Media Helped Destroy Gaza (w/ Adam Johnson)
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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…
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Ben and Jerry's Co-Founder Takes on America's War Machine (w/ Ben Cohen)
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Ben Cohen is the co-founder, along with Jerry Greenfield…
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How Media Silences Anti-War Voices (w/ Amy Goodman)
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Amy Goodman is the longtime host of Democracy Now!, the…
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California’s Democratic Field Is Embarrassingly Weak (w/ Dr. Butch Ware)
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Dr. Butch Ware is a historian, public intellectual, and the…