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Current Affairs
A podcast of politics and culture, from the editors of Current Affairs magazine.
Episodes
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Abdul El-Sayed DESTROYS AIPAC Talking Points
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, physician, former Detroit health commissioner, and candidate for U.S. Senate in Michigan, joins Current Affairs editors Nathan J. Robinson…
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Current Affairs 10th Anniversary Speech (W/ Nathan J. Robinson)
Nathan J. Robinson delivers remarks during the Current Affairs 10th anniversary party on the evening of August 8th, 2025 in New Orleans. 🦩SUBSCRIBE TO CURRENT…
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Is This San Francisco’s Zohran Mamdani? (w/ Saikat Chakrabarti)
Saikat Chakrabarti, co-founder of Justice Democrats and former chief of staff to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, joins Nathan J. Robinson to discuss his 2026…
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This Surgeon Criticized UnitedHealth on TikTok—Then They Threatened to Sue (w/ Dr. Elisabeth Potter)
Dr. Elisabeth Potter, a reconstructive surgeon and healthcare advocate, joins Nathan J. Robinson and Emily Topping to discuss her viral criticism of…
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Rise of the Idiot Interviewer
Podcast bros are interviewing presidents and power players without doing basic research beforehand. The result is a propagandistic catastrophe. 💀 Read the…
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What Democrats Refuse to Fight For (w/ Max from UNFTR)
Max from UNFTR joins Nathan J. Robinson to discuss Zohran Mamdani's victory, the limits of third-party politics, and how the Democratic Party can be taken over…
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What “The System” Really Means in American Politics (w/ Barry Eisler)
🦩 This episode originally aired on July 15, 2025. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs Barry Eisler, a former CIA agent and bestselling…
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Israel’s Starvation Campaign in Gaza Explained (w/ Mouin Rabbani)
Middle East analyst Mouin Rabbani joins Nathan J. Robinson to discuss the ongoing genocide in Gaza. They examine the illusion of ceasefire negotiations, the…
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The Epstein Case Reveals the Fraud of Trumpism
MAGA followers say they want to expose powerful, predatory billionaire elites. But Donald Trump is the exact person who should be their enemy. 🏝️ Read the…
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MAGA Doesn't Understand Anything About The Roman Empire (w/ Honor Cargill-Martin)
Honor Cargill-Martin, a historian of the ancient world, discusses how myths about the Roman empire originated and continue to warp our political discourse. 🏛️…
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Why the United States Is Really Losing to China (w/ Kishore Mahbubani)
Kishore Mahbubani is a renowned diplomat, scholar, and one of the most insightful analysts of global power dynamics. He served as Singapore’s Ambassador to the…
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Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Is Just What The Left Needed
He has shown that a socialist message can win people over. His campaign is a model that should be emulated everywhere. 🗽 Read the article…
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ABANDON "ABUNDANCE"
The latest Democratic fad sidelines equality and justice in favor of a focus on cutting red tape. This is not the path forward. 🌎 Read the article…
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How Ordinary People Can Fight Trump (w/ Ralph Nader)
Ralph Nader is one of the most important and successful activists in American political history. He played a key role in creating the consumer rights movement…
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The Ukraine War Could Have Ended Years Ago (w/ Katrina vanden Heuvel)
Katrina vanden Heuvel is the publisher and editorial director of The Nation, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and an advocate for diplomacy…
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The Brainless Propaganda of Stephen Miller
Even by the standards of right-wing rhetoric, Miller’s public statements are uncommonly shameless. He treats his audience as stupid and gullible. 🦎 Read the…
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“Andrew Cuomo Is Just Like Trump” — Lindsey Boylan Speaks Out
Andrew Cuomo is not just unfit for office—he’s dangerous. In this interview, Lindsey Boylan, the first woman to publicly speak out about Cuomo’s abusive…
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Andrew Cuomo Is Worse Than You Even Know
The former governor is a corrupt abuser of power with a pro-corporate agenda and a proven track record of deadly negligence. He will do nothing to improve New…
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The End of American Empire (w/ Richard Wolff)
🦩 This episode originally aired on May 30, 2025. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs Professor Richard Wolff is the host of the weekly program…
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How Noam Chomsky Exposes The Myth of American Idealism
This panel was recorded on October 16th, 2024 A special event hosted by Current Affairs Magazine at The New School in New York City to celebrate the release of…
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Everybody Hates Capitalism (W/ John Cassidy)
🦩 This episode originally aired on May 20, 2025. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs John Cassidy, staff writer at The New Yorker and author…
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The Democratic Party Lied to You About Joe Biden
The Democratic Party is sclerotic. It’s easy to heap blame on Joe Biden now that he is weak and powerless. But that’s a convenient way of avoiding a major…
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America's Diplomatic Failures in China, Ukraine, and Gaza (w/Chas Freeman)
🦩 This episode originally aired on May 16, 2025. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs Chas Freeman is one of the most insightful voices in U.S…
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Democrats Are Not "The Left" (w/Ted Rall)
🦩 This episode originally aired on May 14, 2025. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs Ted Rall is one of the most influential political…
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How Other Countries Solved What America Won’t (w/Natasha Hakimi Zapata)
🦩 This episode originally aired on April 18, 2025. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs America is in crisis, but it doesn’t have to be this…
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Douglas Murray’s “Expertise” Is a Sham
In “On Democracies and Death Cults,” Murray offers a straightforward “good versus evil” account of the Israel-Palestine conflict. He does this by excluding…
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Inside Saturday Night Live (w/Susan Morrison)
🦩 This episode originally aired on May 6, 2025. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs Lorne Michaels might be the most powerful figure in…
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We Must Return to the Radical Roots of Liberalism (w/ Matt McManus)
🦩 This episode originally aired on April 29, 2025. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs! Liberalism and socialism are often treated as…
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Shrimp Are the Most Abused Animals on Earth (w/ Andrés Jiménez Zorrilla)
🦩 This episode originally aired on April 22, 2025. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs Most people never think twice about shrimp. But as it…
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Let's Talk About PHYSICS! (w/ Sean Carroll)
A bit of a change of pace for the CA podcast today: We're going to be doing SCIENCE instead of politics. We're joined by one of the world's leading popular…
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“Common Sense” Is Destroying Democracy (w/ Sophia Rosenfeld)
🦩 This episode originally aired on April 4, 2025. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs! Sophia Rosenfeld is a distinguished historian and the…
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Could a Socialist Mayor be Just What New York City Needs? (w/ Zohran Mamdani)
🦩 This episode originally aired on April 8, 2025. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs! Zohran Mamdani represents the 36th District in the New…
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Taking Stock of the Biden Presidency (w/ Branko Marcetic)
🦩 This episode originally aired on February 21, 2025. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs! Joe Biden is gone, but we are now living with the…
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The Democratic Party Must Wake Up (w/ Sam Seder & Emma Vigeland)
🦩 This episode originally aired on February 26, 2025. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs! Sam Seder and Emma Vigeland of The Majority Report…
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Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza (W/Peter Beinart)
🦩 This episode originally aired on March 18, 2025. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs! Peter Beinart is one of the most important Jewish…
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Trump, Nihilism, and the Crisis of Virtue (w/ Dr. Cornel West)
🦩 This episode originally aired on March 5, 2025. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs! Dr. Cornel West is one of the most electric and morally…
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How to Fight Fascism and Have Fun Doing It (w/ Francesca Fiorentini)
🦩 This episode originally aired on March 14, 2025. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs! Francesca Fiorentini is a comedian, journalist, and…
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Dr. Omar Suleiman Interview | Islamophobia, Empire, and Resistance
🦩 This episode originally aired on March 11th. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/Current Affairs! Dr. Omar Suleiman is a distinguished Islamic scholar…
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How Do Workers Win? (w/ Eric Blanc)
This episode originally aired on February 10, 2025. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs! Eric Blanc is the author of We Are the Union: How…
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How Do We Fight Climate Denial? (w/ Dr. Genevieve Guenther)
This episode originally aired on February 6, 2025. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs! Dr. Genevieve Guenther, the founding director of End…
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The Grotesque World of the Super-Rich (w/ Rob Larson)
This episode originally aired on February 3, 2025. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs! Rob Larson is Current Affairs' In-House Economist. He…
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Debunking Pseudo-Archaeology (and Why Atlantis Isn't Real) w/ Flint Dibble
This episode originally aired on February 1, 2025. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs! Today we are joined by Flint Dibble, who last year…
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Medicare For All Is Still The Solution!
This episode originally aired on January 15, 2025. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/currentaffairs! We are joined today by Dr. Adam Gaffney, the former…
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If Not Luigi Mangione, Then What? The Need For a Solidaristic Health Justice Movement
This episode originally aired on January 7, 2025. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs! Today, Nathan is joined by Malaika Jabali as co-host…
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How "Don't Look Up" Explains Our Times (w/ Adam McKay)
This episode originally aired on December 30, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs! Adam McKay is a writer and film director who has made…
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What Would it Mean to Be "Woke"? (w/ Musa al-Gharbi)
This episode originally aired on December 12, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs! Musa al-Gharbi is a sociologist with a unique, albeit…
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Why Democrats Fear Populism (And Keep Losing) (w/ Thomas Frank)
This episode originally aired on December 10, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs! Thomas Frank, historian, journalist, and author of…
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Zohran Mamdani on How To Save NYC from Eric Adams
This episode originally aired on December 4, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs! Zohran Mamdani represents the 36th District in the New…
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How to Promote Animal Welfare In Ways That Actually Get People On Board (w/ Brian Kateman)
This episode originally aired on November 26, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs! Brian Kateman is the head of the Reduceitarian…
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What Harms Will AI Cause and What Can We Do About Them? (w/ Garrison Lovely)
This episode originally aired on November 18, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs! Garrison Lovely wrote the cover story for Jacobin…
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How the "Child Welfare" System Destroys Black Families (w/ Dorothy Roberts)
This episode originally aired on November 15, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs ! Is our “child welfare” system successfully helping…
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Dr. Feroze Sidhwa on What He Saw in Gaza
This episode originally aired on November 4, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs! Dr. Feroze Sidhwa is a trauma surgeon who has served…
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Are We Heading into the Era of "Disaster Nationalism"? (w/ Richard Seymour)
This episode originally aired on October 29, 2024. Get new podcasts early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairsRight! Richard Seymour is one of the most learned and…
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Why The Electoral College Is Worthless (w/ Carolyn Dupont)
This episode originally aired on October 22, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs! Carolyn Dupont, a professor of history at Eastern…
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Why America Perceives a "World of Enemies" (w/ Osamah Khalil)
This episode originally aired on October 10, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs! Osamah Khalil of Syracuse University is the author of…
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Why the Fraudulent "Broken Windows" Theory of Policing Refuses to Die
This episode originally aired on October 2, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs! Recently, New York Times columnist Pamela Paul made an…
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What The U.S. Did To Haiti (w/ Jonathan Katz)
This episode originally aired on September 26, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs! Donald Trump and J.D. Vance have recently been…
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Seeing Through "The Myth of American Idealism"
Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs! This week The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers The World was finally…
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On Satire in Music (w/ Danny Bradley)
This episode originally aired on September 20, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs! Today on Current Affairs, it's our second-ever…
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Why Does Kamala Harris Sound Like a Republican? (w/ Malaika Jabali)
This episode originally aired on September 17, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs! Today on the program, Malaika Jabali returns to…