Current Affairs

Current Affairs 700 - How Trump Made a Broken DOJ Even Worse

A podcast of politics and culture, from the editors of Current Affairs magazine.

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Current Affairs

Episodes

How Trump Made a Broken DOJ Even Worse

MAGA Stole Animal Rights from the Left

Palestinians Shouldn’t Have to Be Perfect Victims (w/ Mohammed el-Kurd)

AIPAC Knows Its Money Is Toxic (w/ Track AIPAC)

Both Parties Are Failing Working People (w/ Dan Osborn)

The Israel Lobby Is More Desperate Than Ever

The “Silent Genocide” in Cuba (w/ Abby Martin)

Socialist Defends Medicare for All on Fox News

Send Ben Shapiro to Iran

Graham Platner and the Left’s Misogyny Problem (w/ Yasmin Nair)

AIPAC Couldn't Stop Abdul El-Sayed

A Socialist Appears on Fox News

Centrists Are Not More "Electable"

America Is Just Guns and Diarrhea Now

Socialists Humiliate Clueless NewsNation Host

Daniel Ellsberg's Final Warning to America

America Is Headed for Another Endless War (w/ Trita Parsi)

Keir Starmer’s Downfall is a Warning for the Democrats

Neoliberal Economics Has Always Been Bogus

How an AIPAC Smear Campaign Works

Kshama Sawant Is Taking On a Pro-War Democrat

Trump Might Really Invade Cuba

Of Course The Founding Fathers Would Have Hated Trump

Charles Booker Has a Plan to Win Kentucky

The Internet Is Being Erased

A Trillion Dollars Isn’t Worth It If You Have to Be Elon Musk

The Left Is Rising

The Hidden Surveillance Network Spreading Across America

Judith Butler Explains the Gender Panic

The Anti-Zionist Jewish Movement Israel Doesn’t Want You to Know About (w/ Molly Crabapple)

Money Is a Measure of Nothing But Itself

The Fight to Unionize Amazon Isn’t Over (w/ Chris Smalls)

Norman Finkelstein on the Insane Racism of Israeli Society and the Plan to Erase Gaza

Secret Cable Exposes U.S. Role in Imran Khan’s Ouster

The Heinous Evil of Cutting USAID

The Democratic Establishment Can Be Defeated

Israel OCCUPIES Lebanon During Fake "Ceasefire" (w/ Rania Khalek)

Abdul El-Sayed GOES AFTER Trump, AIPAC, and Corporate Dems

“Progress” Is Making Things Worse (w/ Sam Miller McDonald)

Meanwhile, Zohran Is Just Getting Things Done

The Phony Virtue of Cory Booker

Liberal Media Helped Destroy Gaza (w/ Adam Johnson)

Trump Has No Idea What He’s Doing (w/ Mouin Rabbani)

Ben and Jerry's Co-Founder Takes on America's War Machine (w/ Ben Cohen)

How Media Silences Anti-War Voices (w/ Amy Goodman)

California’s Democratic Field Is Embarrassingly Weak (w/ Dr. Butch Ware)

Israel’s Most Genocidal Law Yet (w/ Jasper Nathaniel)

Iran Historian: War Makes The Government "MORE REPRESSIVE" (w/ Afshin Matin-Asgari)

Current Affairs Is Going to Cuba

Israel Wants to Turn Lebanon Into Gaza (w/ Rania Khalek)