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Zionism Is a Racist Ideology (w/ Benjamin Moser)

43 min

🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Benjamin Moser is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Sontag: Her Life and Work and the new book Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History. He joins Current Affairs editor in chief Nathan J. Robinson to discuss the long history of Jewish opposition to Zionism, the contradictions of liberal Zionism, the relationship between Zionism and antisemitism, and whether Israel has actually made Jews safer. 🔥 Purchase Benjanjamin Moser's Books: https://www.benmoser.com/books 🔥 Follow Benjamin Moser on Twitter: https://x.com/BenMoser123 🔥 Follow Benjamin Moser on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/benjaminfmoser/?hl=en 0:00–7:47 The Zionist Fairy Tale and Its Colonial Origins 7:47–13:22 The Contradictions of Liberal Zionism 13:22–21:38 How Genocide Becomes Morally Justifiable 21:38–25:04 Does Israel Actually Make Jews Safer? 25:04–27:40 Reading Theodor Herzl 27:40–31:55 The Jewish Pariah and the Tradition of Dissent 31:55–33:52 Are Anti-Zionists the Most Jewish Jews? 33:52–43:37 How Zionism and Antisemitism Reinforce Each Other 🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership

The Case for Centrism Is Collapsing

20 min

🌹 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 Party can be defeated everywhere. But Democrats have to show they can deliver. If they squander this moment, it will be short-lived. 🌹 Full article by Nathan J. Robinson:  https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-myth-of-red-states-has-collapsed 🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership 🦩 Merch: https://shop.currentaffairs.org/

Mamdani’s “Richard Scarry Socialism” Can Make City Life Simple Again

12 min

🌹 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 a city in a children's picture book, where people aren’t caught in a web of lies and scams. 🌹 Full article by Nathan J. Robinson: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/mamdanis-richard-scarry-socialism-can-make-city-life-simple-again 🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership 🦩 Merch: https://shop.currentaffairs.org/

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Zionism Is a Racist Ideology (w/ Benjamin Moser)

43 min

🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Benjamin Moser is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Sontag: Her Life and Work and the new book Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History. He joins Current Affairs editor in chief Nathan J. Robinson to discuss the long history of Jewish opposition to Zionism, the contradictions of liberal Zionism, the relationship between Zionism and antisemitism, and whether Israel has actually made Jews safer. 🔥 Purchase Benjanjamin Moser's Books: https://www.benmoser.com/books 🔥 Follow Benjamin Moser on Twitter: https://x.com/BenMoser123 🔥 Follow Benjamin Moser on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/benjaminfmoser/?hl=en 0:00–7:47 The Zionist Fairy Tale and Its Colonial Origins 7:47–13:22 The Contradictions of Liberal Zionism 13:22–21:38 How Genocide Becomes Morally Justifiable 21:38–25:04 Does Israel Actually Make Jews Safer? 25:04–27:40 Reading Theodor Herzl 27:40–31:55 The Jewish Pariah and the Tradition of Dissent 31:55–33:52 Are Anti-Zionists the Most Jewish Jews? 33:52–43:37 How Zionism and Antisemitism Reinforce Each Other 🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership

The Case for Centrism Is Collapsing

20 min

🌹 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 Party can be defeated everywhere. But Democrats have to show they can deliver. If they squander this moment, it will be short-lived. 🌹 Full article by Nathan J. Robinson:  https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-myth-of-red-states-has-collapsed 🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership 🦩 Merch: https://shop.currentaffairs.org/

Mamdani’s “Richard Scarry Socialism” Can Make City Life Simple Again

12 min

🌹 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 a city in a children's picture book, where people aren’t caught in a web of lies and scams. 🌹 Full article by Nathan J. Robinson: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/mamdanis-richard-scarry-socialism-can-make-city-life-simple-again 🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership 🦩 Merch: https://shop.currentaffairs.org/

Zombie Simpsons and How Capitalism Killed Culture

51 min

🌹 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 podcast Horror Vanguard. He joins Current Affairs editor in chief Nathan J. Robinson, along with editors Emily Topping and Alex Skopic, to discuss his new article “Zombie Simpsons and the Cultural Undead,” which appears in the upcoming print issue of Current Affairs. 🧟 Buy Jon Greenaway's book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/740011/capitalism-a-horror-story-by-jon-greenaway/ 🧟 Jon Greenaway's article on Obsession: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/obsession-and-the-horror-of-treating-people-as-products 🧟 Jon Greenaway's article on Backrooms: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/backrooms-shows-the-vast-meaningless-maze-of-capitalism 0:00 Monopoly Go and the Death of Culture 6:05 How Culture Becomes Intellectual Property 12:28 “Zombie Simpsons” and Capitalist Realism 24:14 Why the Left Needs a Critique of Culture 31:39 The Pointless Harry Potter Reboot 38:09 The Hollowness of Jimmy Fallon 44:48 Horror Movies You Should Watch 🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership

Why We’re Banning AI

16 min

🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership We urgently need to protect human thought and creativity. Our magazine is committing itself to remaining handmade. Ensure every publication you support does the same. 🌹 Full article by Nathan J. Robinson: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-were-banning-ai 🌹 Read our full union contract: https://846b2cdd-82e3-4b3b-845b-e8a090468421.filesusr.com/ugd/942719_5a7419ea2cbd45fbb225d6f3f67c7d46.pdf 🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership 🦩 Merch: https://shop.currentaffairs.org/

How Bill Maher Lost His Mind (w/ Kyle Kulinski)

40 min

🌹 Use the code "KRYSTALKYLE" for a 20% discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Kyle Kulinski is the host of The Kyle Kulinski Show, co-host of Krystal Kyle & Friends, and a co-founder of Justice Democrats. He joins Current Affairs editor in chief Nathan J. Robinson to discuss his new article on Bill Maher, which will appear in the next print issue of Current Affairs! 🔥 Subscribe to the Kyle on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SecularTalk 0:00–4:38 Why Bill Maher Used to Matter 4:38–10:49 How Bill Maher Moved Right 10:49–16:37 “Progressive Except for Palestine” 16:37–21:20 Abdul El-Sayed 21:20–26:04 Idiocracy 26:04–27:42 When “Skepticism” Becomes Anti-Science 27:42–31:04 Apocalypse 31:04–37:18 The U.S. the World’s Biggest Terrorist 37:18–40:55 “Centrism” Isn’t Actually Moderate 🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership

Israel’s Election Won’t End the Genocide

37 min

🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Will McCaffery is a leftist content creator focused on anti-imperialism, anti-Zionism, and anti-capitalism, and the author of a new Current Affairs article on Israel’s upcoming election. He joins Current Affairs editor in chief Nathan J. Robinson to discuss what Israel’s elections reveal about the limits of liberal democracy, the political consensus behind apartheid and occupation, and what those same dynamics can teach us about elections and empire in the United States. 🔥 Read Will's Current Affairs article: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/israels-elections-like-ours-show-how-much-the-parties-agree-on 🔥 Follow Will on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/willz.talks/?hl=en 🔥 Subscribe to Will's Substack: https://willztalks.substack.com/ 0:00–4:52 How Western Media Frames Israel’s Election 4:52–7:53 Can an Apartheid State Be a Democracy? 7:53–9:54 Why Have Arab Parties in an Ethnostate? 9:54–13:37 “Pragmatic” vs. “Evocative” Fascism 13:37–19:08 The Ethnic Supremacist Consensus in Israeli Politics 19:08–22:13 Why Israel’s Far Right Is More Honest About Zionism 22:13–29:28 Bringing the Critique Home to the American Empire 29:28–32:43 The Iran War and Whose Lives American Politics Values 32:43–37:54 The Victims of Empire Don’t Get a Vote 🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership

Drop Site's Julian Andreone on His Wildest Capitol Hill Encounters

40 min

🌹 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 J. Robinson to discuss his approach to journalism and why ordinary people can do this kind of accountability reporting too. Julian’s piece on his experiences reporting from Capitol Hill will appear in the next print issue of Current Affairs! 🎤 Read Drop Site News: https://www.dropsitenews.com/ 🎤 Follow Julian Andreone: https://www.instagram.com/thejulianandreone/ 0:00–7:57 What Julian Andreone Does on Capitol Hill 7:57–14:56 How He Prepares to Confront Politicians 14:56–17:48 Exposing How Little Politicians Actually Know 17:48–23:31 John Fetterman’s Hostility to Drop Site 23:31–26:21 Shri Thanedar Chooses Party Leadership Over His Voters 26:21–30:21 James Clyburn: “I Don’t Do Foreign Policy” 30:21–34:45 Shontel Brown’s Contempt for Her Constituents 34:45–40:45 Why Anyone Can Do This Kind of Journalism 🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership

Before Bernie and Mamdani, There Was Eugene Debs

43 min

🌹 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 went from moderate railroad unionist to one of America’s most influential socialist leaders. ✊ Get the book: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/American-Socialist/Shawn-Gude/9781668056738 0:00–3:51 Why Eugene Debs Still Matters 3:51–10:10 How Debs Became a Socialist 10:10–18:30 Debs’s Personality and Political Appeal 18:30–25:28 When Socialism Thrived in the Midwest 25:28–29:24 What Socialism Meant to Debs 29:24–35:31 The Defeat and Decline of Debs’s Movement 35:31–40:26 What Debs Can Teach the Left Today 40:26–43:28 What Shawn Learned About Debs While Writing the Book 🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership

The Consultants Will Kill You

19 min

🌹 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: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership 🦩 Merch: https://shop.currentaffairs.org/

In Praise of Suit Socialism

17 min

🌹 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: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/in-praise-of-suit-socialism 🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership 🦩 Merch: https://shop.currentaffairs.org/

Democrats Paved the Way for Fascism — Jennifer Welch on MAGA, Socialism, and Political Revolution

43 min

🌹 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 evolution from establishment Democrat to outspoken progressive, and why she believes the Democratic Party needs a radical overhaul. 🔥 Not Today, Fascists: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/not-today-fascists-jennifer-welch?variant=45897489088546 🔥 Subscribe to I've Had It: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ5cvDR2HhVUcdVoTvvQKLw 0:00 Trump and the Megachurch Pastor Mentality 4:08 How Should Progressives Talk About Religion? 6:27 Can Bernie-Style Populism Win in Red States? 8:21 Kamala Harris in 2028? 10:41 Gaza and the Democratic Party’s Moral Failure 13:45 Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer, and Democratic Leadership 16:46 Jennifer Welch’s Political Radicalization and Kamala’s Liz Cheney Strategy 24:59 Why Democrats Need to Offer a Real Alternative 29:28 Billionaire Influence, Money in Politics, and the Supreme Court 31:50 Should Progressives Embrace the Word “Socialism”? 34:51 JD Vance and the Future of MAGA 40:19 Rapid-Fire: Newsom, Buttigieg, AOC, and More 🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership

Israel Is Stealing the West Bank in Plain Sight (w/ Jasper Nathaniel)

36 min

🌹 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 demolitions, and the daily realities of life under occupation. 🇵🇸 Subscribe to Infinite Jaz: https://www.infinitejaz.com/ 🇵🇸 Follow Jasper on Twitter: https://x.com/infinite_jaz 0:00-6:01 The escalating situation in the occupied West Bank 6:01-8:29 How Israeli politics enables settlement expansion 8:29-11:32 What the West Bank’s fragmented zones feel like on the ground 11:32-13:54 Why settler violence so often goes unpunished 13:54-18:52 How violence and displacement work together 18:52-26:55 The double standard on Palestinian self-defense 26:55-30:44 Western governments’ empty posturing on settlements 30:44-37:05 Palestinian resilience under occupation 🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership

How 9/11 Normalized Endless War

45 min

🌹 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 CODEPINK, and the politics of fear that have fueled endless war. 🌸 Pam Bailey's Current Affairs Article: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/9/11-began-25-years-of-nonstop-war-and-abuses-of-power 🌸 Danaka Katovich's Common Dreams Article: https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/un-american-to-care 🌸 Medea Benjamin's Common Dreams Article: https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/was-the-us-reaction-to-9-11-wrong 0:00-10:56 Barbara Lee, 9/11, and the politics of fear 10:56-19:59 How CODEPINK was born from the War on Terror 19:59-25:51 Being smeared as foreign agents and terrorist sympathizers 25:51-32:30 Fighting fear and reclaiming political power 32:30-35:12 What CODEPINK is organizing around now 35:12-37:15 Why Yemen matters to the antiwar movement 37:15-45:42 Lessons from 25 years of antiwar activism 🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership

How Trump Made a Broken DOJ Even Worse

31 min

🌹 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 Affairs to discuss her article “Business as Usual at the Department of Injustice,” which examines how Trump has intensified the politicization of the Justice Department while relying on prosecutorial powers, institutional habits, and forms of state violence that long predate his administration. 🏛️ Follow Rachel on Instagram: https://cohen489.substack.com/ 🏛️ Subscribe to Rachel's Substack: https://www.instagram.com/cohen.489/?hl=en 0:00-5:20 What’s happening at the DOJ under Trump? 5:20-8:08 Disturbing trends under Trump 8:08-13:36 What Trump didn’t change 13:36-18:21 The injustice was already built in 18:21-23:06 The problem goes beyond Trump 23:06-25:40 The “presumption of regularity” 25:40-31:26 Resistance and refusing conformity 🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership

MAGA Stole Animal Rights from the Left

49 min

🌹 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 how the right has begun co-opting animal welfare politics, why the left has neglected animal rights, and how abandoning climate politics risks leaving an opening for a much darker ecofascist response to ecological crisis. 🐄 Read the article: https://newrepublic.com/article/213747/maga-stole-animal-rights-left 🐄 Get Astra's book: https://naomiklein.org/end-times-fascism/ 0:00-8:25 How MAGA is co-opting animal rights 8:25-14:18 P’Nut the Squirrel and the right’s animal politics 14:18-18:29 MAHA and the political vacuum on animal welfare 18:29-33:05 Why animal rights belong in left politics 33:05-37:59 Why the left stopped talking about climate 37:59-42:44 Ecofascism and the politics of climate collapse 42:44-49:14 Making climate politics impossible to ignore 🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership

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

31 min

🌹 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 the Politics of Appeal, which examines how even sympathetic discourse about Palestine can reproduce racist assumptions, sanitize Palestinian resistance, and demand that Palestinians prove their innocence before being granted solidarity. 🇵🇸 Get the Book: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2499-perfect-victims 🇵🇸 Article in The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/article/world/mohammed-el-kurd-book-excerpt/ 0:00-3:04 deconstructing liberal solidarity with Palestine 3:04-6:30 the assumptions behind “women and children” 6:30-10:56 why Palestinian anger and resistance are legitimate 10:56-13:29 how the language of occupation shapes the debate 13:29-17:23 Ro Khanna and the double standard on resistance 17:23-19:49 the politics of the “perfect victim” 19:49-22:18 Refaat Alareer and the refusal to sanitize Palestinians 22:18-24:27 what Palestine’s allies still get wrong 24:27-27:22 Israel’s political prison system 27:22-31:46 Hamas members are entitled to human rights 🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership

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

31 min

🌹 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 discuss how the Israel lobby intervenes in Democratic primaries, how its money is routed through a growing network of PACs and outside groups, and why more candidates are beginning to reject its support. 🔎 Track AIPAC: https://www.trackaipac.com/ 0:00-5:53 Why Track AIPAC was founded 5:53-8:51 How AIPAC hides its money 8:51-13:04 How AIPAC intervenes in elections 13:04-17:33 How AIPAC corrupts the democratic process 17:33-21:45 Democrats are turning against AIPAC 21:45-24:58 Forcing Israel into the political conversation 24:58-31:40 Track AIPAC’s litmus test for candidates 🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership

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

19 min

🌹 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 associate editor Alex Skopic to discuss why he rejects the two-party system, the crisis facing rural hospitals, healthcare reform and Medicare for All. 🛠️ Dan's Website: https://www.osbornforsenate.com/ 0:00-2:03 Why run as an independent? 2:03-5:25 Rural hospital closures 5:25-9:11 Medicare for All and healthcare monopolies 9:11-10:56 Rejecting lobbyist influence 10:56-16:19 How can we strengthen the labor movement? 16:19-19:13 The PRO Act, card check, and right-to-work laws 🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership

The Israel Lobby Is More Desperate Than Ever

36 min

🌹 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 Israel-Palestine. They join Current Affairs editor in chief Nathan J. Robinson to discuss their new book, Israel’s Lobby: America in the Grip of a Foreign Power, which examines the history, methods, and influence of the Israel lobby on American politics and U.S. foreign policy. 🏛️ Get the book: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Israels-Lobby/Eli-Clifton/9781668210840 0:00-4:00 The Origins of Israel’s Influence on U.S. Policy 4:00-9:22 How the Israel Lobby Changes U.S. Policy 9:22-12:06 When Presidents Defy the Israel Lobby 12:06-15:43 How the Lobby Punishes Politicians 15:43-18:32 How the United Democracy Project Influences Elections 18:32-22:14 How Accusations of Antisemitism Are Weaponized 22:14-26:46 American Jews vs. the Israel Lobby 26:46-28:33 Does the Republican Party Need the Israel Lobby? 28:33-31:12 Citizens United, AIPAC, and Abdul El-Sayed 31:12-36:24 The Israel Lobby Under Biden and Trump 🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership

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

53 min

🌹 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 rare, in-depth interview with Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel. 🇨🇺 Watch Cuba After Castro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIAApY3b_i4&t=1162s 🇨🇺 Subscribe to The Empire Files: https://www.youtube.com/@UCG29FnXZm4F5U8xpqs1cs1Q 0:00-6:06 What’s Happening on the Ground in Cuba 6:06-10:22 America’s Efforts to Destroy Cuba’s Economy 10:22-12:48 How the Media Manufactures Consent 12:48-18:52 Palestine, Iran, and Cuba 18:52-27:06 The Myth of the Anti-War Right 27:06-30:09 The Legacy of Fidel Castro 30:09-41:33 The Ideals of the Cuban Revolution 41:33-46:01 The Threat Cuba Faces Today 46:01-53:11 How We Fight Back 🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership

Socialist Defends Medicare for All on Fox News

4 min

🌹 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: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership 🦩 Merch: https://shop.currentaffairs.org/

Send Ben Shapiro to Iran

13 min

🌹 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 Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership 🦩 Merch: https://shop.currentaffairs.org/

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

1 hr 17 min

🌹 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 rise reveals about misogyny on the left, why sexism is too often excused or minimized in progressive politics, and what the failures of liberal feminism can teach us about building a better left. Some of Yasmin Nair's articles where she predicted the order of things: 🌹 “Graham Platner and the Left's Masculinity Crisis.” 🌹 “Kamala Harris Will Lose.” 🌹 See also her review of Harris’s book, “Kamala Harris’s Memoir Shows Exactly Why Her Campaign Flopped.”  🌹 On AOC: “AOC and the Weaponisation of Trauma.” 🌹 See also “What Does Your Politician Mean to You?” about parasociality and politicians, and several critiques of trauma discourse, as in, “Trauma and Capitalism or, Your Trauma Story Will Kill You.” 🌹 Given the many stories on plagiarism, “On Plagiarism” is a warning call about the endemic nature of the phenomenon in publishing. 🌹 “DACA Was Always DOA: Let’s End It Now,” on the Obama-initiated Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals executive order, which was doomed for failure from the start. 🌹 For more, see her website: www.yasminnair.com 🌹 Yasmin's Current Affairs articles: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/author/yasmin-nair 0:00-13:27 Yasmin’s Political Predictions and Why the Left Gets It Wrong 13:27-45:03 Graham Platner, Misogyny, and the Left 45:03-58:34 The Failures of Liberal Feminism and Obama 58:34-1:05:28 Prison Abolition and Restorative Justice 1:05:28-1:17:06 The Crisis in Writing and Publishing 🦩 Read our Online Articles: https://www.currentaffairs.org/ 🦩 Subscribe to Current Affairs Magazine: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership

AIPAC Couldn't Stop Abdul El-Sayed

12 min

🌹 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: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-meaning-of-el-sayeds-victory 🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership 🦩 Merch: https://shop.currentaffairs.org/

A Socialist Appears on Fox News

7 min

🌹 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: https://shop.currentaffairs.org/

Centrists Are Not More "Electable"

15 min

🌹 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: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/were-thinking-about-electability-all-wrong 🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership  🦩 Merch: https://shop.currentaffairs.org/ 

America Is Just Guns and Diarrhea Now

13 min

🌹 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: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/diarrhea-in-every-pot-and-a-gun-in-every-mailbox 🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership 🦩 Merch: https://shop.currentaffairs.org/

Socialists Humiliate Clueless NewsNation Host

8 min

🌹 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 Online Articles: https://www.currentaffairs.org/  🦩 Subscribe to Current Affairs Magazine: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership 

Daniel Ellsberg's Final Warning to America

40 min

🌹 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 chief Nathan J. Robinson, Michael Ellsberg, Jan R. Thomas, and Robert Ellsberg discuss Truth and Consequence, a new collection of Ellsberg's previously unpublished writings. They reflect on his thinking about nuclear war, conscience, patriotism, civil resistance, and why his ideas remain as relevant today as ever. 🌹 Buy the book: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/truth-and-consequence-9781639735518/ 0:00–6:19 The Hidden Writings of Daniel Ellsberg 6:19–15:32 The Ideas That Defined His Life 15:32–22:00 "Don't Delegate Conscience" 22:00–27:28 What Makes an Ordinary Person Resist? 27:28–33:30 What Is Patriotism? 33:30–40:29 Ellsberg's Legacy 🦩 Read our Online Articles: https://www.currentaffairs.org/ 🦩 Subscribe to Current Affairs Magazine: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership

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

29 min

🌹 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 to explain how the ceasefire between the United States and Iran unraveled, why he believes both Washington and Tehran miscalculated, and what the renewed fighting means for the prospects of diplomacy. 🌹 Subscribe to Trita Parsi on Substack: https://tritaparsi.substack.com/ 🌹 Follow Trita Parsi: https://x.com/tparsi 🌹 The Quincy Institute: https://quincyinst.org/ 0:00–7:05 Collapse of the MOU & Return to War 7:05–11:44 Trump's Strategy & U.S. Miscalculation 11:44–14:52 Why Endless Wars Continue (John Mearsheimer) 14:52–17:31 Best- & Worst-Case Scenarios 17:31–20:22 Trump's Anti-War Promises & the MAGA Split 20:22–25:26 Biden, Gaza & Democratic Accountability 25:26–29:57 The Future of International Law & the ICC 🦩SUBSCRIBE TO CURRENT AFFAIRS MAGAZINE: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership 🦩 MERCH: https://shop.currentaffairs.org/ 🦩THE MYTH OF AMERICAN IDEALISM: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738224/the-myth-of-american-idealism-by-noam-chomsky-and-nathan-j-robinson/

Keir Starmer’s Downfall is a Warning for the Democrats

17 min

🌹 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 Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership 🦩 Merch: https://shop.currentaffairs.org/

Neoliberal Economics Has Always Been Bogus

44 min

🌹 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 capitalist, and founder of Civic Ventures. Together, they are the authors of the booklet Markets Built for Humans. Beinhocker and Hanauer joined Current Affairs editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson to discuss why they believe neoliberal economics has failed, what the evidence really shows about the minimum wage and inequality, how bad economic ideas have shaped climate policy, and why they argue a thriving middle class is the foundation of a healthy economy and democracy.  📘 Get the book for FREE: https://www.marketsbuiltforhumans.org/  0:00-9:14 How Neoliberalism Broke the Economy  9:14-15:07 How Much Better Off Americans Could Be  15:07-20:04 Why Markets Naturally Produce Plutocracy  20:04-30:39 How Economists Got the Minimum Wage Wrong  30:39-34:53 How Neoliberal Economics Failed on Climate Change  34:53-44:42 Building an Economy for the Middle Class  🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership  🦩 Merch: https://shop.currentaffairs.org/ 

How an AIPAC Smear Campaign Works

17 min

🌹 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: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-an-aipac-smear-campaign-works 🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership 🦩 Merch: https://shop.currentaffairs.org/

Kshama Sawant Is Taking On a Pro-War Democrat

32 min

🌹 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 Nathan J. Robinson to discuss Adam Smith’s record on war, why she believes Democrats cannot be relied on to fight for working people, and why revolutionary socialists should fight for immediate reforms while building power outside the two-party system.  0:00-2:48 Adam Smith, Warmonger  2:48-9:27 Why Democrats Keep Failing  9:27-19:39 How to Build Power Outside Congress  19:39-27:53 Why Socialists Fight for Reforms  27:53-33:01 Kshama Sawant’s Agenda  🌹 Kshama Sawant's Website: https://www.kshamasawant.org/  🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership  🦩 Merch: https://shop.currentaffairs.org/ 

Trump Might Really Invade Cuba

13 min

🌹 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: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-u.s.-is-terrorizing-cuba-to-make-rich-men-richer  🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership  🦩 Merch: https://shop.currentaffairs.org/ 

Of Course The Founding Fathers Would Have Hated Trump

15 min

🌹 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: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/of-course-the-founding-fathers-would-have-hated-trump 🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership 🦩 Merch: https://shop.currentaffairs.org/

Charles Booker Has a Plan to Win Kentucky

41 min

🌹 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 rights, raising wages, and building a multiracial working-class coalition from “the hood to the holler.” Booker joined Current Affairs associate editor Alex Skopic to discuss why Kentucky should not be written off as a “red state,” how progressive policies can win in places ignored by the national Democratic Party, what the left can learn from Mitch McConnell’s coalition-building, and why working people need leaders willing to fight for health care, peace, and economic justice. ⛰️ Charles Booker's Website: https://charlesbooker.org/ 0:00-9:32 Why Charles Booker Supports Medicare for All 9:32-20:42 Ending Endless War 20:42-23:10 Why Kentucky Isn’t Just a “Red State” 23:10-25:05 Why Progressive Policies Can Win in Red States 25:05-26:43 What “From the Hood to the Holler” Means 26:43-28:19 What the Left Can Learn From Mitch McConnell 28:19-33:34 Building Coalitions With Republicans 33:34-35:56 Andy Barr’s Racist Campaign 35:56-37:16 JD Vance and the Exploitation of Appalachia 37:16-42:02 Labor, Unions, and Working People 🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership 🦩 Merch: https://shop.currentaffairs.org/

The Internet Is Being Erased

49 min

🌹 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 Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record. Their work focuses on preserving digital materials that might otherwise disappear. Graham and Freeland joined Current Affairs editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson to discuss why the internet is not forever, how digital culture vanishes through deletion, paywalls, broken links, platform decay, and corporate control, and what can be done to preserve public access to our collective cultural record. 0:00-4:59 Is the Internet Forever? 4:59-9:52 Intentional Erasure vs. Accidental Loss 9:52-14:14 What Happens When We Lose Access? 14:14-20:41 The Problem With Social Media Archives 20:41-24:39 Ownership vs. Licensing 24:39-29:52 The Truth Is Paywalled But the Lies Are Free 29:52-34:38 The Loss of Historically Significant Media 34:38-38:02 The Vanishing Culture Report 38:02-49:20 What Can We Do? 💻 Vanishing Culture Report: https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026/mode/2up 💻 Internet Archive: https://archive.org/ 🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership 🦩 Merch: https://shop.currentaffairs.org/

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

45 min

🌹 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: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/a-trillion-dollars-isnt-worth-it-if-you-have-to-be-elon-musk 🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership 🦩 Merch: https://shop.currentaffairs.org/

The Left Is Rising

10 min

🌹 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: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-left-is-rising  🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership  🦩 Merch: https://shop.currentaffairs.org/ 

The Hidden Surveillance Network Spreading Across America

1 hr 1 min

🌹 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 of Flock Safety, a multi-billion-dollar surveillance company whose license plate readers and camera networks are being adopted by police departments and municipalities across the country. Burbank joined Current Affairs associate editor Emily Topping to discuss how Flock’s technology works, why communities often learn about it only after contracts are approved, how surveillance data can be abused by law enforcement, and what ordinary people should know before their towns embrace a mass surveillance system. 📸 Jessica's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JessicaBurbankShow 📸 Jessica's Substack: https://substack.com/@kaburbank 0:00-9:07 What Is Flock Safety? 9:07-16:19 Why Should We Be Concerned? 16:19-20:26 Efforts to Prevent Surveillance Abuse 20:26-25:00 The Gymnastics Studio Case 25:00-26:41 ICE and Data Sharing 26:41-28:50 Why Local Police Departments Embrace This Tech 28:50-34:24 What About Communities That Want This Tech? 34:24-37:01 The Ideological Fault Lines 37:01-44:03 Lawsuits Against Flock 44:03-50:03 Are You Being Watched? 50:03-59:21 The Broader Implications of Surveillance Cameras 59:21-1:02:08 What to Consider Before Implementing This Tech 🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership 🦩 Merch: https://shop.currentaffairs.org/

Judith Butler Explains the Gender Panic

40 min

🌹 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 Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, and more recently the 2024 follow-up work Who's Afraid of Gender? Butler joined Current Affairs editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson to discuss the way people around the world -- mostly conservatives, but some who consider themselves leftists, too -- have become fearful and angry about what they call "gender ideology," why they're mistaken, and what might be done about it. 🏳️‍⚧️ Who's Afraid of Gender?: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374608224/whosafraidofgender/ 0:00-4:34 How Gender Became a Right-Wing Panic 4:34-7:59 What “Gender Ideology” Really Means 7:59-13:27 Responding to Kathleen Stock 13:27-16:15 What Performativity Actually Means 16:15-23:28 Matt Walsh and the Demand for Simple Answers 23:28-26:25 Anti-Trans Politics and the Turn Toward Fascism 26:25-31:39 Feminism, TERFs, and Trans Rights 31:39-34:45 How Butler’s Views Have Evolved 34:45-40:53 Anti-Capitalism and Gender as a Distraction 🦩 Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership 🦩 Merch: https://shop.currentaffairs.org/

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

43 min

🌹 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 to discuss the history of the Bund, its fierce anti-Zionism, its vision of Jewish self-determination without an ethnostate, and what this forgotten socialist movement can teach us about solidarity, self-defense, and fighting fascism today. ✊ Here Where We Live Is Our Country: https://www.mollycrabapple.com/here-where-we-live-is-our-country ✊ Drawing Blood: https://www.mollycrabapple.com/drawing-blood ✊ Brothers of the Gun: https://www.mollycrabapple.com/brothers-of-the-gun 0:00-5:52 Why the Bund Matters Now 5:52-9:43 Jewish Self-Determination Without an Ethnostate 9:43-14:51 Why the Bund Rejected Zionism 14:51-20:45 Labor Organizing, Mutual Aid, and Revolution 20:45-23:11 Jewish Self-Defense Against Pogroms 23:11-26:06 The Bund’s Failure to Take Power 26:06-32:16 Were the Zionists Proven Right? 32:16-35:12 Why History Was Not Inevitable 35:12-38:05 Has Israel Made Jews Less Safe? 38:05-43:36 Why the Bund Resonates Today 🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership 🦩 Merch: https://shop.currentaffairs.org/

Money Is a Measure of Nothing But Itself

38 min

🌹 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 misunderstood, how it shapes our lives in ways we often fail to see, and how rethinking money can change the way we understand debt, austerity, inequality, foreign investment, housing, and the limits of mainstream economics. 💵 Against Money: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo265118979.html 0:00-6:20 The problem with imagining a world without money 6:20-13:38 Why money is not a neutral measure of value 13:38-20:15 How rethinking money changes our politics 20:15-30:43 What capital really is 30:43-38:14 What mainstream economics gets wrong 🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership 🦩 Merch: https://shop.currentaffairs.org/

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

31 min

🌹 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, Cuba, during the Nuestra América aid mission to discuss the U.S. blockade, labor organizing, his fight against Amazon, and why struggles from Cuba to Gaza to Staten Island are connected. Recorded March, 2026  ✊ Buy When the Revolution Comes: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/724036/when-the-revolution-comes-by-chris-smalls/ 0:00-5:21 Why Chris Smalls Came to Cuba 5:21-8:18 Hip-Hop, “Union Drip,” and Labor Organizing 8:18-11:09 Joe Biden’s Empty Pro-Union Promises 11:09-17:32 What Workers Should Know About Unionizing 17:32-24:02 The State of the Amazon Labor Union 24:02-26:36 Lessons From the Amazon Fight 26:36-28:15 Gaza, the Freedom Flotilla, and Israeli Apartheid 28:15-28:50 Medea Benjamin Cameo 28:50-31:56 What Comes Next for Chris Smalls 🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership 🦩 Merch: https://shop.currentaffairs.org/

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

1 hr 55 min

🌹 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 Affairs editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson to discuss Israel’s plan to make Gaza unlivable, the racism of Israeli society, Tony Blair and Trump’s colonial “Board of Peace,” why he refuses to condemn Hamas, and why he argues that governments, human rights organizations, and international legal authorities have helped enable the Gaza genocide. 🇵🇸 Gaza's Gravediggers: https://orbooks.com/catalog/gazas-gravediggers/ 0:00-9:20 Netanyahu’s plan for Gaza 9:20-20:12 Israel’s objectives in Gaza 20:12-41:41 The racism of Israeli society 41:41-45:55 Why oppressors see themselves as victims 45:55-50:18 The Cherokee removal and Palestine 50:18-1:04:21 Why this has always been Israel’s plan 1:04:21-1:25:08 Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and the right 1:25:08-1:32:34 Trump and Tony Blair’s “Board of Peace” 1:32:34-1:47:18 Who are Gaza’s gravediggers? 1:47:18-1:55:18 Refusing to judge anti-imperial atrocities in isolation 🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership 🦩 Merch: https://shop.currentaffairs.org/

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

38 min

🌹 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 the U.S.-Pakistan relationship, the ouster and imprisonment of Imran Khan, and how Washington went from suspicion of Pakistan to embracing its military-backed government. 🇵🇰 Read Waqas Ahmed's article in Drop Site News: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/pakistan-mediator-united-states-iran-trump-imran-khan 0:00-10:32 How Biden Soured on Pakistan 10:32-13:27 Ukraine and Imran Khan’s Break With Washington 13:27-19:35 How the U.S. Helped Push Imran Khan Out 19:35-23:37 Imran Khan’s Imprisonment Today 23:37-26:17 Pakistan’s Crackdown After Khan’s Ouster 26:17-31:32 How Washington Learned to Love Pakistan’s Military Regime 31:32-33:09 America Supports Dictatorship When It Serves U.S. Interests 33:09-38:22 Pakistan’s Role in the Iran Negotiations 🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership 🦩 Merch: https://shop.currentaffairs.org/

The Heinous Evil of Cutting USAID

34 min

🌹 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 Chipper, a whistleblower account of how the Trump administration and Elon Musk’s DOGE allies shredded one of the most important humanitarian agencies in the U.S. government. 🏥 Buy Nicholas's Book: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Into-the-Wood-Chipper/Nicholas-Enrich/9781668226957 0:00-3:02 Inside USAID’s “Wood Chipper” 3:02-7:02 What USAID Actually Did 7:02-12:23 How the Right Turned USAID Into a Conspiracy Theory 12:23-14:37 The Trump Administration’s Lies About “Life-Saving” Aid 14:37-20:33 The Human Cost of Destroying USAID 20:33-34:20 How This Catastrophe Could Have Been Avoided 🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership 🦩 Merch: https://shop.currentaffairs.org/

The Democratic Establishment Can Be Defeated

11 min

🌹 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 CURRENT AFFAIRS MAGAZINE: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership 🦩 PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/c/CurrentAffairs 🦩THE MYTH OF AMERICAN IDEALISM: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738224/the-myth-of-american-idealism-by-noam-chomsky-and-nathan-j-robinson/

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