Current Affairs

547 Episodes

1. How "Don't Look Up" Explains Our Times (w/ Adam McKay)

   Published: 2/8/2025
2. What Would it Mean to Be "Woke"? (w/ Musa al-Gharbi)

   Published: 2/4/2025
3. Why Democrats Fear Populism (And Keep Losing) (w/ Thomas Frank)

   Published: 1/31/2025
4. Zohran Mamdani on How To Save NYC from Eric Adams

   Published: 1/27/2025
5. How to Promote Animal Welfare In Ways That Actually Get People On Board (w/ Brian Kateman)

   Published: 1/24/2025
6. What Harms Will AI Cause and What Can We Do About Them? (w/ Garrison Lovely)

   Published: 1/22/2025
7. How the "Child Welfare" System Destroys Black Families (w/ Dorothy Roberts)

   Published: 12/17/2024
8. Dr. Feroze Sidhwa on What He Saw in Gaza

   Published: 12/6/2024
9. Are We Heading into the Era of "Disaster Nationalism"? (w/ Richard Seymour)

   Published: 11/14/2024
10. Why The Electoral College Is Worthless (w/ Carolyn Dupont)

    Published: 11/11/2024
11. Why America Perceives a "World of Enemies" (w/ Osamah Khalil)

    Published: 11/8/2024
12. Why the Fraudulent "Broken Windows" Theory of Policing Refuses to Die

    Published: 11/6/2024
13. What The U.S. Did To Haiti (w/ Jonathan Katz)

    Published: 11/4/2024
14. Seeing Through "The Myth of American Idealism"

    Published: 10/25/2024
15. On Satire in Music (w/ Danny Bradley)

    Published: 10/25/2024
16. Why Does Kamala Harris Sound Like a Republican? (w/ Malaika Jabali)

    Published: 10/14/2024
17. Who Poisoned Flint? (w/ Jordan Chariton)

    Published: 10/14/2024
18. What The DNC Was Really Like (w/ Kat Abughazaleh)

    Published: 10/1/2024
19. Inside Atlanta's "Stop Cop City" Movement (w/ Jamie Peck)

    Published: 9/25/2024
20. "This Is A War of Annihilation" - Mouin Rabbani on Gaza and Israel's Endgame

    Published: 9/18/2024