Current Affairs

528 Episodes

1. What Americans Don't Know About Iran (w/ John Ghazvinian)

   Published: 7/22/2024
2. Is It 1968 All Over Again? (w/ Charles Kaiser)

   Published: 7/19/2024
3. The Toxic Legacy of Martin Peretz’s New Republic (w/ Jeet Heer)

   Published: 7/17/2024
4. Jonathan Kozol on the Scandal of America's Apartheid Education System

   Published: 7/15/2024
5. How Corporations Suck the Welfare State Dry (w/ Anne Kim)

   Published: 7/12/2024
6. Why Thomas Sowell is a Terrible Economist (w/ Cahal Moran)

   Published: 7/10/2024
7. Why Do We Have a "Viral Underclass"? (w/ Steven Thrasher)

   Published: 7/9/2024
8. Is Trump an "Aberration" Or the Logical Conclusion of the Right-Wing Project? (w/ David Austin Walsh)

   Published: 7/5/2024
9. What Will New Weight-Loss Drugs Do to Us? (w/ Johann Hari)

   Published: 7/3/2024
10. Inside the MAGA Movement on the Ground (w/ Isaac Arnsdorf)

    Published: 7/1/2024
11. How The Dollar Became America's Most Powerful Weapon (w/ Saleha Mohsin)

    Published: 6/28/2024
12. In Praise of Excess (w/ Becca Rothfeld)

    Published: 6/26/2024
13. What Would a Left Foreign Policy Look Like? (w/ Van Jackson)

    Published: 6/24/2024
14. How Cars Make Life Worse (w/ Daniel Knowles)

    Published: 6/21/2024
15. Debunking Popular Talking Points on Israel-Palestine (w/ Ben Burgis)

    Published: 6/19/2024
16. Why We Need Solidarity Now More Than Ever (w/ Leah Hunt-Hendrix)

    Published: 6/17/2024
17. How To Communicate Left Political Ideas to Gen Z (w/ Jessica Burbank)

    Published: 6/14/2024
18. Why We Don't Need Borders (w/ John Washington)

    Published: 6/12/2024
19. How Everyone Misunderstands Capitalism (w/ Grace Blakeley)

    Published: 6/10/2024
20. Why Animal Liberation Is A Crucial Moral Issue For Our Time (w/ Lewis Bollard)

    Published: 6/7/2024