Current Affairs

556 Episodes

1. How Fox News Turns People Terrified and Paranoid (w/ Kat Abughazaleh)

   Published: 8/9/2024
2. Jeffrey Sachs on What's Wrong With U.S. Foreign Policy

   Published: 8/7/2024
3. What Biden's Changes to Asylum Mean For Immigrants

   Published: 8/5/2024
4. How "Pharmacy Benefit Managers" Are Extorting Us (w/ Max from UNFTR)

   Published: 8/2/2024
5. Why Everyone Feels So Rotten About the Economy (w/ Kyla Scanlon)

   Published: 7/31/2024
6. Nuclear Countdown, or, Why We Need to Start Worrying and Stop the Bomb

   Published: 7/29/2024
7. Why No One Gets To Retire Anymore (w/ Teresa Ghilarducci)

   Published: 7/26/2024
8. The Authoritarian Nightmare Donald Trump Is Planning (w/ Radley Balko)

   Published: 7/24/2024
9. What Americans Don't Know About Iran (w/ John Ghazvinian)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 6/26/2024