Current Affairs

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  How 9/11 Normalized Endless War 15.09.2026 45dk

  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.
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  How Trump Made a Broken DOJ Even Worse 09.09.2026 31dk

  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.
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  MAGA Stole Animal Rights from the Left 02.09.2026 49dk

  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.
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  Palestinians Shouldn’t Have to Be Perfect Victims (w/ Mohammed el-Kurd) 31.08.2026 31dk

  Mohammed el-Kurd is a Palestinian writer from Jerusalem, The Nation’s Palestine correspondent, and editor-at-large at Mondoweiss.
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  AIPAC Knows Its Money Is Toxic (w/ Track AIPAC) 27.08.2026 31dk

  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.
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  Both Parties Are Failing Working People (w/ Dan Osborn) 25.08.2026 19dk

  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.
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  The Israel Lobby Is More Desperate Than Ever 21.08.2026 36dk

  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.
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  The “Silent Genocide” in Cuba (w/ Abby Martin) 20.08.2026 53dk

  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.
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  Socialist Defends Medicare for All on Fox News 18.08.2026 4dk

  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.
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  Send Ben Shapiro to Iran 13.08.2026 13dk

  Why should other people’s children be the ones who die in the wars he promotes?
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  Graham Platner and the Left’s Misogyny Problem (w/ Yasmin Nair) 11.08.2026 1sa 17dk

  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.
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  AIPAC Couldn't Stop Abdul El-Sayed 11.08.2026 12dk

  If he wins in November, this could be end of the road for AIPAC and the Democratic establishment.
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  A Socialist Appears on Fox News 06.08.2026 7dk

  Nathan J. Robinson appears on The Will Cain Show to discuss socialism and the future of the Democratic Party.
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  Centrists Are Not More "Electable" 03.08.2026 15dk

  Whether a candidate can inspire people, organize them, and deliver for them matters more than where they stand on an imaginary ideological continuum.
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  America Is Just Guns and Diarrhea Now 27.07.2026 13dk

  Our politicians won't keep parasites out of our food, but they'll make it easier to buy guns through the mail.
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  Socialists Humiliate Clueless NewsNation Host 23.07.2026 8dk

  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.
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  Daniel Ellsberg's Final Warning to America 22.07.2026 40dk

  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.
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  America Is Headed for Another Endless War (w/ Trita Parsi) 21.07.2026 29dk

  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.
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  Keir Starmer’s Downfall is a Warning for the Democrats 19.07.2026 17dk

  When you stand for nothing, nobody wants to stand with you.
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  Neoliberal Economics Has Always Been Bogus 16.07.2026 44dk

  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.