Current Affairs

Ralph Nader is one of the most important and successful activists in American political history. He played a key role in creating the consumer rights movement in the 1960s and ’70s, and his push for …

Katrina vanden Heuvel is the publisher and editorial director of The Nation, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and an advocate for diplomacy, disarmament, and international cooperation. S…

Even by the standards of right-wing rhetoric, Miller’s public statements are uncommonly shameless. He treats his audience as stupid and gullible. 

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Andrew Cuomo is not just unfit for office—he’s dangerous. In this interview, Lindsey Boylan, the first woman to publicly speak out about Cuomo’s abusive behavior, explains how his pattern of harassme…

The former governor is a corrupt abuser of power with a pro-corporate agenda and a proven track record of deadly negligence. He will do nothing to improve New Yorkers’ lives. Why on Earth is he a con…

🦩 This episode originally aired on May 30, 2025. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs

Professor Richard Wolff is the host of the weekly program Economic Update, co-founder of Democracy…

This panel was recorded on October 16th, 2024

A special event hosted by Current Affairs Magazine at The New School in New York City to celebrate the release of The Myth of American Idealism, the new b…

🦩 This episode originally aired on May 20, 2025. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs

John Cassidy, staff writer at The New Yorker and author of Capitalism and Its Critics, joins Natha…

The Democratic Party is sclerotic. It’s easy to heap blame on Joe Biden now that he is weak and powerless. But that’s a convenient way of avoiding a major reckoning. 

Nathan J. Robinson, editor of Cur…

🦩 This episode originally aired on May 16, 2025. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs

Chas Freeman is one of the most insightful voices in U.S. foreign policy, with a distinguished car…

🦩 This episode originally aired on May 14, 2025. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs

Ted Rall is one of the most influential political cartoonists on the left today. In his new book “…

🦩 This episode originally aired on April 18, 2025. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs

America is in crisis, but it doesn’t have to be this way. Around the world, other countries have…

In “On Democracies and Death Cults,” Murray offers a straightforward “good versus evil” account of the Israel-Palestine conflict. He does this by excluding every piece of information that undercuts h…

🦩 This episode originally aired on May 6, 2025. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs

Lorne Michaels might be the most powerful figure in American comedy — and yet, most people barely k…

🦩 This episode originally aired on April 29, 2025. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!

Liberalism and socialism are often treated as opposites — but what if they’re actually part of …

🦩 This episode originally aired on April 22, 2025. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs

Most people never think twice about shrimp. But as it turns out, these creatures make up the maj…

A bit of a change of pace for the CA podcast today: We're going to be doing SCIENCE instead of politics. We're joined by one of the world's leading popular science writers, physics professor Sean Car…

🦩 This episode originally aired on April 4, 2025. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!

Sophia Rosenfeld is a distinguished historian and the author of Common Sense: A Political Histor…

🦩 This episode originally aired on April 8, 2025. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!

Zohran Mamdani represents the 36th District in the New York State Assembly. A member of the Demo…

🦩 This episode originally aired on February 21, 2025. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!

Joe Biden is gone, but we are now living with the consequences of Biden's presidency, and it…