Current Affairs
A podcast of politics and culture, from the editors of Current Affairs magazine.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 42 minutes
- Episodes
- 598
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Why The Electoral College Is Worthless (w/ Carolyn Dupont)
This episode originally aired on October 22, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!
Carolyn Dupont, a professor of history at Eastern Kentucky University, is one of the country's …
Why America Perceives a "World of Enemies" (w/ Osamah Khalil)
This episode originally aired on October 10, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!
Osamah Khalil of Syracuse University is the author of A World of Enemies: America’s Wars at Hom…
Why the Fraudulent "Broken Windows" Theory of Policing Refuses to Die
This episode originally aired on October 2, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!
Recently, New York Times columnist Pamela Paul made an argument for aggressively policing subway…
What The U.S. Did To Haiti (w/ Jonathan Katz)
This episode originally aired on September 26, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!
Donald Trump and J.D. Vance have recently been pushing vicious racist fake news about Haitian…
Seeing Through "The Myth of American Idealism"
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This week The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers The World was finally released! The book, co-written by Noam Chomsky an…
On Satire in Music (w/ Danny Bradley)
This episode originally aired on September 20, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!
Today on Current Affairs, it's our second-ever musical episode! We're joined today by Danny B…
Why Does Kamala Harris Sound Like a Republican? (w/ Malaika Jabali)
This episode originally aired on September 17, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!
Today on the program, Malaika Jabali returns to discuss the issues that were left out of the …
Who Poisoned Flint? (w/ Jordan Chariton)
This episode originally aired on September 13, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!
Jordan Chariton of Status Coup News is a leading investigative journalist and the author of W…
What The DNC Was Really Like (w/ Kat Abughazaleh)
This episode originally aired on September 10, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!
Today Kat Abugazaleh of Mother Jones and Zeteo News returns to the program to tell us what th…
Inside Atlanta's "Stop Cop City" Movement (w/ Jamie Peck)
This episode originally aired on September 8, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!
Jamie Peck is a writer, podcaster, and activist who has been involved with the "Stop Cop City"…
"This Is A War of Annihilation" - Mouin Rabbani on Gaza and Israel's Endgame
This episode originally aired on September 2, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!
Mouin Rabbani of the Middle East Council on Global Affairs is one of the most sober-minded, th…
Welcome to Chomsky-World (w/ Bev Stohl)
This episode originally aired on August 22, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!
Bev Stohl ran Noam Chomsky's office for over two decades. In her wonderful book Chomsky and Me(O…
How Do We Actually Dismantle Mass Incarceration?
This episode originally aired on August 20, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!
It's long been recognized that the U.S. criminal punishment system is aberrational, cruel, and b…
An Israeli Journalist Excoriates His Country's Destruction of Gaza
This episode originally aired on August 15, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!
Gideon levy is one of Israel's leading dissident journalists. His new book The Killing of Gaza: …
What Keir Starmer Means for Britain (w/ Oliver Eagleton)
This episode originally aired August 7, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!
Keir Starmer took the place of Jeremy Corbyn as the leader of the UK Labour Party, and recently beca…
How Dehumanization Happens (w/ David Livingstone Smith)
This episode originally aired on August 2, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!
David Livingstone Smith is one of the leading scholars of dehumanization in the world, the author…
Do Anarchism and Islam Go Together? (w/ Mohamed Abdou)
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In popular American stereotypes, Islam is a religion of submission, with right-wing politicians demagoguing about the supposed authoritarianism an…
Why You Should Join a Club (w/ Rebecca and Pete Davis)
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Today on the Current Affairs podcast, we're joined by two filmmakers, one of whom will be well known to longtime podcast listeners. Pete Davis fou…
Who Killed New York City? (w/ Jeremiah Moss)
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Jeremiah Moss (pseudonym of Griffin Hansbury) is the author of two books, Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul and Feral City: On Fi…
Why Did We Invade Iraq? (w/ Dennis Fritz)
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Dennis Fritz is the author of the new book Deadly Betrayal: The Truth About Why the United States Invaded Iraq(OR Books), which dives into the his…