Democrats Paved the Way for Fascism — Jennifer Welch on MAGA, Socialism, and Political Revolution
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A podcast of politics and culture, from the editors of Current Affairs magazine.
Episodes
20 of 643 episodesIsrael Is Stealing the West Bank in Plain Sight (w/ Jasper Nathaniel)
Jasper Nathaniel is an independent journalist who recently returned from reporting in the occupied West Bank, where he documented Israeli se...
How 9/11 Normalized Endless War
CODEPINK co-founders Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans, along with national co-director Danaka Katovich, join Current Affairs to reflect on 25...
How Trump Made a Broken DOJ Even Worse
Rachel Cohen is an attorney and organizer who previously resigned from the law firm Skadden Arps amid the Trump administration’s pressure ca...
MAGA Stole Animal Rights from the Left
Astra Taylor is a writer, activist, and co-author of End Times Fascism, and Aaron Regunberg is a climate lawyer and contributing editor at T...
Palestinians Shouldn’t Have to Be Perfect Victims (w/ Mohammed el-Kurd)
Mohammed el-Kurd is a Palestinian writer from Jerusalem, The Nation’s Palestine correspondent, and editor-at-large at Mondoweiss.
AIPAC Knows Its Money Is Toxic (w/ Track AIPAC)
Track AIPAC is an advocacy and watchdog project that tracks AIPAC and other pro-Israel political spending in U.S. elections. Co-founders Cor...
Both Parties Are Failing Working People (w/ Dan Osborn)
Dan Osborn is an independent candidate for U.S. Senate in Nebraska and a former union leader who first gained national attention during the...
The Israel Lobby Is More Desperate Than Ever
Eli Clifton is an investigative journalist and co-founder of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, and Ian Lustick is a political...
The “Silent Genocide” in Cuba (w/ Abby Martin)
Abby Martin is a journalist, filmmaker, and creator of The Empire Files. She joins Current Affairs editor in chief Nathan J. Robinson to dis...
Socialist Defends Medicare for All on Fox News
Nathan J. Robinson returns to The Will Cain Show to defend Medicare for All, California’s proposed billionaire tax, and Zohran Mamdani’s pie...
Send Ben Shapiro to Iran
Why should other people’s children be the ones who die in the wars he promotes?
Graham Platner and the Left’s Misogyny Problem (w/ Yasmin Nair)
Yasmin Nair is a writer, activist, and longtime contributor to Current Affairs. In this conversation with Current Affairs editor in chief Na...
AIPAC Couldn't Stop Abdul El-Sayed
If he wins in November, this could be end of the road for AIPAC and the Democratic establishment.
A Socialist Appears on Fox News
Nathan J. Robinson appears on The Will Cain Show to discuss socialism and the future of the Democratic Party.
Centrists Are Not More "Electable"
Whether a candidate can inspire people, organize them, and deliver for them matters more than where they stand on an imaginary ideological c...
America Is Just Guns and Diarrhea Now
Our politicians won't keep parasites out of our food, but they'll make it easier to buy guns through the mail.
Socialists Humiliate Clueless NewsNation Host
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...
Daniel Ellsberg's Final Warning to America
Daniel Ellsberg was the Pentagon Papers whistleblower whose decision to expose government lies about the Vietnam War changed American histor...
America Is Headed for Another Endless War (w/ Trita Parsi)
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...