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A podcast of politics and culture, from the editors of Current Affairs magazine.
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300
28 March 2026
Iran Historian: War Makes The Government "MORE REPRESSIVE" (w/ Afshin Matin-Asgari)
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membershipAfshin Matin-Asgari is an Iranian historian and professor of Middle East history at California State University, Los Angeles, and the author of Axis of Empire: A History of Iran–U.S. Relations. He spoke to Current Affairs about the long history of U.S. involvement in Iran—from the 1953 CIA-backed...
46 min
22 March 2026
Current Affairs Is Going to Cuba
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membershipDonald Trump is trying to starve the island nation into submission, but an international coalition of volunteers is coming to Cuba’s aid. We’re joining them.🦩SUBSCRIBE TO CURRENT AFFAIRS MAGAZINE: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership🦩 MERCH: https://shop.currentaffairs.org/🦩THE MYTH OF...
15 min
18 March 2026
Israel Wants to Turn Lebanon Into Gaza (w/ Rania Khalek)
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membershipRania Khalek is a journalist based in Beirut and the host of Dispatches on BreakThrough News.In this conversation with Current Affairs editor in chief Nathan J. Robinson, she describes life under bombardment in Lebanon as Israel’s assault displaces over a million people and spreads fear across...
45 min
17 March 2026
What Really Happened at the Washington Post (w/ Becca Rothfeld)
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membershipBecca Rothfeld is a staff writer at The New Yorker, an editor at The Point, and the former nonfiction book critic at The Washington Post, where she wrote until the paper eliminated its books section amid sweeping layoffs.She explains why book reviews matter and how criticism can introduce readers...
50 min
12 March 2026
Joe Biden Set the Stage for Trump's War on Iran (w/ Annelle Sheline)
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membershipAnnelle Sheline is a research fellow in the Middle East program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and a former U.S. State Department official who resigned in protest over the Biden administration’s support for Israel’s war in Gaza.In this conversation with Current Affairs editor in...
43 min
10 March 2026
America Will Pay the Price for Israel’s War on Iran (w/ Trita Parsi)
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membershipTrita Parsi is the co-founder and Executive Vice President of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and one of the leading analysts of U.S.–Iran relations.In this conversation with Current Affairs editor in chief Nathan J. Robinson, he explains how the escalating U.S.–Israel war on Iran...
29 min
10 March 2026
The Democrats Still Don't Get It
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membershipTrump's fake-anti-imperialism only works because Democrats refuse to embrace the real thing.🌹 Read the article: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/remember-when-people-thought-trump-was-anti-war🦩SUBSCRIBE TO CURRENT AFFAIRS MAGAZINE: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership🦩 PATREON:...
15 min
07 March 2026
The Iran War Is Unfathomably Depraved
🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Our media’s sanitized coverage obscures the human toll. Are we able to confront the full sickening evil of what the U.S. is doing? 🌹 Read the article: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-iran-war-is-unfathomably-depraved 🦩SUBSCRIBE TO CURRENT AFFAIRS MAGAZINE:...
37 min
04 March 2026
Wait, Why Is Israel Allowed To Have Nukes?
🦩 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership According to our elected leaders, we should be very scared of the possibility that Iran could get a nuclear bomb. But Israel already has them, and its government is increasingly unstable and belligerent. 🔥 Read the article:...
24 min
02 March 2026
The U.S. Military is Destroying the Planet (w/ Abby Martin)
🦩 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membershipIn their new documentary “Earth’s Greatest Enemy,” Abby Martin and Mike Prysner reveal that the climate and anti-war movements are really one and the same—because the U.S. military is the worst polluter of all.🌏 Watch Earth's Greatest Enemy: https://earthsgreatestenemy.com/🌏 Current Affairs...
42 min