Current Affairs

A podcast of politics and culture, from the editors of Current Affairs magazine.

Current Affairs is a comedy podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 600 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts Current Affairs, a comedy show with 600 episodes published.

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  Episode #518

  How Trump Made a Broken DOJ Even Worse

  Sep 9, 202631 min

  Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership 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. ️ Follow Rachel on Instagram: https://cohen489.substack.com/ ️ Subscribe to Rachel's Substack: https://www.instagram.com/cohen.489/?hl=en 0:00-5:20 What’s happening at the DOJ under Trump? 5:20-8:08 Disturbing trends under Trump 8:08-13:36 What Trump didn’t change 13:36-18:21 The injustice was already built in 18:21-23:06 The problem goes beyond Trump 23:06-25:40 The “presumption of regularity” 25:40-31:26 Resistance and refusing conformity Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership

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  Episode #517

  MAGA Stole Animal Rights from the Left

  Sep 2, 202649 min

  Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership 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. Read the article: https://newrepublic.com/article/213747/maga-stole-animal-rights-left Get Astra's book: https://naomiklein.org/end-times-fascism/ 0:00-8:25 How MAGA is co-opting animal rights 8:25-14:18 P’Nut the Squirrel and the right’s animal politics 14:18-18:29 MAHA and the political vacuum on animal welfare 18:29-33:05 Why animal rights belong in left politics 33:05-37:59 Why the left stopped talking about climate 37:59-42:44 Ecofascism and the politics of climate collapse 42:44-49:14 Making climate politics impossible to ignore Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership

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  Episode #516

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

  Aug 31, 202632 min

  Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership Mohammed el-Kurd is a Palestinian writer from Jerusalem, The Nation’s Palestine correspondent, and editor-at-large at Mondoweiss. He joins Current Affairs to discuss his book, Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal, which examines how even sympathetic discourse about Palestine can reproduce racist assumptions, sanitize Palestinian resistance, and demand that Palestinians prove their innocence before being granted solidarity. Get the Book: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2499-perfect-victims Article in The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/article/world/mohammed-el-kurd-book-excerpt/ 0:00-3:04 deconstructing liberal solidarity with Palestine 3:04-6:30 the assumptions behind “women and children” 6:30-10:56 why Palestinian anger and resistance are legitimate 10:56-13:29 how the language of occupation shapes the debate 13:29-17:23 Ro Khanna and the double standard on resistance 17:23-19:49 the politics of the “perfect victim” 19:49-22:18 Refaat Alareer and the refusal to sanitize Palestinians 22:18-24:27 what Palestine’s allies still get wrong 24:27-27:22 Israel’s political prison system 27:22-31:46 Hamas members are entitled to human rights Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership

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  Episode #515

  AIPAC Knows Its Money Is Toxic (w/ Track AIPAC)

  Aug 27, 202632 min

  Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership 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. Track AIPAC: https://www.trackaipac.com/ 0:00-5:53 Why Track AIPAC was founded 5:53-8:51 How AIPAC hides its money 8:51-13:04 How AIPAC intervenes in elections 13:04-17:33 How AIPAC corrupts the democratic process 17:33-21:45 Democrats are turning against AIPAC 21:45-24:58 Forcing Israel into the political conversation 24:58-31:40 Track AIPAC’s litmus test for candidates Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership

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  Episode #514

  Both Parties Are Failing Working People (w/ Dan Osborn)

  Aug 25, 202619 min

  Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership 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. ️ Dan's Website: https://www.osbornforsenate.com/ 0:00-2:03 Why run as an independent? 2:03-5:25 Rural hospital closures 5:25-9:11 Medicare for All and healthcare monopolies 9:11-10:56 Rejecting lobbyist influence 10:56-16:19 How can we strengthen the labor movement? 16:19-19:13 The PRO Act, card check, and right-to-work laws Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership

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