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October 08 The Consultants Will Kill You
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In Michigan and Maine, a tale of two campaigns.
🌹 Full article by Nathan J. Robinson: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-consultants-will-kill-you
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20 min
October 05 In Praise of Suit Socialism
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If there’s a visual language that connotes credibility and authority, why not take advantage of it?
🌹 Full article by Nathan J. Robinson: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/in-praise-of-suit-socialism
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18 min
September 29 Democrats Paved the Way for Fascism — Jennifer Welch on MAGA, Socialism, and Political Revolution
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Jennifer Welch, co-host of I’ve Had It and author of Not Today, Fascists, joins Current Affairs editor in chief Nathan J. Robinson to discuss the rise of Christian nationalism, her political evolution from establishment Democrat to outspoken progressive, and why she believes the Democratic Party needs a radical overhaul.
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0:00 Trump and the Megachurch Pastor Mentality
4:08 How Should Progressives Talk About Religion?
6:27 Can Bernie-Style Populism Win in Red States?
8:21 Kamala Harris in 2028?
10:41 Gaza and the Democratic Party’s Moral Failure
13:45 Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer, and Democratic Leadership
16:46 Jennifer Welch’s Political Radicalization and Kamala’s Liz Cheney Strategy
24:59 Why Democrats Need to Offer a Real Alternative
29:28 Billionaire Influence, Money in Politics, and the Supreme Court
31:50 Should Progressives Embrace the Word “Socialism”?
34:51 JD Vance and the Future of MAGA
40:19 Rapid-Fire: Newsom, Buttigieg, AOC, and More
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44 min
September 19 Israel Is Stealing the West Bank in Plain Sight (w/ Jasper Nathaniel)
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Jasper Nathaniel is an independent journalist who recently returned from reporting in the occupied West Bank, where he documented Israeli settler violence, land seizures, military raids, home demolitions, and the daily realities of life under occupation.
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0:00-6:01 The escalating situation in the occupied West Bank
6:01-8:29 How Israeli politics enables settlement expansion
8:29-11:32 What the West Bank’s fragmented zones feel like on the ground
11:32-13:54 Why settler violence so often goes unpunished
13:54-18:52 How violence and displacement work together
18:52-26:55 The double standard on Palestinian self-defense
26:55-30:44 Western governments’ empty posturing on settlements
30:44-37:05 Palestinian resilience under occupation
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37 min
September 15 How 9/11 Normalized Endless War
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CODEPINK co-founders Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans, along with national co-director Danaka Katovich, join Current Affairs to reflect on 25 years of the post-9/11 War on Terror, the founding of CODEPINK, and the politics of fear that have fueled endless war.
🌸 Pam Bailey's Current Affairs Article: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/9/11-began-25-years-of-nonstop-war-and-abuses-of-power
🌸 Danaka Katovich's Common Dreams Article: https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/un-american-to-care
🌸 Medea Benjamin's Common Dreams Article: https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/was-the-us-reaction-to-9-11-wrong
0:00-10:56 Barbara Lee, 9/11, and the politics of fear
10:56-19:59 How CODEPINK was born from the War on Terror
19:59-25:51 Being smeared as foreign agents and terrorist sympathizers
25:51-32:30 Fighting fear and reclaiming political power
32:30-35:12 What CODEPINK is organizing around now
35:12-37:15 Why Yemen matters to the antiwar movement
37:15-45:42 Lessons from 25 years of antiwar activism
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46 min
September 09 How Trump Made a Broken DOJ Even Worse
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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.
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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
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32 min
September 02 MAGA Stole Animal Rights from the Left
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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
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50 min
August 31 Palestinians Shouldn’t Have to Be Perfect Victims (w/ Mohammed el-Kurd)
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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
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32 min
August 27 AIPAC Knows Its Money Is Toxic (w/ Track AIPAC)
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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
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32 min
August 25 Both Parties Are Failing Working People (w/ Dan Osborn)
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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
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20 min