Current Affairs Podcast
1) Trump Has No Idea What He’s Doing (w/ Mouin Rabbani)
Mouin Rabbani is a Middle East analyst and researcher, and one of the most incisive commentators on U.S. foreign policy in the region. He joined Current Affairs Editor-in-Chief Nathan Robinson to disc...Show More
2) Ben and Jerry's Co-Founder Takes on America's War Machine (w/ Ben Cohen)
Ben Cohen is the co-founder, along with Jerry Greenfield, of the Ben and Jerry's ice cream company. But he has also been involved throughout his life with a number of major activist efforts on issues ...Show More
3) How Media Silences Anti-War Voices (w/ Amy Goodman)
Amy Goodman is the longtime host of Democracy Now!, the independent news program she helped launch 30 years ago, which has since grown from a small network of community radio stations into a global me...Show More
4) California’s Democratic Field Is Embarrassingly Weak (w/ Dr. Butch Ware)
Dr. Butch Ware is a historian, public intellectual, and the Green Party candidate for Governor of California. He is an associate professor at UC Santa Barbara, a former Green Party vice presidential n...Show More
5) Israel’s Most Genocidal Law Yet (w/ Jasper Nathaniel)
Jasper Nathaniel is an independent journalist who recently returned from documenting Israeli settler and state violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, where he has spent years reporti...Show More
6) Iran Historian: War Makes The Government "MORE REPRESSIVE" (w/ Afshin Matin-Asgari)
Afshin 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 spo...Show More
7) Current Affairs Is Going to Cuba
Donald 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.
8) Israel Wants to Turn Lebanon Into Gaza (w/ Rania Khalek)
Rania Khalek is a journalist based in Beirut and the host of Dispatches on BreakThrough News.
9) What Really Happened at the Washington Post (w/ Becca Rothfeld)
Becca 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 a...Show More
10) Joe Biden Set the Stage for Trump's War on Iran (w/ Annelle Sheline)
Annelle 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 ad...Show More