Welcome to Current Affairs. My name is Nathan Robinson. I'm the editor-in-chief of Current Affairs Magazine.

And today I have the privilege of introducing to our listeners.

A new Current Affairs staff member, Mr. Siever Prager. He is the writer of the new current affairs

news briefing, as well as a contributor to Current Affairs magazine. Stephen Prager. Thank you so

much for talking to me today. Hi, Nathan. Great to be here. Good to talk to you. So, you've written

for us a couple of times before this new project. We got a new project called the Current Affairs

News Briefing. We are branching out, expanding the vast left media empire that is current affairs.

Perhaps you want to tell us what it is.

Well, twice a week, I pull together some of the best stories from the news and, you know,

a few other ones that I feel like the media is missing. And I try to, you know,

from a wide variety of sources, A lot of the ones that we use

are paywalls. A lot of the ones that we use are independent news outlets that don't necessarily,

you know, permeate the, you know, the mainstream consciousness in the way that we might like.

So I'm trying to sort of give you a useful digest of the news to, you know, keep the

average person up to speed about everything that's happening.

Well, you know, I think you and I agree on the kind of purpose behind this, which is that I certainly have found over the years,

and I don't know if it's getting worse, that it's just really difficult to keep track of

what is going on. It's very difficult to sort of comb through information. The paywall situation

is a nightmare. I'm just constantly

like clicking on a thing that looks interesting and then and then running into, oh, you don't

subscribe to the Philadelphia Angpire. So, and I'm not going to subscribe to like every newspaper

in the country. So okay, well, I guess I can can't, I will never know anything else about that.

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