Current Affairs

He has shown that a socialist message can win people over. His campaign is a model that should be emulated everywhere.

Transcribed - Published: 27 June 2025

The latest Democratic fad sidelines equality and justice in favor of a focus on cutting red tape. This is not the path forward.

Transcribed - Published: 25 June 2025

Ralph Nader joins Current Affairs to analyze Donald Trump’s authoritarianism, the Democratic Party’s failure to offer a compelling alternative, and the media’s role in narrowing public imagination. He also responds to Ezra Klein’s recent critique in Abundance, arguing that it shifts blame away from institutional failures and undermines genuine political accountability.

Transcribed - Published: 24 June 2025

Katrina vanden Heuvel on the ongoing war in Ukraine, the erosion of U.S. diplomacy, and the bipartisan consensus around militarism.

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Even by the standards of right-wing rhetoric, Miller’s public statements are uncommonly shameless. He treats his audience as stupid and gullible.

Transcribed - Published: 15 June 2025

Andrew Cuomo is not just unfit for office—he’s dangerous.

Transcribed - Published: 6 June 2025

The former governor is a corrupt abuser of power with a pro-corporate agenda and a proven track record of deadly negligence. He will do nothing to improve New Yorkers’ lives. Why on Earth is he a contender for mayor?

Transcribed - Published: 4 June 2025

Professor Richard Wolff is the host of the weekly program Economic Update, co-founder of Democracy at Work, and the author of numerous books including Understanding Marxism, Understanding Socialism, Capitalism Hits the Fan, and The Sickness Is the System.

Transcribed - Published: 3 June 2025

A special event hosted by Current Affairs Magazine at The New School in New York City to celebrate the release of The Myth of American Idealism, the new book co-authored by Noam Chomsky and Nathan J. Robinson. The panel explores Chomsky’s lifelong critique of U.S. foreign policy—from Vietnam and Iraq to Ukraine and Gaza—and examines why his radical analysis of American power remains essential.

Transcribed - Published: 28 May 2025

John Cassidy, staff writer at The New Yorker and author of Capitalism and Its Critics, joins Nathan J. Robinson to explore the history of capitalism. Cassidy examines why capitalism has been criticized from its inception, the diverse range of critiques it has faced, and how these criticisms have evolved over time.

Transcribed - Published: 27 May 2025

The Democratic Party is sclerotic. It’s easy to heap blame on Joe Biden now that he is weak and powerless. But that’s a convenient way of avoiding a major reckoning.

Transcribed - Published: 25 May 2025

Chas Freeman is one of the most insightful voices in U.S. foreign policy, with a distinguished career as a diplomat and a deep expertise in U.S.-China relations. He offers a searing critique of America's current approach to diplomacy, the global balance of power, and its role in key international conflicts.

Transcribed - Published: 23 May 2025

Ted Rall is one of the most influential political cartoonists on the left today. In his new book “What’s Left: Radical Solutions for Radical Problems," he presents a manifesto for left-wing politics in 2025, blending incisive analysis with his political cartoons.

Transcribed - Published: 20 May 2025

America is in crisis, but it doesn’t have to be this way. Around the world, other countries have already solved many of the problems we’re told are unsolvable here: from unaffordable healthcare to lack of parental leave, crumbling infrastructure, climate disaster, and more. So why can’t the U.S. do what other nations have already done?

Transcribed - Published: 16 May 2025

In “On Democracies and Death Cults,” Murray offers a straightforward “good versus evil” account of the Israel-Palestine conflict. He does this by excluding every piece of information that undercuts his thesis and even spreading outright falsehoods.

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New Yorker editor Susan Morrison joins us to discuss her new book Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live

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Political theorist Matt McManus joins to discuss his new book The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism, which argues that liberalism and socialism are not opposites but allies in the fight for freedom and equality. He traces a tradition from Mill to Rawls that sees true liberty as requiring economic justice, and explains why reclaiming this egalitarian liberalism is essential despite its modern associations with technocratic centrism.

Transcribed - Published: 6 May 2025

Shrimp are the most farmed animals on the planet, yet their suffering is rarely acknowledged. Andrés Jiménez Zorrilla of the Shrimp Welfare Project explains the scale of the problem and how simple reforms could reduce immense animal suffering.

Transcribed - Published: 29 April 2025

Physicist Sean Carroll joins Current Affairs to explain how quantum physics reveals a strange, godless, but still meaningful universe.

Transcribed - Published: 22 April 2025

Historian Sophia Rosenfeld explains how appeals to common sense can both empower ordinary people and shut down dissent.

Transcribed - Published: 18 April 2025

Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist and New York State Assemblymember, is running for mayor of New York City on a platform of lowering the cost of living. He joined Current Affairs to discuss his vision for the city and his campaign.

Transcribed - Published: 15 April 2025

Branko Marcetic joins to explain how Biden’s presidency fell apart — and how its failures set the stage for Trump’s return.

Transcribed - Published: 11 April 2025

Sam Seder and Emma Vigeland of The Majority Report join Nathan to discuss the return of Donald Trump, the right-wing assault on the administrative state, and how progressives should fight back.

Transcribed - Published: 8 April 2025

Peter Beinart is a distinguished journalist, political scientist, and editor-at-large at Jewish Currents. He joins Current Affairs to discuss his latest book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning, and the shifting discourse on Israel, Zionism, and Jewish identity.

Transcribed - Published: 4 April 2025

Philosopher, activist, and public intellectual Dr. Cornel West joins Current Affairs Editor-in-Chief Nathan J. Robinson for a discussion on the nihilism gripping our ruling class, the failures of the Democratic Party, and why resistance requires moral courage, historical memory, and a radical commitment to love.

Transcribed - Published: 1 April 2025

Francesca Fiorentini is a comedian, journalist, and host of The Bitchuation Room. She joins Nathan to discuss her viral showdowns on Piers Morgan Uncensored, why compromising with the right is a losing strategy, and why the left-wing resistance should be bold and aggressive—but also fun.

Transcribed - Published: 28 March 2025

🦩 This episode originally aired on March 11th. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/Current Affairs! Dr. Omar Suleiman is a distinguished Islamic scholar, civil rights activist, and President of the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research. He joins Nathan to discuss the deep roots of Islamophobia in American politics and the moral consequences of U.S. foreign policy—particularly the genocide in Gaza. Dr. Suleiman explains how systemic dehumanization shapes American policy and what can be done to fight back.

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