Current Affairs

564 Episodes

1. SPECIAL: How Leftists Can Run, Win, and Govern - featuring interviews with six Democratic Socialists who have been elected to public office

   Published: 4/1/2022
2. Understanding Putin's Criminal War in Ukraine - interview with Russia expert and publisher of The Nation Katrina vanden Heuvel

   Published: 3/26/2022
3. How Companies Make Us Worship Our Work - interview with Carolyn Chen, author of "Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes a Religion in Silicon Valley"

   Published: 3/26/2022
4. "How Are You Going To Pay For That?" and Other Dumb Political Questions - interview with Ryan Cooper, managing editor of The American Prospect

   Published: 3/26/2022
5. How To Be A Foreign Correspondent Without Swallowing Propaganda - interview with Patrick Cockburn, Middle East correspondent for The Independent, about his decades as a foreign correspondent

   Published: 3/16/2022
6. How Bill Gates Makes The World Worse Off

   Published: 3/16/2022
7. Astonishingly, There IS An Alternative! Interview with Yanis Varoufakis, former Finance Minister of Greece about his book "Another Now"

   Published: 3/11/2022
8. Why Suppressing "Fake News" Can't Fix Our Journalism Crisis

   Published: 3/3/2022
9. What Policing Looks Like From The Inside

   Published: 3/3/2022
10. War Zones & Prisons: The Places We Hide Suffering and The Ways We Rationalize It

    Published: 2/24/2022
11. How Do Hedge Fund Managers Justify Their Existence?

    Published: 2/24/2022
12. How To Think Sensibly About Apocalypse and Catastrophe

    Published: 2/16/2022
13. Why Is Climate Communication So Impossible and Frustrating?

    Published: 2/16/2022
14. Our Era of Scams & Hype: From the Fyre Festival to Trump's Career to NFTs

    Published: 2/10/2022
15. How Did Anyone Ever Believe WeWork's BS?

    Published: 2/3/2022
16. Is The International Criminal Court a Functional Institution?

    Published: 2/3/2022
17. Is Mocking the Deaths of Anti-Vaxxers "Necessary"? Or Cruel and Useless?

    Published: 2/3/2022
18. Why Judge Judy Is A Reactionary Enemy of the Poor Who Must Be Destroyed

    Published: 2/3/2022
19. How Segregation Was Built—And Why It's Still With Us

    Published: 2/3/2022
20. Leadership Lessons from Bill Clinton

    Published: 2/3/2022