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Current Affairs

A podcast of politics and culture, from the editors of Current Affairs magazine.

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  • #495
    July 2 · 41 min

    Charles Booker Has a Plan to Win Kentucky

    Charles Booker is a former Kentucky state representative and the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Kentucky. His campaign centers on Medicare for All, ending endless war, strengthening labor rights, raising wages, and building a multiracial working-class coalition from “the hood to the holler.” Booker joined Current Affairs associate editor Alex Skopic to discuss why Kentucky should not be written off as a “red state,” how progressive policies can win in places ignored by the national Democr

  • #494
    June 30 · 49 min

    The Internet Is Being Erased

    Mark Graham is the director of the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive, and Chris Freeland is the Internet Archive’s director of library services and one of the co-authors of the new report Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record. Their work focuses on preserving digital materials that might otherwise disappear. Graham and Freeland joined Current Affairs editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson to discuss why the internet is not forever, how digital culture vanishes through del

  • #492
    June 26 · 10 min

    The Left Is Rising

    Electoral victories by socialists around the country show that the Democratic establishment is weak and can be overthrown.

  • #491
    June 24 · 1 hr 1 min

    The Hidden Surveillance Network Spreading Across America

    Jessica Burbank is an investigative journalist, content creator, and host of The Jessica Burbank Show. Her reporting for Drop Site News and The Counterprogramming Club has exposed the rapid spread of Flock Safety, a multi-billion-dollar surveillance company whose license plate readers and camera networks are being adopted by police departments and municipalities across the country.

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