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Slate's advice columnist Prudie (better known as Emily Yoffe) dispenses advice about romance, workplace strife, and life's other little messes.
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This show is stacked! Get Ready, Try! We Talk Games Video Power Magazine Presents!!! The most popular weekly, one arcade game review per episode show ever created by humans or the reptilian illuminati secret overlords of the deranged conspiracy theorists lame crotch imagination. Join the video game journalist award wining crew and non-sport card superstars of Kyle VonKubik and Wiggly of Trap Door review arcade video games with author, artist and all around guy, John E Capcom plus, robot femm ...
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This episode originally aired on August 22, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs! Bev Stohl ran Noam Chomsky's office for over two decades. In her wonderful book Chomsky and Me(OR Books) she discusses the sometimes chaotic, never boring inside of Chomsky-world, with thousands of correspondents and visitors from around the worl…
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How Do We Actually Dismantle Mass Incarceration?
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This episode originally aired on August 20, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs! It's long been recognized that the U.S. criminal punishment system is aberrational, cruel, and broken. Our prison population is outrageously large. But how do we actually begin to dismantle the system? Premal Dharia, James Forman Jr., and Maria H…
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An Israeli Journalist Excoriates His Country's Destruction of Gaza
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This episode originally aired on August 15, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs! Gideon levy is one of Israel's leading dissident journalists. His new book The Killing of Gaza: Reports on a Catastrophe is perhaps the harshest condemnation of Israel's war on Gaza from any Israeli. Levy joins us to explain why he believes his f…
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What Keir Starmer Means for Britain (w/ Oliver Eagleton)
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This episode originally aired August 7, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs! Keir Starmer took the place of Jeremy Corbyn as the leader of the UK Labour Party, and recently became the UK Prime Minister after Labour resoundingly defeated the Conservatives. Does this mean that Starmer has a mandate from the British public? What…
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How Dehumanization Happens (w/ David Livingstone Smith)
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This episode originally aired on August 2, 2024. Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs! David Livingstone Smith is one of the leading scholars of dehumanization in the world, the author of books like Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others, On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It, and Making Monster…
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Do Anarchism and Islam Go Together? (w/ Mohamed Abdou)
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Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs! In popular American stereotypes, Islam is a religion of submission, with right-wing politicians demagoguing about the supposed authoritarianism and repressiveness of Islam. But scholar Mohamed Abdou argues in Islam and Anarchismthat, in fact, there is a great deal of overlap between Islamic reli…
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Why You Should Join a Club (w/ Rebecca and Pete Davis)
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Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs! Today on the Current Affairs podcast, we're joined by two filmmakers, one of whom will be well known to longtime podcast listeners. Pete Davis founded the Current Affairs podcast and served as its original host. Pete and his sister Rebecca Davis have made a new documentary called Join or Die, wh…
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Who Killed New York City? (w/ Jeremiah Moss)
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Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs! Jeremiah Moss (pseudonym of Griffin Hansbury) is the author of two books, Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul and Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York. Jeremiah's blog Vanishing New York has documented the disappearance of precious city institutions from delis to…
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Why Did We Invade Iraq? (w/ Dennis Fritz)
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Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs! Dennis Fritz is the author of the new book Deadly Betrayal: The Truth About Why the United States Invaded Iraq(OR Books), which dives into the historical record to understand the Bush administration's motivations for launching one of the most disastrous criminal wars of our era. It's well-known …
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Understanding Biden's Foreign Policy (w/ Richard Beck)
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Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs! Richard Beck is a senior writer for N+1 magazine and the author of the forthcoming book Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life. His recent article "Bidenism Abroad" in the New Left Review is a vitally useful analysis of Joe Biden's record internationally. He discusses the continuities and …
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How to Read Nietzsche (And How The Left Should Feel About Him)
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Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs! Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the most influential philosophers of all time. Interestingly, thinkers on both the right and left have found inspiration in Nietzsche, and his ideas show up everywhere from the anti-democratic elitism of H.L. Mencken to the liberatory politics of the Black Panther …
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How Fox News Turns People Terrified and Paranoid (w/ Kat Abughazaleh)
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Get new episodes at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs! Kat Abughazaleh has watched a lot of Fox News. As an analyst for Media Matters, her job was to monitor the Fox primetime shows, producing videos documenting some of the most deranged stories to appear on the network. Somebody has to keep track of what's going on in the right's media ecosystem, and we'…
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Jeffrey Sachs on What's Wrong With U.S. Foreign Policy
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Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs! Jeffrey Sachs is an economist at Columbia University and the author of the book A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism, which argues that both Democratic and Republican presidents are worsening global instability. He joins today to explain his critique of American foreign policy. F…
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What Biden's Changes to Asylum Mean For Immigrants
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Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs! Aaron Reichlin-Melnick is the Policy Director of the American Immigration Council and a leading expert on U.S. immigration law. He has testified before Congress several times and frequently appears as a public commentator on immigration issues including recently on the Chris Hayes podcast. He jo…
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#78 - Wij speelden Star Wars Outlaws!
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Maxim vloog naar Disneyland in Californië om er Star Wars Outlaws te spelen!By Invader Magazine
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How "Pharmacy Benefit Managers" Are Extorting Us (w/ Max from UNFTR)
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Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs! Max (just Max) is the host of Unfucking the Republic (UNFTR), one of our favorite podcasts. UNFTR publishes intensively-researched deep dives into some of the most important issues in the world. One of their most recent investigations is into Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs), an insidious cartel…
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Why Everyone Feels So Rotten About the Economy (w/ Kyla Scanlon)
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Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs! Kyla Scanlon is a leading online economics commentator and Bloomberg contributor, who regularly publishes TikTok explainers helping people understand the economy. Her new book In This Economy?is meant to help laypeople understand the economic forces around them that are so determinative in the o…
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Nuclear Countdown, or, Why We Need to Start Worrying and Stop the Bomb
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Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs! Nuclear weapons are always lurking there in the background, out in remote places where we don't have to think about them, but ready to be fired at any time. Journalist Sarah Scoles was interested to find out more about the people who maintain the system of nuclear weapons. What do they do and ho…
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Why No One Gets To Retire Anymore (w/ Teresa Ghilarducci)
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Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs! Teresa Ghilarducci is an economist at the New School for Social Research and the author of Work, Retire, Repeat, which shows how the possibilities for having a comfortable and dignified retirement are slipping away. We begin with a news story about a 90-year-old veteran who was pushing shopping …
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The Authoritarian Nightmare Donald Trump Is Planning (w/ Radley Balko)
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Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs! Radley Balko is one of America's leading journalists on policing and criminal punishment. His book The Rise of the Warrior Cop is a remarkable expose of the militarization of local police forces around the country. Recently, Radley has produced several excellent essays on the authoritarian promi…
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What Americans Don't Know About Iran (w/ John Ghazvinian)
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Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs! John Ghazvinian is the leading historian of U.S.-Iranian relations, the author of the indispensable study America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present. His book shows how opportunities for positive relations between the U.S. and the Iranian people have been repeatedly squandered. From instal…
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Is It 1968 All Over Again? (w/ Charles Kaiser)
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Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs ! With antiwar protests jeopardizing a Democratic president's reelection and an upcoming party convention in Chicago, 2024 has some eerie echoes of one of the world's most tumultuous years: 1968. Perhaps by revisiting that year we can better understand our own time. To see what lessons it holds, …
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The Toxic Legacy of Martin Peretz’s New Republic (w/ Jeet Heer)
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Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs ! Jeet Heer has written two major essays about the intellectual legacy of the New Republic magazine’s 70s-2000s heyday. The first, from 2015, excavates the magazine’s history of racism and its role in Clinton-era “welfare reform” and in pushing Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein’s The Bell Cur…
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Jonathan Kozol on the Scandal of America's Apartheid Education System
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Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs ! Jonathan Kozol is one of the leading critics of the U.S. education system, having written a series of widely acclaimed books across a 60-year career, including Savage Inequalities, The Shame of the Nation, and Letters to a Young Teacher. Today he joins to discuss his new book An End to Inequali…
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How Corporations Suck the Welfare State Dry (w/ Anne Kim)
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Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs! Anne Kim's book Poverty For Profit: How Corporations Get Rich Off America's Poor gives a partial answer to an enduring question: how come we spend so much trying to solve poverty but poverty persists? One major reason, Kim argues, is that parasitic for-profit industries suck a lot of the money o…
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Why Thomas Sowell is a Terrible Economist (w/ Cahal Moran)
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Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs! Thomas Sowell may be the best-selling economics writer of our time. For decades, the Hoover Institution pundit has published books and columns introducing economic concepts to a popular audience. He has been acclaimed as a genius and maverick whose insights are ignored by the academy because the…
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