The popular, moral, and pragmatic stance for Democrats is to be firmly anti-Israel. Anything else is cowardice.

The Searchlight Institute exists mainly to tell centrist Democrats to double down on what they are already doing, namely throwing immigrants, climate activists, and trans people under the bus in the name of electability. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-lat...

It has been extremely obvious for nearly a decade that Democrats should embrace Bernie-style economic populism. But there are still those who say that Democrats are too bold in defense of progressive values, and need to run to the right. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-lat...

Can you imagine a Democratic Party that stood for even less? The Searchlight Institute can! www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-lat...

"There's something so brutal of, you could tell a joke to an audience, that if they repeated that joke on their own Twitter account, they could be executed. Something about that, to me, is gross." @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social on the Riyadh Comedy Festival

It’s 2025, and the days where we abuse animals for entertainment should have been long gone for many, many years. www.currentaffairs.org/news/inside-...

Across the country, wild animals living in zoos and circuses exist in a legal grey area—and the ones who are responsible for ensuring their proper care aren’t even trying. www.currentaffairs.org/news/inside-...

Inspectors cite starvation, disease, and death—but animals stay in cages, while operators stay licensed. www.currentaffairs.org/news/inside-...

From his bizarre antics to his outright corruption, Adams is a true creature of New York City—one who’s changed the city forever. www.currentaffairs.org/news/eric-ad...

Our interview with Hasan is now available to the public! youtu.be/IHk8ktLS9ts

Even Bill Burr accepted the payout—the same Bill Burr who mercilessly roasts billionaires and called Jeff Bezos a “nerd” who “spent $38 million to get married.” But that doesn’t mean it’s impossible to turn down a check. www.currentaffairs.org/news/comedys...

The Riyadh Comedy Festival is directly organized by the Saudi government as part of a multi-billion dollar campaign to sanitize the nation’s image. It’s not like performing at Coachella; it’s like if Lana Del Rey performed at Alligator Alcatraz. www.currentaffairs.org/news/comedys...

Maybe it's sanctimonious to expect comedians to take a stand against human rights abuses. After all, they’re occurring every day in the United States. But participating in this event is more than simply performing in a country that does bad things. www.currentaffairs.org/news/comedys...

It’s not that these celebrities aren’t aware of what’s going on in Saudi Arabia; they just don’t give a shit. www.currentaffairs.org/news/comedys...

Woke might have killed free speech in Brooklyn, but it appears to be alive and well in Saudi Arabia—a country whose “years-since-last-executing-a-journalist counter” never seems to reach the double digits. www.currentaffairs.org/news/comedys...

Comedy is all about speaking truth to power. That’s why, this weekend, you’ll find America’s hottest knee-slappers jet-setting to Saudi Arabia. www.currentaffairs.org/news/comedys...

Hasan Piker joins Current Affairs Editor-in-Chief Nathan J. Robinson to discuss the failures of the Democratic Party and what they refuse to learn from the success of Zohran Mamdani.

At the Riyadh Comedy Festival, American comics are using a laugh track to drown out the sounds of a bone saw. www.currentaffairs.org/news/comedys...

How much slavery is justified? How many workers ought we subject to beating, sexual assault, PTSD, wage theft, cancer, public humiliation, witheld earnings, building collapses, and murder? The correct answer is none. www.currentaffairs.org/news/there-i...

If the value of your life is determined by your earnings potential, so is the value of all your other rights. www.currentaffairs.org/news/there-i...

Matt Yglesias was refreshingly honest when he said the “overwhelming personal response” he had to criticism of his pro-sweatshop writing was “to be annoyed.” How dare bleeding hearts cry over workers being exploited! www.currentaffairs.org/news/there-i...

My take on the Rufo/Yarvin debate: a plague on both their houses. Here's my review of Rufo's nog particularly good manifesto with Nathan Robinson for @currentaffairs.bsky.social... www.currentaffairs.org/news/2023/07...

Walk Free, the nonprofit responsible for the Global Slavery Index, counts nearly 50 million people as enslaved worldwide; they also estimate that the garment industry is the second-largest market of products likely produced with modern day slavery. www.currentaffairs.org/news/there-i...

While factories collapse and workers die, privileged bloggers call it progress. www.currentaffairs.org/news/there-i...

Israel once mocked the Gaza Aid Flotillas as “selfie boats.” Now it calls them “Hamas.” At the same time, the Trump administration has designated ANTIFA as a domestic terrorist group as a pretext for criminalizing peaceful pro-Palestine dissent.

Our full interview with Hasan Piker is available now for our patrons. 🔗 Link Below!

We spoke with Tommy Marcus from the Global Sumud Flotilla earlier this week. The next day, the flotilla was attacked by drones. Soon, they will begin the final stretch to Gaza. They will only be protected if the world is watching.

Nathan J. Robinson of @currentaffairs.bsky.social does a fantastic job taking apart another horrific article from his Ezra Klein. This time on Charlie Kirk. You can also check out Robinson's detailed dissection of Klein's Abundance movement.

A horrific new billionaire-backed Democratic think tank called the Searchlight Institute is encouraging Democrats to outright abandon discussing the climate crisis in the name of "electability." www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-lat...

If the Sumud Flotilla reaches Gaza, it would be an undeniable act of solidarity in defiance of genocide, showing clearly who stands with humanity and who stands against it. We spoke with Novara Media contributor Kieran Andrieu earlier this week about what that moment would mean.

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September 23rd, 2025 ❧ Current Affairs News Briefing 🦩 Charlie Kirk's Memorial 🦩 Consequence Culture 🦩 India Sanitation Works Strike And much more! currentaffairs.org/briefing

Yesterday, Tommy Marcus told us from the Global Sumud Flotilla: "Israel is laying the groundwork to excuse themselves to the world for using violence on us.” That violence is now happening. The flotilla is under attack. There have been 11 explosions, and one boat's mast has been destroyed.

Israel wants you to believe you can do nothing while it commits genocide. But that's not the case. From aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla, @novaramedia.com contributor Kieran Andrieu tells us why every act of resistance matters.

Israel is smearing the Global Sumud Flotilla as “Hamas” and accusing it of pursuing a “violent course of action.” This is the kind of rhetoric that Israel uses as a pretext before committing war crimes against unarmed civilians.

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Kamala Harris still does not understand that her administration's support for an ongoing genocide was not only morally horrific but cost her the votes of people with two eyes and a conscience

For those in Gaza who’ve lost loved ones dislocated from tombs and wombs, the grief is mutilated: for 23 months, the constant terror of bombing, mass murder, displacement, hunger, illness, heat or cold has not allowed Gazans a break to process their grief. www.currentaffairs.org/news/israels...

Can the dead die twice and can the unborn be unbirthed? For Palestinians, life and death lack fixed boundaries. In a colonial site, victims’ bodies and spirits are trans-formed continuously by violence, in both life and death. www.currentaffairs.org/news/israels...

Another facet of the genocide which contributes to miscarriages is the destruction of nearly all hospitals, a severe shortage of medical supplies, and the killing of at least 1,580 medical workers with others injured, abducted, imprisoned, and tortured. www.currentaffairs.org/news/israels...

Israel’s massive bombing and destructive ground operations for 23 months have injured and killed thousands of women, some of them pregnant, who lost their babies. www.currentaffairs.org/news/israels...

One Israeli soldier returning from Gaza described bulldozer drivers running over hundreds of Palestinian bodies, dead and alive, until “everything squirts out.” www.currentaffairs.org/news/israels...

One year into Israel’s “war on Hamas,” most Palestinian cemeteries in Gaza were damaged, totally or partially, from bombing, bulldozing, and quasi-random exhumations. Many dead bodies were dismembered, scattered around, or disappeared. www.currentaffairs.org/news/israels...