Mayor Zohran Mamdani has proposed cutting police budgets (yay!), but also libraries (boo, hiss).

Election Day is coming up, and there’s an opportunity for socialists, labor candidates, and the Medicare for All movement to make historic gains. www.currentaffairs.org/news/leftist...

The male beauty influencer is a living demonstration of the perils of “maximization.” www.currentaffairs.org/news/clavicu...

The left has long said that U.S. foreign policy is about empire and extraction, and now the Trump administration doesn’t even bother to pretend otherwise.

Is it even worth pointing out that it's a violation of the UN Charter to threaten to attack a sovereign country? That there is zero justification, moral or legal, for what Trump is doing? Does anybody even care, or does the U.S. just claim the infinite right to kill and destroy?

At nearly every stage in its growth, Neuralink has been accused of skirting regulations, misleading investors, and prioritizing rapid development over safety. www.currentaffairs.org/news/please-...

Elon Musk wants to transcend the human form. To do so, it’ll only take a few thousand experiments on us regular folk. www.currentaffairs.org/news/please-...

The richest man in the world wants to implant a chip in your brain. You wouldn’t be the first: as of last September, 12 people have already undergone the operation and 10,000 more are on the waiting list. www.currentaffairs.org/news/please-...

The world’s richest man is obsessed with putting Neuralink chips in people’s brains and integrating their minds with AI. He can’t be trusted with this technology. www.currentaffairs.org/news/please-...

Our editor Nathan Robinson had a delightful conversation about politics and history with Jamelle Bouie here at Baldwin & Co Books in New Orleans! www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUnA...

It should not be controversial to acknowledge the hideous injustice done to Native Americans through colonization, and the country’s illegitimate origins make cracking down on immigrants absurd and hypocritical. www.currentaffairs.org/news/of-cour...

Many modern open container laws derive from previous “public drunkenness” and “vagrancy” ordinances that criminalized not just alcoholism, but also poverty and homelessness. www.currentaffairs.org/news/lets-le...

It’s time to repeal these outdated disciplinary laws and realize the unfinished work of the Prohibition repeal movement by finally legalizing public drinking across the United States. www.currentaffairs.org/news/lets-le...

There’s nothing radical about allowing people to drink alcohol outdoors. Public drinking is a victimless act. www.currentaffairs.org/news/lets-le...

Laws against public drinking criminalize working-class people and make public life less fun. It’s time to repeal them. www.currentaffairs.org/news/lets-le...

With the closure of the WaPo book review, "no one who has anything to do with books remains employed at the paper" and the (awful) NYT is the last newspaper book review. Reminder: Current Affairs takes book reviews, and your subscriptions will help us build a books section!

I realize nobody is surprised by anything anymore but it's outrageous that the US is just trying to destroy Cuba and plunge it into abject misery in order to achieve the political outcome we want. That's terrorism, pure and simple.

The Democratic Party could embrace this, but they instead literally sell access—and, let’s be clear, policy—to Super PAC bundlers. The preferences of billionaires are irreconcilable with grassroots energy and working-class interests. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-yan...

Democrats’ deference to the gilded patrons of their consultant class only makes them useful foils to Trump’s fake populism. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-yan...

The Yankees and the Democrats share a doomed philosophy: Want to win? Look to the data! Data fails to win? Just get more data! Why are both so content with proven, enduring failure www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-yan...

The two groups’ shared management style yields a common result. The old guard reigns. Another direction is obvious and needed, but neither organization seems interested in the fundamental realignment of priorities. Failure becomes routine and expected. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-yan...

Deep divisions exist within the Democratic caucus, but the Democratic establishment keeps their influence intact with few policy shifts toward the party’s populist wing. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-yan...

It's not just incumbency that explains this common decline. Both the Democrats and their baseball equivalent operate from a top-down hierarchy that insulates their failed leaders. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-yan...

It boggles my mind, both following my baseball team and watching my supposedly allied party, to see the same leaders still in charge after repeated, disastrous campaigns. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-yan...

Despite embodying a Republican ethos, the New York Yankees is run with all the flailing ineptitude of the Democratic Party. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-yan...

How two wealthy institutions—with total power, entrenched leadership, and data obsession— perfected the art of losing. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-yan...

The closest thing we have to public debate right now is the spectacle of Jubilee’s “Surrounded” videos, which turn debate into a kind of game show where you have to argue against the clock. But where does someone go now for sustained engagement with ideas? www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-big...

It seems we are not just in a post-truth era, we are in a post-argument era, where everyone realizes that the thing that matters is not whether you make sense but whether you have power. www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-big...

The transition from forums and blogs to “social media” and video has disfavored longform writing, and it is a transition that has been engineered by massive companies. www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-big...

On forums and blogs, people used to have detailed back-and-forth arguments. Can a democratic society survive if we don’t even bother arguing about ideas anymore? www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-big...

Predatory developers are using “Heir’s Property” laws to force sales of Black Americans’ homes, then buy them up cheap. We need a systematic change in policy to stop them. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-obs...

Washington Post is shuttering its book section, part of the ongoing war against literacy & knowledge. We at Current Affairs want to pick up the slack by expanding book reviews. Writers: pitch us anytime! And if you subscribe/donate we'll use the funding to commission book coverage.

There’s an inverse relationship between how important your work is, and how well you’ll be paid and treated. www.currentaffairs.org/news/all-pow...

Around the world, the situation for garbage workers reveals one of the core absurdities of capitalism. www.currentaffairs.org/news/all-pow...

The people who do society’s most basic and vital work ought to be paid well and respected for it. www.currentaffairs.org/news/all-pow...

Washington Post is shuttering its book section, part of the ongoing war against literacy & knowledge. We at Current Affairs want to pick up the slack by expanding book reviews. Writers: pitch us anytime! And if you subscribe/donate we'll use the funding to commission book coverage.

hm, a "ghost network of concentration camps" sounds pretty bad.