The left is the only US political faction that grapples with the actual science of decarbonization and calls for the phaseout of fossil energy rather than an "all of the above" energy "abundance" that will never zero out emissions. 🧵

the authoritarian moment long warned about is finally here: Republicans now moving to suspend elections until they can rig them

Amid all the bleak stuff in this country right now, the Mamdani mayoralty really keeps giving me hope. He's just out there fixing stuff and governing well and showing what it would look like if we had a functional country where the government did its job. www.currentaffairs.org/news/meanwhi...

Amid all the bleak stuff in this country right now, the Mamdani mayoralty really keeps giving me hope. He's just out there fixing stuff and governing well and showing what it would look like if we had a functional country where the government did its job. www.currentaffairs.org/news/meanwhi...

TikTok just demonetized Current Affairs. No explanation. Just kicked us out and eliminated our income stream and said we violated an unspecified policy. Of course the only thing we've done that could possibly be controversial is be critical of imperialism and genocide.

US media coverage sanitizes war and obscures the full horror of what we are doing to Iran. In this article I show how the war is far more twisted and evil than Americans understand: www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-ira...

Check it out.

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...

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-...

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?

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The decimation of the Washington Post is a reminder that we cannot depend on billionaire-funded outlets and MUST build independent, subscriber supported media. Please subscribe to nonprofit newspapers and magazines that do not have corporate owners! www.currentaffairs.org/news/2018/01...

JANUARY: @currentaffairs.bsky.social runs a fake ad for a new Trump EPA mascot called "Carson the Carcinogenic Cloud" FEBRUARY: the Trump administration debuts "Coalie the Coal Lump" to push fossil fuels Who in the admin is reading our magazine for ideas and how much are they going to pay us?

Rachel Cohen confronted Greg Bovino to his face. Now she talks to Current Affairs about how to stand up against ICE: www.currentaffairs.org/news/activis...

The Washington Post may be ending its book reviews, but we at Current Affairs are NOT. Help us build a book review section of our magazine by subscribing, and writers please pitch us book reviews anytime! currentaffairs.org/subscribe www.currentaffairs.org/writers-guide

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.

JANUARY: @currentaffairs.bsky.social runs a fake ad for a new Trump EPA mascot called "Carson the Carcinogenic Cloud" FEBRUARY: the Trump administration debuts "Coalie the Coal Lump" to push fossil fuels Who in the admin is reading our magazine for ideas and how much are they going to pay us?

French Quarter street performer sings about why ICE should be abolished: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX0k...

wrote about how Jesse Welles is the antidote to everything crappy about our culture right now www.currentaffairs.org/news/jesse-w...

French Quarter street performer sings about why ICE should be abolished: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX0k...

Today in Current Affairs, professor Ron Purser exposes how AI's destruction of the university is even worse than you think, and goes well beyond students cheating with ChatGPT: www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

Today in Current Affairs, professor Ron Purser exposes how AI's destruction of the university is even worse than you think, and goes well beyond students cheating with ChatGPT: www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

I don’t think you’ll get a more “on the nose” example of blowback than a guy from Afghanistan who America trained to go around executing civilians in something called a “zero squad” who later moves to America and attacks the American government. Like holy shit what the fuck are we doing here?

Living in gratitude is more important than ever these days. I try to treasure and embrace each and every day that a Government official doesn’t announce “release the robot dogs.”

Reading Olivia Nuzzis writing has really helped with this: it’s made me feel so lucky and confident

A blockbuster investigation by the AP, out today. So much in it, give it a read, but starts with: "The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious."

There need to be consequences for publishing the warmongering propaganda of Bret Stephens. Email proof you have canceled your New York Times subscription to [email protected] and we'll set you up with a free 1-year digital Current Affairs sub. www.currentaffairs.org/news/there-h...

I've studied a lot of right-wing propaganda but I've never encountered anyone whose output is as mindless and cruel as Stephen Miller: www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-bra...

on the day of Dick Cheney's funeral, we speak to Vice director @ghostpanther.bsky.social about the former VP's legacy of war crimes, torture, and lies www.currentaffairs.org/news/adam-mc...

expropriate him

I've studied a lot of right-wing propaganda but I've never encountered anyone whose output is as mindless and cruel as Stephen Miller: www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-bra...

musk's daughter is incredible

One of the most evil things that Elon Musk has done is reacting to his trans daughter not by supporting her but by berating her and then publicly declaring her dead

Needs to be a complete boycott of Tesla. Drive the share price to zero. Elon Musk is extremely vulnerable here. He depends on Democrats to buy his cars. (Republicans don't want EVs.) If they stop buying, the price plummets, and he will be ousted as CEO. This is his weak spot.

I don't know if anyone is still under the misconception that Elon Musk is intelligent but here I have explained why he is completely wrong to describe Social Security as a "Ponzi scheme" www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-soc...

"Gluey" continues to be among the worst Democrats in Congress www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-is-...

Amy Coney Barrett ruled against Trump in one legal case so now right-wingers are all immediately turning on her and calling her a "fake Catholic" and "DEI judge" with a suspicious face

meanwhile over on the other site

the kind of world these men are building is nightmarish and dystopian www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-kin...

our open mic night for writers is TONIGHT in new orleans! come join us: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The opinions of Matt Yglesias have been even more irritating than usual lately, so I have written a careful explanation of what makes his work so consistently wrong. His ignorant, callous, smug commentary should be permanently ignored. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-opi...

This is right. They're not interested in serious argument. Their job is to have terrible takes that annoy people. They thrive on the annoyance.

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are spreading malicious falsehoods about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a valuable agency that protects people like you from people like them. www.currentaffairs.org/news/billion...

Had a strong suspicion watching that video that it wouldn't hold up. Very funny that a lefty magazine editor had to do the legwork that 1,000 Beltway reporters apparently couldn't.

Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, a centrist Democrat who pushes conservative narratives on regulation, says that her state makes it illegal to peel bananas in a daycare. But when I asked, her office could not provide me with evidence that such a regulation exists. www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-is-...

I love the song "Hopeless Romantic" by Danny Bradley which is written from the perspective of a Jordan Peterson fan wondering why women seem repulsed by him soundcloud.com/user-9053460...

Dr. Oz ought to have been stripped of his medical license long ago, as my colleague Lily showed here: www.currentaffairs.org/news/2023/05...

Current Affairs editors talk to Nathan J. Robinson about his new book, co-written with Noam Chomsky, detailing how US foreign policy endangers the world. www.currentaffairs.org/news/reading...