UNLOCKED: Jane McAlevey on organizing vs. mobilizing
UNLOCKED FROM THE BIRD FEED: Current Affairs host Pete Davis sits down with labor organizer and scholar Jane McAlevey to talk about organizing for power in the New Gilded Age. Jane is a contributing w...
25 Huhti 201941min
UNLOCKED: Virgil Texas on the Chapo Trap House phenomenon
UNLOCKED FROM THE PATREON BIRD FEED: Current Affairs host Pete Davis talks with Virgil Texas about his hit podcast, Chapo Trap House: its origins, its philosophy, its style, its future. Read Virgil's ...
15 Huhti 201950min
#23: You Can Call Me (Weird) Al
The Current Affairs panel discuss why they fight in the first place and then share what cultural products are their favorite lefty gateway drugs. The Panel Sparky Abraham, finance editor Lyta Gold, a...
12 Huhti 201951min
#22: Meet the Candidates! (Part 2)
The entire Current Affairs team comes together (again!) to finish briefing listeners on as many of the Democratic presidential candidates as they can in two hours. The Panel: Vanessa A. Bee, social m...
29 Maalis 20191h 53min
UNLOCKED: Rhiana Gunn-Wright on insurgent left policymaking
UNLOCKED FROM THE PATREON BIRD FEED: Current Affairs editor Nathan J. Robinson talks with lefty policy whiz Rhiana Gunn-Wright, the policy lead for the Green New Deal with New Consensus and former Pol...
22 Maalis 20191h
#21: Meet the Candidates! (Part 1)
The entire Current Affairs team comes together to brief listeners on as many of the Democratic presidential candidates as they can in two hours (spoiler alert: we only could get through half!) The Pan...
16 Maalis 20191h 59min
UNLOCKED: Maximillian Alvarez on amplifying the voices of working people
UNLOCKED FROM THE PATREON BIRD FEED: Current Affairs editor-in-chief Nathan J. Robinson sits down with Maximillian Alvarez, the host of Working People, a podcast in which ordinary people talk about th...
12 Maalis 20191h 8min
UNLOCKED: Astra Taylor on her radically democratic life
UNLOCKED FROM THE BIRD FEED TO THE MAIN FEED: Current Affairs host Pete Davis sits down with filmmaker, writer and activist Astra Taylor. Check out Astra's three films — Zizek!, Examined Life, and Wha...
2 Maalis 201933min
