Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Immigration (But Were Afraid To Ask)

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 expo...

24 Jul 202436min

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 ...

22 Jul 202442min

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 ...

19 Jul 202432min

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, excava...

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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 care...

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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 ...

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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 intr...

10 Jul 202454min

Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!Steven Thrasher is a professor of journalism at Northwestern University and the author of The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and ...

9 Jul 202441min