
Santa Claus for Alaska
Santa Claus is the mayor pro-tem of North Pole, Alaska. Yes, he's real, and he's a democratic socialist running for Congress in the special election against Sarah Palin. Current Affairs is honored to ...
31 Mai 202236min

How Do We Overcome Capitalism?
Tom Wetzel's forthcoming book Overcoming Capitalism: Strategy for the Working Class in the 21st Century (AK Press) is both a primer on the basic left critiques of capitalism and a handbook for creatin...
31 Mai 202244min

How Corporations Get Away With Criminality—And How to Stop Them
Jennifer Taub is a law professor whose book Big Dirty Money: Making White Collar Criminals Pay is about the double standard in American law that harshly punishes street crime while giving a free pass ...
31 Mai 202239min

The Life and Crimes of Winston Churchill
Tariq Ali is the author of two dozen books and his career as a public intellectual and activist stretches back to the 1960s. His new book Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes is an effort to demol...
10 Mai 202255min

A View of British Government From the Inside w/ former Labour MP Chris Mullin
Chris Mullin served from 1987 to 2010 as a Labour MP in the British parliament. During that time, he kept a daily diary of his observations, which has since been published in three acclaimed volumes. ...
10 Mai 202252min

Dr. Mark Vonnegut on the Soullessness of Modern Medicine
Mark Vonnegut MD has been a pediatrician for over 30 years. He is the author of the books The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity, Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So, and most recent...
10 Mai 202244min

How the Amazon Labor Union Defeated the Bezos Behemoth
Justine Medina is a member of the organizing committee for the Amazon Labor Union and a packer at the JFK8 warehouse in Staten Island. The ALU recently won a historic victory, defeating Amazon's multi...
10 Mai 202244min

Why Are So Many Pedestrians Getting Killed in America?
Angie Schmitt is a transportation writer and planner whose book Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America examines the shocking and disturbing growth in pedest...
10 Mai 202240min





















