Samelys López for NY-15
Lyta Gold speaks to Samelys López, a housing justice activist who is running in the June 23rd Democratic primary in New York's 15th congressional district. (Please note that this episode was recorded ...
4 Juni 202048min
Ilhan Omar
Current Affairs interviewer-in-chief Eli Massey speaks to Ilhan Omar, Congresswoman for Minnesota's 5th district. Together, they discuss her new book, This Is What America Looks Like, as well as forei...
27 Maj 202033min
PREVIEW: Lawyers
As you may or may not have noticed, a *lot* of the Current Affairs editors work as lawyers for their day jobs. Current Affairs interviewer-in-chief Eli Massey has brought a panel together to ask: can ...
25 Maj 20201min
#49: Go Visit Old People (Once It's Safe)
The panel discusses the viability of forming a breakaway third party, things that are secretly political, and our society's contempt for the elderly. **NEXT WEEK, WE ARE RECORDING A VOICEMAILBAG EPISO...
20 Maj 20201h 25min
Immigration Update: Detention and COVID
"Immigration cases are death penalty cases in a traffic court setting." Current Affairs editors and immigration law superheroes Oren Nimni and Brianna Rennix return to the podcast, to give us an updat...
15 Maj 202053min
PREVIEW: Eric Levitz on Steve Mnuchin
Sparky Abraham speaks to Eric Levitz, writer for New York Magazine's Intelligencer, about the life and times of Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin, from his youth as a student living in a former ...
12 Maj 20204min
PREVIEW: Bigger Than Bernie (ft. Meagan Day and Micah Uetricht)
Nathan speaks to Micah Uetricht and Meagan Day, co-authors of the new book Bigger than Bernie: How We Go from the Sanders Campaign to Democratic Socialism. The book: https://www.versobooks.com/book...
8 Maj 20205min
#48: An Analysis of Birds, Large and Small
The panel discusses the prospect of an alliance between the left and the 'populist right', exposes their complicated relationships with Twitter, and recommends their favorite books for introducing fri...
5 Maj 20201h 1min
