What Biden's Changes to Asylum Mean For Immigrants
Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!Aaron Reichlin-Melnick is the Policy Director of the American Immigration Council and a leading expert on U.S. immigration law. He has testified be...
5 Aug 202448min
How "Pharmacy Benefit Managers" Are Extorting Us (w/ Max from UNFTR)
Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!Max (just Max) is the host of Unfucking the Republic (UNFTR), one of our favorite podcasts. UNFTR publishes intensively-researched deep dives into ...
2 Aug 202440min
Why Everyone Feels So Rotten About the Economy (w/ Kyla Scanlon)
Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!Kyla Scanlon is a leading online economics commentator and Bloomberg contributor, who regularly publishes TikTok explainers helping people understa...
31 Juli 202433min
Nuclear Countdown, or, Why We Need to Start Worrying and Stop the Bomb
Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs! Nuclear weapons are always lurking there in the background, out in remote places where we don't have to think about them, but ready to be fired at...
29 Juli 202428min
Why No One Gets To Retire Anymore (w/ Teresa Ghilarducci)
Get new episodes early at patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!Teresa Ghilarducci is an economist at the New School for Social Research and the author of Work, Retire, Repeat, which shows how the possibilities ...
26 Juli 202437min
The Authoritarian Nightmare Donald Trump Is Planning (w/ Radley Balko)
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 Juli 202436min
What Americans Don't Know About Iran (w/ John Ghazvinian)
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 Juli 202442min
Is It 1968 All Over Again? (w/ Charles Kaiser)
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 Juli 202432min
