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6 days ago | 
currentaffairs.org | Alex Skopic
The serial scammer and ex-Representative is heading to prison. But can we really call this justice when far worse people are walking freely around the halls of power? For George Santos, it’s the end of the road. Last month, the former Representative was sentenced to 87 months in prison—seven years, plus a quarter of one—on charges of identity theft and wire fraud, to which he’d pleaded guilty last August.
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1 week ago | 
currentaffairs.org | Alex Skopic
Two new documentaries tell very different stories about the campus protest movement for Palestine. In “October 8,” we’re told the protests are cesspools of antisemitic hate. But in “The Encampments,” we learn just how wrong that is. Last month, two very different documentaries about the ongoing protest movement for Gaza and its people debuted in U.S. theaters.
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3 weeks ago | 
currentaffairs.org | Alex Skopic
Originally published in our magazine’s hallowed print edition 2025 Jan/Feb Details Her face is found on everything from gift-shop calendars to novelty tube socks. But Frida Kahlo was an anti-capitalist revolutionary, and that's how she should be remembered. It was October 2017, and Theresa May was at the midpoint of her deeply awful tenure as Britain’s prime minister. Like every British prime minister from 2010 to 2024, May was a member of the Conservative Party.
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4 weeks ago | 
currentaffairs.org | Alex Skopic
He wants to “own” Gaza and Greenland, and he treats immigrants like tenants he can evict at will. The rent-seeking class created Trump, and now he’s governing as America's landlord in chief. By now, a vast amount of time and energy has been spent examining all the ways in which Donald Trump is bad for America and the world.
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1 month ago | 
currentaffairs.org | Alex Skopic |Nathan J. Robinson
In the United States, wealthy individuals like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are allowed to dominate the country’s politics and economy. But there is another way. In the United States today, it’s pretty obvious that billionaires run the show. There are 13 of them in Donald Trump’s administration right now, the most in American history.
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1 month ago | 
currentaffairs.org | Alex Skopic |Greg Jackson |Etienne Toussaint |Ciara Moloney
In Compact magazine, Jacob Savage complains that the “white male writer” is becoming an endangered species. But that’s a lazy, self-absorbed narrative that obscures the real threats to literature today. Have you heard the news? My people, the White Male Writers, are vanishing. It’s a terrible situation.
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1 month ago | 
currentaffairs.org | Alex Skopic |Stephen Prager |Ciara Moloney
From Reddit to the New York Times and TMZ, there’s an ongoing effort to squash the wave of popular anger at for-profit healthcare that Luigi Mangione represents. It’s been almost four months since the assassination of Brian Thompson, the late and unlamented CEO of UnitedHealthcare. Since Thompson was gunned down in front of a Hilton hotel in Manhattan, the American public has been captivated by the case—and by the alleged shooter, Luigi Mangione.
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1 month ago | 
currentaffairs.org | Ciara Moloney |Alex Skopic
Originally published in our magazine’s hallowed print edition 2025 Jan/Feb Details Trump is such a strange figure that it’s easy to treat him like a cartoon. 'The Apprentice' shows his evil as fundamentally, and terrifyingly, human. You probably didn’t see The Apprentice. No, not the Donald Trump reality show—you definitely caught an episode or two of that on NBC over its decade-plus run.
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1 month ago | 
currentaffairs.org | Spencer Roberts |Alex Skopic
Fishing sustainability is based on a pseudoscientific theory that justifies taking the most marine life for maximum profit. Three thousand feet under the sea, a mother orange roughy sheds her very first eggs above an ancient soft coral garden. She is 73 years in age. These fish are exceptionally slow to mature, but she may live for centuries—the rare black corals she swims among live for millenia.
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1 month ago | 
currentaffairs.org | Tom Williams |Stephen Prager |Alex Skopic |Nathan J. Robinson
Originally published in our magazine’s hallowed print edition 2025 Jan/Feb Details The crypto industry uses vast sums of money to create majorities in Congress to champion their unpopular cause. The last few years have been disastrous for the cryptocurrency industry—at least in terms of public reputation.
