Kyle Kulinski

2 months ago | currentaffairs.org | Adriana Gallegos |Kyle Kulinski |Nathan J. Robinson |Stephen Prager

Politicians love to talk about helping and growing the middle class while utterly ignoring the millions of American families living in poverty. During the 2024 presidential campaign, both parties tried to seem like they were pro-family. The official GOP platform talked about “empower[ing] American families” and promoting the “blessings of childhood” as part of its goal of renewing “the pillars of American civilization.” To that end, the platform proposed expanded child tax credits.

2 months ago | currentaffairs.org | Jennifer N. Dines |Stephen Prager |Spencer Roberts |Kyle Kulinski

Mass protests in Turkey, another student kidnapped by ICE, Trump’s war on unions, a homeless candidate for mayor of Seattle, AND MUCH MORE... You’ve probably noticed that this article is dated for yesterday, March 28. That’s because it’s an edition of the Current Affairs News Briefing, our email newsletter service.

2 months ago | currentaffairs.org | Jennifer N. Dines |Nathan J. Robinson |Kyle Kulinski

My high school students are targets in Trump’s cruel deportation spree. It can’t be allowed to continue. I am a high school teacher in the Boston Public Schools. I teach English to new immigrant students. I have done this work for nearly two decades. This year, my students come from Cameroon, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Haiti, Venezuela, and Vietnam.

2 months ago | currentaffairs.org | Stephen Prager |John Ross |Nathan J. Robinson |Kyle Kulinski

Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg was given a once in a lifetime opportunity to show us how the powerful act when nobody is watching. Instead, he left the room. On Monday, The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg revealed that a member of the Trump administration unexpectedly added him to a group text chain in which top national security officials were discussing immediate plans to carry out airstrikes against Yemen’s Houthis (Ansar Allah).

2 months ago | currentaffairs.org | Kyle Kulinski |Nathan J. Robinson |Tom Williams |Stephen Prager

Trump did not “steal the Democrats’ economic platform.” He’s not “anti-war.” He’s an plutocratic imperialist waging war on social welfare, consumer protection, and civil liberties. Look at what he does, not what he says. [This article is adapted from the video “‘MAGA Lefty’ Makes Kyle Want to Put His Nuts In a Waffle Iron.”]Recently, political commentator Batya Ungar-Sargon made what is possibly one of the least true statements ever made about American politics.