Nathan J. Robinson

1 month ago | currentaffairs.org | Nathan J. Robinson

The popular podcaster Lex Fridman, whose political worldview I have critiqued before, recently said that everyone should be supporting Elon Musk and his “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE). Friedman had watched an interview that Musk and his DOGE team gave on Fox News, in which they defended the agency’s work. Fridman found it “eye-opening” and said that “All Americans should be cheering them on and hoping they succeed in their mission to make government more efficient.

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.

1 month ago | currentaffairs.org | Nathan J. Robinson

The nurse branded Britain’s most notorious serial killer is clearly not “guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.” And it looks like she may even have taken the blame for neoliberalism’s gutting of the public health system. [content warning: discussions of infant death]There are no witnesses who ever saw nurse Lucy Letby harm a baby. There is that Lucy Letby ever harmed a baby. Lucy Letby never had any history of harming babies nor any apparent motive to harm them.

1 month 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.

1 month 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.