Stephen Prager

2 weeks ago | currentaffairs.org | Stephen Prager

Originally published in our magazine’s hallowed print edition 2025 Jan/Feb Details Hating work and wanting to do less of it is one of the few things that unites nearly everybody across demographics. But right-wing labor policy is threatening to grind us all into dust. It’s rare that a single tweet derails an entire political career.

3 weeks 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.

3 weeks 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.

4 weeks 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).

1 month 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.