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1 month ago | 
currentaffairs.org | Nathan Robinson |Stephen Prager |Alex Skopic
Old age insurance is not a scam, and it’s not destined to collapse. Proponents of privatizing or eliminating Social Security are constantly telling lies about it. Elon Musk has called Social Security a “Ponzi scheme,” comparing it to a scam in which a con man must keep finding new suckers in order to disguise the financial unsustainability of his enterprise.
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Dec 30, 2024 | 
currentaffairs.org | Stephen Prager |Nathan Robinson |Alex Skopic
Elon Musk is just the latest billionaire to exert tremendous influence over U.S. politics. When he says he supports Neo-Nazis, take him at his word. If there was any doubt about the power and influence of Elon Musk as we head into Trump’s second term, it was decisively erased this past month. The world’s richest man singlehandedly hijacked the negotiations for the spending bill that Congress passed last week in order to narrowly avoid a government shutdown.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
currentaffairs.org | Alex Skopic |Stephen Prager |John Ross |Nathan Robinson
Trump’s staff picks are a rogue’s gallery of cranks, oligarchs, religious fanatics, and alleged sexual abusers. He’s not “draining the swamp,” he’s deepening it and adding more snakes.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
currentaffairs.org | Stephen Prager |Nathan Robinson |Yasmin Nair |Alex Skopic
Hint: Racism is involved. One of my literary heroes is the Kenyan author and editor Binyavanga Wainaina, who died—at just 48 years old—in 2019, and whose collected works were published last year.
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Sep 15, 2024 | 
currentaffairs.org | Nathan Robinson |Stephen Prager |John Ross |Kyle Kulinski
The Atlantic poses as a magazine of ideas, but its writers get away with terrible arguments. Its ascendance is a sign of the dire state of American intellectual life.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
currentaffairs.org | Stephen Prager |Alex Skopic |Yanis Varoufakis |Ciara Moloney
The Harris campaign has been criticized for proposing price controls on groceries, but that's actually not a bad idea at all. In a campaign speech earlier this month, Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris laid out several new planks of her economic agenda. Among them were expansions to the child tax credit, subsidies for homebuyers, and caps on prescription drug costs.
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May 17, 2024 | 
currentaffairs.org | Alex Skopic |Stephen Prager |William Bruno
Current Affairs isAd-Freeand depends entirely on YOUR support. Can you help? Subscribe from 16 cents a day ($5 per month) A Magazine of Politics and Culture Sign In Current Affairs’s all-new Single Issue page is coming soon. Journalist John Washington debunks common anti-immigrant myths and explains why free movement is a human right.
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Jan 24, 2024 | 
currentaffairs.org | Stephen Prager
This article was expanded from an item in the Current Affairs Biweekly News Briefing. Subscribe today!Last Monday was Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, a day on which we pay tribute to one of America’s most transformative leaders. As Lily Sánchez wrote in a recent Current Affairs article on the history of King’s holiday, the slain civil rights leader’s vision contained a far more encompassing critique of U.S. society than is typically recognized.
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Nov 10, 2023 | 
currentaffairs.substack.com | Stephen Prager |Alex Skopic |Nathan Robinson
The New York Taxi Workers Alliance has won a $328 million settlement from the ride-share companies Uber and Lyft, who were found to have stolen wages from more than 80,000 workers across the city.
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Nov 7, 2023 | 
currentaffairs.substack.com | Stephen Prager |Alex Skopic |Nathan Robinson
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