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Only a Dope Would Like DOGE

1 week 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.
China Knows How to Deal with its Billionaires

2 weeks 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.
Lucy Letby Should Be Released Immediately

2 weeks 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.
The Grind Old Party

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.
The White Male Writer is Fine, I Promise

3 weeks 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.
Big Corporations Are Trying to Control the Narrative Around Luigi

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.
The Art of Ambition

3 weeks 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.
News Briefing: March 28, 2025

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.
Teaching in a 'Sanctuary City' Under Siege

3 weeks 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.
Jeffrey Goldberg Betrayed Journalism

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).