Current Affairs

Current Affairs is a bimonthly magazine that covers culture, politics, and the quirky aspects of life. We have two main goals: to create a political magazine that is enjoyable to read and to bring joy back into everyday life. Our headquarters is situated in New Orleans.

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The Brainless Propaganda of Stephen Miller

4 days ago | currentaffairs.org | Nathan J. Robinson

Even by the standards of right-wing rhetoric, Miller’s public statements are uncommonly shameless. He treats his audience as stupid and gullible. “The rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious.
How the Right Abuses Tolkien

5 days ago | currentaffairs.org | Alex Skopic

Originally published in our magazine’s hallowed print edition Details For Peter Thiel, JD Vance, and other figures on today’s far right, the works of J.R.R. Tolkien have become a cultural touchstone. Pity they don’t understand the first thing about them. In the annals of English literature, certain lines of criticism have left a lasting sting.
Seven More People They Never Told You Were Socialists

1 week ago | currentaffairs.org | Alex Skopic

The media and education system have tried to erase their legacies, but some of the world’s greatest artists, leaders, and thinkers were—and are—firmly on the Left. History, as the old cliché goes, is written by the victors. In practice, this tends to mean history is written by people with money—the victors in our current economic system.
Andrew Cuomo Is Worse Than You Even Know

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

The former governor is a corrupt sexual harasser with a pro-corporate agenda and a proven track record of deadly negligence. He will do nothing to improve New Yorkers’ lives. Why on Earth is he a contender for mayor? About ten years ago, I used to visit a prison in upstate New York as part of a program that brought law students and prisoners together for conversation and education. One of the inmates who attended our group was an older gentleman known as Mr. Smalls.
Against All Violence

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

The killing of civilians is wrong. It fuels a cycle of hatred and trauma. It has no justification. So why don’t we apply that lesson consistently? Why are some mourned more than others? They were a young couple with their whole lives ahead of them. They had been planning their wedding for a year. They had only just gotten married when they were killed. They wanted nothing to do with war, they just wanted to live their lives together. But their killer did not think twice before taking their lives.
The Problem Goes Well Beyond Biden

2 weeks ago | currentaffairs.org | Nathan J. Robinson

The Democratic Party is sclerotic. It’s easy to heap blame on Joe Biden now that he is weak and powerless. But that’s a convenient way of avoiding a major reckoning. “He totally fucked us,” says Kamala Harris’s former top campaign aide David Plouffe. He’s quoted in Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, the much-hyped new book by CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson.
Why You Should Fix Your Own Stuff

2 weeks ago | currentaffairs.org | Andrew Ancheta

Companies like Apple and Microsoft don’t want you to repair your own tech, because they make a fortune from planned obsolescence. But learning to do it yourself brings empowerment. My first Apple computer came out of a neighbor’s trash. She had bought the MacBook new a year earlier, but an incident with a dog and a drink and a chair that was much too tall had knocked out some of the keys, leaving it quite unusable.
You Shouldn’t Have To Work To Get Healthcare

2 weeks ago | currentaffairs.org | Nathan J. Robinson

MAGA millionaires RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz want to throw poor people off Medicaid. But healthcare is a human right. The New York Times op-ed page gives space to some of the worst arguments ever made, so it’s unsurprising to find anti-vaccine crank Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (net worth: $30 million) and TV huckster Dr. Oz (net worth: $200 million) joining forces to argue in the Times that we should strip poor people of their healthcare benefits.
How the AP Stylebook Warps Reality to Serve Power

3 weeks ago | currentaffairs.org | Alex Skopic

The “Bible of journalism” claims to be a neutral arbiter of style. But its rules are political, and their tepid liberalism only helps to maintain the status quo. You don’t get far in the world of journalism without learning to use the Associated Press Stylebook. Often the “Bible of journalism,” the reference book is used in newsrooms around the United States, from the to to the of hundreds of daily and weekly papers, including USA Today.
Severance’s Skin-Deep Critique of Capitalism

3 weeks ago | currentaffairs.org | Stephen Prager

Apple TV+’s hit sci-fi series “Severance” has been praised as a radical indictment of the capitalist system. But its satire only scratches the surface. There is perhaps no show on television with more attention around it than Apple TV+’s Severance. After finishing its second season earlier this year to near-universal acclaim, the show is on track to take home a truckload of Emmys this fall.