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The first step to stopping climate change is for experts to behave as if it's an actual problem... https://www.currentaffairs.org/…/11/the-climate-change-prob…

Let me make a confession to you. I don’t believe that human-caused climate change is a serious problem. Now let me be clear: when I look at the empirical evidence, I am very much convinced that it is a serious problem. In fact, every time I dig into the facts, read the reports of experts, try to und...
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From their Frost/Christman film podcast: Amber Frost and Matthew Christman look back at a time when movies reflected a deep disenchantment with democracy... https://www.currentaffairs.org/…/frostchristman-paranoia-an…

We present a film discussion between Amber A’Lee Frost and Matthew Christman, adapted from their hugely popular Frost/Christman podcast. Here, they examine the political implications of both contemporary and classic cinema. We join our hosts mid-conversation...
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From our latest print edition: Yasmin Nair takes on Arianna Huffington's phony concern for sleeplessness...

In her new book, The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time, Huffington dramatically announces that we are in the middle of an unacknowledged sleep crisis. There is a problem in our society, Huffington tells us: we have forgotten how to sleep. Fortunately, sleepless readers ne...
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When The New Yorker needs a source to quote on the necessity of political vulgarity, to whom does it turn? Why, to Current Affairs, naturally.

The ”Chapo Trap House” podcast emerged as a popular progressive critic of Democrats during the election. But then Donald Trump won.
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Alan Dershowitz would never, ever toss around accusations of anti-Semitism without good reason...

Amidst a controversy over supposed anti-Semitism, Breitbart editor Stephen Bannon has found a prominent defender in former Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz. Dershowitz thinks that because accusations of anti-Semitism are so serious, they should be only be lodged extremely cautiously. As…
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How Twitter enables the laziest forms of political journalism...

Journalists have always been lazy. Anyone who pines for a Golden Age of diligent reportage, when a writer would pound the pavement in search of a good lead, or phone source after source demanding the truth, has never actually picked up an old newspaper or magazine and examined its contents. Then, as...
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Attempting to understand what this means and what to do about it...

This morning, the people of Earth awoke to find that the fate of the human species has been placed in the hands of reality television mogul and unconvicted sex criminal Donald J. Trump, who has been given access to the nuclear codes. This is, to somewhat understate things, a deeply troubling develop...
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From February...

Democrats need to seriously and pragmatically assess their strategy for defeating Trump. A Clinton run would be disastrous; Bernie Sanders is their only hope.
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Our somewhat vicious look at Vox and "explanatory journalism"

Do you know what your problem is? Your problem is not that you are uninformed. That is what you might have thought your problem was. Your problem is also not that you lack information. This is a common misconception. In fact, people nowadays have lots of information. Too much, even. No, your problem...
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How to quickly dispose of the ghastly "alt-right"...

With attention-seeking pests, it is often unclear whether the wisest course is to ignore them or confront them. By ignoring them, one does nothing to stop them festering and multiplying. By confronting them, one gives them precisely what they want, and possibly makes them grow even faster than they…
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You're damn right we are.

Against a backdrop of newspaper closures, magazines such as the Spectator, New Statesman and Private Eye are flourishing
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The Clintons' actions in Haiti cannot be defended...

In this excerpt from Superpredator: Bill Clinton’s Use and Abuse of Black America, we examine the Clintons’ involvement in the country’s affairs during Hillary Clinton’s time at the State Department.
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