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It’s a jam-packed issue filled with colorful surprises and insightful analysis, plus gorgeous cover art by Sarah VanDermeer.
🤖ChatGPT University
📔A trip to the Bible Museum
🎷New Orleans Music
💥Anti-Communist Comic Books
It’s a jam-packed issue filled with colorful surprises and insightful analysis, plus gorgeous cover art by Sarah VanDermeer.
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NYT continues its long history of publishing op-eds pushing criminal wars of aggression
November 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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The problem isn’t that places like Iowa are inherently “red,” and Democrats just can’t win them. The problem is that the party keeps running bland centrist nonentities who are only marginally different from the Republicans they run against. www.currentaffairs.org/news/only-a-...
Only a Failing System Could Produce Chuck Grassley
One of the most powerful people in Congress is a 92-year old Iowan who’s obsessed with Dairy Queen, his vacuum cleaner, and ruining the lives of his constituents. So why haven’t the Democrats beaten h...
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November 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
The problem isn’t that places like Iowa are inherently “red,” and Democrats just can’t win them. The problem is that the party keeps running bland centrist nonentities who are only marginally different from the Republicans they run against. www.currentaffairs.org/news/only-a-...
It's working! @nytimes.com this is what you get for promoting illegal regime change wars!
November 17, 2025 at 9:28 PM
It's working! @nytimes.com this is what you get for promoting illegal regime change wars!
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NYT continues its long history of publishing op-eds pushing criminal wars of aggression
November 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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NYT continues its long history of publishing op-eds pushing criminal wars of aggression
November 17, 2025 at 8:18 PM
NYT continues its long history of publishing op-eds pushing criminal wars of aggression
When Chuck Grassley was born in 1933, Hitler and Stalin were both still alive, and the chocolate chip cookie had not yet been invented. When he was first elected to the Iowa state legislature in 1958, segregation and Jim Crow were still in full effect.
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Only a Failing System Could Produce Chuck Grassley
One of the most powerful people in Congress is a 92-year old Iowan who’s obsessed with Dairy Queen, his vacuum cleaner, and ruining the lives of his constituents. So why haven’t the Democrats beaten h...
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November 17, 2025 at 8:10 PM
When Chuck Grassley was born in 1933, Hitler and Stalin were both still alive, and the chocolate chip cookie had not yet been invented. When he was first elected to the Iowa state legislature in 1958, segregation and Jim Crow were still in full effect.
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Did you know that, right now, the person who sits third in line to the U.S. presidency is a deeply strange 92-year-old from Iowa?
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Only a Failing System Could Produce Chuck Grassley
One of the most powerful people in Congress is a 92-year old Iowan who’s obsessed with Dairy Queen, his vacuum cleaner, and ruining the lives of his constituents. So why haven’t the Democrats beaten h...
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November 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Did you know that, right now, the person who sits third in line to the U.S. presidency is a deeply strange 92-year-old from Iowa?
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One of the most powerful people in Congress is a 92-year old Iowan who’s obsessed with Dairy Queen, his vacuum cleaner, and ruining the lives of his constituents. So why haven’t the Democrats beaten him yet?
www.currentaffairs.org/news/only-a-...
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Only a Failing System Could Produce Chuck Grassley
One of the most powerful people in Congress is a 92-year old Iowan who’s obsessed with Dairy Queen, his vacuum cleaner, and ruining the lives of his constituents. So why haven’t the Democrats beaten h...
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November 17, 2025 at 8:03 PM
One of the most powerful people in Congress is a 92-year old Iowan who’s obsessed with Dairy Queen, his vacuum cleaner, and ruining the lives of his constituents. So why haven’t the Democrats beaten him yet?
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The human condition has benefitted immensely from civilizations with diverse populations looking beyond religion, race, or creed. The condition of all sentient beings will be similarly transformed if we expand the circle beyond species.
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The Coming Revolution of Animal Rights
Recognizing the rights of other species isn’t just morally correct. It could be a breakthrough on par with the Industrial Revolution.
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November 17, 2025 at 2:58 AM
The human condition has benefitted immensely from civilizations with diverse populations looking beyond religion, race, or creed. The condition of all sentient beings will be similarly transformed if we expand the circle beyond species.
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Two species working together can achieve things that each species alone could never hope to achieve. And that is what expanding the circle promises: a world where all animals can direct our will towards the collective good.
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The Coming Revolution of Animal Rights
Recognizing the rights of other species isn’t just morally correct. It could be a breakthrough on par with the Industrial Revolution.
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November 17, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Two species working together can achieve things that each species alone could never hope to achieve. And that is what expanding the circle promises: a world where all animals can direct our will towards the collective good.
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The idea of animals and humans working together might seem like a biblical fantasy. Yet consider that the domestication of animals has already become among the most successful collaborations, in terms of planetary biomass, in Earth’s history.
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The Coming Revolution of Animal Rights
Recognizing the rights of other species isn’t just morally correct. It could be a breakthrough on par with the Industrial Revolution.
www.currentaffairs.org
November 17, 2025 at 2:55 AM
The idea of animals and humans working together might seem like a biblical fantasy. Yet consider that the domestication of animals has already become among the most successful collaborations, in terms of planetary biomass, in Earth’s history.
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Virtually every time a writer or thinker tries to list the ways in which modern society will be condemned by future generations, animal rights is at the top of the list.
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The Coming Revolution of Animal Rights
Recognizing the rights of other species isn’t just morally correct. It could be a breakthrough on par with the Industrial Revolution.
www.currentaffairs.org
November 17, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Virtually every time a writer or thinker tries to list the ways in which modern society will be condemned by future generations, animal rights is at the top of the list.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-com...
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Recognizing the rights of other species isn’t just morally correct. It could be a breakthrough on par with the Industrial Revolution.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-com...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-com...
The Coming Revolution of Animal Rights
Recognizing the rights of other species isn’t just morally correct. It could be a breakthrough on par with the Industrial Revolution.
www.currentaffairs.org
November 17, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Recognizing the rights of other species isn’t just morally correct. It could be a breakthrough on par with the Industrial Revolution.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-com...
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John Fugelsang explains how the Christian right betrays everything that Jesus ever preached. @johnfugelsang.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 9:19 PM
John Fugelsang explains how the Christian right betrays everything that Jesus ever preached. @johnfugelsang.bsky.social
This is the Tehran Times propaganda model. The culture pages are actually quite good. The journalism is largely unremarkable. And the really diabolical stuff is in the op-ed pages.
Does that sound familiar? It’s how the New York Times operates, too.
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Does that sound familiar? It’s how the New York Times operates, too.
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Reading the Dictators’ Newspapers
The Pyongyang Times and the Tehran Times are both ludicrous propaganda outlets. In that way, they’re just like our media in the United States.
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November 16, 2025 at 6:05 PM
This is the Tehran Times propaganda model. The culture pages are actually quite good. The journalism is largely unremarkable. And the really diabolical stuff is in the op-ed pages.
Does that sound familiar? It’s how the New York Times operates, too.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/reading...
Does that sound familiar? It’s how the New York Times operates, too.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/reading...
If the Tehran Times is anything to go by, the paper’s readers probably know more about great American books and movies than the average American does, while we know nothing about their country’s cultural output. www.currentaffairs.org/news/reading...
Reading the Dictators’ Newspapers
The Pyongyang Times and the Tehran Times are both ludicrous propaganda outlets. In that way, they’re just like our media in the United States.
www.currentaffairs.org
November 16, 2025 at 6:02 PM
If the Tehran Times is anything to go by, the paper’s readers probably know more about great American books and movies than the average American does, while we know nothing about their country’s cultural output. www.currentaffairs.org/news/reading...
The basic propaganda model we’ve seen in Pyongyang has two modes: rage-inducing denunciations of designated enemies, and banal fluff that placates the regime.
Then, open the website of Newsmax, a favorite network for U.S. Republicans. What do we find?
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Then, open the website of Newsmax, a favorite network for U.S. Republicans. What do we find?
www.currentaffairs.org/news/reading...
Reading the Dictators’ Newspapers
The Pyongyang Times and the Tehran Times are both ludicrous propaganda outlets. In that way, they’re just like our media in the United States.
www.currentaffairs.org
November 16, 2025 at 5:51 PM
The basic propaganda model we’ve seen in Pyongyang has two modes: rage-inducing denunciations of designated enemies, and banal fluff that placates the regime.
Then, open the website of Newsmax, a favorite network for U.S. Republicans. What do we find?
www.currentaffairs.org/news/reading...
Then, open the website of Newsmax, a favorite network for U.S. Republicans. What do we find?
www.currentaffairs.org/news/reading...
The Pyongyang Times and the Tehran Times are both ludicrous propaganda outlets. In that way, they’re just like our media in the United States.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/reading...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/reading...
Reading the Dictators’ Newspapers
The Pyongyang Times and the Tehran Times are both ludicrous propaganda outlets. In that way, they’re just like our media in the United States.
www.currentaffairs.org
November 15, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The Pyongyang Times and the Tehran Times are both ludicrous propaganda outlets. In that way, they’re just like our media in the United States.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/reading...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/reading...
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November 15, 2025 at 12:42 AM
We’re offering a free e-book edition of The Silencing of Me as a thank-you to all of our readers! If you’re bored of wealthy men complaining about their persecution, we think you will find it entertaining.
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In her poetry, written in exile from Havana, Assata said it best. “You can spy on the grass. You can lock up the grass. You can mow it down, temporarily. But you will never keep it from growing.” No one can stop the rain. Not even the fascists can.
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No One Can Stop the Rain
Reflections on Assata Shakur, her life and death, and what she means today.
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November 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
In her poetry, written in exile from Havana, Assata said it best. “You can spy on the grass. You can lock up the grass. You can mow it down, temporarily. But you will never keep it from growing.” No one can stop the rain. Not even the fascists can.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/no-one-...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/no-one-...
While it is a common myth that the Black Panther Party were gun-toting, America-hating Black supremacists who spewed hate and division, they were really Marxists, anti-capitalists, and believed in the liberation of all peoples.
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No One Can Stop the Rain
Reflections on Assata Shakur, her life and death, and what she means today.
www.currentaffairs.org
November 13, 2025 at 8:03 PM
While it is a common myth that the Black Panther Party were gun-toting, America-hating Black supremacists who spewed hate and division, they were really Marxists, anti-capitalists, and believed in the liberation of all peoples.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/no-one-...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/no-one-...