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📔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.
The fire has not, in fact, ceased, and there have to be meaningful penalties for Israel’s violations.
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The Gaza “Ceasefire” is a Total Fraud
The fire has not, in fact, ceased, and there have to be meaningful penalties for Israel’s violations.
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November 27, 2025 at 1:08 AM
The fire has not, in fact, ceased, and there have to be meaningful penalties for Israel’s violations.
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Wild animals are not populations to be managed for our benefit, but are individuals who value their own lives. These individuals have more of a claim to life and to freedom from harm than humans have claim to kill them. www.currentaffairs.org/news/wild-an...
Wild Animals Deserve Rights, Too
Existing models of conservation and animal rights often ignore and exclude wildlife. That has to change.
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November 26, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Wild animals are not populations to be managed for our benefit, but are individuals who value their own lives. These individuals have more of a claim to life and to freedom from harm than humans have claim to kill them. www.currentaffairs.org/news/wild-an...
Conservation and wildlife management is a waste of time and money for most of the human population, and a parade of horrors for the wild animals living under our control. www.currentaffairs.org/news/wild-an...
Wild Animals Deserve Rights, Too
Existing models of conservation and animal rights often ignore and exclude wildlife. That has to change.
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November 26, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Conservation and wildlife management is a waste of time and money for most of the human population, and a parade of horrors for the wild animals living under our control. www.currentaffairs.org/news/wild-an...
Wild animals deserve our attention and respect, for the same reasons that we should care about any creature: they are sentient, with recognizable social behaviors and emotions, and just like humans their lives have intrinsic value. www.currentaffairs.org/news/wild-an...
Wild Animals Deserve Rights, Too
Existing models of conservation and animal rights often ignore and exclude wildlife. That has to change.
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November 26, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Wild animals deserve our attention and respect, for the same reasons that we should care about any creature: they are sentient, with recognizable social behaviors and emotions, and just like humans their lives have intrinsic value. www.currentaffairs.org/news/wild-an...
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Fantastic piece. “When Chuck Grassley was born in 1933, Hitler and Stalin were both still alive, and the chocolate chip cookie had not yet been invented.”
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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 26, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Fantastic piece. “When Chuck Grassley was born in 1933, Hitler and Stalin were both still alive, and the chocolate chip cookie had not yet been invented.”
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Existing models of conservation and animal rights often ignore and exclude wildlife. That has to change.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/wild-an...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/wild-an...
Wild Animals Deserve Rights, Too
Existing models of conservation and animal rights often ignore and exclude wildlife. That has to change.
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November 26, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Existing models of conservation and animal rights often ignore and exclude wildlife. That has to change.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/wild-an...
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While Nicolás Maduro’s repression (not nearly as brutal as the Saudi state) is used as a potential justification for invading the country and deposing him, Saudi Arabia’s crimes are largely ignored.
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Don’t Let Them Erase Jamal Khashoggi
We must fight to preserve the memory of a dissident killed for questioning the United States’ favorite dictatorship. Two American presidents have shamefully tried to move on.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:35 AM
While Nicolás Maduro’s repression (not nearly as brutal as the Saudi state) is used as a potential justification for invading the country and deposing him, Saudi Arabia’s crimes are largely ignored.
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The fewer consequences there are for MBS’s abuses of human rights, the more Saudi dissidents will suffer. If the president sets clear standards for allies, then a country wanting to do business with the U.S. will have no choice but to improve internally.
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Don’t Let Them Erase Jamal Khashoggi
We must fight to preserve the memory of a dissident killed for questioning the United States’ favorite dictatorship. Two American presidents have shamefully tried to move on.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:19 AM
The fewer consequences there are for MBS’s abuses of human rights, the more Saudi dissidents will suffer. If the president sets clear standards for allies, then a country wanting to do business with the U.S. will have no choice but to improve internally.
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Saudi Arabia should be an international pariah. And yet MBS recently received a warm welcome from Donald Trump at the White House. Asked directly about the killing of Khashoggi, Trump smeared him as someone “a lot of people didn’t like."
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Don’t Let Them Erase Jamal Khashoggi
We must fight to preserve the memory of a dissident killed for questioning the United States’ favorite dictatorship. Two American presidents have shamefully tried to move on.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Saudi Arabia should be an international pariah. And yet MBS recently received a warm welcome from Donald Trump at the White House. Asked directly about the killing of Khashoggi, Trump smeared him as someone “a lot of people didn’t like."
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No country that values freedom, democracy, and basic human rights should want anything to do with the Saudi government. Yet over the last quarter century, American presidential administrations have warmly embraced the repressive Saudi state.
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Don’t Let Them Erase Jamal Khashoggi
We must fight to preserve the memory of a dissident killed for questioning the United States’ favorite dictatorship. Two American presidents have shamefully tried to move on.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:47 AM
No country that values freedom, democracy, and basic human rights should want anything to do with the Saudi government. Yet over the last quarter century, American presidential administrations have warmly embraced the repressive Saudi state.
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Yet again, the New York Times’ Bret Stephens advocates the overthrow of a sovereign government. Why do the readers of the “paper of record” tolerate this dangerous propaganda?
November 26, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Yet again, the New York Times’ Bret Stephens advocates the overthrow of a sovereign government. Why do the readers of the “paper of record” tolerate this dangerous propaganda?
We must fight to preserve the memory of a dissident killed for questioning the United States’ favorite dictatorship. Two American presidents have shamefully tried to move on.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/dont-le...
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Don’t Let Them Erase Jamal Khashoggi
We must fight to preserve the memory of a dissident killed for questioning the United States’ favorite dictatorship. Two American presidents have shamefully tried to move on.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
We must fight to preserve the memory of a dissident killed for questioning the United States’ favorite dictatorship. Two American presidents have shamefully tried to move on.
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There is no common ground between science and RFK Jr.
November 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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would like to nominate this NYT editorial for the Understatement of the Century Award
November 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
would like to nominate this NYT editorial for the Understatement of the Century Award
Exciting to see three previous Current Affairs contributors on the Mamdani transition team (Alex Vitale, Celina Su, Michael Kinnucan). After so many years in the wilderness, the left finally has a chance to design and implement policy.
November 25, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Exciting to see three previous Current Affairs contributors on the Mamdani transition team (Alex Vitale, Celina Su, Michael Kinnucan). After so many years in the wilderness, the left finally has a chance to design and implement policy.
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By showing the lives of cows on their own terms, Arnold’s 2021 film reveals the depth of the dairy industry’s violence.
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Everyone Should Watch Andrea Arnold’s “Cow”
By showing the lives of cows on their own terms, Arnold’s 2021 film reveals the depth of the dairy industry’s violence.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
By showing the lives of cows on their own terms, Arnold’s 2021 film reveals the depth of the dairy industry’s violence.
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Would rather eat broken glass.
November 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Would rather eat broken glass.
This shows how Yglesias's ideology limits his ability to understand how the world works. It's no mystery to a leftist when the US government's foreign policy is out of step with popular opinion, because we understand foreign policy is shaped by narrow elite interests.
November 24, 2025 at 7:44 PM
This shows how Yglesias's ideology limits his ability to understand how the world works. It's no mystery to a leftist when the US government's foreign policy is out of step with popular opinion, because we understand foreign policy is shaped by narrow elite interests.
It would be a terrible, terrible mistake for the left not to run a primary challenger to Hakeem Jeffries. We need to to be constantly fighting to oust these terrible corporate pro-genocide Democrats.
November 24, 2025 at 7:42 PM
It would be a terrible, terrible mistake for the left not to run a primary challenger to Hakeem Jeffries. We need to to be constantly fighting to oust these terrible corporate pro-genocide Democrats.
IT'S A VIOLATION OF THE CEASEFIRE NOT A "TEST" OF THE CEASEFIRE! Why is American media pathologically incapable of making the simple statement that Israel is breaking the ceasefire when it kills people?
BREAKING: At least 24 people are dead and 54 wounded after Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, testing the ceasefire that began in October, officials say.
Israel launches strikes in Gaza ceasefire's latest test as hospitals say 20 killed
Israel's military says it has launched new airstrikes against Hamas militants in Gaza, testing the ceasefire that began on October 10.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
IT'S A VIOLATION OF THE CEASEFIRE NOT A "TEST" OF THE CEASEFIRE! Why is American media pathologically incapable of making the simple statement that Israel is breaking the ceasefire when it kills people?
