Current Affairs: A Magazine of Culture & Politics

by Nathan J. Robinson

Current Affairs is a bimonthly print magazine of politics and the arts. Each issue is crammed to the gills with insightful analysis and reporting, plus a dazzling array of artwork and suggestive advertising. Subscribers may find themselves harassing postmen, desperate for the sensory high that comes with the receipt of each new issue. Current Affairs is the only publication guaranteed to regularly contain both in-depth domestic policy analysis and pictures of colorful flamingos.

Paperback

Published March 1, 2017

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[draxtor · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm a relatively new subscriber and my wife and I are loving this magazine. It is being shipped to Munich, Germany for NO EXTRA COST ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
So: technically I am ALWAYS reading the mag, not just this particular edition.
Why do I post it here on GoodReads? To entice the staff to list EVERY ISSUE as it comes out so people can add it to their stack!
Happy 2026! All hail print mags!

[Thomas Ray · Rating 4 out of 5]

Online: https://www.currentaffairs.org/

Current Affairs editor Nathan J. Robinson has been warning for the whole campaign that the Democrats weren't on track to beat Trump:
https://www.currentaffairs.org/hs-sea...
(This is a search for "2024" among Current Affairs articles. Among the hits are: )

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2...
from July 2022, sounds the alarm that Democrats have no viable candidate except, possibly, Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/c... , 2024.07.11, is Cenk Uygur explaining that Biden could not continue to be the candidate, "No, the way to beat Donald Trump is to pick an Andy Beshear, a Gretchen Whitmer, a Wes Moore, some dynamic, great Democratic governor." Uygur is author of /Justice Is Coming: How Progressives Are Going to Take Over the Country and America Is Going to Love It/: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... .

The Democratic Party could have fielded a candidate who stood for something. It chose not to. Democratic party leaders think all they have to do is position themselves a millimeter to the left of Republicans, and keep feeding from the same Wall-Street money trough. Didn't work for Gore/Lieberman, or for Hillary Clinton/Tim Kaine, or Harris. Bernie Sanders would've won in 2016 and 2020 if Democratic leadership hadn't torpedoed his candidacy.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/i... from 2024.08.06 shows Harris's abandonment of her former progressive positions, revealing that she doesn't stand for anything and has no principles.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/i... from 2024.10.23 details Kamala Harris's failures as a candidate.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2... from 2024.01, states that Trump is likely to win. As does https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2... from 2023.05. And https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2... , 2023.09.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/e... , 2024.11.01, rates Harris's policies.