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Our stunning 56th issue is here. This is a fun one, folks!
🤖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.
🤖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.
We are trained to see littering as a personal failure rather than the predictable outcome of an economy built on disposability.
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How Corporations Convinced America that Litter is Our Fault
The "Keep America Beautiful" campaign urged Americans to pick up their trash—so that companies could keep producing it.
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December 24, 2025 at 8:18 PM
We are trained to see littering as a personal failure rather than the predictable outcome of an economy built on disposability.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-sin...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-sin...
The "Keep America Beautiful" campaign urged Americans to pick up their trash—so that companies could keep producing it.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-sin...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-sin...
How Corporations Convinced America that Litter is Our Fault
The "Keep America Beautiful" campaign urged Americans to pick up their trash—so that companies could keep producing it.
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December 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
The "Keep America Beautiful" campaign urged Americans to pick up their trash—so that companies could keep producing it.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-sin...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-sin...
At their best, Westerns serve to critique colonialism and genocide, to expose the falsity of America as a land of opportunity, to call out when the U.S. stands for evil, in the Old West and now, and when the U.S. fails to live up to its own promises. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-sec...
The Secret History of the Left-Wing Western
Not every film about “cowboys and Indians” is as reactionary as the genre’s reputation might suggest.
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December 24, 2025 at 6:35 PM
At their best, Westerns serve to critique colonialism and genocide, to expose the falsity of America as a land of opportunity, to call out when the U.S. stands for evil, in the Old West and now, and when the U.S. fails to live up to its own promises. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-sec...
More than any other genre, Westerns are about the values of the United States: the alleged ones and the ones in practice.
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The Secret History of the Left-Wing Western
Not every film about “cowboys and Indians” is as reactionary as the genre’s reputation might suggest.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
More than any other genre, Westerns are about the values of the United States: the alleged ones and the ones in practice.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-sec...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-sec...
Not every film about “cowboys and Indians” is as reactionary as the genre’s reputation might suggest.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-sec...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-sec...
The Secret History of the Left-Wing Western
Not every film about “cowboys and Indians” is as reactionary as the genre’s reputation might suggest.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Not every film about “cowboys and Indians” is as reactionary as the genre’s reputation might suggest.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-sec...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-sec...
A reminder that The Atlantic is the worst magazine in America.
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December 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM
A reminder that The Atlantic is the worst magazine in America.
Cancel your subscription, send proof to help@currentaffairs.org, and we’ll reward you with a free one-year digital subscription to Current Affairs.
Cancel your subscription, send proof to help@currentaffairs.org, and we’ll reward you with a free one-year digital subscription to Current Affairs.
December 23rd, 2025 ❧ Current Affairs News Briefing
🦩 The Right asks “Are we Nazis?”
🦩 LA Governor assigned to Greenland
🦩 A polar bear adopts a cub!
And much more!
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🦩 The Right asks “Are we Nazis?”
🦩 LA Governor assigned to Greenland
🦩 A polar bear adopts a cub!
And much more!
currentaffairs.org/briefing
December 24, 2025 at 1:03 AM
December 23rd, 2025 ❧ Current Affairs News Briefing
🦩 The Right asks “Are we Nazis?”
🦩 LA Governor assigned to Greenland
🦩 A polar bear adopts a cub!
And much more!
currentaffairs.org/briefing
🦩 The Right asks “Are we Nazis?”
🦩 LA Governor assigned to Greenland
🦩 A polar bear adopts a cub!
And much more!
currentaffairs.org/briefing
As far as criminal immorality goes, many murders are probably more defensible than impersonating an elderly person’s grandchild and making them think the grandchild has been in an accident in order to steal their money. www.currentaffairs.org/news/if-demo...
If Democrats Campaign on Stopping Scam Calls, They’ll Be Re-Elected Forever
Why are we still allowing scammers to ruin people’s lives? This is a solvable problem.
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December 22, 2025 at 8:23 PM
As far as criminal immorality goes, many murders are probably more defensible than impersonating an elderly person’s grandchild and making them think the grandchild has been in an accident in order to steal their money. www.currentaffairs.org/news/if-demo...
Why are we still allowing scammers to ruin people’s lives? This is a solvable problem.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/if-demo...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/if-demo...
If Democrats Campaign on Stopping Scam Calls, They’ll Be Re-Elected Forever
Why are we still allowing scammers to ruin people’s lives? This is a solvable problem.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 22, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Why are we still allowing scammers to ruin people’s lives? This is a solvable problem.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/if-demo...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/if-demo...
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December 18, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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The economics of streaming platforms, and the consolidation of the entire music industry under just a handful of major labels, have created an environment that rewards low-effort slop and disincentivizes creativity. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-yea...
The Year Everyone Dropped Bad Albums
From Taylor Swift to Lil Wayne, beloved musical acts have been releasing albums way below their usual standard. As usual, it’s the big labels and streaming platforms to blame.
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December 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The economics of streaming platforms, and the consolidation of the entire music industry under just a handful of major labels, have created an environment that rewards low-effort slop and disincentivizes creativity. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-yea...
From Taylor Swift to Lil Wayne, beloved musical acts have been releasing albums way below their usual standard. As usual, it’s the big labels and streaming platforms to blame.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-yea...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-yea...
The Year Everyone Dropped Bad Albums
From Taylor Swift to Lil Wayne, beloved musical acts have been releasing albums way below their usual standard. As usual, it’s the big labels and streaming platforms to blame.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 18, 2025 at 7:14 PM
From Taylor Swift to Lil Wayne, beloved musical acts have been releasing albums way below their usual standard. As usual, it’s the big labels and streaming platforms to blame.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-yea...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-yea...
Oh god Matt Yglesias has an NYT op-ed arguing that Democrats need to embrace the fossil fuel industry. They already do!
December 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Oh god Matt Yglesias has an NYT op-ed arguing that Democrats need to embrace the fossil fuel industry. They already do!
Medea Benjamin debunks the myth that Donald Trump is an "anti-war" president.
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December 17, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Medea Benjamin debunks the myth that Donald Trump is an "anti-war" president.
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December 16th, 2025 ❧ Current Affairs News Briefing
🦩 News media turns to gambling
🦩 D.C. turns into Silicon Valley
🦩 Turning Point USA coming to every Texas high school
And much more!
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🦩 News media turns to gambling
🦩 D.C. turns into Silicon Valley
🦩 Turning Point USA coming to every Texas high school
And much more!
currentaffairs.org/briefing
December 17, 2025 at 12:24 AM
December 16th, 2025 ❧ Current Affairs News Briefing
🦩 News media turns to gambling
🦩 D.C. turns into Silicon Valley
🦩 Turning Point USA coming to every Texas high school
And much more!
currentaffairs.org/briefing
🦩 News media turns to gambling
🦩 D.C. turns into Silicon Valley
🦩 Turning Point USA coming to every Texas high school
And much more!
currentaffairs.org/briefing
Jesus, with His lefty egalitarianism and woke calls for acceptance and forgiveness, is out; Yahweh, the vengeful and ethnocentric deity of the Old Testament, is back in. God help us all.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/looking...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/looking...
Looking for Jesus at the D.C. Bible Museum
Today’s evangelical Christians are more interested in Old Testament fire and brimstone, and political power, than anything Christ might have said.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 16, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Jesus, with His lefty egalitarianism and woke calls for acceptance and forgiveness, is out; Yahweh, the vengeful and ethnocentric deity of the Old Testament, is back in. God help us all.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/looking...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/looking...
According to the growing number of evangelicals who identify as “cultural Christians,” the essence of Christianity is not anything Jesus said or did, but the traditions and social identity of a specific Christian community. www.currentaffairs.org/news/looking...
Looking for Jesus at the D.C. Bible Museum
Today’s evangelical Christians are more interested in Old Testament fire and brimstone, and political power, than anything Christ might have said.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM
According to the growing number of evangelicals who identify as “cultural Christians,” the essence of Christianity is not anything Jesus said or did, but the traditions and social identity of a specific Christian community. www.currentaffairs.org/news/looking...
What lies at the heart of these exhibits is not anything the Bible says. Instead, the museum invites faith in the Bible itself, the text divorced from its content, as the embodiment of Christianity’s cultural scope and material power.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/looking...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/looking...
Looking for Jesus at the D.C. Bible Museum
Today’s evangelical Christians are more interested in Old Testament fire and brimstone, and political power, than anything Christ might have said.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 16, 2025 at 8:12 PM
What lies at the heart of these exhibits is not anything the Bible says. Instead, the museum invites faith in the Bible itself, the text divorced from its content, as the embodiment of Christianity’s cultural scope and material power.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/looking...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/looking...
Today’s evangelical Christians are more interested in Old Testament fire and brimstone, and political power, than anything Christ might have said.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/looking...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/looking...
Looking for Jesus at the D.C. Bible Museum
Today’s evangelical Christians are more interested in Old Testament fire and brimstone, and political power, than anything Christ might have said.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 16, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Today’s evangelical Christians are more interested in Old Testament fire and brimstone, and political power, than anything Christ might have said.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/looking...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/looking...