what i think is funny about these arguments is they don't realize how much they're bolstering the Palestinian case for a full 'right of return'

Apr. 12, 2024 ❧ Current Affairs News Briefing

-Embassy attacks
-IRS makes reforms
-Florida's climate denial law
-Puerto Rico's healthcare crisis
-Obama's rhetorical gift to Trump

And much more!

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Journalist Zoë Schiffer on the downward spiral of an extremely influential platform.

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Is it morally acceptable to be apolitical? Is there something wrong with the pursuit of “knowledge for knowledge’s sake”?

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If you want to “do your own research” to check on the veracity of claims, you will run headlong into a maze of broken links, paywalls, and pop-ups.

How can anyone hope to find the truth when it’s so elusive, trapped behind so many toll gates?

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It should be obvious that leveling civilian infrastructure will kill tons of civilians. Continuing the war when the consequences are known is simply a choice to fund death and starvation and should be condemned as atrocity.

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there can be no doubt that aoc is captured.

well if you tried to make one in gaza it would be called a terrorism workshop and hit with a missile.

but it's true you should buy from the only remaining keffiyeh factory in palestine: kufiya.org

when you look back at history i think it's pretty clear which people were right, and who we should try to be like in our own time

This was a fun and fascinating interview with Zoë Schiffer about the extremely wealthy man who owns this platform: currentaffairs.org/2024/04/how-el…

Have you read The Case for Puerto Rican Independence, published by our president Alberto Medina in Current Affairs?

It's a comprehensive and compelling look at why Puerto Rico must achieve political freedom.

Read it and share it! currentaffairs.org/2024/04/the-ca…

Working in healthcare I am just constantly thinking about how hospital, insurer, and pharma CEOs are basically doing the same things as slumlords, but instead of with land and homes, they’re doing it with our bodies and humanity’s collective medical technologies.

Learning a lot abt how dairy cows are trucked across the US throughout their lives—a *possible* bird flu transmission mechanism — & it's sad as hell. You can entirely avoid supporting a system that fuels zoonotic risk, gargantuan emissions & animal cruelty by drinking soy milk🫘

If you're a Puerto Rican, or an American, who has not taken a position on Puerto Rico's colonial status because you think that 'neutrality' is useful or appropriate...

Here's my question:

How many Puerto Rican children have to die before you consider that you might be wrong?

'We can unionize the media outlets where the writers hone their craft, so that they don’t have to give up their writing dreams before it starts.'

The Vatican has issued a statement officially opposing transgender rights. currentaffairs.substack.com

Reviewing the punitive and racialized law-and-order politics of the ’80s and ’90 reminds us that color-blindness isn’t the solution going forward.

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A look back at the bestselling book franchise that taught people to “think like economists,” by which it meant “think cynically and amorally.”

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Current Affairs editor-in-chief Nathan J Robinson joined Ben Burgis to review his recent 'date with Destiny' -- check it out!
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How can people fervently believe in something so transparently flimsy, and how do we preserve our connection to reality in a world of informational chaos?

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