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🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membershipWill McCaffery is a leftist content creator focused on anti-imperialism, anti-Zionism, and anti-capitalism, and the author of a new Current Affairs article on Israel’s upcoming election.He joins Current Affairs editor in chief Nathan J. Robinson to discuss what Israel’s elections reveal about the limits of liberal democracy, the political consensus behind apartheid and occupation, and what those same dynamics can teach us about elections and empire in the United States.🔥 Read Will's Current Affairs article: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/israels-elections-like-ours-show-how-much-the-parties-agree-on🔥 Follow Will on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/willz.talks/?hl=en🔥 Subscribe to Will's Substack: https://willztalks.substack.com/0:00–4:52 How Western Media Frames Israel’s Election4:52–7:53 Can an Apartheid State Be a Democracy?7:53–9:54 Why Have Arab Parties in an Ethnostate?9:54–13:37 “Pragmatic” vs. “Evocative” Fascism13:37–19:08 The Ethnic Supremacist Consensus in Israeli Politics19:08–22:13 Why Israel’s Far Right Is More Honest About Zionism22:13–29:28 Bringing the Critique Home to the American Empire29:28–32:43 The Iran War and Whose Lives American Politics Values32:43–37:54 The Victims of Empire Don’t Get a Vote🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership

🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membershipJulian Andreone is a Capitol Hill reporter for Drop Site News, where he confronts lawmakers with tough questions they’re often unprepared to answer.He joins Current Affairs editor in chief Nathan J. Robinson to discuss his approach to journalism and why ordinary people can do this kind of accountability reporting too. Julian’s piece on his experiences reporting from Capitol Hill will appear in the next print issue of Current Affairs!🎤 Read Drop Site News: https://www.dropsitenews.com/🎤 Follow Julian Andreone: https://www.instagram.com/thejulianandreone/0:00–7:57 What Julian Andreone Does on Capitol Hill7:57–14:56 How He Prepares to Confront Politicians14:56–17:48 Exposing How Little Politicians Actually Know17:48–23:31 John Fetterman’s Hostility to Drop Site23:31–26:21 Shri Thanedar Chooses Party Leadership Over His Voters26:21–30:21 James Clyburn: “I Don’t Do Foreign Policy”30:21–34:45 Shontel Brown’s Contempt for Her Constituents34:45–40:45 Why Anyone Can Do This Kind of Journalism🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership

🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membershipShawn Gude is the former editor of Jacobin and author of American Socialist: The Life and Legacy of Eugene V. Debs. He joins Current Affairs editor in chief Nathan J. Robinson to discuss how Debs went from moderate railroad unionist to one of America’s most influential socialist leaders.✊ Get the book: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/American-Socialist/Shawn-Gude/97816680567380:00–3:51 Why Eugene Debs Still Matters3:51–10:10 How Debs Became a Socialist10:10–18:30 Debs’s Personality and Political Appeal18:30–25:28 When Socialism Thrived in the Midwest25:28–29:24 What Socialism Meant to Debs29:24–35:31 The Defeat and Decline of Debs’s Movement35:31–40:26 What Debs Can Teach the Left Today40:26–43:28 What Shawn Learned About Debs While Writing the Book🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership

🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membershipIn Michigan and Maine, a tale of two campaigns.🌹 Full article by Nathan J. Robinson: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-consultants-will-kill-you🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership🦩 Merch: https://shop.currentaffairs.org/

🌹 Use the code "15OFF" for a discount on Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membershipIf there’s a visual language that connotes credibility and authority, why not take advantage of it?🌹 Full article by Nathan J. Robinson: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/in-praise-of-suit-socialism🦩Subscribe to Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/membership 🦩 Merch: https://shop.currentaffairs.org/