It's that wonderful time again—the 59th edition of Current Affairs has arrived!
🇨🇺 We travel to Cuba
✨ The fascism of astrology
💰 Why the rich need to be expropriated
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To our readers:
We, the staff of Current Affairs, are pleased to announce that we have unionized with the Chicago News Guild (Local 34071), an affiliate of the Communications Workers of America and the AFL-CIO. We received immediate voluntary recognition from our editor-in-chief, Nathan J. Robinson, and the Current Affairs board of directors, and are grateful for their support and cooperation as we take this step forward.
Membership in the News Guild will allow us to maintain the high standards in wages and working conditions we’ve experienced at Current Affairs, allowing us to do our best work and provide you with the high-quality writing, art, graphic design, and political analysis you’ve come to expect.
As a magazine of the political left, we’re also proud to be joining the wider American union movement at a pivotal time in history. Unionization will allow us to preserve the magazine’s editorial independence and continue serving our readers with integrity in the years to come.
In a time when the journalism and publishing industries are becoming increasingly dominated by corporate capital and precarious for workers, we are proud to be moving in the opposite direction.
Signed,
Sonya Eugene, Development Manager
John Ross, Digital Editor
Alex Skopic, Associate Editor
Emily Topping, Associate Editor
Cali Traina Blume, Art Director
March 9, 2026
From the Editor-in-Chief:
I’m delighted that the Current Affairs staff has chosen to affiliate with the Chicago News Guild. We are a publication that embodies pro-labor values and treats workers with respect, and I strongly support the unionization of our workforce. I look forward to working with the News Guild to ensure that Current Affairs always remains a fair and equitable workplace that its staff are proud to be part of. At a time when other publications are gutting their staffs and paring down benefits, Current Affairs is going in the opposite direction, building a magazine where staff can thrive and are fairly compensated for their contributions.
Nathan J. Robinson, Editor in Chief
“For anyone wanting to find out more about the world we live in . . . there is one simple answer: read Noam Chomsky.” —The New Statesman
Now in paperback: The Myth of American Idealism by Noam Chomsky and Nathan J. Robinson—an urgent warning about the threat U.S. power poses to humanity’s future. Chomsky and Robinson vividly trace how America’s pursuit of global domination has wrought havoc from country to country. This timely book is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the forces shaping our world.
The genre is often used as a punchline, but sneering at ska discounts its long and uplifting history as “the people’s music.”
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🎨 Illustration by @ghoustonillustration
Politicians say they have “national security concerns.” In fact, Chinese cars are better and cheaper, and American corporations know they can’t survive market competition.
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Dr. Abdul El-Sayed on the Michigan Senate race, keeping Americans’ tax money out of overseas wars, and finally winning Medicare for All. @abdulelsayed
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🎨 Illustration by @j.longo.art
Hampshire’s legacy of radical pedagogy shows how higher education can be rebuilt to address the needs of a world in free fall.
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🎨 Illustration by @chelsea_saunders
HONDURASGATE: Trump, Milei, and Netanyahu are secretly coordinating with Honduras to destabilize left-wing governments across Latin America.
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A new study suggests we should simply give up on the city’s long-term future and begin to relocate the population. This is a morally indefensible proposal. New Orleans can and must be saved.
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Under the sterile blue lights of his studio, Fallon laughs endlessly at the same pseudo-jokes, rubs elbows with Trump and Sam Altman, and ushers in the death of culture.
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🎨 Illustration by @tomhumberstone
