Current Affairs

Current affairs is a genre of broadcast journalism where the emphasis is on detailed analysis and discussion of news stories that have recently occurred or are ongoing at the time of broadcast.

Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump
The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
If Russia Wins: A Scenario
Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
Autocracy, Inc.
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
The Yahoo Boys: Real Life with the Love Scammers of Lagos
L'heure des prédateurs
Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change
Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
Liar's Kingdom: How to Stop Trump's Deceit and Save America
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Fear: Trump in the White House
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code—Socialism with a Human Face: A New World Order
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
Between the World and Me
Autocracy, Inc.
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Technological Slavery by Theodore John KaczynskiAnti-Tech Revolution by Theodore John KaczynskiIndustrial Society and Its Future by Theodore John KaczynskiCollapse by Jared DiamondPapyrus by John Gaudet
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Noam Chomsky
“ When everyone says the same thing about some complex topic, what should come to your mind is, 'wait a minute, nothing can be that simple, something's wrong.' That's the immediate light that should go off in your brain when you ever hear unanimity on some complex topic." (The Ezra Klein Show 2021/04/23) ...more ”
― Noam Chomsky

“ In a country where the civil services exams are treated as sacred, the only affairs one is encouraged to pursue deeply are current affairs. ”
― Anurag Minus Verma, The Great Indian Brain Rot : Love, Lies and Algorithms in Digital India

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