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

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Elizabeth Harrower
“ It was such a relief to think about world affairs! Like coming out of solitary confinement. ”
― Elizabeth Harrower, The Watch Tower

Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
“ (O)n a whole range of issues, there has been a massive popular shift in public opinion toward a progressive critique of the current political economic system. It is, of course, largely subliminal, not carefully worked out, and lacks a coherent vision for what needs to be done -- but there can be little doubt that this shift has happened, and is deepening. People are increasingly disenchanted, and they are hungry for alternatives. ”
― Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed introduction to Censored 2013

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