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.

Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All
Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again
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The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual for Keeping a Democracy
The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
Tom Clancy Defense Protocol (Jack Ryan #25)
War
On My Watch: Leading NATO in a Time of War
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
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)
Fear: Trump in the White House
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
Between the World and Me
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
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It was such a relief to think about world affairs! Like coming out of solitary confinement.
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