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.

New Releases Tagged "Current Affairs"

Earthquake: the election that shook Australia
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual for Keeping a Democracy
Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All
Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
Autocracy, Inc.
L'heure des prédateurs
The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World
To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism
The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism
The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future
War
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
Between the World and Me
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
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
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

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Pew Research Center
There's no evidence from decades of Pew Research surveys that public opinion, in the aggregate, is more extreme now than in the past. But what has changed -- and pretty dramatically -- is the growing tendency of people to sort themselves into political parties based on their ideological differences. ...more
Pew Research Center, The Next America: Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown

We are instant spectators of every atrocity; we sit in our living rooms and see the murdered children, the desperate refugees. Perhaps horrific crimes are still committed in dark places, but not many; contemporary horrors are well-lit.
Nicolaus Mills, The New Killing Fields: Massacre and the Politics of Intervention

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