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"

Quando il mondo dorme. Storie, parole e ferite della Palestina
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
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
Autocracy, Inc.
If Russia Wins: A Scenario
The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World
L'heure des prédateurs
The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change
Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare
The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich
Quando il mondo dorme. Storie, parole e ferite della Palestina
Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
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
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
Blood River by Tim ButcherCommon Sense Ain’t So Common by Scott  L. NelsonThe Trigger by Tim ButcherNicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. MassieLucky by Scott Nelson
Non-fiction Best
260 books — 81 voters
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For a Better Egypt
180 books — 116 voters

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Journalism in Fiction
240 books — 58 voters
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Green Politics
104 books — 86 voters


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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
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