Everyone knows that feeling: you’re at a party, engaged in a stimulating back-and-forth with a peer on a topic of public interest, and you remember reading a Current Affairs article that addressed the subject perfectly. When that situation arises, The Current Affairs A-Z is your best friend. Look up any topic to see what useful thoughts our magazine has proffered on it.
- academic jargon
- activist academics
- alt-right, the
- Amazon.com
- Airbnb
- antifa
- asylum law
- Arpaio, Sheriff Joe
- avocados
- automation
- bad taste in art
- Biden, Joe
- body cameras
- border wall
- bourgeois feminism
- Bratton, Bill
- Buffett, Warren
- burkinis
- Bush, George W.
- Cernovich, Mike
- Chomsky, Noam
- Ciccariello-Maher, George
- clickbait
- climate change
- Clinton, Bill
- Clinton, Hillary
- CNN
- colonialism
- Comey, James
- compassion
- confederates in New England
- conspiracy theories
- consumerism
- cost-saving arguments
- Corbyn, Jeremy
- corporate leadership training
- court fines
- criminal justice and race
- cultural appropriation
- cultural divide
- Cruz, Ted
- death
- death penalty
- debate, usefulness of
- Democratic messaging
- democracy
- deportation
- Dershowitz, Alan
- domesticity
- empathy
- economics of gun control
- The Economist
- Emanuel, Rahm
- exploitation
- fake news
- fidget spinners
- free speech for fascists
- free speech for kooks
- Gilbert, Elizabeth
- Ginsburg, Ruth Bader
- Gladwell, Malcolm
- guns
- Hamilton
- hashtag activism
- Hefner, Hugh
- Hiroshima
- Huffington, Arianna
- identity politics
- immigration policy
- ISIS
- job creators
- journalists
- Kaine, Tim
- kindness
- laws
- lawyers
- Lebanon
- left-liberal divide, the
- libertarianism
- lifestyles of the rich
- luxury leftism
- Manning, Chelsea
- Mac Donald, Heather
- mass incarceration
- May, Theresa
- media bias
- Mensch, Louise
- minimum wage
- money in politics
- moral aspects of wealth accumulation
- movies about 9/11
- moving left
- Murray, Charles
- Musk, Elon
- nature documentaries
- Nazis and the media
- Nazi-punching
- The New York Times
- Nobel prize
- novels
- nuclear war
- Obama, Barack
- O’Reilly, Bill
- Orwell, George
- Ossoff, Jon
- party unity
- Pelosi, Nancy
- Perez, Tom
- pessimism
- pit bulls
- Pizzagate
- platitudes
- PolitiFact
- presidential tax returns
- prestige TV
- price gouging
- prioritization of human suffering
- prison abolition
- privilege
- Pruett, Robert
- public housing
- public schools
- punditry
- queer history
- racism and economics
- Republican Party strategy
- rule of law
- Russian meddling
- Sanders, Bernie
- school privatization
- science education
- sci-fi and fantasy
- Sesame Street
- shaming, politics of
- Shkreli, Martin
- Silicon Valley
- Singer, Peter
- Silver, Nate
- slavery
- Smithsonian, The
- Snyder, Timothy
- social justice industry, the
- socialism
- sortition
- Star Trek
- startup culture
- Stewart, Jon
- Stooksbury, Rodney
- student debt
- suicide
- suicide hotlines
- Sullivan, Andrew
- Title IX
- tolerance
- tragedies, politics of
- Trudeau, Justin
- Trump, Donald J.
- Trump presidency
- trust in media
- Twitter feminism
- utopianism
- Uzbekistan
- Verritt
- violence
- voting, ethics of
- Vox.com
- vulgarity
- Wall Street
- Watergate
- weddings
- Weiner, Anthony
- Weinstein, Harvey
- West Wing, The
- white supremacists
- wrongful convictions
- Yiannopoulos, Milo
