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Rania Khalek is a Lebanese-American journalist based in Beirut and the host of Dispatches on BreakThrough News. She returns to Current Affairs to give an update on Lebanon, where Israel has continued bombing, occupying territory, issuing displacement orders, and demolishing villages during what is being called a “ceasefire.”

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0:00-5:16 There Is No Ceasefire in Lebanon

5:16-11:52 What Israel Is Destroying in Southern Lebanon

11:52-19:13 Hezbollah and the Fault Lines Inside Lebanon

19:13-25:32 Negotiations Under Fire: Peace or Submission?

25:32-27:57 Hezbollah’s Resilience

27:57-34:02 How U.S. Media Sanitizes Israel’s War

34:02-39:16 America’s Role in Destroying Lebanon

39:16-42:37 How Americans Can Show Solidarity

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Abdul El-Sayed is a physician, public health official, Current Affairs contributor, and Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Michigan. He joined Nathan Robinson to discuss his campaign, the fight over Gaza and AIPAC inside the Democratic Party, Chuck Schumer’s leadership, Medicare for All, corporate money in politics, and why he believes Democrats can win by rejecting the old theory of “electability.”

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0:00-3:41 Why This Campaign Feels Different

3:41-7:05 Gaza, AIPAC, and U.S. Tax Dollars

7:05-11:45 Abdul’s Theory of Electability

11:45-15:45 Persuading Trump Voters

15:45-17:22 Schumer and Democratic Leadership

17:22-19:30 Money Out of Politics, Medicare for All, and Senate Priorities

19:30-23:05 Presidential Power and Foreign Policy

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Sam Miller McDonald is a writer and longtime Current Affairs contributor. He joins Nathan Robinson to discuss his new book Progress: How One Idea Built Civilization—and Now Threatens to Destroy It, a sweeping critique of the belief that history is a story of constant improvement.

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0:00-8:30 critiquing the Pinker-style narrative of progress

8:30-19:43 “progress” as destruction: industrialization and ecological collapse

19:43-23:34 what actually constitutes wellbeing

23:34-30:15 why the idea of “progress” is misleading

30:15-36:42 how “progress” justifies violence (Nazism, colonialism)

36:42-41:37 imagining values beyond “progress”

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As Trump creates economic havoc and commits war crimes, the socialist mayor of New York City demonstrates what serious, responsible government looks like.

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After being a leading Democratic enabler of the genocide of Palestinians, Cory Booker now has the audacity to publish a book about moral virtue.

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