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Eli Clifton is an investigative journalist and co-founder of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, and Ian Lustick is a political scientist specializing in U.S. foreign policy and Israel-Palestine.

They join Current Affairs editor in chief Nathan J. Robinson to discuss their new book, Israel’s Lobby: America in the Grip of a Foreign Power, which examines the history, methods, and influence of the Israel lobby on American politics and U.S. foreign policy.

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0:00-4:00 The Origins of Israel’s Influence on U.S. Policy

4:00-9:22 How the Israel Lobby Changes U.S. Policy

9:22-12:06 When Presidents Defy the Israel Lobby

12:06-15:43 How the Lobby Punishes Politicians

15:43-18:32 How the United Democracy Project Influences Elections

18:32-22:14 How Accusations of Antisemitism Are Weaponized

22:14-26:46 American Jews vs. the Israel Lobby

26:46-28:33 Does the Republican Party Need the Israel Lobby?

28:33-31:12 Citizens United, AIPAC, and Abdul El-Sayed

31:12-36:24 The Israel Lobby Under Biden and Trump

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Abby Martin is a journalist, filmmaker, and creator of The Empire Files. She joins Current Affairs editor in chief Nathan J. Robinson to discuss her new film, Cuba After Castro, which features a rare, in-depth interview with Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel.

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0:00-6:06 What’s Happening on the Ground in Cuba

6:06-10:22 America’s Efforts to Destroy Cuba’s Economy

10:22-12:48 How the Media Manufactures Consent

12:48-18:52 Palestine, Iran, and Cuba

18:52-27:06 The Myth of the Anti-War Right

27:06-30:09 The Legacy of Fidel Castro

30:09-41:33 The Ideals of the Cuban Revolution

41:33-46:01 The Threat Cuba Faces Today

46:01-53:11 How We Fight Back

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Nathan J. Robinson returns to The Will Cain Show to defend Medicare for All, California’s proposed billionaire tax, and Zohran Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax.

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Why should other people’s children be the ones who die in the wars he promotes?

🌹 Full article by Alex Skopic: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/send-ben-shapiro-to-iran

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Yasmin Nair is a writer, activist, and longtime contributor to Current Affairs. In this conversation with Current Affairs editor in chief Nathan J. Robinson, she discusses what Graham Platner’s rise reveals about misogyny on the left, why sexism is too often excused or minimized in progressive politics, and what the failures of liberal feminism can teach us about building a better left.

Some of Yasmin Nair's articles where she predicted the order of things:

🌹 “Graham Platner and the Left's Masculinity Crisis.”

🌹 “Kamala Harris Will Lose.”

🌹 See also her review of Harris’s book, “Kamala Harris’s Memoir Shows Exactly Why Her Campaign Flopped.” 

🌹 On AOC: “AOC and the Weaponisation of Trauma.”

🌹 See also “What Does Your Politician Mean to You?” about parasociality and politicians, and several critiques of trauma discourse, as in, “Trauma and Capitalism or, Your Trauma Story Will Kill You.”

🌹 Given the many stories on plagiarism, “On Plagiarism” is a warning call about the endemic nature of the phenomenon in publishing.

🌹 “DACA Was Always DOA: Let’s End It Now,” on the Obama-initiated Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals executive order, which was doomed for failure from the start.

🌹 For more, see her website: www.yasminnair.com

🌹 Yasmin's Current Affairs articles: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/author/yasmin-nair

0:00-13:27 Yasmin’s Political Predictions and Why the Left Gets It Wrong

13:27-45:03 Graham Platner, Misogyny, and the Left

45:03-58:34 The Failures of Liberal Feminism and Obama

58:34-1:05:28 Prison Abolition and Restorative Justice

1:05:28-1:17:06 The Crisis in Writing and Publishing

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