I grew up under apartheid. Musk and his father Errol, technologists and race fanatics, transmit its warped perspectives to the world.

Florida’s politics have been misunderstood. Democrats have failed to compete there because they haven’t offered voters inspiring candidacies, not because it’s a “red” state.

Across France, a mass protest and strike movement has nearly brought the state to its knees. In the U.S., there are things we ...

In 1985, the same year Route 66 was decertified, Peter Peterson and Stephen Schwarzman founded the investment company ...

From the first moment you start interacting with the people of Portofiro, the underlying politics of the situation (and the ...

Historian Shawn Gude on his new biography of one of the 20th century’s most fascinating political figures.

Paul Verhoeven's classic depiction of a militarist fascist society helps demonstrate how propaganda works and what it ...

Drop Site News reporter Julian Andreone spends his days staking out the hallways of the Capitol, confronting congress members ...

Dr. El-Sayed’s primary win is sending a shockwave through U.S. politics, but at Current Affairs, we’ve been covering him since 2018. Our magazine has been covering El-Sayed’s trajectory since his 2018 ...

Anne Kim's book Poverty For Profit: How Corporations Get Rich Off America's Poor gives a partial answer to an enduring question: how come we spend so much trying to solve poverty but poverty persists?

During the 2022-2023 admissions cycle, Stanley Zhong applied to college. His application was impressive. He had a 4.42 weighted GPA. He’d launched his own software startup. And, to boot, he scored ...

Revolutionary Cuba treated literacy as a form of liberation. US literacy efforts rely on charity and volunteerism. The difference in approach is striking. In the coming year, our country intends to ...