Current Affairs is an American bimonthly magazine that discusses political and cultural topics from a left-wing perspective.

[8] The magazine's stated mission is "to produce the world's first readable political publication and to make life joyful again.

[5] On September 29, 2018, Current Affairs published an "exhaustive 10,000-word refutation" by Robinson of Brett Kavanaugh's testimony before the United States Senate.

[13] On March 29, 2019, Current Affairs published an article by Robinson criticizing 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg,[14] which The New York Times later quoted.

[15] In August 2021, a subset of Current Affairs staffers accused Robinson of trying to fire them for attempting to organize the magazine as a worker-owned co-op.