#21: Meet the Candidates! (Part 1)

March 16, 2019

The entire Current Affairs team comes together to brief listeners on as many of the Democratic presidential candidates as they can in two hours (spoiler alert: we only could get through half!)

The Panel:

• Briahna Joy Gray, contributing editor
• Vanessa A. Bee, social media editor
• Brianna Rennix, senior editor
• Sparky Abraham, finance editor
• Oren Nimni, legal editor
• Nick Slater, newsletter editor
• Lyta Gold, amusements eidtor
• Nathan J. Robinson, editor-in-chief
• Pete Davis, host

Candidates discussed:

• Joe Biden (read about his feud with Elizabeth Warren over banks here)
• Marianne Williamson (read about the debate over 2020 and reparations here)
• Amy Klobuchar (read Elizabeth Bruenig on feminism and her workplace abuse here)
• Bernie Sanders (listen to his folk album here; watch his Debs documentary here)
• Julian Castro (read about the HUD Mortgage Sale scandal here)
• Elizabeth Warren (read about her groundbreaking Two-Income Trap book here)
• Andrew Yang (read about the "Yang Gang"'s meme problem here)
• Tulsi Gabbard (read about the mystery of Gabbard's values here)
• Howard Schultz (read a profile of his feuds with the city of Seattle here)

Support Current Affairs — and gain access to the Bird Feed of bonus episodes — by becoming a patron at our Patreon page.

Many thanks to Dan Thorn, at Pink Noise Studios, for editing this episode.