A former Bucks County police officer is facing charges after authorities say he sexually abused four teens while he worked as a D.A.R.E officer, officials said. Bucks County District Attorney Matt Weintraub announced the charges Wednesday against former Warminster Township Police Officer James Carey, 52.
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to Greg Gutfeld’s new comedy show on Fox News, Gutfeld!
Host of Bad Faith podcast, Briahna Joy Gray, discusses the rise in billionaires in 2020.
Krystal Ball breaks down Sen. Mitch McConnell’s hypocritical comments on corporations involvement in politics.
Saagar Enjeti reacts to Rep. Dan Crenshaw’s attack on populism in his latest interview with Joe Rogan.
Team Rising reacts to Jeff Bezos endorsing President Biden’s infrastructure bill.
By Frank Green, Richmond Times-Dispatch Virginia’s ultimate sanction was carried out for more than a century on an oak chair from Trenton, N.J. used to execute 267 people who were deemed too vile or dangerous to live among us. Their limbs and torsos bound by straps and heads […]
Senior reporter at ProPublica, Alec MacGillis, discusses the latest updates on the Amazon workers’ union vote in Alabama.
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss lack of public interest in Donald Trump since his deplatforming on social media.
Whatever. These guys are just glorified governors of what amounts to de facto red states. There is only one system, the global capitalist empire. The Atlanticist-Zionist-Wahhabi axis is the ruling party (like Democrats), with the BRICS/Resistance axis being the opposition party (like Republicans). These dudes are just Kristi […]
–Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz could face life in prison if convicted of child sex trafficking
–David tells the story of when he was offered a lucrative job if he were to have a political awakening and become a conservative.
But traditional religion is being replaced with political religions and free-for-all occultic and/or conspiratorial beliefs. Nietzsche would have predicted as much. So would Dostoevsky. By Sarah Pulliam Bailey, Washington Post The proportion of Americans who consider themselves members of a church, synagogue or mosque has dropped below 50 […]
Watch daily live coverage of the trial of Derek Chauvin. Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer, faces charges of manslaughter, second-degree murder, and third-degree murder in the death of George Floyd.
Chen is New York editor for The Spectator and managing director of Ideas Beyond Borders, a nonprofit that translates new and classic texts about science, history, and liberal political philosophy into Arabic and distributes them as free ebooks throughout the Middle East. Born and raised in Singapore, Chen […]
2 weeks to flatten the curve. Safe and effective. Neverending waves. Limitless variants. 3 masks. Quarterly shots.
Good luck with this, Caitlyn.
Welcome to water imperialism.
By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, New York Judging from last year’s Democratic primaries, few would have believed that former Vice-President Joe Biden would be leading the Democratic Party out of the political wilderness armed with some of the most expensive bills in American history. In a crowded primary field, Biden […]
By Alan Feuer, New York Times Counties with the most significant declines in the non-Hispanic white population were the most likely to be homes to people who stormed the Capitol. When the political scientist Robert Pape began studying the issues that motivated the 380 or so people arrested […]
By Robert A. Pape, Washington Post The Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol by a violent mob at the behest of former president Donald Trump was an act of political violence intended to alter the outcome of a legitimate democratic election. That much was always evident. What we […]
Comparing Biden to Marx is like trying to compare apples to motor oil…
Not quite “fascism” but…
Since so many of my neighbors have started to smoke “recreational” weed, the area is much more quiet since they’re usually munching or sleeping.
Anarchist News For all our talk of solidarity, there are some anarchists who other anarchists just love to hate. In every milieu there are larger than life figures who’ve transgressed in one way or another – either through something they said, or wrote, or did – and who […]
Black Agenda Report “The principles of anarchism appear to be growing in some corners of the Black community,” due largely to the work and thought of former Black Panther Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin. In our opening post, the Black Agenda Review described its objective to provide a longer historical and more explicitly […]
He said “another lockdown.” As if we’ve had one successful lockdown.
Biden promised that “nothing would fundamentally change” He is only keeping his promise.
By Cynthia Griffith, Invisible People On the Heels of the Pandemic, the Growing Population of Unsheltered People Are Forced to Live in Their Vehicles A friend of mine who works in the criminal justice system once said to me in confidence, “I know incarceration is a scam because […]
One of the neocons’ intellectual godfathers. Know your enemy. By Grant Haver The political theorist Leo Strauss (1899-1973) is perhaps an unlikely subject for Chronicles’ “Remembering the Right” series. Although no one can deny the extensive influence of his ideas on the conservative (and later, neoconservative) movement in […]
Trumpism is dividing the evangelicals. By D.G. Hart, The American Conservatism Since Ronald Reagan’s defeat of Jimmy Carter in 1980, evangelical Protestants have been a seemingly solid segment within American conservatism. “Seemingly” is important, because conservatives often scratch their heads at evangelical habits of mind. Some of the […]
Now that “woke capitalism” is becoming hegemonic, the right-wing is developing anti-capitalist ideas. Hilarious. By Curt Mills, The American Conservative Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Justice Clarence Thomas signaled camaraderie Monday with those who would check corporate power. Two events came to pass Monday that, for now, […]
The fact that this legislation could not pass even in Arkansas, with a governor who is a former head of the DEA, indicates that the “cultural left” (or at least cultural liberalism) is now almost completely hegemonic, with the exception of peripheral institutional, socioeconomic, subcultural, and geographical sectors. […]
This article contains a fairly interesting critique of the police/carceral state from a “culturally conservative” perspective. If we can get the Left and Right hating the prison-industrial complex with equal fervor, then we’ve got something. By Stephen Baskerville, Chronicles The left’s new monopoly cannot be resisted without breaking […]
By Eric Kolenich, Richmond Times Dispatch In the first 10 months of the pandemic, 2.8 million people died in the United States, a 23% increase over a typical timespan, according to a Virginia Commonwealth University study published Friday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The number […]
By Colin Jenkins Anarchy is synonymous with chaos and disorder. It is a term that stands in direct contrast to the archetype of society we have become accustomed to: hierarchical, highly structured, and authoritative. Because of this, it carries negative connotations. Merriam-Webster, the consensus source of meaning within […]
Krystal Ball explains why the housing market is booming for those in the upper middle class and breaks down what it means for costs of homes in the future.
Anthony Ince, Kulturgeografiska Institutionen, Stockholms Universitet Forthcoming (2014) in Levy C and Newman S (eds.) The Anarchist Imagination: Anarchism Encounters the Humanities and Social Sciences. London: Routledge. I first realized that I wanted to become a geographer when I read Tearing Down the Streets , by the anarchist Jeff […]
By Matt Taibbi “Meet the Censored” will now come out in sets of left and right bans, in the (probably vain) hope that fewer people will cheer news of deletions and suspensions. For roughly half a year, I’ve been running a series of interviews here on TK called […]
By Peter R. Quinones As I was coming out of the grocery store today I saw one of the blue, “will not provide protection against COVID” masks on the ground. I see them discarded on the ground all the time and I ask myself, if this virus is […]
A review of: Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World (1870-1940): The Praxis of National Liberation, Internationalism, and Social LiberationEdited by Steven Hirsch and Lucien van der Walt; with a Foreword by Benedict Anderson Abstract: The volume under review is a very informative and, an immenselythought-provoking […]
Team Rising reacts to DNC Chair Jaime Harrison’s comment on the future of the Democratic Party.
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti break down the latest updates in the Gaetz scandal, including statements from accused extorter.
Let’s be clear..we’ve all seen the video by now. It’s obvious that these police officers killed George Floyd. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner, and the independent medical examiner hired by the family of George Floyd, Dr. Michael Baden, have concluded that his death was a homicide….but their opinion […]
The murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin began its second week, following five days of raw and emotional testimony. Chauvin, who was seen in disturbing videos kneeling on Floyd’s neck, is charged with second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. He has pleaded not guilty. […]
In the trial of Derek Chauvin, a use-of-force instructor said the neck restraint used on George Floyd would not have been authorized.
https://media.urmedium.com/video//2021/04/06/637533095099479720video.mp4 An informed source tells Press TV that the only way the United States could see Iran stop its countermeasures under the 2015 nuclear deal is for Washington to lift all the sanctions it imposed on the Islamic Republic in the aftermath of its withdrawal from the agreement […]
Michael Lind, author of The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite, returns to The Realignment to discuss the end of the Trump administration, and the start of the Biden presidency. He also expands on his formulation that “neoliberalism is the disease, populism is the symptom, […]
By Claire Boine, Michael Siegel, Craig Ross, Eric W. Fleegler & Ted Alcorn We developed empirical methods to identify variations in elements of gun culture across states. Using these methods, we then analyzed the prominence of these subcultures between states and over time from 1998 through 2016. Using state-level […]
An interview with Michael Lind from January. In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Michael Lind, the author of “The New Class War”, to discuss the recent riots in the nation’s capital and to examine how it is that America arrived at such a violent […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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