On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll reveals only one in five Americans hosting a Thanksgiving gathering will require proof of vaccination to attend. This survey was conducted online within the United States from Nov 18 – Nov 19 among 939 registered voters by HarrisX. The […]
Former opinion editor at the Wall Street Journal, Melanie Kirkpatrick, describes her new book: “Thanksgiving: The Holiday at the Heart of the American Experience.”
By Mike Gleason Let’s talk about the sudden setback in precious metals markets. Metals got hammered on Monday and Tuesday. Gold prices fell back below the $1,800 level and silver is back down under $24. Platinum and palladium also got hit hard. Interestingly, though, copper and most other […]
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave debate space exploration and whether humanity will ever come to thrive off of planet Earth.
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By Niara Savage, Atlanta Black Star/Yahoo News A jury found a 27-year-old Black man not guilty of second-degree murder in the 2017 death of his girlfriend, who was struck and killed during an exchange of gunfire as police conducted a narcotics raid on a Florida residence, Treasure Coast […]
Briahna Joy Gray details what Democrats’ SALT cap hike could mean for their performance in midterms in 2022.
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave react to the string of thefts targeting retail in California.
Pablo Manriquez, reporter for Latino Rebels, details the politics behind Democrats’ scaled back immigration reform in the Build Back Better Act
Team Rising reacts to the Biden administration’s efforts to reinstate OSHA’s vaccine mandate.
Ryan Grim breaks down newly released information related to Jeffrey Epstein’s incarceration.
Robby Soave makes the case against government overreach in fighting COVID-19.
Ryan Grim, Robby Soave, and senior reporter for The Daily Beast Kate Briquelet discuss Ghislaine Maxwell’s legal strategy.
By Adam Gabbatt (now) and Martin Pengelly (earlier), The Guardian Travis McMichael, Greg McMichael and William Bryan have been found guilty of murdering Ahmaud Arbery. The three men pursued Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, through their neighborhood on 23 February 2020, before Travis McMichael shot and killed him. […]
By Emma Green The Atlantic A faction of the right believes America has been riven into two countries. The Claremont Institute is building the intellectual architecture for whatever comes next. “Let me start big. The mission of the Claremont Institute is to save Western civilization,” says Ryan Williams, […]
By Brian Michael Jenkins, senior adviser to the president of RAND Last week, an anonymous caller told a Republican congressman who voted with Democrats in favor of the infrastructure bill that he and his staff should die. On Monday, Twitter added a warning label to a cartoon video […]
By Chauncey DeVega, Salon If there is a second American Civil War, which side would you choose? It may be wise to make that decision now, in the spirit of planning for the worst while hoping for the best. A recent public opinion poll by the University of Virginia Center for […]
BY Malcom Kyeyune Unherd Historically speaking, empires on average last for around 250 years, after which they tend to either slowly — or very, very quickly — fall apart due to overreach and internal conflict. Somewhat ominously, the 250th birthday of America is coming up in 2026. Yet […]
This is the program of the recent “national conservatism” conference. Notice how Peter Thiel seems to be running the show, and the participants are the usual collection of dupes you find in movements funded by neocons and right-wing capitalist oligarchs. There is very little difference between this and […]
Apparently, these are the folks behind “national conservatism.” While much of the Silicon Valley oligarchy has aligned itself with Wall Street and the traditional northeastern establishment, it appears at least some among them are trying to work the right-wing angle as well. Peter Thiel was a Trump backer, […]
What do you get when neocons try to pose as throne and altar reactionaries? You get “national conservatism.” By Michael Warren Davis, The American Conservatism The false “small government” of classical liberalism is a state with less authority but more power. Destruction of Leviathan, 1866 engraving by Gustave […]
By John M. Vella, The American Conservative Antifascism: The Course of a Crusade, by Paul Gottfried (Northern Illinois University Press: 2021), 216 pages. In this sequel to his 2016 book Fascism: Career of a Concept, Paul Gottfried turns his attention to antifascist critics and movements from the years […]
This is rather extraordinary. The neocons are attempting to co-opt anti-imperialism by bending it toward American unilateralism, and weaponizing anti-imperialism in a rhetorical battle against China. Any tendency that embraces Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Josh Hawley is nowhere near being “anti-imperialist.” This is the neocon playbook being […]
In the Times’ first feature-length documentary Alastair Good traveled to north Idaho to investigate whether a movement to build a home for conservative Christians and unhappy Trump voters is being exploited by extremists planning for secession.
A jury has awarded more than $26 million in damages after finding the White nationalists who organized and participated in a violent 2017 rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, liable on a state conspiracy claim and other claims.
Anthony Huber was the second person killed by Kyle Rittenhouse on Aug. 25, 2020. We walked toward the courthouse and spoke at length about the trial, and life since the shooting.
Grosskreutz, the sole survivor shot by Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and his attorney, Kimberly Motley, discuss their reaction to Rittenhouse’s testimony and his own experience on the stand.
The comedian and political satirist Ahmed Albasheer is the most popular media figure in Iraq—half of the country regularly tunes into his show. An outspoken critic of government corruption, Albasheer has also lamented the failure of the 2003 U.S. invasion and the toppling of Saddam Hussein to bring […]
Patrick Bet-David sits down with professor Asatar Bair, a self-described communist. In this interview they talk about Communism vs Capitalism, how he grew up and his political views. Let Dr. Bair know your thoughts on the interview here: https://bit.ly/3mtBxoy
Today’s guest is Glenn Loury, professor of economics at Brown University. Prof. Loury has had a distinguished career—he was the youngest-ever tenured Black economics professor at Harvard and is known for coining the term “social capital.” Prof. Loury is generally associated with political conservatism, but his books The […]
John McWhorter is called both a conservative and a liberal, depending on who people ask. He now argues that the current anti-racism ideology is a new religion of the left. In his new book, “Woke Racism,” McWhorter lashes out at what he calls the “third-wave anti-racism,” which positions […]
CJ Hopkins, Consent Factory Pathologized Totalitarianism 101 So, GloboCap has crossed the Rubicon. The final phase of its transformation of society into a pathologized-totalitarian dystopia, where mandatory genetic-therapy injections and digital compliance papers are commonplace, is now officially underway. On November 19, 2021, the government of New Normal […]
By Thomas L. Knapp, Garrison Center On November 19, a Wisconsin jury acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse on various charges related to the shootings of three people (two fatally) during an August night of “unrest” (that is, a protest turned riot) in Kenosha. I expected to see, and did see, […]
BY Toby Green and Thomas Fazi Unherd Throughout the various phases of the global pandemic, people’s preferences in terms of epidemiological strategies have tended to overlap closely with their political orientation. Ever since Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro expressed doubts as to the wisdom of a lockdown strategy […]
By Rachel Gutman, The Atlantic After two years of pandemic waves, we’re finally learning whether the disease has a predictable schedule. The first part of what may be the first epidemiologic text ever written begins like so: “Whoever wishes to investigate medicine properly, should proceed thus: in the […]
By Eliott C. McLaughlin and Devon M. Sayers, CNN Brunswick, Georgia (CNN)The prosecutor in the trial of three men accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery sought Tuesday to simplify the events that led to the 25-year-old’s death, taking the podium the day after defense teams spent closing arguments trying […]
By Neil MacFarquhar New York Times CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Jurors on Tuesday found the main organizers of the deadly far-right rally in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017 liable under state law for injuries to counterprotesters, awarding more than $25 million in damages. But the jury deadlocked on two federal […]
By Tim Pearce Mark Richards, who successfully defended Kyle Rittenhouse against murder charges last week, slammed MSNBC and CNN on Sunday for botching “basic facts” of Rittenhouse’s case. Richards appeared on NewsNation’s “Banfield” on Sunday with host Ashleigh Banfield to talk about the trial after Rittenhouse was cleared […]
By Conrad Black, American Greatness The Rittenhouse case avoided the curse of the American justice system; it certainly did not exonerate or vindicate it. It is undoubtedly true that the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin on Friday was a victory over dishonest and overreaching prosecutors, over […]
By Dartunorro Clark and Haley Talbot, Rolling Stone The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol issued subpoenas Monday to high-profile allies of former President Donald Trump, including Roger Stone and Alex Jones. The committee is looking at Stone, a longtime adviser to Trump, […]
By Peter Wade Rolling Stone Just a day after the House committee investigating Jan. 6 subpoenaed Trump ally Roger Stone and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, the committee has subpoenaed the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys, both right-wing extremist groups with members who were present during the insurrection. The […]
By Vicky Ward Rolling Stone When she walked into court on Monday morning for the penultimate pre-trial conference before she faces what will amount to the fight of her life, Ghislaine Maxwell looked just like she did 10 years ago. In fact, she looked better. Thick black glossy […]
Noam Chomsky has mastered the ability of speaking in lowercase.
By Joel Kotkin Here’s a dirty secret: Great nations rest on a great common culture. I say it’s a secret because it’s become almost taboo to discuss this historic fact; progressives across the globe have turned decisively against national legacies, and it’s progressives who by and large dictate […]
By Joel Kotkin “I just took [my son] to our local Walgreens to buy him a toy. While there, a man shoved past me so firmly that he sent me into the shelving. Then he proceeded to fill a brown paper bag with Halloween candy and waltzed out […]
By Damon Linker, The Week Joe Biden’s steep slide in the polls since mid-summer is bad for the Democratic Party and, if it contributes to Donald Trump winning a second term in 2024, it could be terrible for the country. But it’s been very good for political punditry. […]
By David Faris The Week America’s political violence problem took a dramatic turn for the worse on Friday when Kyle Rittenhouse — who shot three people during riots following police reform protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Aug. 25, 2020, killing two — was acquitted of all charges in what had become the latest in […]
By Brigid Kennedy The Week Yet another COVID-19 surge has arrived. Instead of a stretch of predicted decline, cases have risen about 30 percent this month, The New York Times‘ David Leonhardt reports. And while it’s essentially futile to try and predict what’s behind these frustrating numbers (a […]
By Reeves Wiedeman Intelligencer It’s been a long 48 hours for your boy,” Dave Portnoy, the founder of Barstool Sports, said in an address to his 2.7 million Twitter followers late on a Friday night earlier this month. Portnoy was filming a response to an article published by […]
By Matt Taibbi and Ford Fischer Everybody in America you don’t like, gathered in one place The trial of Kyle Rittenhouse began as a screaming headline toward the end of a summer of historic unrest, and concluded as all public spectacles in America seem to these days, in […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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