The Signal Why is inflation still so high in America? Zachary Carter on the war, the pandemic, and the changing ways economists are looking at the world. Jordan Madrid U.S. Inflation hit a 40-year record in March, with the Consumer Price Index up by 8.5 percent from 12 months […]
Krystal and Saagar answer your questions about the newsletter, CPC betraying Nina Turner, ESG funds, a populist platform, and more Breaking Points products going forward!
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Nearly two months into Putin’s NATO provoked but totally illegal invasion of Ukraine and there is still no light at the end of the tunnel, only the rolling fog of war running through an elaborate house of mirrors […]
By Joel Kotkin Whatever the final outcome, the recent French elections have already revealed the comparative irrelevance of many elite concerns, from gender fluidity and racial injustice to the ever-present ‘climate catastrophe’. Instead, most voters in France and elsewhere are more concerned about soaring energy, food and housing […]
It’s hilarious how Kyle and his fans have no clue as to what Tulsi’s end game is. If you follow her career, it’s obvious that the one consistency is that she is a Hindu nationalist who wants an alliance between the West and Hinduism against Islam. And as […]
If Putin plays it smart, he will be somewhat limited in his goals and work to gain dominance over the disputed regions. If he plays it stupid, he will go full Vleorge W. Push and try to annex Ukraine or place a permanent puppet regime in power. From […]
Katie Halper criticizes Senator Chris Coons’ call for stronger American intervention in Ukraine.
The week’s best Rising moments.
Krystal and Saagar cover the investigate report of billionaire tax rates based on a trove of IRS documents obtained by journalists showing how they pay lower taxes and perpetuate inequality
Krystal and Saagar’s bring down the paywall to present their debate on Tucker Carlson’s new documentary on testosterone decline and masculinity after Saagar’s monologue took on the issue.
Krystal and Saagar bring an update on the Russophobia on display in elite institutions such as the Boston Marathon who banned Russian and Belarusian runners from competing
Krystal and Saagar talk about Rachel Maddow’s future, Russophobia, billionaire taxes, Jack Dorsey, tax preparation companies, Fox News, and the art of class war with Max Alvarez!
As a decentralist, I ultimately have to stand with Disney on this, even if it is a heel vs. heel match. By Grayson Quay The Week Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill on Friday abolishing the Reedy Creek Improvement District, which gave Disney the power to act […]
I find it interesting how in my lifetime the Republicans have gone from the party of the Moral Majority to the party of “just don’t be a pedophile though being a hebephile might be okay” (see Matt Gaetz). Outside of a few geographical areas, it’s the upper-middle-class bourgie […]
By Linh Dinh To start with, please tell us how long you’ve been in Russia? Why did you decide to move there? I have been in Russia since the summer of 2014. In fact, I came a week or so after Ukraine shot that passenger plane down and […]
By Haley Britzky Task and Purpose One of the simplest explanations for Russia’s military strategy in Ukraine can be found in a large unassuming warehouse full of tanks. The U.S. Army Armor and Cavalry Collection at Fort Benning, Georgia, houses tanks from the Army’s first M1 Abrams, all […]
Authored by Kyle Anzalone via The Libertarian Institute, A US official said the White House has “almost zero” ability to track the weapons it is sending to Ukraine. So far, President Joe Biden has approved over $3 billion in arms shipments to Kiev. Speaking with CNN about the weapons, one source […]
H.L. Mencken: The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. Power is what all messiahs really seek: not the chance to serve.
As the Russia-Ukraine war opens a new phase in the Donbas, scholar Richard Sakwa on the absence of diplomacy; the Western media’s veneration of Zelensky; the European Union’s self-implosion over the war; and the crackdown on dissent in both Ukraine and Russia. Guest: Richard Sakwa. Professor of Russian […]
The Stanford professor and Great Barrington Declaration coauthor stands up to COVID-19 autocrats and disastrous lockdowns by following the science.
“I am not okay with you making laws that prevent me from doing what I feel is good for me.”
Look for the therapeutic statist wing of totalitarian humanism to start attacking alcohol at some point in the future. Actually, it is now already happening. There is actually a group called “Alcohol Justice” in California. Be suspicious of anything that has “justice” in the label. Between 2019 and […]
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky react to the official death of CNN+.
David Sirota makes the case that Joe Biden and Democrats are helping Republicans convince the country that government and politics don’t matter.
Human rights lawyer Steven Donziger details his almost 1000-day detention after taking on Big Oil.
The US Red Tribe is divided between pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian factions. Most of the Blue Tribe is pro-Ukrainian, except for the margins. Fragment, fragment, fragment… Western Europeans are (generally) the Blue Tribe of Europe and Eastern Europeans are the Red Tribe. The Red Tribe is divided into pro-Ukrainian […]
Brexit was a victory for the English Red Tribe and their Blue Tribe-dominated elites. A victory by Le Pen in France would have a somewhat similar effect. A Red Tribe victory in a Blue Zone, and in a way that strikes a blow against not only the EU […]
The main thing I am hoping for right now is that the upcoming Supreme Court decision on abortion, the mid-terms, and the 2024 election have the effect of escalating the culture war. Emily Jashinsky argues that Democrats need a concrete answer to the culture war.
Ryan Grim argues that elections matter when it comes to supporting the labor movement.
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky kick off the first edition of Rising Fridays. They react to newly leaked tape showing Rep. Kevin McCarthy supported President Trump’s resignation in the days after the January 6 Capitol breach.
U.S. deaths by drug overdose are continuing an upward trend that began in mid-2019, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the 12-month total ending in October, 2021. As with many recent figures, the new totals set a record for annual […]
Krystal and Saagar cover the announcement made by star MSNBC host Rachel Maddow about her future with the network and what the means for her primetime slot
Krystal and Saagar comment on a bizarre Fox News panel discussion about the proposal of a four day work week in California that resembles the existing laws in France
This week, Briahna spoke to Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant about the rash of Starbucks coffee locations unionizing around the country, why the Staten Island Amazon unionization effort was successful, the problem with some professional organizers, Chris Small’s Tucker Carleton appearance, the difference between DSA and Socialist […]
Economist Richard Wolff talks about the U.S. media’s “grotesque misrepresentation of not on the French election but French and European politics in general. Find the full chat at Patreon.
Vijay Prashad discusses the possibility of a PanAsian movement and outlines the way the United States’s “pressure campaign” against China and Russia has only strengthened ties between Russia and China as well as greater Asia.
By Blair Taylor Taylor examines how political transformations within left social movements have helped to construct a “new spirit of capitalism” that addresses widespread demand for an ethical lifeworld, simultaneously innovating and modernizing while neutralizing critique. Today ideas and practices pioneered by oppositional movements have become mainstream political […]
The Signal Why has Elon Musk’s attempt to buy Twitter provoked such an intense reaction? Gilad Edelman on free speech, content moderation, and the less obvious challenges of social media to public life. Ashkar Dave The wealthiest man in the world has offered US$43 billion for Twitter, and it […]
By Peter R. Quinones I know that I used to do the things I rage against now. I would distribute one ‘Barnum Statement’ after another. Everything was a bumper sticker slogan. But how can anyone still hold onto that ‘strategy’ after COVID clearly made the lines on the […]
By Ann Larson, The Nation Workers are quitting their jobs in record numbers, but it’s not a turning point for labor power. In November of last year, I was managing the checkout area of a large grocery store in Utah when a 22-year-old bagger quit on the spot. […]
By Malcolm Harris, The Nation Financial malfeasance has never been more rampant, or more under-punished. Everywhere you look in America, crime is out of control. Whether it’s Elon Musk—the world’s richest man—cutting regulatory corners in public, professional son-in-law Jared Kushner getting a $2 billion payoff from the Saudis, […]
By Caitlin Johnstone The news man tells me the CIA’s “Queen of Torture” now runs a life and beauty coaching business which helps midlife women “look good, feel good, and do good.” “HI, I’M FREDA, A CERTIFIED BEAUTY AND LIFE COACH READY TO HELP YOU OWN YOUR BEAUTY […]
By Akela Lacy The Intercept Mass shootings used to trigger calls for stricter gun control. But with gridlock in Congress and midterms looming, Democrats turn to more cops instead. After a mass shooting on a subway train in Brooklyn, New York, last Tuesday, New York City Mayor Eric […]
By Ryan Devereaux The Intercept With support for advocates on the ground flagging, a new poll shows record lows for Democratic interest in immigration. Two miles north of the line separating the U.S. and Mexico, where El Paso, Texas, meets Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, sits a modest one-story building […]
By Jon Schwarz The Intercept From 1915 through today, politicians have made lots of great-sounding speeches. But human suffering is never part of the equation. If there’s one thing we can say for sure about the governments of the U.S. and Europe, it’s that they sound upset about […]
By Ken Klippenstein The Intercept Affinity Partners boasts of “accelerating transformation through connectivity” in a slide deck obtained by The Intercept. Jared Kushner’s new investment fund, Affinity Partners, nakedly touts the former Trump adviser’s work with Saudi Arabia and his links to several Trump-era deals in the hope of raising […]
By Jesse Cohn Over the course of its history, the anarchist movement has produced a form of literary theory – a critical aesthetics and epistemology grounded in its emancipatory ethics. In sketching an outline of this body of thought, this essay attempts to call attention to several aspects […]
By Caitlin Johnstone You were born in the middle of the most sophisticated and expansive mass-scale perception management operation that has ever taken place. The news media is propaganda and schooling is designed to condition us to accept that propaganda. Public understanding of what a normal moderate position […]
Neocon stooges vs. woke capitalism in yet another heel vs. heel. By W. James Antle III, The Week Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has once again taken the fight to his political enemies — and in doing so, has sparked a debate among conservatives over the proper use […]
This is so 1979. By Samuel Goldman The Week The kids are not all alright. That’s the message from Vanity Fair, the May issue of which includes a report from a small but colorful corner of the intellectual and political landscape. In the after-parties and corridors of the […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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