The Signal How did a gas pipeline from Russia to Germany become central to the fate of Ukraine? Anatol Lieven on the intense game of diplomacy going on with Moscow, Berlin, Washington, and Kiev. Thousands of Russian troops remain massed at the Ukrainian border, where Moscow started moving […]
By Caroline Mimbs Nyce The Atlantic Omicron is leading to school closures and reigniting familiar debates around the safety of in-person learning. In Chicago, public schools remain closed amid a dispute with the teachers’ union over when to switch to remote instruction. Districts in other parts of the […]
By Grayson Quay The Week American and Russian diplomats made little progress on defusing tensions in Eastern Europe during talks that began Monday in Geneva, The New York Times reports. Moscow has massed 100,000 troops on its border with Ukraine. Putin said in December he would prefer to […]
By Peter Weber The Week Text messages released by the House Jan. 6 committee are a reminder how closely intertwined Fox News and former President Donald Trump’s White House were during his presidency — several prominent opinion hosts privately pleaded for Trump to stop the Capitol siege by his […]
By Joel Mathis, The Week Republicans aren’t so angry about the insurrection. They just object to how Democrats talk about it. When President Joe Biden last week marked the anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection with a speech castigating former President Donald Trump for inciting the rioters, Sen. […]
By Brigid Kennedy The Week According to a new Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll, Americans’ political concerns are shifting ahead of 2022 midterm elections in perhaps quite a challenging way for Democrats. More specifically, the AP-NORC poll found that “management of the pandemic, once an issue […]
Elizabeth Holmes has been found guilty on four counts of wire fraud. In 2018, Norah O’Donnell reported on Theranos, the company led by Holmes with a blood-testing machine that could never perform as touted that went from a billion-dollar baby to a complete bust.
By Michael Shellenberger Progressives say they care more about working people and climate change than Republicans and moderate Democrats. Why, then, do they advocate policies that make energy expensive and dirty? Progressive Democrats including Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Pramila Jayapal, the head of the House progressive caucus, […]
By AntiBoomerEquation Evidence from Conquistadores by Fernando Cervantes that Nation States and Anti-clericalism are the Root of Modern Tyranny. Charles, the first European to rule significant parts of the Americas, developed a keen interest in the continent: although he focused primarily on how best to make the resources […]
The United States is seeing its highest “quit rate” since the government started keeping track two decades ago. Bill Whitaker speaks with employers who are scrambling to find help and people who left their jobs and aren’t looking back.
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave react to Novak Djokovic’s legal victory in his fight to remain in Australia as protests break out in Melbourne.
Their working conditions remind me of sweatshops from the turn of the 20th century. Amazon workers need to unite and unionize.
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss Senator Jon Ossoff’s soon-to-be bill banning members of Congress and their families from trading stocks.
Krystal and Saagar cover the major screwup from POLITICO over the weekend who falsely claimed liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor was seen with Democratic leadership at a fancy DC restaurant after conducing SCOTUS hearings remotely
Imagine being the guy who watches a Sandy Hook conspiracy theory video, and likes it so much he immediately buys Super Male Vitality.
Batya Ungar-Sargon breaks down cable news’ coverage of the first anniversary of January 6.
Krystal and Saagar cover the most cringeworthy demonstrations from liberals on January 6th including Hamilton songs, Dick Cheney celebration, and a ratings disaster for cable news
Again, our Federal Government is based on the principle of checks and balances: depositing large checks into their bank accounts to increase their balances.
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss Democrats’ electoral strategy going into the 2022 midterms.
Krystal offers her perspective on Candace Owens’ claims about vaccines and why the rhetoric from the pharma skeptics on the right falls flat without proposing real solutions
We live in a world where daytime talk show host Oprah and a former President of the United States are given equal importance in headlines. We have lost all seriousness.
Krystal and Saagar are joined by economist Philip Pilkington to examine how wealthy economies are skewered in favor of the older generations and what the consequences could be moving forward
“Don’t get into the limousine, Mike. Don’t get into the limousine, Mike. Don’t get into the limousine, Mike.” Mike Pence was wise to listen to his inner voice then.
Team Rising debates whether America is headed towards a second Civil War.
Saagar lays out the false claims made by the New York Times and CDC about children getting diabetes from covid and how the public health establishment has lost people’s trust
Reality reads like an Onion article sometimes.
Ryan Grim details the campaign showdown between Rep. Betty McCollum and the young DFL progressive attempting to unseat her.
Krystal and Saagar debunk the false claims made by liberal Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor about covid hospitalizations among children during hearings on Biden’s federal vaccine mandate
Biden: “You were defeated… But your policies were not we are still keeping them alive.”
The hosts answer your questions about Roe v. Wade, politicians they admire, and natural immunity.
Krystal and Saagar look at the discouraging numbers from the December jobs report and how the Biden administration is spinning them to convince people the economy is doing well
The truly sad thing about this add is: That there are people who believe that! Seriously, some people need a reality check, especially those who have profited from the system (upper middle class people mostly, who think that through adapting to the perverted state the system is in, […]
Katie Halper reacts to news that Andrew Cuomo will not face any prosecution for his alleged sexual harassment of a former aide, or his role in New York’s Covid nursing home deaths.
Krystal and Saagar respond to the confrontation between Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz and Tucker Carlson after Cruz used the word ‘terrorist’ to describe the Jan 6th Capitol riot
Ted Cruz’s biggest enemy? Video recordings of Ted Cruz.
Richard Hanania breaks down his new book, “Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy: How Generals, Manufacturers and Foreign Governments Shape American Foreign Policy.”
On Krystal Kyle & Friends, Krystal and Kyle Kulinski talk all things Fed policy & history with a leading economist
Central bank policy since 2008 has not been aligned to capitalism. It has been corporate socialism. QE, if it had to be used, should have been transitory with a definite end date. The FED and the ECB has created institutional moral hazard, which is distorting the global economy […]
Robby Soave breaks down the reportedly false claim made by Justice Sonia Sotomayor while debating federal vaccine mandates.
Krystal and Saagar respond to the controversy that developed when media outlets claimed Jon Stewart accused J.K. Rowling of antisemitism only for him to shut down the story
‘If the Nuremberg Laws were actually applied across the board, every post-war American President would be strung up in the gallows’ — Noam Chomsky
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss the explosive spread of the Omicron variant across the country.
Krystal and Saagar are joined by Skye Wallin, the director of a new documentary about the late Senator Mike Gravel who stood up against the war machine in multiple Presidential campaigns
Krystal and Saagar discuss the December jobs report numbers, liberal cringe on January 6th, Ted Cruz’s heated appearance on Tucker Carlson, SCOTUS misinformation during vaccine mandate hearings, POLITICO’s major reporting screwup, CDC lies on covid & kids, the frauds on the anti-vax right, intergenerational warfare between millennials & […]
By Peter R. Quinones I have a few confidantes who contact me for private discussion or send me articles, etc. I was sent an excerpt from a Washington Examiner piece titled, “Archaeology of Freedom,” by Geoff Shullenberger, which looks into the question many have asked: what happened to […]
It is interesting to find a discussion of David Graeber in the Examiner of all places. By Geoff Shullenberger Washington Examiner In his 2011 book Debt: The First 5,000 Years, the anthropologist David Graeber marshaled historical, ethnographic, and archaeological evidence in an effort to dismantle some of the […]
By Anton Woronczuk, Truthout The world is in a prolonged period of global unrest. Since the financial crisis of 2008, every region of the planet has experienced levels of mass protest unprecedented in recent history, from the Arab Spring in the Middle East and Black Lives Matter in the U.S., to […]
Solability.Com Social capital The Social Capital of a nation is the sum of social stability and the well-being (perceived or real) of the entire population. Social Capital generates social cohesion and a certain level of consensus, which in turn delivers a stable environment for the economy, and prevents […]
By Sam Raskin New York Post Mayor Eric Adams on Sunday defended choosing his brother to serve as a deputy NYPD commissioner, saying he needs someone he can trust to protect him — including from potential threats by white supremacists. During an appearance on CNN, the new mayor revealed […]
By Patrick Reilly New York Post New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has tested positive for COVID-19 and is recovering at home – just over a week since she was spotted partying without a mask in Florida, her office said on Sunday. “Representative Ocasio-Cortez has received a positive test […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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