By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs and Tiffany Hsu, New York Times KENOSHA, Wis. — The judge overseeing the Kyle Rittenhouse trial said on Thursday that a producer for MSNBC had followed a bus carrying jurors home from the courthouse the previous night. Judge Bruce Schroeder called it an “extremely serious […]
By David G. Lewis, Journal of Critical Indigenous Anthropology The following is a direct transcription of a report from Joel Palmer of the Chetco Massacre of 1853. This is a well-known massacre on the southern Oregon Coast, and referenced in many of the ethnographies and Native histories of […]
Michael Shellenberger, author of San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities, returns to The Realignment to argue that progressive governance has failed on its own terms to address, why he still considers himself a “liberal” even though many on the right are inclined to agree with his critiques, how […]
By James McElroy Washington Examiner Why did our governing classes treat last summer’s antifa rioters with so much more indulgence than they did the rioters of Jan. 6? Paul Gottfried’s latest book, Antifascism, offers an explanation that goes beyond mere political enmity. Anti-fascism, Gottfried argues, is the ideological […]
By Connor Grubaugh, Tablet When it entered office, the Biden-Harris administration promised to “lower the temperature” of America’s divisive conflicts over race, identity, and recognition. While Biden’s campaign appealed to moderates, however, his policies and appointments so far show him embracing a progressive “anti-racist” agenda fundamentally at odds […]
National Geographic Hunter-gatherer culture was the way of life for early humans until around 11 to 12,000 years ago. The lifestyle of hunter-gatherers was based on hunting animals and foraging for food. Hunter-gatherer culture is a type of subsistence lifestyle that relies on hunting and fishing animals and […]
By Robert Mackey The Intercept Kyle Rittenhouse’s far-right defenders say he is not a murderer but a hero. The prosecutor says the protesters who tried to disarm him were the real heroes. The twelve jurors who will decide Kyle Rittenhouse’s fate began their deliberations on Tuesday in Kenosha, […]
By Trevor Aaronson The Intercept In a new documentary, Tareena Shakil, whose marriage to Dennison was first revealed in an Intercept podcast, describes her journey to the Islamic State. “I did what I had to do to survive.” That’s what Tareena Shakil, the first British woman to be […]
By Peter Zeihan I look at a lot of charts, so you don’t have to. But here’s one I need to share. It’s a partial breakdown of product prices by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, that’s the group of wonks who tell us (formally) what inflation is […]
By Matt Taibbi After the WMD mess, Judith Miller got the blame, while a long list of just-as-guilty media villains failed upward. Now, a nervous press is looking for Russiagate’s fall guys. “There is an old saying in journalism: You’re only as good as your sources,” wrote Washington […]
Krystal and Saagar talk about Biden’s fitness to serve, a surge in opioid deaths, companies profiting off inflation, The View drama, a missing Chinese tennis star, Fauci’s madness on covid, the Amazon Mayor Pete documentary, unvaccinated working class with Chris Arnade, and more! Merch: https://breaking-points.myshopify.com/ Chris Arnade’s Substack: […]
By Ryan Lucas, National Public Radio Jacob Chansley, the self-styled “QAnon shaman” who became one of the faces of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol after storming the building in a fur headdress with horns, has been sentenced to nearly three and a half years in prison […]
By Brendan Morrow The Week The United States has reached a “tragic milestone,” as a “staggering” number of overdose deaths were reported in one 12-month period. Provisional data released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed the number of overdose deaths in the United States […]
It’s interesting how proponents of “liberal democracy” view their preferred system/ideology as the equivalent of revealed religion. None of those guys have carried out massacres and dislocations on the level of US regimes of recent decades, or many US client states, from Indonesia to Saudi Arabia. Erdogan is […]
In a society fractured into warring tribes, “innocence” or “guilt” simply means, “Are you one of us or one of them?” By David French, The Atlantic If a jury acquits him, it will not be a miscarriage of justice—but an acquittal does not make a foolish man a […]
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll reveals that half of independents are not excited to vote in the 2022 midterm elections.
Kim Iversen explains why the Republican Party may become the party of the working class.
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave react to reporting that Bill Gates has dumped hundreds of millions of dollars into funding news media.
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss the tweet that has NPR in hot water.
Team Rising discusses efforts by Congressional Republicans to punish Rep. John Katko over his vote for the $1.2T bipartisan infrastructure law.
Team Rising reacts to the Congressional censure of Rep. Paul Gosar over a violent meme he shared.
Robby Soave details the sordid history behind Washington, D.C.’s mask mandate.
The overthrow of the US empire and the tech-oligarch/new clerisy alliance is the major need of our time. Ryan Grim breaks down the newest frontier of Big Tech.
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss Pfizer’s request for emergency use authorization of their antiviral COVID-19 treatment pill, paxlovid.
That’s not ignorance, it’s not even “just a lie”, it is regimen PR/Propaganda
America cares about human rights as much as Hannibal Lector does.
In a tribalistic society, people vote with their tribe, not with issues or policies. “Our guy is our guy” no matter what his policies are or what he actually does. By Jon Henley, The Guardian People are divided more deeply by identity than by issues, according to a […]
By Catherine Garcia, The Week The judge overseeing the trial of the men charged with murdering Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man who was shot and killed while jogging through a Georgia neighborhood, rejected a defense request on Monday for a mistrial. Greg McMichael, his son Travis McMichael, […]
By Joel Mathis, The Week Americans don’t want to overturn Roe v. Wade. A new Washington Post/ABC News poll indicates that 60 percent of U.S. adults want to see the abortion-rights precedent upheld, and a slightly higher number — 65 percent — believe that Texas’ new anti-abortion law […]
By Ryan Cooper, The Week Don’t throw away the best economic opportunity in 20 years for panic and austerity. The United States economy is in much better shape than it was in April 2020, when we lost 6.1 million jobs in a week. Indeed, demand for certain things […]
By Damon Linker, The Week An unresolved contradiction still plagues the controversial history as it releases in book form. What does it mean to tell a country’s story? In August 2019, The New York Times Magazine proposed one answer to this question for the United States. A package of essays […]
By Harrison Stelter, The Nation The pundit Éric Zemmour is leading a confident and radicalized conservative movement. “What progressives fail to understand is that the future is not ruled by economic curves but by demographic curves,” Éric Zemmour postulated, visibly nervous before the audience of conservative activists assembled […]
By Matt Taibbi Has the Empire really struck back at “independent newsletters”? “The Substack Scaries are Over for Media Companies,” announced Axios today, in a tweet tagged to a story with a dramatic headline: “Big media strikes back at Substack.” The piece referenced a recent Vanity Fair article, […]
By Stephanie McCrummen Washington Post ARGYLE, Tex. — The vision had come as she was driving home from the Kroger, and it was so sudden and fully formed that Aubrey Schlackman began to tell people that “it was like God placed it in my head.” This was last […]
By Anatol Lieven, The Nation But there’s already a solution. Amid the public storm in America over the fall of Kabul, it is important not to lose sight of other looming crises around the world—some of them potentially much more dangerous than Afghanistan. For if the US political […]
By Zachary Stieber Epoch Times An appeals court dominated by Republican-nominated judges was chosen at random Tuesday to deal with the flurry of lawsuits against the Biden administration’s private business COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit was the winner of a lottery […]
Derek Robertson, Contributing Editor to Politico Magazine, joins The Realigment to discuss what Glenn Youngkin’s Virginia gubernatorial upset means for the future of American politics, how new culture wars over race and education differ from 1990s-2000s fights of gay marriage and abortion, and how President Biden and Democrats […]
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll reveals less than half of Democratic voters want President Joe Biden to run for president again in 2024.
Saagar dives into the numbers on how America feels about the economy under Joe Biden and how a change in mindset can make economic policy work better for Americans across the board
Kim Iversen breaks down Austria’s lockdown mandate for their unvaccinated population.
Saagar and guest host Kyle Kulinski go into the weeds on Democrats tax provisions in the Build Back Better plan that would provide a huge tax cut for millionaires in blue states
Deputy opinion editor at Newsweek, Batya Ungar-Sargon, explains why legacy media failed in their reporting of the Steele dossier.
Saagar and guest host Kyle Kulinski are joined by labor journalist Jonah Furman to get the latest updates on what is happening with workers around America and how the public feels about it
Host of Bad Faith Podcast, Briahna Joy Gray, discusses Vice President Kamala Harris’ popularity among the public and coverage in the media.
Saagar and guest host Kyle Kulinski give their thoughts on the claims made by Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei about creeping authoritarianism in the United States
Team Rising reacts to the charges against Steve Bannon.
Saagar and guest host Kyle Kulinski provide an overview of Beto O’Rourke’s plans to run for Governor of Texas and why his campaign is likely to fall flat if he runs on gun control
Ryan Grim details why the stories of American heroes like Robert Smalls should be taught in schools.
Saagar and guest host Kyle Kulinski cover a new study that explains why Democrats are losing normal voters of all races despite what the twitter bubble might have you believing
Robby Soave details the final day of arguments in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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