By Andrew Sullivan Some small signs of hope for liberal society. An unlikely thing happened to me on my two weeks’ off. I watched an HBO Max miniseries that mocked some aspects of wokeness. Mike White’s “The White Lotus” is a tragicomic exposé of our current moneyed elites […]
A reader shares the following observation. Although personally pro-vaccine, I agree…that a broad mandate like this is probably not a wise move. That said (and here my growing anti-capitalism shows, as a former doctrinaire an-cap), I suppose this is what you get when you combine a once-in-a-100-years pandemic […]
By Robby Soave Mr. Soave, a senior editor at Reason, has written extensively about law, public policy and free speech. There’s one person that President Biden desperately needs to consult about his new federal vaccine mandate: President-elect Biden. In December 2020, as the prospect of imminent mass vaccination […]
By Peter Zeihan September 10, 2021 The seven-day moving average for new COVID deaths in the United States is back up above 1,000 – a figure the Americans have not suffered since before COVID vaccines became widely available back in April. To that end, a series of new […]
Krystal and Saagar respond to Joe Rogan’s frustration at CNN for smearing him for the treatments he used to successfully fight covid
When I founded Attack the System over 20 years ago, my objective was to lay the blueprint for an insurgent anarchist movement in North America that could eventually take down the US regime and ruling class, in solidarity with those under attack by US imperialism in each of […]
Do it. And anti-wokesters can build their own cities as well. By Will Feuer Former Walmart executive and e-commerce billionaire Marc Lore wants to build the world’s first woke city from scratch — somewhere in the US. Lore last week unveiled plans for his utopia, called Telosa, from […]
By Seonghek Kang In 1992 amidst the celebration of the upcoming Summer Olympics, a rectangular pavilion in the neighborhood of Horta was erected by the order of the Barcelona city government. Externally unimpressive with large, semi-transparent glass windows covering steel staircases, the edifice was in fact a reconstruction […]
We now more or less have compulsory vaccination. By Zeke Miller, AP News WASHINGTON (AP) — In his most forceful pandemic actions and words, President Joe Biden on Thursday ordered sweeping new federal vaccine requirements for as many as 100 million Americans — private-sector employees as well as […]
By Mike Giglio, The Intercept I was driving home from a militia muster in the Virginia mountains last summer — after another day immersed in preelection talk of civil war — when I found myself reflecting, as I often have in the year since, on Norman Mailer’s “The […]
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds 87 percent of employed voters said they are satisfied with the way they are treated by their employers. Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, Robby Soave discuss.
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss mainstream media’s coverage of Joe Rogan’s use of ivermectin.
Team Rising discusses the White House’s ongoing pandemic response, including President Biden’s push for broader mask mandates.
Activist and filmmaker Michael Moore gives his take on vaccine hesitancy and COVID disinformation.
Ryan Grim breaks down new audio that seemingly exonerates Julian Assange from hacking allegations.
Robby Soave makes the case against in-school mask mandates.
By Joshua Prager, The Atlantic Norma McCorvey, the plaintiff in Roe v. Wade, never had the abortion she was seeking. She gave her baby girl up for adoption, and now that baby is an adult. After decades of keeping her identity a secret, Jane Roe’s child has chosen […]
Kim Iversen explains why Gavin Newsom’s campaign against recall may be in more trouble than Democrats think.
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave react to data from the Treasury Department showing that the top one percent of wealthy people in the U.S. owe more than $160B in taxes.
By Richard Kreitner, The New York Review Disunion is hardly a new theme in American politics. In this moment of tumult, it would be unwise to rule out its return. fter what even Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell called, with surprising accuracy, a “failed insurrection” at the United […]
By Stefan Gleason, Money Metals Exchange Money Metals Silver’s near-term price trajectory remains uncertain amid choppy market conditions. Its future, however, looks bright. In addition to the white metal’s growing uses in high-tech and alternative energy industries, some silver bulls are banking on rising bullion demand by retail […]
Crummy government is the most cited category, and yet libertarians, anarchists, and fellow travelers don’t seem to be able to give their ideas away. Statista Research Department In June 2021, 22 percent of respondents stated that poor leadership and a general dissatisfaction with the government were the most […]
By Jack Phillips Epoch Times Portland State University professor Peter Boghossian said he’s resigned from his position in an open letter and accused the college administration of creating an environment that imperils dissent. “I never once believed—nor do I now—that the purpose of instruction was to lead my […]
Krystal and Saagar respond to the calls by Jimmy Kimmel and other prominent media liberals to deny healthcare to the unvaccinated and let them die if they get sick
Krystal and Saagar go through all of the forces leading to Biden’s tanking approval ratings and what looks to be a hellish September for the administration
Krystal and Saagar break down the documents that were disclosed as the Elizabeth Holmes trial begins and what they could mean for the MeToo defense she plans on using
Krystal provides a rundown of the corruption and criminal activity that has occurred in the Manchin family, especially in the sales and distribution of lifesaving treatments by pharma companies
Saagar goes through the latest lab leak bombshell that definitely proves Fauci lied to congress about gain of function research funding by the US government in the Wuhan Institute of Virology
Krystal and Saagar examine the ACLU’s major flip flop on the issue of vaccine mandates and what it reflects about the organization’s shift away from its principles since the Trump years began
Krystal and Saagar break down the shocking new poll that shows a tight gubernatorial race in Virginia between former Gov. Terry McAuliffe and GOP upstart Glenn Youngkin.
Krystal and Saagar talk with author and historian Thomas Frank about liberal smears of working class Americans and the idea of a populist movement in the age of covid
Ben Mezrich, author of The Accidental Billionaires (adapted into The Social Network,) Bitcoin Billionaires, and The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders that Brought Wall Street to Its Knees, joins Saagar and Marshall at The Realignment to explain why he believes […]
The principal dividing line in the “culture wars” is between the college-educated and non-college-educated, rather than class, race, gender, or religion. By Nate Cohn, New York Times The front lines of America’s cultural clashes have shifted in recent years. A vigorous wave of progressive activism has helped push […]
Krystal and Saagar discuss Biden’s terrible month, Virginia’s Gubernatorial race, liberals proposing healthcare denial for the unvaccinated, ACLU, Elizabeth Holmes trial, Manchin family corruption, lab leak smoking gun, populism in America with Thomas Frank, and more!
by Don Fitz [This is the final part of an exchange between Robert Pollin and Don Fitz carried in Green Social Thought (GST) and ZNet. The first portion consisted of two articles by Pollin which originally appeared in Truthout on 7/3/21 and 6/10/21. The second portion was a […]
by Robert Pollin [This is the third part of an exchange between Robert Pollin and Don Fitz carried in Green Social Thought (GST) and ZNet. The first portion consisted of two articles by Pollin which originally appeared in Truthout on 7/3/21 and 6/10/21. The second portion was a […]
By C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout Twenty years ago this week, the terrorist organization al-Qaeda, whose origins date back to 1979 when Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan, hijacked four airplanes and carried out suicide attacks against the Twin Towers and the Pentagon in the United States. Shortly thereafter, the administration of George […]
By Yves Smith A couple of years ago, when Lambert would talk about professional pundits and official Democratic spokescritters behaving as if they were trying to stoke civil war in the US, I thought he’d been spending too much time on Twitter and might benefit from a dose […]
This is actually a good thing. These drugs are mostly less dangerous than alcohol, both to self and others. Katie Camero, Miami Herald College students smoke weed; it’s all in the data. But now a new study shows they are lighting up at the highest recorded levels since […]
At this point, it seems like there is no way the United States can hold together indefinitely. Americans agree on literally nothing. And I don’t see how that is going to change any time in the foreseeable future. If a national crisis like the pandemic and its impact […]
By Bethany Blankley | The Center Square (The Center Square) – The majority of all U.S. counties have been designated as Second Amendment sanctuaries, according to an analysis by SanctuaryCounties.com. As of June 20, there are 1,930 counties “protected by Second Amendment Sanctuary legislation at either the state […]
This is really interesting. As the wider culture, particularly among the elite, has moved sharply leftward, the deeper red zones have at times taken a sharp turn rightward, and not just on abortion. How long before the system cracks? By Emma Bowman, NPR More abortion restrictions have been […]
Polyamory is now working its way into the mainstream as well. By Elizabeth Nolan Brown, Reason Cambridge legalizes polyamorous partnerships. The city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, will become the second municipality in the country to legalize domestic partnerships between three or more people. On Monday, Cambridge City Council approved […]
The trans rights movement is the new gay rights movement, and the sex worker rights movement is becoming the new trans rights movement. I’m beginning to see articles like this in the mainstream press much more frequently. By Anya Jabour, Washington Post New York lawmakers are engaged in […]
I remember when this group first appeared in the late 1990s, they were widely ridiculed as absurd. But did they not achieve their goals? Are not more than a third of the US states now de facto or de jour “stoner homelands”? I guess the moral of the […]
Once again, issues I have been debating for years are now becoming mainstream. At this point, I would have to say that the majority of ideas (taken from a myriad of diverse and often seemingly contradictory sources) that I have been discussing, criticizing, debating, or advocating for here […]
Keep in mind that for the entire 20 years of the “War on Terrorism” the US empire has inflicted an average of one Waco per day on other societies in terms of body counts, perhaps more. Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss a guest essay by […]
Team Rising reacts to news that Governor Abbott signed the controversial Texas voter bill into law, plus comments he made about the equally controversial Heartbeat Act.
Ryan Grim details the circumstances that led to RFK assassin Sirhan Sirhan’s release on parole.
From what I have seen over the past few years, the “libertarian movement” in the US has largely deteriorated into a WWE area where different culture war factions can play-fight. Different libertarian and anarchist tendencies seem to have merely become appendages to the major tribes. The best that […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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