By Michael Lind, Tablet The red wave may have turned out to be a red ripple but, despite inflated expectations, it’s not the Republicans who look to have been hardest hit by the midterm election results but the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. Assuming that the House […]
2022 Midterm Elections ‘White Wave’ of Mail-In Ballots Slammed Oz, Other Republicans Share (friends read free) Read more » No Time to Run | America’s Great, New, Patriotic Film “Due to circumstances beyond her control, a small town daughter, wife and mother must confront […]
November 12, 2022 Northern California Ex-Trans Teen to Sue Kaiser Permanente Over Gender Transition as Minor Share (friends read free) Read more » No Time to Run | America’s Great, New, Patriotic Film “Due to circumstances beyond her control, a small town daughter, wife […]
Ep. 2235 What Happened in the Midterms?
By Isabel Vincent New York Post Fed up with their liberal lawmakers, a group of Republican voters in Eastern and Central Oregon just inched one step closer Tuesday to breaking ranks with their state to become part of Idaho. Voters in two Oregon counties, Morrow and Wheeler, approved […]
Many of the attendees made the Nazi salute popularized by Adolf Hitler, while others had tattoos of the German dictator, according to a press report. EG by Emily Green VICE November 9, 2022, 10:12am A grab of the video taken by newspaper El Pais from the clandestine neo-Nazi […]
Gab In light of the clown show that was the election on Tuesday I wanted to share some of my thoughts on what I see as the path forward from here. I made a post on Gab yesterday that got tens of thousands of engagements both on and […]
We also talk Leo Strauss and the trauma of our childhoods. Andrew Sullivan and Damon Linker Damon is a political writer who recently launched his own Substack, “Eyes on the Right.” He’s been the editor of First Things and a senior correspondent at The Week, and he’s the […]
Peter R. Quiñones “Pete, you’re just upset because your favorite statist lost, and WE were responsible!” Please, you didn’t do anything except make some posts on social media. But let’s take this statement in another direction. Libertarians, the people who are celebrating spoiling elections this week, pride themselves […]
The American Conservative It’s Election Week. Of course, it ought to have been Election Day, as my own column Wednesday mentioned, but that’s not how our increasingly ballot-based, rather than voter-based, electoral system works anymore. So, there are still some results to be seen, especially in the West. […]
The mid-terms show just how stable the US political system continues to be Niccolo Soldo Share (This essay was written for those disaffected with how America is run, whether they are on the left or on the right, neither Republican nor Democrat – ed.) Film and television have […]
Natalie Musumeci Donald TrumpJoe Raedle/Getty Images An ex-GOP strategist suggested that former President Donald Trump has no chance of winning the 2024 presidential election. Scott Jennings made his prediction based on the early results of the 2022 midterm elections. Many Trump-backed Republican candidates underperformed in Tuesday’s midterm elections. […]
The Signal What does the outcome of the U.S. midterm elections have to do with the future of democracy in America? J.J. Gould on political realities, conspiracy stories, and the new media ecosystem. Luke Stackpoole The American presidential historian and NBC News commentator Michael Beschloss warned last week—five days […]
Krystal and Saagar talk about the meaning of pro choice ballot initiatives sweeping in red states for abortion politics moving forward
Krystal and Saagar discuss the unexpected failure of the GOP’s tough-on-crime messaging in last night’s elections.
And it lost. Big time. Behold the wisdom of crowds. Michael Shellenberger An abortion-rights activist and an anti-abortion counter-protester argue during the Women’s March Action Rally for reproductive rights at Mariachi Plaza on October 8, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Sarah Morris/Getty Images) Democracy was on […]
Voters in all three states amended their constitutions to include reproductive rights, while Kentucky voters rejected an amendment that would have said there was no right to the procedure. By Mitch Smith and Ava Sasani Nov. 9, 2022Updated 10:54 a.m. ET Voters in California, Michigan and Vermont chose […]
Peter R. Quiñones I’m sitting here thinking about Election Days past when I considered myself a “good libertarian.” For many libertarian/anarchist/agorists Election Day is a holiday on which they virtue signal via social media about how intelligent they are (sanctimonious is a better term). “Why would anyone be […]
Caleb Maupin is a widely acclaimed speaker, writer, journalist, and political analyst. He has traveled extensively in the Middle East and in Latin America. He was involved with the Occupy Wall Street movement from its early planning stages, and has been involved many struggles for social justice. He […]
This is an interesting debate between a democratic socialist from The Jacobin and a neo-reactionary. I don’t share either guy’s philosophy but it is an interesting discussion. Attendees at the recent Unregistered Weekend in Chicago witnessed an unprecedented showdown between the leading opponent of democracy and its most […]
By Richard Eskow, LA Progressive. Some say the misdeeds of Democrats are too grave for them to support them in good conscience, please read why I am going to vote Democratic anyway. Dear Fellow Leftist: I’m not talking to the average liberal, or to undecided voters. I’m talking […]
By David Pan, Telos In his response to my post last week on affirmative action, Florindo Volpacchio emphasizes that the goal of affirmative action is “to recognize the social pathology of discrimination and inequality that privileged race and sexual identity to begin with.” It is certainly important to […]
Republican extremism is endangering the very idea of the professional, disinterested public servant. By Donald Moynihan Imagine you are offered a job. The pay is not as much as you could earn elsewhere, but it seems like meaningful work. Then you learn that the CEO does not actually […]
New York Review of Books In today’s midterm elections, United States voters are selecting, in addition to thousands of state and local officials, thirty-five senators, thirty-six state governors, and all 435 congresspeople in the House of Representatives. Among these candidates is Democrat John Fetterman, of Pennsylvania, who is […]
By Robert Stark Robert Stark Nov 6 This has been an eventful week for current events with a number of stories relevant to predictions from previous articles. I was somewhat skeptical about Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter in my previous article, Elon Musk’s Offer of Freedom through Benevolent […]
Biden & UN Secretary General Encourage Extremism Michael Shellenberger “I’m 24 years old and I’m here,” said a Just Stop Oil protester, who blocked a major highway into London this morning, “Because I don’t have a future.” In truth, carbon emissions in Britain have been declining for decades. […]
Brian A. Pace and Neşe Devenot Recent media advocacy for the nascent psychedelic medicine industry has emphasized the potential for psychedelics to improve society, pointing to research studies that have linked psychedelics to increased environmental concern and liberal politics. However, research supporting the hypothesis that psychedelics induce […]
Caleb Maupin is a widely acclaimed speaker, writer, journalist, and political analyst. He has traveled extensively in the Middle East and in Latin America. He was involved with the Occupy Wall Street movement from its early planning stages, and has been involved many struggles for social justice. He […]
Psychologist Sam Vaknin on why we need a politics of overcoming, not victimhood Michael Shellenberger “We have transitioned from the age of dignity to the age of victimhood,” argues Israeli psychologist and narcissism expert, Sam Vaknin. “Every single political and social movement nowadays has converted itself into a […]
Michael Shellenberger Nov 5 For years, the media told us that Greta Thunberg was driven by a love of nature. As I noted yesterday, it’s now clear she is more driven by a hatred of capitalism. Overconfident and smug, Thunberg inadvertently let her green mask slip at a […]
PharmaHeretic Readers of this blog will be aware of my rather dim view of certain social movements which claim to be liberal and progressive, but are the opposite of what they claim. On a previous blog, I wrote more than a few posts about how SJW-ism and the […]
By Jeff Cohen, Norman Solomon, LA Progressive When Ralph Nader appeared on “Democracy Now!” last week, a key moment came as he responded to the final question from host Amy Goodman: “You have campaigned as an independent and a Green throughout your political life. You ran for president […]
By Tom Woods It’s difficult to know exactly when it happened, but not long ago many Americans suddenly looked around and discovered that they and their neighbors inhabited completely different moral universes. Whether it’s Black Lives Matter, or teaching gender theory to children, or the usefulness or otherwise of […]
By Joel Kotkin Elections are never easy to predict. But whatever the outcome of America’s Midterms next month, it does seem certain that vast swathes of the American electorate will be largely ignored. In state after state, voters face a Hobson’s choice between abortion-banning, election-denying Trump loyalists on […]
Their far-left record has made the far right more electable. Andrew Sullivan (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) The day I received my absentee ballot from the DC government, there was a story in the Washington Post about the DC Council’s imminent vote: The bill would eliminate most mandatory minimum sentences, […]
Ep. 2225 Big Pharma Myths Debunked We’ve been taught to have a superstitious reverence for the government-pharmaceutical establishment, but is it justified? Read the original article at TomWoods.com. http://tomwoods.com/ep-2225-big-pharma-myths-debunked/
The American Conservative The cover story of the 20th anniversary issue of the magazine came out from behind the paywall this week. If you’ve not yet become a member of TAC you should, but in the meantime take advantage of the chance to read Nic Rowan’s feature on […]
By Adam Sabes FOXBusiness Biden’s student loan handout is an ‘egregious overstep’ that allows colleges to hike tuition: Sen. Marsha Blackburn The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania will offer an MBA in “Diversity, Equity & Inclusion” major beginning in the 2023 to 2024 academic year. The […]
The Signal Is the U.S. Republican Party becoming a “multi-racial, working-class” coalition? Matt Grossmann assesses the evidence for a major political realignment. Jezael Melgoza (Originally published 2022 | 05.26) Hispanic voters in America are “literally cascading into the Republican Party,” Donald Trump told Fox News earlier this year. […]
Tulsi Gabbard tackles the second amendment and her history with gun rights. The former Hawaii Congresswoman and combat veteran explains what experiences caused her to rethink her previously held views. She discusses this and more with House Minority Whip, Louisiana Congressman Steve Scalise, as they recount the harrowing […]
By David Pan, Telos As the Supreme Court hears arguments concerning racial preferences at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, it is hopefully not too late to reverse the deleterious effects of almost fifty years of affirmative action policy enabled by the Court’s previous decisions to […]
Peter R. Quiñones We have all seen the above quote posted on social media on many occasions. Usually by some scold in the journo class after someone on the Right bemoans censorship. “If you’re going to say something mean, expect there to be consequences!” This from the […]
Social shaming mailers are out in force this election season, combining old-fashioned neighborhood pressure with a touch of surveillance-state menace Matt Taibbi Is Big Brother watching you? Maybe. Just a little. That’s the message of political mailers circulating in states all over the country heading into midterm […]
The Signal Why the growing talk on the U.S. right of a “regime” in America? Laura K. Field on an emergent idea shaping the politics of the Republican Party. Norbert Kowalczyk After Hurricane Ian devastated Florida in late September, the U.S. state’s Republican governor Ron DeSantis used some […]
California politics are important because California is to a large degree the bellwether of the nation. A breakdown of November’s ballot measures by Independent Institute experts On November 8th, Californians will vote up or down on key propositions. Here’s expert analysis from researchers at the Independent Institute, offering […]
Video playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Unknown Unknowns The Corbett Report SHOW NOTES AND MP3: https://www.corbettreport.com/unknowns/ What you don’t know won’t hurt you . . . maybe. But it could change your mind about things you believe to be true. We all know this, […]
Jose Alberto Nino The ink is dry, Elon has kicked his shoes up on his new desk in the Twitter HQ, the world is basically exactly the same since the billionaire innovator took over the social media company, even though you’d think that WWIII has erupted and a […]
By Robert Stark Robert Stark Oct 28 Trump’s signature campaign issue was immigration and his election signified a rejection of the Reagan/Bush/McCain pro-immigration narrative. “Make America Great Again” had implicitly White demographic undertones of “make America White again,” Trump engaged in race baiting, such as his remark that […]
By Tristan Vanheuckelom, European Conservative While the annual ritual of filing one’s taxes might be fairly displeasing already, there is ample room for compounding the misery of this custom by bestowing tax revenue on controversial projects. So demonstrates the U.S. State Department in its newest stunt, by its […]
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