By Amanda Barroso Pew Research Center Dating has always come with challenges. But the advent of dating apps and other new technologies – as well as the #MeToo movement – presents a new set of norms and expectations for American singles looking for casual or committed relationships, according […]
By Hamilton Nolan, In These Times The crypto market’s inevitable crash will pull America’s politics in an even scarier direction. Making predictions about looming social and political catastrophes is a dicey business, because most of the exciting things in history did not happen predictably. You can try to […]
The Editorial Board The Republicans are reviving American apartheid. Thursday is the one-year anniversary of the day seditionary forces sacked and looted the United States Capitol in an attempt to overturn a lawful democratic election and install Donald Trump as fuhrer-king. The violence stopped long ago, but the […]
By Maria Chia-Ming Liu, Washington Post This past spring, at the height of violence against Asians and Asian Americans during the pandemic, my husband and I chose to eat dinner at a Vietnamese restaurant near where we live in South Florida — in a show of solidarity with […]
Robby Soave details the latest academic freedom violation on a college campus.
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss President Biden’s faltering approval numbers.
By David Gilbert Vice How one 18-year-old’s decision to turn his father in to the FBI tore his family apart. On January 5 last year, Guy Reffitt, a member of the Texas Three Percenters militia, packed his AR-15 rifle and a Smith & Wesson pistol into his wife’s […]
By Stephen Marche Foreign Policy A significant portion of Americans seek the destruction of political authority. What if they succeed? The unimaginable has become reality in the United States. Buffoonish mobs desecrating the U.S. Capitol building, tanks parading down the streets of Washington, running battles between protesters and […]
By John Whitehead and Nissa Whitehead, Rutherford Institute “Tyranny does not flourish because perpetuators are helpless and ignorant of their actions. It flourishes because they actively identify with those who promote vicious acts as virtuous.”—An academic study into pathocracy Disgruntled mobs. Martial law. A populace under house arrest. […]
Babylon Bee WASHINGTON, D.C.—Special agents involved in last year’s ‘January 6th Insurrection Against Democracy™’ are set to reunite as guests of honor at an extravagant gala hosted by the FBI. The event will reportedly feature live music and entertainment, with comedian James Corden acting as master of ceremonies. […]
By Michael Bluhm The Signal What really happened on January 6? Seth Masket on how Donald Trump’s claims about the 2020 election continue to endanger U.S. democracy. Americans believe vastly different versions of what happened in Washington a year ago, when a group of Trump supporters breached the […]
By Michael Paul Williams Richmond Times-Dispatch In hindsight, Virginia was a testing ground and a grim portent of the Jan. 6 insurrection. On the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in January 2020, theologian Corey D.B. Walker, then a visiting professor at the University of Richmond, was among a […]
By Jonathan Chait New York Magazine January 6, 2021, may be the most contentious date in American history. To Democrats and the surviving remnant of anti-Trump Republicans, the event was a spasm of right-wing political violence aimed at terminating the republican experiment. To most Republicans, it was something […]
“When faced with extinction any other option is preferable” “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolutions inevitable” You can not take everything from people and leave them with no hope, desperation breeds violence, and those with nothing to lose have no problem putting it all on […]
Journalist Judith Levine makes the case against digital vaccine passports.
Krystal and Saagar comment on the decision by tech giants to censor the interview between Joe Rogan and Dr. Robert Malone, the inventor of mRNA vaccine technology
Team Rising reacts to new findings from the House Committee investigating January 6.
By Damon Linker The Week It’s not inevitable. Maybe not even likely. But it’s still worth debate. With the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection looming later this week, analysts and pundits have put the worst-case scenario for the American future on the table for public debate […]
By Damon Linker The Week As a liberal centrist, I’m used to taking heat from both sides of our political and cultural divides. When I criticize progressive “woke” trends, the left lashes back. And when I take aim at intensifying anti-democratic derangement among rank-and-file Republicans, the right retaliates. […]
By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH, Associated Press MISSION, Kan. (AP) — What students are learning about the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 may depend on where they live. In a Boston suburb in heavily Democratic Massachusetts, history teacher Justin Voldman said his students will spend the day […]
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood, Washington Post As he runs for the Senate, the ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ author has gone from media darling to establishment pariah. Is his new, fiery, right-wing persona an act? Or is something more interesting going on? Let’s start with the beard. J.D. Vance didn’t used […]
The New York Attorney General has subpoenaed Ivanka Trump and Donald Trump Jr. as part of the money probe into the Trump Organization. Trump’s children are not expected to comply with the subpoenas. Former Acting U.S. Solicitor General Neal Katyal joins MSNBC’s Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber to […]
–A chilling draft of a Trump letter calling for the “seizure” of election materials is obtained by the House Committee investigating the January 6 Trump riots
Neocons vs Trumpists in a heel vs. heel match. –Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney, who is on the House Committee investigating the January 6 Trump riots, tells ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that they have received firsthand
By Joel Kotkin Demographic transitions present political opportunities, but do not protect politicians from their own folly. The shift in most Western countries to a more racially and ethnically diverse demographic has been widely seen by left-wingers as an opportunity to cement their ascendancy. Yet after early […]
Writer and attorney Mark Yzaguirre joins The Realignment to discuss our show’s original focus: cultural, economic, and political realignments are reshaping the right and left.
By Larry Gambone, Porcupine Blog Just because you have some ideal or goal which is – or seems – completely at odds with the world as it is, does not mean you are an extremist. Extremism is an attitude, not just a set of ideas or concepts. You […]
By Samantha Jones New Discourses I have a Ph.D. in Women’s Studies, but I’m not woke anymore. I write under a pseudonym because, if my colleagues were to find out about my criticisms of this field, I would be unable to find any employment in academia. That someone […]
By David E. Gumpert The Nation If 1920s Germany could punish Hitler for leading a coup attempt, why can’t America go after Trump? Pulling off a successful coup d’état in a dictatorship is a risky affair. It invariably involves the military, and failure usually results in long prison […]
By Joel Mathis, The Week Nearly a year after the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, there are two things most Americans agree on: That the insurrection was an attack on democracy, and that democracy itself remains incredibly fragile. Too bad we’re not acting like it. On […]
By Peter Weber, The Week The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection has “interviewed more than 300 witnesses, collected tens of thousands of documents, and traveled around the country to talk to election officials who were pressured by Donald Trump,” The Associated Press reports. Now, the […]
By Brigid Kennedy The Week It’s almost the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, and Americans are still at odds over how to describe what happened that fateful winter day, according to a new poll from PBS NewsHour, NPR, and Marist. While 49 percent of those […]
By Dan Balz Scott Clement and Emily Guskin Washington Post One year after the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol, Republicans and Democrats are deeply divided over what happened that day and the degree to which former president Donald Trump bears responsibility for the assault, amid more universal signs […]
Daniel Francisco is a former executive director for Project Veritas and is now a city councilman in Englishtown NJ and is running for congress out of the 4th district Pete invited Daniel on to talk about various subjects including his gun rights activism, trying to red-pill the Right […]
By Devin Foley Intellectual Takeout Let’s be honest, we live in an honor-less age; lies and gossip aren’t just the tools of politicians and celebrities. In your own life, you can probably point to any number of people around you — even church people! — whose main trade seems […]
By Thomas Homer-Dixon, Special to The Globe and Mail The U.S. is becoming increasingly ungovernable, and some experts believe it could descend into civil war. What should Canada do then? Thomas Homer-Dixon is executive director of the Cascade Institute at Royal Roads University. His latest book is Commanding […]
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss the controversy surrounding Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes and her vacation to Miami.
Krystal and Saagar look at the latest figures on the Omicron covid variant and how states have responded including a New York healthcare policy that discriminates based on race
The Robin DiAngelo parody at 16:00 is pretty good.
By Patrick Reilly New York Post An Australian man was critically injured after he doused himself in gasoline and lit himself on fire in public on New Year’s Day after ranting against vaccines, according to local reports. The gruesome act of self-immolation occurred just after 8 p.m. local […]
The hosts answer your questions about the Afghanistan War withdrawal, student debt, and Bravo’s housewives.
Aleksey Bashtavenko Academic Composition The majority of Millennials are overwhelming in favor of a broad variety of “progressive” policies, most of which involve the expansion of government. They are more likely than Generation X to support government policies that penalize people who make seemingly offensive comments, […]
By Meryl Kornfield and Mariana Alfaro Washington Post Phil Spampinato had never contemplated the question of whether violence against the government might be justified — at least not in the United States. But as he watched Republicans across the country move to reshape election laws in response to former […]
By Kevin Hockmuth For those charting the intellectual mood of the mainline American left, it is hard to avoid sensing that a specter is haunting liberal sensibilities—the specter of wokism. Indeed, a stream of anecdotes highlighting this foreboding development has been frequently relayed and expounded upon in the […]
Greg Lukianoff, President of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) and co-author of The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure, joins The Realignment to discuss the differences between debates over political correctness in the […]
By Paul Gottfried, American Greatness If Democrats can get their way legislatively within the next few months, they may do better than expected in November. The Greek historian Polybius begins his history of the Punic Wars by explaining that Rome “from the beginning” was driven by a single […]
By Kaia Hubbard, US News and World Report Long-standing political divisions within states are being heightened in a hyper-partisan climate, fueling secession movements across the country as walking away is looking easier than coming together. When three rural Maryland counties recently threatened to secede from the state, citing […]
By Joel Mathis, The Week For me, 2021 will always be the year Donald Trump didn’t go away. I had thought — and predicted — that shorn of office and social media access, the former president would be forced to give up the spotlight. And it’s true that […]
Matt Taibbi makes the case that if Democrats don’t change their tune on parental influence in school curriculum, they’re doomed in 2022.
Krystal and Saagar break down the decision by New York State’s Joint Commission of Public Ethics to demand Andrew Cuomo forfeit the profits from his book after he used state resources to complete it
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
Recent Comments