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
By Ryan Cooper, The Week Leftists are stronger than they have been since the 1940s. But it might not last. This article is part of The Week‘s 20th anniversary section, looking back at how the world has changed since our first issue was published in April 2001. Rep. Barbara […]
By Damon Linker, The Week Family of mine in the rural Midwest recently told me they’ve begun to see flags flying outside private homes bearing the message, “F–k Biden.” Underneath that statement, in smaller typeface, the thought continues: “…and f–k you for voting for him.” If you’re surprised […]
By Aruna Viswanatha, Wall Street Journal WASHINGTON—The U.S. criminal investigation into the Jan. 6 Capitol riot is entering a more contentious phase as it nears the one-year mark, with initial trials set to test the government’s strategy of using provisions first laid out in a 2002 financial-industry law […]
Tom Woods Show Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., joins us to discuss his new book The Real Anthony Fauci, which paints rather an unflattering portrait of the face of the American COVID response. READ MORE
By Jon Schwarz Intercept At Christmas we traditionally reflect upon our blessings and forgive those who have trespassed against us. Let’s not this year. At this time of year we traditionally reflect upon our blessings and forgive those who have trespassed against us. But we’ve been trying that […]
It’s all Russia… These pathetic souls need to get off Twitter
Robby Soave reacts to 1619 Project architect, Nikole Hannah-Jones’s, recent comments about parent choice in schools.
Ryan Grim details new results from a survey on public reception to transgender activism.
By Molly Young, New York Times Two distinguished academics walk into a restaurant in Manhattan. It is their first meeting — their first date, in fact — and the year is 2015. The man wears a down jacket against the icy winter evening. The woman has a shock […]
From 2017. The rise of the neo-know-nothings is in part a pushback against the rise of the alliance between digital capitalism, the traditional financial elites, and the professional-managerial class, with totalitarian humanism its ideological superstructure, along with the parallel cultural and demographic decline of traditionally hegemonic WASP culture, […]
From 2018. Today, the USA is basically the European Union of North America, a currency union and trade zone presided over by transnational elites who identify with their class and other international elites more than with “America” either as an ideal or entity. Meanwhile, the USA is moving […]
US political culture, particularly elite culture, has experienced a sharp leftward lurch in recent years. Hardcore wokesters are actually a very small minority compared to the general public, but they tend to be concentrated in sectors where they have a platform and influence that is greatly disproportional to […]
By Peter Weber, The Week Conservative millennial commentator Candace Owens spent Christmas weekend arguing on Twitter with less-conservative millennial commentator Meghan McCain over an interview Owens conducted with former President Donald Trump last week. In the interview, Trump stood up for the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines after Owens […]
As I’ve always said, Trump is a Nixon-Rockefeller moderate Republican at heart. By Joel Mathis, The Week He’s actively promoting vaccination. Will the GOP’s right-wing turn on him? In the early days of his 2016 campaign, former President Donald Trump famously boasted of the hold he had over his […]
Deputy opinion editor at Newsweek, Batya Ungar-Sargon, reacts to liberal outrage at the ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ comments made towards Joe and Jill Biden.
Robby Soave makes the case that trying to stop the spread of the Omicron variant is an impossible and pointless endeavor.
Proto-Protestant https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/us-news/2021/12/09/ocasio-cortez-slams-republicans-over-gun-toting-christmas-photos/ What a sad moment. Ocasio-Cortez the much vilified Democratic representative from New York and member of the hated ‘Squad’ has spoken truth – and a truth that puts Evangelicals to shame. The Right has made too much of Ocasio-Cortez. Some commentators suggest that ‘The Squad’ in […]
By Jeva Lange The Week The Trump Grill, located inside Trump Tower in New York City, refused to allow a group of vaccine mandate protesters to eat at the restaurant on Thursday after they failed to provide proof of vaccination. In response, the group slammed former President Donald […]
Krystal and Saagar react to the comments made by former President Trump on vaccines during an interview with conservative media pundit Candace Owens
Krystal and Saagar review the results from a poll of Breaking Points fans on YouTube about their hopes for next year
Saagar looks back on all of the predictions he made in 2021 to find his takes that aged the poorest and what he got right in the past year
By Charles M. Blow, New York Times The Supreme Court on Friday issued a decision allowing abortion providers in Texas to continue challenging a new law that bans most abortions in the state after about six weeks of pregnancy. But while the conservative majority didn’t close the door […]
“Never gonna be president now” -Thomas Jefferson (Hamilton Musical)
Ideological questions aside, what these groups appear to be doing is tactically correct. By Sergio Olmos, The Guardian The far-right is moving towards decentralized movements in regional venues where, experts warn, they can have far-reaching and dangerous impacts. This month more than 100 members of a white supremacist […]
By David Brooks, Seattle Times Rabbi Jonathan Sacks once observed that being a minority in 19th-century Europe was like living in someone else’s country home. The aristocrat owned the house. Other people got to stay there but as guests. They did not get to set the rules, run […]
By Joshua Adams, The Nation Something happened to Black discourse on the way to the backlash—and that’s no joke. US politics has been deluged by heated debates surrounding cancel culture, “wokeness,” and critical race theory. What do these three topics have in common? Some would say that they […]
Daily Kos I’m having a real hard time understanding how a civil war between liberals and conservatives would actually play out in this country. Would we have to wear uniforms to mark ourselves as part of the vast progressive horde, or would the conspicuous lack of misspelled MAGA […]
Tara Copp, Defense One First update since 2012 adds rules for social-media behavior. Service members could be punished for “liking” extremist content online under a new extension to the Pentagon’s anti-extremism policy that was prompted by the Jan. 6 attacks on the U.S. Capitol. The policy is the […]
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By David Brooks, Seattle Times Rabbi Jonathan Sacks once observed that being a minority in 19th-century Europe was like living in someone else’s country home. The aristocrat owned the house. Other people got to stay there but as guests. They did not get to set the rules, run […]
Welcome to another episode of conversations with Coleman. My guest today is Nicquel Terry Ellis. Nicquel is the senior writer for CNN’s Race and Equality team. Before that, she was a national correspondent for USA Today covering race inequality and activism. She has also spent six years working […]
Welcome to another episode of conversations with Coleman. My guest today is Michelle Telfer. Michelle is an Australian Paediatrician and Head of the Gender clinic at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne. She’s the lead author of the Australian Standards of Care and Treatment Guidelines for trans children, […]
By Matt Taibbi As the wealthiest county in America found out, difficult political problems can’t just be swept under a rug, or into a parking lot. Part Four of a Series. For parts one, two, and three of “A Culture War in Four Acts: Loudoun County, Virginia,” click […]
By Matt Taibbi In part three of a series. an opposition galvanized by revelations of bizarre school policies finds itself on an enemies list. Part three of a series. For parts one and two of “A Culture War in Four Acts: Loudoun County, Virginia,” click here and here. […]
George Mason University Law Professor Ilya Somin debates Libertarian Party activist Angela McArdle
Meaningness Francis Schaeffer, hippie guru and architect of the modern Religious Right “The counterculture” generally refers to the youth movement of the 1960s-70s: rock and roll, anti-war protests, psychedelics, the New Left, hippies, and the sexual revolution. While puzzling out how these elements cohered—to understand the counterculture functionally […]
Kulinski’s discussion of “conservative” or “right-wing” versions of “cancel culture” is pretty good.
By Kerry Hawley, New York Magazine “They can’t arrest us all,’’ a future defendant had posted days before, and this was the vibe in the moment, the ecstatic invulnerability that leads someone to smear feces on the floor of the building in which the most powerful country on […]
Krystal and Saagar offer their perspective on the discourse by liberals surrounding Louis CK’s first big special since he was banished from public life for sexual misconduct back in 2017
Pew Research Center Even in a polarized era, deep divisions in both partisan coalitions. Partisan polarization remains the dominant, seemingly unalterable condition of American politics. Republicans and Democrats agree on very little – and when they do, it often is in the shared belief that they have little […]
Tony Woodlief, executive vice president of the State Policy Network, details why independent voters are disillusioned with the political party apparatus.
By David Freedman, Newsweek Mike “Wompus” Nieznany is a 73-year-old Vietnam veteran who walks with a cane from the combat wounds he received during his service. That disability doesn’t keep Nieznany from making a living selling custom motorcycle luggage racks from his home in Gainesville, Georgia. Neither will […]
Retired Brig. Gen. Steven Anderson speaks with CNN’s Kate Bolduan about his op-ed in the Washington Post in which he and two other retired generals warn that the US military must work to quell unrest within the armed forces to prevent another insurrection from occurring in 2024.
By Rebecca Jennings Vox Algorithms are surfacing content that combines Christian ideas like prosperity gospel with New Age and non-Western spirituality — along with some conspiracy theories. “It just doesn’t sit right with me,” begins a TikTok by a user named Evelyn Juarez. It’s a breakdown of the […]
By Tara Copp, Defense One The “underlying factors are not going away,” says one researcher. The number of people with military backgrounds who committed criminal acts motivated by extremist views has jumped during the last ten years, according to new research at the University of Maryland. Without intervention, […]
By Brigid Kennedy, The Week Former President Donald Trump was met with boos Sunday after announcing to a mostly unmasked crowd he had, in fact, received a booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, Newsweek reports. Appearing alongside former Fox host Bill O’Reilly at the American Airlines Center in […]
Krystal and Saagar review more investigative reporting into the unindicted co-conspirators who were central players in the events that unfolded at the US Capitol on January 6th
Public defender Olayemi Olurin explains how police shows often don’t show the whole truth when it comes to crime and the justice system.
By Ken Stone, San Diego Times America is close to being at high risk of a civil war, a UC San Diego political scientist said Sunday night on CNN. “If a second civil war happens in the United States, it’s going to look very different from the first, […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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