By Grace Panetta Insider House GOP members descended into an intraparty Twitter quarrel on Tuesday morning, which was sparked by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene denouncing her colleague Rep. Nancy Mace as “the trash in the GOP conference” and pushing Islamophobic stereotypes by accusing the South Carolina lawmaker of […]
The word “liberal” literally means to support individual rights, and there’s absolutely nothing like that about her.
An interesting glimpse of the culture war in its early phase. Buckley interviews Dotson Rader from Students for a Democratic Society. It’s interesting to watch this discussion from the vantage point of 49 years later, in light of subsequent and contemporary events. It’s funny how Rader chain-smokes through […]
Apologizing for a coincidence is stupid it could have been all sorts of things $9.11 or $6.66 they are just numbers people
By Andrew Isker, Gab.Com A little over a month ago, Tucker Carlson presented a monologue on his show which set off conservative intelligentsia into a fit of impotent rage. The National Review types, who, to a man are as much in touch with the plight of the working […]
By Robert Stark I have advocated for a version of multiculturalism, which could be called Rightwing Multiculturalism, in that it is an alternative to the divisive woke version of multiculturalism. I would describe Rightwing Multiculturalism as the idea that many groups can coexist and respect one another while […]
By Sara Smart, CNN The statue, which is a plaster replica of the original, according to the city, was removed from its pedestal Monday. The process took several hours, and the 7-foot statue was transported in a wooden crate to the New-York Historical Society, where it will be […]
By Robin Pogrebin New York Times The bronze statue of Theodore Roosevelt, on horseback and flanked by a Native American man and an African man, which has presided over the entrance to the American Museum of Natural History in New York since 1940, is coming down. The decision, […]
Wilson’s alma mater, Princeton, has already renounced him. By Patrick Reilly New York Post A New Jersey school district is planning to rename one of its schools named after former President Woodrow Wilson due to what critics say is a legacy of racism. The Camden school district will […]
Wow, I think this may be even more entertaining than women’s WWE wrestling in a pool of Jello. When is the Pay-per-view? These nut jobs are not just serve serving, they make money for every media outlet, including this channel. So, they’re actually good for the entertainment economy, […]
Today on What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds the coronavirus and the economy remain the top issue facing the country today among voters.
Kim Iversen details the alleged victims we won’t hear from during Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial.
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, Robby Soave, and deputy opinion editor at Newsweek, Batya Ungar-Sargon, discuss Dr. Fauci’s transition from bureaucrat to partisan.
Robby Soave breaks down the response to the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict amongst elite university administrations.
Saagar breaks down the corruption of Jared Kushner and Hunter Biden’s business dealings abroad and why this puts American democracy at risk regardless of party or administration
“Restructure emergency response services” seems like a more accurate description. Doesn’t quite roll of the tongue as well though.
Seeming the entire universe is obsessed with the Kenosha trial, taking a break to talk about things that I think are more important.
Interesting. Will this be a real opposition project or just another neocon-coopted, incel-infested jerk-off project? Probably the latter. I actually like Thiel’s seasteading ideas. If he stuck to that I wouldn’t have much of a problem with him. By Kit Wilson, The Spectator A strange new ideology has […]
By Grayson Quay The Week Conservatives are accusing President Biden of hypocrisy after he announced travel restrictions against eight African countries. During the 2020 campaign, critics noted, Biden accused former President Donald Trump of racism and xenophobia for enacting similar travel bans. Despite the way it is being framed […]
By Freddie DeBoer Democratic messaging debates are bizarre because one group has been empowered to terrorize those they disagree with. Ezra Klein interviews David Shor about his recent rise in visibility, his particular take on Democratic policy and messaging, and the debate over “popularism.” It also glancingly mentions […]
By Glenn Greenwald In dominant elite discourse, no evidence is needed to brand someone a “white supremacist.” The belief that it will produce political or personal gain suffices. Within hours of the August 25, 2020, shootings in Kenosha, Wisconsin — not days, but hours — it was decreed […]
Katie Halper reacts to the New York State Assembly’s report on former Governor Andrew Cuomo.
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave debate the electoral future of younger voters.
Jen Pan unpacks some Trump-era liberal conspiracy theories and discusses why conspiracism flourishes all across the political spectrum in the US.
By Andrew Sullivan, The Weekly Dish He’s written a history of the nuns and priests who defied the Catholic leadership to help gay victims of the AIDS crisis. Many of you will recall the horrendous way in which the Catholic Church hierarchy responded to the AIDS crisis. Many […]
By Andrew Sullivan, Weekly Dish I’ll try not to take David Frum’s new piece on the Russia-Trump connection too personally, especially now that I’ve spent the week off-Twitter, chilling in the English countryside where I grew up, and generally unwinding with my family. And this isn’t a full-on […]
This is a timeline of how the de facto civil war in Northern Ireland began in the late 1960s. The conflict lasted until the late 1990s, and there have been “incidents” since then. A civil war in the United States that involved the total breakdown of civil society […]
During the Trump administration, it seemed every Thanksgiving was an occasion for media outlets to run fretful stories by progressives about what to do when a “racist uncle“ at the holiday dinner table vocally supported the 45th president. When those essays ended on a militant note, either advocating refusal […]
By Shawn Boburg, Sarah Cahlan, Joyce Sohyun Lee, Atthar Mirza, and Elyse Samuels At least seven of the 10 dead after the Astroworld Festival were clustered in a small area enclosed on three sides by metal barriers that became dangerously crowded, according to a Washington Post investigation. […]
By Tom Woods First it was statues of people like John C. Calhoun. That worked, since Americans have been told that Calhoun, one of the only political thinkers the United States ever produced who’s actually worth reading, was uniquely wicked and racist, etc. Some warned that eventually the […]
By Beth Brelje Epoch Times While many have been arrested for participation in the Jan. 6, 2021 rally in support of President Donald Trump, many others have been questioned by the FBI about their presence there that day. Those who have been questioned say a visit from the […]
By Zachary Stieber Epoch Times An investigator with the House of Representatives’ select committee investigating the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol breach has admitted privately that the panel erroneously asserted a former New York City police commissioner was in Washington on Jan. 5, but the assertion remains on the […]
The Intercept Rittenhouse being acquitted of all charges clears the way for more guns and right-wing violence at protests nationwide. Jurors in the trial of three men accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery began deliberations Tuesday. Last week, a jury acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse of all charges, including two counts […]
By Matthew Vadum Epoch Times A conservative think tank filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against California to halt a law that will force quotas on publicly held corporations headquartered in the state, requiring them to appoint board members based solely on their race and sexual orientation. The […]
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll reveals only one in five Americans hosting a Thanksgiving gathering will require proof of vaccination to attend. This survey was conducted online within the United States from Nov 18 – Nov 19 among 939 registered voters by HarrisX. The […]
Ryan Grim breaks down newly released information related to Jeffrey Epstein’s incarceration.
Apparently, these are the folks behind “national conservatism.” While much of the Silicon Valley oligarchy has aligned itself with Wall Street and the traditional northeastern establishment, it appears at least some among them are trying to work the right-wing angle as well. Peter Thiel was a Trump backer, […]
In the Times’ first feature-length documentary Alastair Good traveled to north Idaho to investigate whether a movement to build a home for conservative Christians and unhappy Trump voters is being exploited by extremists planning for secession.
A jury has awarded more than $26 million in damages after finding the White nationalists who organized and participated in a violent 2017 rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, liable on a state conspiracy claim and other claims.
Anthony Huber was the second person killed by Kyle Rittenhouse on Aug. 25, 2020. We walked toward the courthouse and spoke at length about the trial, and life since the shooting.
Today’s guest is Glenn Loury, professor of economics at Brown University. Prof. Loury has had a distinguished career—he was the youngest-ever tenured Black economics professor at Harvard and is known for coining the term “social capital.” Prof. Loury is generally associated with political conservatism, but his books The […]
John McWhorter is called both a conservative and a liberal, depending on who people ask. He now argues that the current anti-racism ideology is a new religion of the left. In his new book, “Woke Racism,” McWhorter lashes out at what he calls the “third-wave anti-racism,” which positions […]
By Thomas L. Knapp, Garrison Center On November 19, a Wisconsin jury acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse on various charges related to the shootings of three people (two fatally) during an August night of “unrest” (that is, a protest turned riot) in Kenosha. I expected to see, and did see, […]
BY Toby Green and Thomas Fazi Unherd Throughout the various phases of the global pandemic, people’s preferences in terms of epidemiological strategies have tended to overlap closely with their political orientation. Ever since Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro expressed doubts as to the wisdom of a lockdown strategy […]
By Neil MacFarquhar New York Times CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Jurors on Tuesday found the main organizers of the deadly far-right rally in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017 liable under state law for injuries to counterprotesters, awarding more than $25 million in damages. But the jury deadlocked on two federal […]
By Tim Pearce Mark Richards, who successfully defended Kyle Rittenhouse against murder charges last week, slammed MSNBC and CNN on Sunday for botching “basic facts” of Rittenhouse’s case. Richards appeared on NewsNation’s “Banfield” on Sunday with host Ashleigh Banfield to talk about the trial after Rittenhouse was cleared […]
By Dartunorro Clark and Haley Talbot, Rolling Stone The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol issued subpoenas Monday to high-profile allies of former President Donald Trump, including Roger Stone and Alex Jones. The committee is looking at Stone, a longtime adviser to Trump, […]
By Peter Wade Rolling Stone Just a day after the House committee investigating Jan. 6 subpoenaed Trump ally Roger Stone and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, the committee has subpoenaed the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys, both right-wing extremist groups with members who were present during the insurrection. The […]
By Vicky Ward Rolling Stone When she walked into court on Monday morning for the penultimate pre-trial conference before she faces what will amount to the fight of her life, Ghislaine Maxwell looked just like she did 10 years ago. In fact, she looked better. Thick black glossy […]
Noam Chomsky has mastered the ability of speaking in lowercase.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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