The article inadvertently explains why Trump is a useful barrier to the return of the Bush/Cheney/neocon regime of the early 2000s. By Damon Linker, The Week Donald Trump is many things, but he is first and foremost a moron. This doesn’t mean he isn’t other things as well […]
This is the most broken clock thing I’ve seen in a while.
On today’s What America’s Thinking, Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss cancel culture and whether it is a winning electoral strategy.
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss the new University of Austin, and debate whether it will succeed.
Ryan Grim breaks down the results of a focus group that give insight into why Terry McAuliffe lost Virginia’s gubernatorial race.
Krystal and Saagar react to the launch of a new university by Bari Weiss and other intellectuals considered to be part of the ‘Intellectual Dark Web’ concerned about academic freedom
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss President Obama’s comments at COP26 in Glasgow, and react to protests taking place in Poland over a restrictive abortion law.
By Joel Mathis, The Week Chinese President Xi Jinping and the ruling Communist Party have a political agenda for their country’s history. This week, the party is expected to adopt a resolution setting out the official, triumphalist version of “the party’s 100-year history as a story of heroic sacrifice […]
By Chiara Eisner The State Many of those who helped execute people in South Carolina have never spoken publicly about their job’s toll, until now. The State spoke with 10 people involved in the work who described some of the consequences of their profession. The first time Craig […]
By Ruy Teixeira New York Post Tuesday’s election did not go well for Democrats. Democrat Terry McAuliffe lost the marquee governor’s race in heavily blue-trending Virginia, where Biden beat Trump by 10 points. And in dark blue New Jersey, where Biden won by 16 points, incumbent Democrat Phil […]
Kulinski’s commentary in this is pretty good.
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll reveals almost three in four voters believe cancel culture has “gone too far.”
Kim Iversen breaks down Aaron Rodger’s opposition to the NFL’s vaccine rules.
Krystal and Saagar bring elections expert Kyle Kondik back on the show to discuss the impact woke politics had on the VA election results and his new book on house elections
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss the crowd surge tragedy that killed eight people in Houston, Texas last week.
By William Meyers, III Publishing Voters Rejected Some Magical Thinking The national media has characterized the November 2021 general election in Seattle as part of a swing to the right, to Republicans, that was more obvious in the Virginia elections. Even normally reliable narrators like the New York […]
Krystal and Saagar cover the tragic events that caused 8 people including teenagers to die at the Astroworld festival in Houston that was put together by rapper Travis Scott
Ryan Grim, Robby Soave, and co-founder of Justice Democrats and No Excuses PAC, Corbin Trent, discuss what’s next for President Biden’s ‘Build Back Better’ agenda after Democrats passed the bipartisan infrastructure bill on Friday.
Krystal and Saagar look at how the media universally blamed the VA election results on ‘white supremacy’ after Batya Ungar-Sargon called out CNN for doing so on Brian Stelter’s show
NPR’s Tim Mak details his new book, “Misfire: Inside the Downfall of the NRA.”
By Peter R. Quiñones I really need to chill the fuck out. I’ve let things get to me over the past few months and I’ve taken it out on people that are my friends. There’s no reason to be arguing or criticizing the tactics of people I agree […]
Predictably, Michael Lind once again gets it right. 100%. Although the main negative inherent in his analysis is one that he doesn’t mention. The trends he describes open the door for a return to power by the neocons. I have been concerned that we are presently in a […]
I generally view debates between “social democrats” and “free-market conservatives” the same way I would view a debate between a geo-centrist and a flat-earther. But anyone in a position where they are forced to have a conversation with someone as stupid as Charlie Kirk has my sympathy. In […]
I don’t take domestic American politics seriously. While I write and comment about it, I view myself as the equivalent of a sportswriter or an entertainment writer, and not as someone who believes there is genuine value to all of this nonsense. While there are peripheral exceptions, it’s […]
By Paul Butler, Washington Post A jury of his “bubbas.” That’s what the defense lawyer for one of the three White men accused of murdering Ahmaud Arbery wanted for his client. Thanks to the judge, that’s pretty much the jury the defendants got, plus some bubba-ettes. Arbery was […]
W. James Antle III, The Week After Republicans swept all the statewide offices in bluish Virginia with a successful campaign that partially turned on critical race theory in public schools, Democrats are gravitating toward a response: There is either no such thing as critical race theory or it’s […]
By W. James Antle III, The Week Crime wasn’t one of the top issues in last week’s elections. But it was among the reasons Democratic number-crunchers concluded their party underperformed at the ballot box last year and is primed to do even worse in the midterm elections of […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I didn’t know Daphne Dorman but she was one of my people. Daphne was a transgender comedian and a Queer rights activist in the San Francisco Bay Area. She was a gifted software engineer who created her own […]
The Reagan Revolution of the 1980s represented an insurgency within the capitalist class by the Sunbelt against the traditional northeastern establishment. But the rise of digital capitalism has resulted in the tech oligarchs aligning themselves with the northeastern establishment against the Sunbelt and, of course, the media and […]
In Virginia, a moderate pro-business Republican was elected governor. A black woman whose parents were immigrants from Jamaica was elected as the Republican lieutenant governor. A Latino man whose parents were Cuban refugees was elected as the Republican Attorney General. There is a lot more going on with […]
Team Rising reacts to shocking polling on whether Americans believe political violence may be justified, and/or necessary,
Team Rising reacts to Josh Hawley’s speech on, what he calls, “the Left’s attack on America – and American men.”
I tend to agree with Caitlin Johnstone’s observation that the overlords of the empire are the real extremists. Idiots like these two are at best a quaternary problem. By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH, KATHY GANNON and ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press In the months before he was charged with storming the […]
The main lesson I would take from recent elections is that normies dislike establishment politicians, and outsiders are guaranteed at least some kind of audience, but normies don’t like perceived extremists, either. By Nick Corasaniti and Tracey Tully Mr. Sweeney, the second most powerful lawmaker in New Jersey […]
This interview with Ann Coulter seconds what I have often said about Trump, i.e. that he is simply a neo-Nixonian, a Rockefeller Republican who masquerades as a right-wing populist. Immigration was probably the issue that Trump was the furthest rightward on, and on that issue, he was way […]
By ProphetBattlestone I have begun reading Georges Sorel’s “Reflections on Violence”. Syndicalism interests me, and Sorel was referred to quite a bit by James Burnham in “The Machiavellians”. The section in quoting further down comes from the ‘Letter to Daniel Halevy’, which precedes the third edition of the […]
By Noah Millman, The Week Our pandemic rules increasingly make no sense — and it’s hurting public health. I spent about a week in October at the Austin Film Festival and Writers’ Conference, attending panel discussions, round-tables, pitch competitions — and, of course, parties. Because there’s still a […]
By Joel Mathis, The Week It’s never easy being the Democratic governor of a famously red state. Still, it was a surprise Friday morning when Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly (D) came out strongly against President Biden’s workplace vaccine mandate. “While I appreciate the intention to keep people safe, a […]
Ryan Cooper, The Week Why liberals need to stop doing collective guilt over election results. Democrats whiffed the Virginia elections this week, and the dread “Karen” is to blame. So argues Wajahat Ali at The Daily Beast, pointing to exit polls finding that a 57 percent majority of […]
More Loundon County drama, apparently. By Peter R Quinones Look, you all know that I am very susceptible to getting emotional, especially when children are involved. But here goes. The backstory to this and how it started is crucial. It wasn’t even news until, Scott Smith, the father […]
My tentative assessment of the Virginia election is that, at least in some geographical areas, the essence of the culture war is shifting from the Right vs Left to the Center vs Left. The culture of the US has moved considerably leftward over the past decade, and elite […]
By Joel Kotkin The stunning defeat suffered by the Democrats in Virginia, a surprisingly close race in deep blue New Jersey and the defeat of a “police defunding measure” in Minneapolis represent a remarkable turning point in American politics. It is less an affirmation of a resurgent Trumpism […]
Author of TK News and co-host of Useful Idiots podcast, Matt Taibbi, gives his take on why Terry McAuliffe’s campaign for governor failed, and what it means for Democrats in 2022 and 2024.
Saagar and guest host Marshall Kosloff respond to the media reactions that took place during the live coverage of election night where narratives about why the GOP won already began to unfold
Ryan Grim breaks down the story behind the tiki torch-touting ‘protestors’ at a Youngkin campaign event late last week.
Robby Soave details the origin of the “let’s go Brandon” chant by protestors.
This analysis is right on the money and represents something I’ve been noticing for a while. The framework of the “culture war” has started to shift where it is no longer a matter of “liberals” vs the “religious right” but “wokesters” vs “normies.” The “Hidden Tribes” study published […]
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss Rahm Emanuel’s future as Ambassador to Japan, plus new reporting from The Intercept on the NIH’s role in helping Ecohealth Alliance police its own funding of risky bat coronavirus research.
By Jason Wilson, The Guardian A Guardian investigation has revealed that a controversial church whose leader has openly expressed the ambition of creating a “theocracy” in America has accumulated significant influence in the city of Moscow, Idaho. Christ Church has a stated goal to “make Moscow a Christian […]
By Joel Mathis, The Week Defund the police” is a dead idea. That’s actually been true for some months now, but any doubts about the notion’s viability should be ended entirely after Tuesday’s election results in Minneapolis, where voters rejected an opportunity to replace the police department with […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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