Keith Preston on the VA gubernatorial election + much more
My most recent appearance on Cotto/Gottfried. Listen here.
My most recent appearance on Cotto/Gottfried. Listen here.
A lot more people seem to be getting a lot more pissed off.
In other words, a third of the country thinks the present administration cheated its way into office. It would probably be the same if Trump had won. This is big news. The state is losing legitimacy. Thirty-five percent of registered voters said the results of the 2020 presidential […]
By Joel Mathis, The Week The MAGA movement is looking like a coalition of problematic men. Herschel Walker has Donald Trump’s endorsement. So do Sean Parnell and Max Miller. Eric Greitens doesn’t have Trump’s official backing — so far at least — but he’s presenting himself to the […]
By Samuel Goldman, The Week How to escape the snowflake wars. This fall has been unseasonably warm, but there are snowflakes in the air. As educational institutions return to normal operations, a series of incidents around the country have also revived a familiar pattern of provocation, offense, and […]
I’m sorry Noam, I don’t want to discriminate to that extent based on vaccination status.
Team Rising discuss the latest developments in the scandal surrounding the Loudoun County school board.
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky detail media coverage of Hillary Clinton’s new book, and discuss whether she should face questions regarding Bill Clinton’s connections to Jeffrey Epstein.
Emily Jashinsky breaks down how the pandemic exacerbated not just the wealth gap, but the social capital gap.
I generally couldn’t care less if elections are “stolen” or not because I view elections as the equivalent of casinos: The house is always the ultimate winner irrespective of the players and their individual outcomes. But what is interesting is the way that the two sides increasingly view […]
I’d argue this case is more a matter of class privilege than race privilege. There are cases of rich white kids getting away with rape or killing multiple people in a DUI, while there was a case of a black kid being left at Rikers’ Island for three […]
By Lenore Skenazy Reason The myth of the candy poisoner Dear police: Can you please stop telling parents to check their kids’ Halloween candy for drugs? Urging tens of millions of Americans to look for something that isn’t there is completely pointless, yet every Halloween, the authorities do […]
By Alan J. Levine, Chronicles The academic field of Critical Race Theory doesn’t understand the history of race. Over the last 30 years, especially since the spring of 2020, Critical Race Theory (CRT) and its accompanying obsessions with “whiteness” and “white privilege” has almost overwhelmed discussion about race […]
By SARAH RANKIN The Associated Press A former spokesperson for Liberty University is suing the evangelical school in Lynchburg after being fired, alleging in a lawsuit filed Monday that his termination came in retaliation for voicing concerns that sexual misconduct accusations were mishandled. Scott Lamb, a vice president-level […]
By Paul Gottfried, Chronicles Although we didn’t know it at the time, the incidents in Charlottesville, Virginia on Aug. 12, 2017 would soon develop into a narrative for the left to repeat and then recycle in the summer riots of 2020 and eventually the events at the U.S. […]
By Isaac Dovere and Jeremy Herb, CNN (CNN)“I am a hunter — and I think you should be hunted,” a woman can be heard saying in a voicemail left for Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs in September. “You will never be safe in Arizona again.” Or there’s the man who […]
The People must restore the Wizard to his right full place!!!
Revolver In a House hearing on Thursday, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) questioned AG Merrick Garland about a mysterious man, Ray Epps, instructing protesters to enter the US Capitol building on January 5, and who later shepherded crowds towards the Capitol on January 6. The story of the mystery […]
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave react to former President Trump’s latest comments about Truth Social.
Team Rising discusses Governor Ron DeSantis’s initiative to entice unvaccinated public servants to relocate to Florida.
Team Rising discusses the future of the filibuster.
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave break down Rolling Stone’s new reporting that members of Congress and senior White House staff participated in the planning of the January 6 ‘Stop the Steal’ rally.
Robby Soave previews the newly confirmed assistant secretary for the Department of Education’s office for civil rights, Catherine Lhamon
Krystal and Saagar talk about instances of cancel culture happening on the right and left within the education system and the problem with censorship in America today
–Michele Fiore, Las Vegas City Councilwoman, announces her campaign for Governor of Nevada, and is essentially Marjorie Taylor Greene 2.0
By Andrew Sullivan A tough but civil conversation. Briahna, a lawyer and political consultant who served as press secretary for Bernie Sanders, co-hosts the superb podcast Bad Faith. I start our enjoyable convo with a simple question: how can we best facilitate the flourishing of black America? I’m […]
By Andrew Sullivan How has the new trans left come to resemble the old religious right? It was, as it turned out, a bit of a non-event. The walkout by transgender Netflix employees and their supporters to demand that the company take down and apologize for the latest […]
In this miniclip Andy Norman and I discuss about fixing Tribalism.
By Andrew Sullivan Two of the planet’s best reporters uncover more details about the Trump administration. In the year or so that I’ve been podcasting, this may be the most significant conversation I’ve recorded. It’s a civil, careful examination of the core political question we face today: how […]
By Peter R. Quinones I unironically agree that having one person in charge rather than the leviathan that exists now would be preferable. At least you’d know who to blame when everything goes to shit. Whose fault is the shitshow we’re in now? Biden, Trump, Pelosi, or someone […]
This is an interesting article that, I think, illustrates both the strengths and limitations of modern “conservative” critiques of the new ruling class. Angelo Codevilla’s theory was half-right. “Some scholars such as Charles Murray and political commentators such as Ben Shapiro and Tucker Carlson have come to use […]
By Matt Taibbi The press tries and fails to hype a crisis into existence over Dave Chappelle’s new Netflix special. First, there were the numbers. Over the course of the last week, news commentators predicted a huge demonstration of Netflix employees in protest of comedian Dave Chappelle’s The […]
By Andrew Sullivan We also discuss the many qualities that make wokeness a new religion. For anyone who follows online debates over race in America, John needs little introduction. The Columbia linguist just wrote a bracing tract, Woke Racism, against the new elite religion. He, like me, despises […]
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll reveals a majority of voters believe vaccine mandates help both the economy and the pandemic. Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss.
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave react to new reporting alleging Jeffrey Epstein intended to trade secrets about former presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump in exchange for leniency when he was arrested in 2019.
When former Trump speechwriter Darren Beattie reported in June that there was evidence suggesting FBI foreknowledge of the January 6 protest at the Capitol, if not active involvement, the corporate media mocked him and others who took it seriously for being deranged conspiracy theories. But now, the New […]
Zac & Gavin react to the latest chapter in the beef between TYT & Glenn Greenwald, which Matt Taibbi wrote an excellent piece in response to.
Neocon stooge George Will on how neocons like himself were purged or marginalized in the GOP. Veteran conservative columnist and thinker George Will joins MSNBC’s Brian Williams to discuss how Trumpism – not conservatism – became the prevailing principle of the modern Republican Party.
On a daily basis, I come across more and more commentary from all over the political spectrum about the possibility of civil war, a coup, a revolution, or secession. Documentarian Ken Burns compares the current crises in the US to World War II, the Great Depression and the […]
Fiona Hill shares new details on Trump’s call with Putin and more from her book, “There is Nothing for You Here – Finding Opportunity in the 21st Century.”
British-born Russia expert Fiona Hill talks to DW’s Brent Goff on “The Day” about the danger to US democracy posed by former president Donald Trump, who like Russia’s Vladimir Putin has sought to prevent a transfer of power. Hill says Germany’s recent election serves an example of orderly […]
Conservative extremists such as Steve Bannon and Madison Cawthorn publicly and successfully aligning with the GOP–in addition to far rightwing Black and POC figures–are analyzed by experts in conversation with Joy Reid. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.
Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein and John Dean reacts to a Senate probe that reveals evidence that former President Trump attempted to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
CNN’s Brianna Keilar speaks to veteran journalist Carl Bernstein after Idaho election officials found nothing in their investigation into voter fraud in the state during the 2020 election.
Public policy professor Jack Goldstone predicted three decades ago that elitism, inequality and political obstruction would help usher a Trump-like figure into power. His latest prediction? Another U.S. civil war. He and historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat join Mehdi to discuss.
Kim Iversen reports on former president Donald Trump’s newest attempt at challenging Big Tech, this time with his own social media platform: Truth Social.
Igor Volsky, executive director at Guns Down America, reacts to Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz’s guilty plea and reviews the terms of the Second Amendment case set to be heard by the Supreme Court.
Krystal and Saagar respond to the latest comments by Joe Rogan towards CNN’s coverage of him, particularly his choice words for Don Lemon after the news host’s recent segment with Sanjay Gupta
Krystal and Saagar look at the news regarding Southwest and Delta airlines backing down from vaccine mandates after public pressure came from their workers
Robby Soave makes the case that, despite media coverage that may suggest otherwise, Netflix is not at risk of being cancelled for their support of Dave Chappelle’s controversial special.
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