By Matt Taibbi Review of “Spooked,” by Barry Meier, the devastating new book about Fusion-GPS, the Steele Dossier, and the private spying business. Glenn Simpson, the former Wall Street Journal reporter turned high-priced “oppo” merchant, didn’t like to think of himself as a private investigator. He preferred to describe what […]
By Robert Tracinski Discourse Insulting, shaming or deplatforming those we disagree with is not only a threat to a free society, it’s a confession of failure. We are engaged right now in seemingly endless battles over free speech—yet few of these conflicts are destined ever to be hashed […]
Research from various sources indicates that the rates of drug, alcohol, and tobacco use, pregnancy, abortions, sexual activity, and crime are declining among teens. My guess is that the normalization of “sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll” (and in the case of gangsta rap, crime) has made all […]
A concise but excellent and entirely correct description of how the left-wing of the capitalist class approaches racial issues. The Left will often point how out the right-wing will use racism, social conservatism, invidiousness toward out-groups, etc. to distract the generally socially conservative, white working to middle classes […]
That’s a hell of a showdown. I tend to disagree with racial determinists (left or right) that race alone or racism alone explains disparities in crime rates, poverty rates, educational achievement, professional success, etc. There are too many variables that neither side of the race coin can fully […]
Charlie Kirk is a moron even by moron standards. But here’s the deal with this: Nowadays, it is fashionable to portray the “war on drugs” as a racist crusade against oppressed minorities, but that’s not how it was regarded back in the day. There were plenty of liberals, […]
Ain’t gonna happen.
Manufacturing Consent for a Totalitarian Police State.
This is a damn good article. I think there are a number of things going on here that nearly all commentators miss. As the Thomas Piketty study recently pointed out, the “culture war” is primarily between the different factions of the elite: the traditional business/military sectors vs the […]
Team Rising react to Sen. Mitch McConnell’s claims that he will block President Biden from filling a SCOTUS vacancy in 2024.
By David Yaffe-Bellany, Bloomberg Amateur internet sleuths have turned the Washington, D.C., insurrection on Jan. 6 into the ultimate online manhunt. As he watched footage of the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol, Chris Sigurdson, an out-of-work actor in Canada, found himself drawn to a disturbing image: […]
President of The Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology, Richard Hanania, discusses why conservatives won’t (and can’t) fight for influence and what to do about it.
Andrew Doyle is an Irish journalist and writer best known as the creator of the Twitter personality Titania McGrath, a parody of an ultra-woke, 24-year-old, militant vegan who thinks she is a better poet than William Shakespeare. Though the 43-year-old Doyle describes himself as a left-winger, he is […]
The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 36 Elite overproduction is a concept that was forwarded by the anthropologist Peter Turchin to attempt to explain some part of why we face growing social instability in today’s society. This is an insightful concept that deserves serious consideration in […]
By Michael E. Miller, Washington Post School Strike 4 Climate’s Auckland chapter is disbanding after criticism it was ‘just an extracurricular activity for upper-class (white) kids’ In September 2019, the streets of Auckland, New Zealand, were a sea of protesters. Across the globe, several million people were marching […]
From what I can tell, the Alt-Right has more or less fractured into multiple directions. Charlottesville was more or less their Altamont. Some Alt-Rightists have become Trumpists. Others have associated themselves with the conventional white supremacist milieu, and others have moved into the outer fringes (like National-Bolshevism). It […]
By Joshua Bote, SFGate An Apple executive apparently used to fly his plane from Boise to Cupertino every weekday, a flight that took about an hour and a half. That’s about as long as it took Jeff Blickman — who recounted this piece of Boise tech lore — […]
By Joan Greve, The Guardian In those states, Republicans hold the governorship and the legislature, giving them the power to take aim at abortion access, trans rights, voting and gun safety. Democrats across the US cheered last month, as Texas legislators staged a walkout from the statehouse to […]
By By David Harsanyi National Review If the right to bear arms was intended to preserve slavery, why did civil-rights leaders insist that black Americans should be armed to protect themselves? Left-wing academic Carol Anderson’s new book, The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America, is […]
The Economist HOURS BEFORE Jo Phoenix, a professor of criminology at Britain’s Open University, was due to give a talk at Essex University about placing transgender women in women’s prisons, students threatened to barricade the hall. They complained that Ms Phoenix was a “transphobe” likely to engage in […]
By Rebecca Beitsch The Hill The White House unveiled its plan for addressing domestic terrorism on Tuesday, rolling out a strategy that set goals and acknowledged challenges as much as it outlined specific steps for combating a growing threat. The strategy includes a call to bolster law enforcement […]
This is somewhat reminiscent of when cosmopolitanism, bohemianism, androgyny, sexual/chemical experimentation, etc. were considered to be the prerogatives of aristocrats in opposition to the values of the conservative peasantry. It also fits with the recent study by Amory Gethin, Clara Martínez-Toledano, and Thomas Piketty indicating that the “left” […]
My guess is that this story is probably (mostly) true, but selectively chosen. Both the left and right like to pick out the worst examples from “the other side” they can find and hold those up as representative of their opponents generally. By Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge In […]
By Gino Spocchia,Independent Social media users react to viral article by Indian-British food writer after he calls popular dessert a product of ‘stolen land, wealth and labour’ Apple pie has been at the centre of a debate about racism after it was claimed the dish has colonial roots, […]
By IVAN PEREIRA and JOSHUA HOYOS A cashier is dead and two people were wounded after a shooting broke out following an argument inside a Georgia store Monday afternoon over its COVID-19 mask policy, authorities said. The incident took place near Candler Road in DeKalb County at a […]
By Chris Walker, Truthout Norma McCorvey probably isn’t a household name across most of the United States, but she was instrumental in a Supreme Court ruling most Americans are well-aware of: Roe v. Wade. In that decision, lawyers for McCorvey, who was listed as “Jane Roe” in briefings, […]
By most accounts, America was founded in 1776 when the Founding Fathers wrote the Declaration of Independence. More recently, The New York Times Magazine launched an initiative known as the 1619 Project, aiming to redefine America’s birth as being 1619, when the first slave ship arrived on American […]
Team Rising reacts to the Biden Administrations’ decision to use the term “birthing person” instead of mom.
“Trust the science” LITERALLY means to DISTRUST the scientists. A poll of scientists or the opinion of a single scientist is not science at all.
On The Jacobin Show, Jen Pan and Cale Brooks discuss the implosion of Dianne Morales’ New York City mayoral campaign and why the use of social justice rhetoric can backfire.
For the record, I generally oppose efforts to impose censorship on schools that want to teach critical race theory, just as I would oppose censorship of the teaching of intelligent design, “scientific creationism,” Marxist class theory, intersectionality, or Charles Murray’s theories on the relationship between race, class, and […]
By Peter Cho Waking up early on a Saturday morning or racing home from school to catch your favorite animated shows is something of a right of passage for children of all ages and adults who are kids at heart. While most are designed to be innocent, pure, […]
By Matt Purple, The American Conservative Everyone understands the Soviet Union tried to cover up the Chernobyl disaster, but what’s less known is that they’d already pulled it off once before. In 1957, an accident at a plutonium production site near the remote city of Kyshtym in the […]
And now in leftist civil war news…
Apparently, there is a civil war going on in some of the state Libertarian Parties. I have no idea what it’s about, but my first impression is that it’s about which side the LP should take in the Red/Blue sectarian civil war. Libertarian Party of New Hampshire During […]
The totalitarian humanist revolution is being consolidated.
By Hada Thier, Jacobin Yet again, both Republican and Democratic party leaders are attacking Rep. Ilhan Omar for telling the truth about American and Israeli war crimes. And yet again, Omar has nothing to apologize for. As sure as the sun rises in the morning, the American political […]
Many critics of the GOP like to focus on figures like Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, and Louie Gohmert. But it’s important to recognize those are a fringe subset of Republicans just like AOC and Omar are fringe figures among the Democrats. The two parties and their house […]
The real reason that the Red Tribers hate Ilhan Omar is not that she is from Somalia or a woman or a Muslim. Her status as a Somali Muslim doesn’t win her any points with many Republicans to be sure, but that’s not the real reason that they […]
The most interesting information in this is that the military was split in half in terms of support or opposition to the Trump regime. And it’s obvious that the Biden regime is trying to purge the military of conservatives. What if the mass civil unrest currently being experienced […]
As a follow up to my video on What If Civil War Broke Out Between Republicans and Democrats where we explained who would win, how either side could win, and the long term outcome of a Second Civil War, we’ve come to the conclusion, based on recent events, […]
By Aila Slisco, Newsweek Two-thirds of American voters now support decriminalizing all drugs, while 83 percent believe that the “war on drugs” has failed, according to a new poll. A 66 percent majority were in favor of “eliminating criminal penalties for drug possession and reinvesting drug enforcement resources […]
“If you haven’t been insulted by me, then you ain’t black”- Joe (Let me stare and smell your hair) Biden
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky react to Texas Gov. Abbott’s 1836 Project.
Tom Cotton is a total douchebag and one of the right-wing’s most dangerous figures (as a bridge between the neocons, Likudniks, Saudis, MIC, supply-siders, Reaganites, Trumpists, evangelicals, and nativists). He is also smarter, shrewder, and more calculating than similar figures like Cruz, Rubio, and Hawley. But he is […]
By Damon Linker, The Week Donald Trump’s presidency was a product of the country’s political polarization, but Trump himself pushed that polarization much further than it was before he took office. His actions during his final weeks in the White House — above all, his denial of his […]
From 27% to 70% in 25 years. Now if support for the overthrow of the government could only grow at the same pace.
What they say about Virginia is absolutely correct. We’re moving toward the social policies of California with the economic policies of Alabama.
It’s interesting how arguments for left-right crossover are starting to enter the mainstream now. Journalist and author, Matt Taibbi, discusses the latest attack against Glenn Greenwald and breaks down how it reveals a larger issue in journalism.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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