By Samuel Goldman, The Week British politics are different. While American politicians tend to hold onto their jobs until — and sometimes even after — they face charges for actual crimes, British officials are routinely forced out or resign for comparably minor lapses of behavior or judgment. That’s why U.K. […]
By Matt Taibbi As yokel-bashing reaches impressive new heights, reports of yet another year of record profits and a widening wealth gap go unnoticed. Jimmy Kimmel Live, fast becoming Leonid Brezhnev’s never-realized dream of a Soviet Tonight Show, just put out a high-effort gag called “Anti-Vax Barbie.” It’s […]
By John Reid Blackwell Richmond Times-Dispatch The COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the job market seems likely to have long-lasting affects on the U.S. economy, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond said Thursday. “We have been living for decades in a world of excess workers, driven […]
By Tom Ozimek, Epoch Times U.S. consumer prices accelerated in the year through December at their fastest pace in 39 years, new government data shows, marking the seventh straight month of inflation running above 5 percent and a fresh sign that inflationary woes continue to weigh on American consumers. The […]
Team Rising weighs in on shocking new survey results showing many Kroger employees are facing serious financial struggles.
Krystal and Saagar cover the decision by AOC to bail on a march by Amazon workers in New York City looking to build momentum for a union drive
The Alternative We’re always on the hunt for stories of community self-determination – people stepping over the line of bureaucracy (and passivity) to seize the development of their towns and locales. (One of our most popular blogs in 2021 were the activists in Maryhill, Glasgow seeking to develop […]
Krystal and Saagar cover the pending legislation from Georgia Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff that would ban lucrative insider trading schemes by members of congress such as Nancy Pelosi
Team Rising debates whether members of Congress should be allowed to own and trade stocks.
Stewart Varney is like a cartoon caricature of a greedy businessman dude
Krystal offers her perspective on the comments made about the Democratic Party’s disconnect from the working class by Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders as 2024 primary speculation begins
According to journalist Andrew Cockburn in his latest book, The Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War Machine, our bloated $778 billion defense budget doesn’t necessarily provide for our safety. Cockburn, the Washington editor of Harper’s, has spent decades covering the Pentagon and defense industry and […]
With wealth inequality soaring and the power of the elites growing, is society returning to the feudal era? The demographer and geographer Joel Kotkin joins Steven Edginton in this week’s Off Script podcast to discuss his theory of “neo-feudalism”.
Apparently, Kevin Carson, who is definitely the best modern anarchist economist, has a publicly available manuscript for a new book examining different theories of the state. As many readers know, I lean toward a type of hybrid theory of left/right power elite models, a kind of intersection of […]
By Kevin Carson, Anarchist Library Reviews Abstract Preface Part One: Background Chapter One: The Age of Mass and Maneuver I. A Conflict of Visions II. The Triumph of Mass in the Old Left III. The Assault on Working Class Agency IV. Workerism/Laborism Chapter Two: Transition I. Drastic Reductions […]
Elizabeth Holmes has been found guilty on four counts of wire fraud. In 2018, Norah O’Donnell reported on Theranos, the company led by Holmes with a blood-testing machine that could never perform as touted that went from a billion-dollar baby to a complete bust.
By Michael Shellenberger Progressives say they care more about working people and climate change than Republicans and moderate Democrats. Why, then, do they advocate policies that make energy expensive and dirty? Progressive Democrats including Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Pramila Jayapal, the head of the House progressive caucus, […]
The United States is seeing its highest “quit rate” since the government started keeping track two decades ago. Bill Whitaker speaks with employers who are scrambling to find help and people who left their jobs and aren’t looking back.
Their working conditions remind me of sweatshops from the turn of the 20th century. Amazon workers need to unite and unionize.
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss Senator Jon Ossoff’s soon-to-be bill banning members of Congress and their families from trading stocks.
Again, our Federal Government is based on the principle of checks and balances: depositing large checks into their bank accounts to increase their balances.
We live in a world where daytime talk show host Oprah and a former President of the United States are given equal importance in headlines. We have lost all seriousness.
Krystal and Saagar are joined by economist Philip Pilkington to examine how wealthy economies are skewered in favor of the older generations and what the consequences could be moving forward
Krystal and Saagar look at the discouraging numbers from the December jobs report and how the Biden administration is spinning them to convince people the economy is doing well
The truly sad thing about this add is: That there are people who believe that! Seriously, some people need a reality check, especially those who have profited from the system (upper middle class people mostly, who think that through adapting to the perverted state the system is in, […]
Richard Hanania breaks down his new book, “Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy: How Generals, Manufacturers and Foreign Governments Shape American Foreign Policy.”
On Krystal Kyle & Friends, Krystal and Kyle Kulinski talk all things Fed policy & history with a leading economist
Central bank policy since 2008 has not been aligned to capitalism. It has been corporate socialism. QE, if it had to be used, should have been transitory with a definite end date. The FED and the ECB has created institutional moral hazard, which is distorting the global economy […]
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss the explosive spread of the Omicron variant across the country.
It is interesting to find a discussion of David Graeber in the Examiner of all places. By Geoff Shullenberger Washington Examiner In his 2011 book Debt: The First 5,000 Years, the anthropologist David Graeber marshaled historical, ethnographic, and archaeological evidence in an effort to dismantle some of the […]
It’s been a year since the Capitol riot. The Democrats are fangirling over Dick Cheney and listening to Hamilton, so it’s hard to say what we’ve learned or improved upon as a society. Around this time last year, Thomas Frank joined us for a thoughtful conversation about who […]
By Brigid Kennedy, The Week Typically marked by a widespread return to professional form, the first work week of the new year has instead been marred by the effects of the latest Omicron-led COVID-19 spike, The Wall Street Journal reports, as employers contend with an ongoing onslaught of coronavirus-related […]
The Intercept’s Sharon Lerner details her reporting on the dangerous and possibly unnecessary practice of tracking down and exterminating wildlife in order to prevent the spread of disease.
Team Rising discusses the wealth gap.
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss 2021’s home buying boom and how the pandemic may further affect the housing market in 2022.
Ryan Grim, Robby Soave, and Kim Iversen react to Tim Green, NASA’s retiring top scientist, claims that we can terraform Mars and maybe Venus.
“Putin is building an Empire of Tyrants” OR “Putin is builing A Coalition of former Soviet Republics; to reject Neo-Liberalism & The US-Centric World Order” OR Some of Both? The audacity of sovereign nations trading with each other when the US State Department told them they are now […]
Krystal and Saagar cover the latest data on the great resignation in the job market where Americans are quitting their jobs in droves in search for better employment and lifestyle changes
Saagar describes the way in which the Biden administration is bowing to China as a flawed trade deal from the Trump administration is set to expire
Team Rising discuss the possibility of another federal Covid stimulus package.
Krystal and Saagar’s kick off the January 6th show by diving into the real underlying reasons why American democracy is in crisis and how the elites have only made it worse
Quite a bit could be learned about Western politics by examining electoral patterns in India. The Democrats are an alliance between the Brahmins and Dalits and the Republicans are an alliance between the Vaishyas and Shudras, while the Kshatriyas are divided between the Democrats and Republicans, depending on […]
Her real mistake was crossing people more powerful than her.
By Jp Cortez After the Consumer Price Index surged last year to its highest level since 1982, politicians are feeling pressure from constituents to do something about it. On Monday, President Joe Biden announced $1 billion in grants, loans, and other assistance for small meat producers. Another costly […]
Kim Iversen details how the Theranos Elizabeth Holmes case exposed medical greed within the medical-industrial complex.
By Hamilton Nolan, In These Times The crypto market’s inevitable crash will pull America’s politics in an even scarier direction. Making predictions about looming social and political catastrophes is a dicey business, because most of the exciting things in history did not happen predictably. You can try to […]
Ryan Grim speculates about a possible PPP scam that would allow employers to avoid repaying their loans.
I would generally agree with this author’s argument, following Aristotle, that diamond-shaped societies are better than pyramid-shaped societies, though I disagree with his analysis of how to get there (“Viva Roosevelt!”). Social democracy is like treating cancer with aspirin. By David Brin One aspect of our re-ignited American […]
By Richard D Wolff Asia Times For the first time in more than a century, the United States has a real, serious, ascending global competitor. The US wars lost in Iraq and Afghanistan exposed imperial overreach beyond what even 20 years of war could manage. That the defeats […]
Krystal looks at how opportunistic elites have weaponized inflation to bring austerity politics back after coronavirus stimulus created an opportunity to move to a different style of politics
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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