By Stefan Gleason, Money Metals Exchange Money Metals President Joe Biden’s so-called “Build Back Better” agenda was dealt a likely fatal blow on Sunday. Moderate Democrat Joe Manchin announced that he would oppose his party’s massive $2 trillion spending bill. That effectively kills it in its current form. […]
Krystal and Saagar are joined once again by writer and podcaster Derek Thompson to consider both sides of the debate about whether Elon Musk deserves to be TIME person of the year
Krystal and Saagar cover the breaking news coming from Joe Manchin that Biden’s Build Back Better budget legislation is officially dead as the president is nowhere to be seen
Krystal and Saagar comb through investigative reporting on how Dollar General has fought to prevent low wage workers from unionizing in their stores
Krystal and Saagar comment on the dystopian scene of teachers scrambling for cash to fund supplies for their classrooms at halftime of a hockey game
A Discussion of Peter Wilson’s The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europe’s History Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 December 2017 In the two centuries since its dissolution in 1806, the Holy Roman Empire has usually been viewed as an antiquated relic of the medieval […]
By Andrew Sullivan Weekly Dish The former far-left activist has a sobering reality check on the woke policies of West Coast cities. I belatedly came to Shellenberger in my research on nuclear power’s potential to help cut carbon emissions. But his new book — on the terrible progressive […]
Released from prison just last week, now under house arrest for the remainder of his sentence, Steven Donziger speaks out about the injustices against incarcerated people and the solidarity among incarcerated people he witnessed firsthand. He reveals how truly broken the prison-industrial complex is, but he also offers […]
David Sirota breaks down the bill that could have protected Illinois Amazon workers from being threatened with termination shortly before a deadly tornado destroyed the factory they were working in.
Team Rising reacts to Elon Musk’s ‘Person of the Year’ award from Time Magazine.
Team Rising reacts to reports that health costs during the pandemic pushed over half a billion people into poverty.
By Mike Gleason, Money Metals Exchange As the Federal Reserve prepares to taper its asset purchases, investors are preparing to adjust their portfolios. Some are dumping gold. They could be making a big mistake. Sentiment toward precious metals turned negative as prices fell over the past few weeks. […]
Krystal and Saagar are joined by Daily Poster journalist David Sirota as part of an ongoing collaboration to talk about how Amazon funded lobbyists blocked a worker protection bill before the tornadoes struck their warehouse
The Trump family is one of the most talked about families in the United States. Donald Trump’s presidency elevated that and helped put them on an international stage that brought the family to the forefront of the world. Over the last half decade, journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner […]
Krystal and Saagar compare the past statements President Biden has made about cancelling some student debt to what the White House plans on doing about it now
Krystal and Saagar look at the methods used by Gen Z activists on TikTok and other social media platforms to fight the effort by Kellogg’s to shut down striking union workers.
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss high-profile labor organizing happening across the country.
Insider’s Dave Levinthal reacts to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s comments about whether members of Congress should be allowed to own stocks,
Krystal details the extent to which Amazon’s greed put the lives of warehouse workers in jeopardy as deadly tornadoes struck multiple states and killed over 100 people
Robby Soave looks back on the 2018 net neutrality debate.
We’ve said it before when Chinese officials warn the public about something, it means that the problem can no longer be contained. After the Chinese government released the economic data for the third quarter of 2021, the official Chinese media warned the public to be careful about the […]
Whatever the relationship between the policies of these “progressive prosecutors” and crime rates, it needs to be pointed out that the present surge in crime rates began during the same period as the pandemic and its related social and economic effects. Whatever one’s positions on criminal justice or […]
By Dani Alexis Ryskamp The Atlantic The most famous dysfunctional family of 1990s television enjoyed, by today’s standards, an almost dreamily secure existence. The most famous dysfunctional family of 1990s television enjoyed, by today’s standards, an almost dreamily secure existence that now seems out of reach for all […]
The latest neocon front project. By Josh Hammer, Newsweek In the 2016 Republican Party presidential primary, decades of dissonance between the party’s aggrieved grassroots and its blinkered elite spilled out into the open. For years, the chasm widened between the GOP’s heartland base, the river valley-dwelling “Somewheres” from […]
Anarchist News Mutual aid has been in the spotlight recently in light of the current crisis, but what exactly does it mean? And what makes it a powerful form of anarchist praxis unique from charity and volunteering? Well, ‘mutual aid’ is essentially the very radical notion that co-operation, rather […]
Father Steven Allen(Orthodox Truth) Recently, while in Serbia to visit family, I had the pleasure of giving two lectures to an association of young people dedicated to Orthodoxy, monarchism, and Serbian patriotism. As are we here in the States, they also are facing the prospect of persecution by […]
Don’t forget that the UAE has a lot of foreign workers who do all the hard work in very harsh conditions. Universal income should be a thing if automation becomes a threat for more basic jobs. Citizen’s dividends for using the natural resources of a country sounds like […]
Prof Wolff explains all the ways the U.S. and China depend on one another for production, finance and economic access. This is one of the major differences between the Cold War politics between the U.S. and Soviet Union and what is happening today.
By Scott Schieman The Conversation A record share of American workers are quitting their jobs, thanks in part to a strong economy and a labor shortage. Does that mean Americans are unhappy with where they work? The answer would seem to be yes, according to many economists and […]
By Dean Kuipers, The Nation What will it take for an emerging patchwork of co-ops, food hubs, and farming collectives to challenge Big Ag? Starting any farm is a crapshoot, but Reginaldo and Amy Haslett-Marroquin went the hard way right from the start. In the fall of 2020, […]
By Molly Crabapple, The Nation The 45 days of fierce protest, shrewd organizing, and ferocious solidarity that ended the debt nightmare that had engulfed the taxi industry. On September 19, a group of cab drivers organized by the New York Taxi Workers Alliance rolled up to the corner of […]
Krystal and Saagar weigh in on the Biden administration’s decision to resume collecting student loan payments early in 2022 despite the difficult economic conditions for recent college grads
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave react to reporting that before a tornado destroyed their factory, Mayfield candle factory workers were told they would be fired if they left work.
Krystal responds to a Fox News host who was gleeful over mass layoffs of employees via zoom at a fintech company run by a CEO with a history of abusive, fraudulent behavior
Kim Iversen breaks down liberal hypocrisy and the housing market.
Briahna Joy Gray shares her reaction to the viral teacher ‘cash grab’ video out of South Dakota, as well as President Biden’s decision to not cancel student debt.
Krystal and Saagar provide an update on the congressional battles around the Build Back Better legislation now that Manchin has renewed concerns about the bill and progressives have no leverage
Ryan Grim breaks down more evidence of the bipartisan, bureaucratic effort to privatize Medicare.
Krystal and Saagar take an in depth look at the bipartisan corruption in congress as many politicians and staffers have made millions in illegal stock trades
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss whether the Build Back Better bill will pass the Senate before Christmas, as well as the latest Supreme Court ruling on vaccine mandates.
The Atlas Network’s Antonella Marty on the bad ideas that have undermined wealth and stability in the region.
By Guilherme Falleiros and Katiuscia M Galhera ‘The Fordist baggage of anarcho-syndicalism’, by Ben Debney (see Anarchist Studies Blog), argues that anarcho-syndicalism was unable to keep pace with mutations in the labor sphere due to an assumed Fordist paradigm. This article takes as a starting point the fact […]
Throughout history, the Russians have always held a bad hand. Their geography and climate make the basics of life – food and security – devilishly difficult. Their lack of navigable rivers demands huge rafts of artificial infrastructure, but that costs money that Russia’s brutal winters and vast distances […]
Scott interviews author and geopolitical analyst Peter Zeihan. Zeihan does not believe China will be a nation state ten years from now. One reason, he argues, is that China’s economy is completely dependent on the disappearing American presence keeping the peace on the world’s oceans. This, of course, […]
Krystal and Saagar go in detail to discuss how Starbucks workers in Buffalo, NY were able to overcome management to form the first unions within the coffee giants
Krystal and Saagar give an update on the Omicron variant and how pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer have responded to the spread of the new covid strain
Krystal and Saagar update viewers on the deadly tornadoes that went across five states and left at least 100 people dead including Amazon workers trapped in a warehouse
Investigative reporter, Ken Klippenstein, details attempts by Kellogg’s to replace striking workers.
Krystal and Saagar provide the updated statistics on inflation happening throughout the economy and the toll it is having on the wage gains made by workers
Saagar outlines how Apple CEO Tim Cook sold out the principles he and his company apparently stood for to China in a secret deal in exchange for massive profits in the Chinese market
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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