By Jon Schwarz Intercept At Christmas we traditionally reflect upon our blessings and forgive those who have trespassed against us. Let’s not this year. At this time of year we traditionally reflect upon our blessings and forgive those who have trespassed against us. But we’ve been trying that […]
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave ponder what a 2024 presidential campaign matchup between Michelle Obama and Donald Trump would look like.
From 2017. The rise of the neo-know-nothings is in part a pushback against the rise of the alliance between digital capitalism, the traditional financial elites, and the professional-managerial class, with totalitarian humanism its ideological superstructure, along with the parallel cultural and demographic decline of traditionally hegemonic WASP culture, […]
US political culture, particularly elite culture, has experienced a sharp leftward lurch in recent years. Hardcore wokesters are actually a very small minority compared to the general public, but they tend to be concentrated in sectors where they have a platform and influence that is greatly disproportional to […]
By Peter Weber, The Week Conservative millennial commentator Candace Owens spent Christmas weekend arguing on Twitter with less-conservative millennial commentator Meghan McCain over an interview Owens conducted with former President Donald Trump last week. In the interview, Trump stood up for the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines after Owens […]
As I’ve always said, Trump is a Nixon-Rockefeller moderate Republican at heart. By Joel Mathis, The Week He’s actively promoting vaccination. Will the GOP’s right-wing turn on him? In the early days of his 2016 campaign, former President Donald Trump famously boasted of the hold he had over his […]
Kim Iversen speculates about how Vice President Kamala Harris can boost her failing poll numbers.
Deputy opinion editor at Newsweek, Batya Ungar-Sargon, reacts to liberal outrage at the ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ comments made towards Joe and Jill Biden.
Krystal and Saagar offer their views on the Masterclass being offered by failed Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton that shows her crying while reading her planned 2016 victory speech
Ryan Grim imagines an alternate future in which Senator Joe Manchin was more like Lyndon Baines Johnson.
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss the chaotic state of mass coronavirus testing, and consider what role the Biden administration may have had in hindering rollout.
Proto-Protestant https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/us-news/2021/12/09/ocasio-cortez-slams-republicans-over-gun-toting-christmas-photos/ What a sad moment. Ocasio-Cortez the much vilified Democratic representative from New York and member of the hated ‘Squad’ has spoken truth – and a truth that puts Evangelicals to shame. The Right has made too much of Ocasio-Cortez. Some commentators suggest that ‘The Squad’ in […]
Katie Halper reacts to a new decision from NY state’s ethics panel that would see former Governor Andrew Cuomo forfeit his pandemic book deal profits.
By W. James Antle III, The Week Democrats find themselves wishing for a happy New Year after 2021 sputtered to a disappointing conclusion with their sprawling climate and social welfare proposal not keeping up the legislative momentum by also reaching President Biden’s desk. But it’s not clear things will get […]
Progressives were frustrated with President JOE BIDEN even before Sen. JOE MANCHIN (D-W.V.) knifed the Build Back Better act on live television Sunday. Voting rights legislation appears to be going nowhere. Student loan collection is expected to re-start early next year. Some of the Trump administration’s border policies […]
By Mark Tapscott Epoch Times When New Jersey Democratic Rep. Albio Sires announced that he wouldn’t seek reelection, he became the 23rd sitting Democrat in the House of Representatives to opt out of seeking another term in Congress. For a party with a majority that depends upon a […]
“Never gonna be president now” -Thomas Jefferson (Hamilton Musical)
By Ryan Grim, The Intercept Lyndon B. Johnson, a giant of American politics, recognized a political opportunity and reoriented. Manchin would rather be the man riding the bomb to the ground. When Lyndon B. Johnson took over leadership of the Senate Democratic caucus in the early 1950s, anybody […]
By Ed Kilgore U.S. senator Ted Cruz of Texas isn’t currently subscribing to the strongly held belief among most Republicans that Donald Trump is going to be the 2024 Republican presidential nominee. Indeed, as he told the conservative news site the Truth Gazette this week, he’s bullish on […]
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By Joel Mathis, The Week Sen. Susan Collins is nothing if not an optimist. A year after former President Donald Trump left the White House, the Maine Republican apparently still believes better times are ahead for her party — a moment when Trump’s rabble-rousing, anti-democratic influence will recede, […]
Political reporter at The Hill, Julia Manchester, details Democrats’ strategy for courting suburban women voters in 2022.
Krystal and Saagar cover the fallout that has ensued on the left after Biden’s Build Back Better agenda was shot down by Senator Joe Manchin
Pew Research Center Even in a polarized era, deep divisions in both partisan coalitions. Partisan polarization remains the dominant, seemingly unalterable condition of American politics. Republicans and Democrats agree on very little – and when they do, it often is in the shared belief that they have little […]
Tony Woodlief, executive vice president of the State Policy Network, details why independent voters are disillusioned with the political party apparatus.
By ALEX THOMPSON , TINA SFONDELES and MAX TANI Politico Progressives were frustrated with President JOE BIDEN even before Sen. JOE MANCHIN (D-W.V.) knifed the Build Back Better act on live television Sunday. Voting rights legislation appears to be going nowhere. Student loan collection is expected to re-start […]
By David Freedman, Newsweek Mike “Wompus” Nieznany is a 73-year-old Vietnam veteran who walks with a cane from the combat wounds he received during his service. That disability doesn’t keep Nieznany from making a living selling custom motorcycle luggage racks from his home in Gainesville, Georgia. Neither will […]
Retired Brig. Gen. Steven Anderson speaks with CNN’s Kate Bolduan about his op-ed in the Washington Post in which he and two other retired generals warn that the US military must work to quell unrest within the armed forces to prevent another insurrection from occurring in 2024.
Krystal and Saagar respond to radio host Charlamagne tha God pressing Kamala Harris on who is really calling the shots in the Biden administration due to the President’s glaring weakness
Krystal looks back at the promises Biden made to young people in America who voted for him at overwhelming margins only for him to not deliver and lose the support of Gen Z
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
By Paul D. Eaton, Antonio M. Taguba and Steven M. Anderson Paul D. Eaton is a retired U.S. Army major general and a senior adviser to VoteVets. Antonio M. Taguba is a retired Army major general, with 34 years of active duty service. Steven M. Anderson is a […]
By Andrew Sullivan And the terrifying tenacity of Trump’s cult. A year ago, as the vaccines began to arrive and as the nightmare of the Trump administration appeared to be over, I found myself unusually optimistic. In an end-of-year essay I admitted was written in part to cheer […]
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 […]
Insider’s Dave Levinthal reacts to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s comments about whether members of Congress should be allowed to own stocks,
Ryan Grim breaks down the alleged antisemitic comments made towards Rep. Josh Gottheimer.
Krystal and Saagar respond to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s justification of insider trading by members of congress including herself to the tune of millions of dollars and major conflicts of interest
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave react to the breakdown in Build Back Better Act negotiations between President Joe Biden and Senator Joe Manchin.
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll shows President Joe Biden’s approval rating has slightly improved.
Team Rising debates whether pro-Trump Republicans will be able to take down Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Hillary reminds me of a queen from medieval times who would rather let the whole kingdom burn down if she can’t have it all. At this point it’s charitable to assume bad faith. I really think she is just that crazy.
By Kyle Lawson, Staten Island Advance, N.Y. A provocative Instagram video from 2019 shows Staten Island House of Representatives candidate Brittany Ramos DeBarros stripping and twerking at a 2019 anti-war, pro-veteran event. The video depicts DeBarros, a Democratic Socialist and former Army officer, at one point pulling off […]
People are usually either annoying or forgettable. Hillary Clinton manages to pull off both at once.
Imagine needing a coup to save yourself from Sleepy Joe…
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 […]
By Caroline Mimbs Nyce The Atlantic “He’s got to condemn this shit ASAP,” Donald Trump Jr. purportedly texted about his father to then–Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, as rioters smashed their way into the U.S. Capitol building on January 6, 2020. But in the months that followed, Republicans […]
Lots of pundits have lots of thoughts and feelings about how to fix the Democrats’ messaging problems. A recent Jacobin study charted one path forward, “Shorism” offers another. This week, Briahna Joy Gray spoke to Professor Ian Haney López, Earl Warren Professor of Public Law at UC Berkeley, […]
By Brigid Kennedy The Week The Jan. 6 House select committee made waves Monday night after revealing a slew of text messages sent to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows during the Capitol riot, urging him to convince then-President Donald Trump to denounce the attack. Everyone […]
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll reveals Vice President Kamala Harris’ approval numbers are underwater but steady, at 43 percent support.
Krystal and Saagar welcome Lucas Kunce back to the show to discuss his populist Senate campaign in Missouri as a Democrat and the issues he is running on
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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