As totalitarian humanism achieves hegemony at the federal, corporate, financial, academic, and media levels, the neo-Know Nothings and the right-wing of the oligarchy are waging an insurgency at the regional level. Interesting. Former chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party, David Pepper, details his new book: Laboratories Of Autocracy: […]
Founder of The Daily Poster, David Sirota, explains how Democrats’ broken promises are jeopardizing democracy.
By Matt Taibbi Interview with David Sirota, creator of the new Audible podcast series about the aftereffects of the 2008 financial crash, produced by Oscar-winner Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions. “What’s really cool is I have very few friends in DC,” says Meltdown podcast creator David Sirota. “When this […]
Host of The Nomiki Show, Nomiki Konst, and advisor at Renew Democracy Initiative, Rina Shah, discuss Elon Musk’s opposition to the billionaire tax.
Krystal and Saagar cover the details of Biden’s shrinking budget proposal as Democrats in congress have continued to battle over what will be in the final version of the bill
Host of Bad Faith Podcast, Briahna Joy Gray, gives her take on Virginia’s dead-heat gubernatorial race.
My most recent appearance on Cotto/Gottfried. Listen here.
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
Insider’s Kimberly Leonard details the stock exchange that has Rep. Mo Brooks in hot water.
Krystal and Saagar respond to the recent comments made by former President Barack Obama during a campaign stop for Democrats where he justifies voting for Dems even when they do nothing
Ryan Grim details the bizarre ad celebrating the effort by nine moderate Democrats, led by Rep. Josh Gottheimer, to kill President Biden’s ‘Build Back Better’ budget resolution.
On today’s What America’s Thinking, Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss President Biden’s appearance at a CNN townhall, as well as the president’s latest poll numbers.
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.
Krystal and Saagar are joined by elections expert Kyle Kondik to talk about the strategies being used by both campaigns in the Virginia gubernatorial race and what to expect on election night
Ryan Grim breaks down Joe Manchin’s ‘entitlement mentality.’
Krystal and Saagar look at how inflation and other economic problems taking place are causing Biden’s poll numbers to worsen particularly among crucial independent voters
Krystal and Saagar discuss the reports from this weekend that Senators Bernie Sanders and Joe Manchin had tense meetings about the size and provisions in the budget reconciliation bill
Host of Bad Faith Podcast, Briahna Joy Gray, gives her predictions for Democrats’ chances at remaining in control of Congress after the 2022 midterm elections.
Co-host of Useful Idiots podcast and host of The Katie Halper Show, Katie Halper, details what CNN gets wrong in their coverage of President Biden’s ‘Build Back Better’ agenda.
Krystal and Saagar respond to a segment on CNN where the anchor called out Bernie Sanders for his criticism of how mainstream media is covering the congressional battle over the reconciliation bill
–Michele Fiore, Las Vegas City Councilwoman, announces her campaign for Governor of Nevada, and is essentially Marjorie Taylor Greene 2.0
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 […]
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) discussed introducing articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden Friday during a House Judiciary Committee hearing.
The Daily Poster’s Julia Rock and David Sirota detail new dark money ads celebrating Kyrsten Sinema’s blocking of President Biden’s ‘Build Back Better’ agenda.
It’s demographic shifts. While it’s arguable that coverage of Trump has shifted opinions within individual members of the Democratic base, the larger story of the last few decades has been the Democrats’ abandonment of the working class and embrace of suburban elites and urban professionals. It’s different people […]
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.
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.
Krystal delivers the argument for why progressives in congress should vote down the Biden budget bill if it ends up being as atrocious as it appears to be
Krystal and Saagar cover the breaking news that former President Trump will be launching his own media company to compete with Twitter and cable news
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss new polling showing a majority of Americans, including independents, believe President Biden is at fault for the current economy.
Krystal and Saagar break down the updated welfare provisions being proposed by the Democrats in their budget bill, which would impose crippling new costs onto middle class families
At the bottom of this page is a reprint of an article I wrote on Alex Jones for an Alternative Right magazine back in 2010. It is interesting to revisit that article in light of what has happened in the past 11 years with the emergence of Trumpism. […]
Why are folks debating whether Kamala is “Black” and is it relevant to her presidential prospects? How does one square the belief that White Americans are too racist to vote for policies that benefit Blacks with a redistributive economic agenda — much less Reparations? Briahna Joy Gray covers […]
Robby Soave breaks down the education culture war currently playing out in the Virginia gubernatorial race.
Both the Democrats and Republicans seem to be working on contingency plans for the creation of a one-party state of their own. The Democrats want a Latin American class system with Western European social norms, and the Republicans want something more like a Latin American caudillo or an […]
By Eric London World Socialist Web Site In an interview with the Democratic Socialists of America magazine Democratic Left published on March 21, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attacked socialist critics of the Biden administration as “privileged” and “bad faith actors,” while praising the Democratic Party for “totally reinvent[ing] themselves in […]
Former presidential and NYC mayoral candidate Andrew Yang discusses his vision for his new third party, the Forward Party.
Krystal and Saagar review the letter sent by a bipartisan group of legislators warning Amazon that they could be investigated due to possible lies under oath last year
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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