By Ed West The soppy 90s epic Titanic famously tells the story of star-crossed-lovers whose budding romance is thwarted by Anglo-Saxon class constraints and an enormous iceberg. There is Rose, a frustrated young gentry woman destined for a life of pampered Edwardian luxury, and Jack, the happy-go-lucky starving […]
Krystal and Saagar offer their perspective on CNN’s decision to hire lifelong neocon propagandist and current ‘Never Trumper’ Jonah Goldberg after he quit Fox News
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS and LEAH WILLINGHAM, AP News JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — If you are Black or Hispanic in a conservative state that already limits access to abortions, you are far more likely than a white woman to have one. And if the U.S. Supreme Court allows […]
Katie Halper discusses the role of #MeToo in Jeff Zucker’s resignation from CNN.
The Iraqi people should sue CNN for at least $1 trillion dollars.
By Joel Mathis The Week Let’s call it the #MeToo domino theory. When a powerful man loses his job and status because of sexual harassment allegations, there’s often a string of buddies and enablers in the background hoping they don’t get caught out as well. Sometimes they aren’t […]
By Carter Sherman Vice “Within 60 seconds of joining—I was verbally and sexually harassed.” A woman says that she was “virtually gang-raped” in Facebook’s metaverse, just seconds after she stepped into the new virtual world. “Within 60 seconds of joining—I was verbally and sexually harassed—3-4 male avatars, with […]
Kim Iversen discusses the latest in the Prince Andrew case brought against him by Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss Prince Andrew’s continued attempts to have Virginia Giuffre’s lawsuit against him dismissed.
By Katabella Roberts, Epoch Times Podcast host Joe Rogan has denied claims that he is trying to share misinformation about COVID-19 on his Spotify podcast after scientists and medical professionals, as well as singer Neil Young, claimed that he had. In a 10-minute video posted to Instagram on Sunday night, Rogan […]
By Grayson Quay The Week According to a new ABC News/Ipsos poll, 76 percent of Americans say President Biden should consider “all possible nominees” to fill retiring Justice Stephen Breyer’s seat on the Supreme Court. Only 23 percent say Biden should consider only Black female candidates, as he […]
By Arwa Mahdawi The Guardian (Not much) sex in the city And just like that, nobody’s having sex any more. Middle-aged people aren’t having much. Young people aren’t having much. Japanese people aren’t having much. Nor are Brits or Australians or Americans. Over the past decade a number […]
I don’t really have any problem with “voluntary arranged marriages.” It still works that way in India (kinda sorta). In the future, we may see a great deal of diversification of family life, including the return of arranged marriages and traditional polygamy from the right end, and the […]
Team Rising debates the influence of Big Tech in stopping the spread of online disinformation.
The Week Staff One trait connects many American men who go on shooting sprees: a history of hating women. Here’s everything you need to know: What motivates mass shooters? The motivations of these killers are often confused, complex, or simply not known. But researchers have found that many […]
Anarchist News This episode features an interview with Cid V. Brunet about their recent memoir “This Is My Real Name: A Stripper’s Memoir. We talk about stripping, sex work, anarchist community, sex, gender and much more. Buy the book at Arsenal Pulp Press. LISTEN HERE
The hosts answer your questions about Roe v. Wade, politicians they admire, and natural immunity.
By Vincent Harinam, Quillette Whether you’re an impartial onlooker or active combatant in the culture wars, you may have come across the term “simp.” A lexical fixture in Twitch chatrooms and TikTok videos, simps are romantically-challenged men whose servile nature prevents them from earning the affection of their […]
By Amanda Barroso Pew Research Center Dating has always come with challenges. But the advent of dating apps and other new technologies – as well as the #MeToo movement – presents a new set of norms and expectations for American singles looking for casual or committed relationships, according […]
Ryan Grim details new results from a survey on public reception to transgender activism.
By Stephanie H. Murray The Week 2021 was full of surprises: The Capitol riot was a bit of a shock; COVID-19 variants sprung up left and right; and, perhaps strangest of all, sperm was all over the papers. That’s because the pandemic caused a serious shortage in the market […]
By Charles M. Blow, New York Times The Supreme Court on Friday issued a decision allowing abortion providers in Texas to continue challenging a new law that bans most abortions in the state after about six weeks of pregnancy. But while the conservative majority didn’t close the door […]
Krystal and Saagar offer their perspective on the discourse by liberals surrounding Louis CK’s first big special since he was banished from public life for sexual misconduct back in 2017
Krystal and Saagar look at how the disgraced Cuomo brothers planned to avoid a sexual misconduct scandal for Andrew by using the playbook Joe Biden deployed against Tara Reade.
By Robert Barnes Washington Post The Supreme Court on Friday left in place a Texas law that bans most abortions after six weeks, but it provided a path for abortion providers to challenge what is the nation’s most restrictive law on the procedure. The court’s splintered decision allows […]
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll reveals Americans are evenly split on how the Supreme Court should treat Roe v. Wade.
Jeffrey Epstein seems to have made his money as a “pimp to the elite” while masquerading as a “financier.” Maxwell was obviously his connection to the Israelis, apparently through her father. High-ranking Israeli officials were among his clients. It looks like that part of his operation was making […]
Here we go. Another step toward Civil War Two. By ADAM BEAM, Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — With more than two dozen states poised to ban abortion if the U.S. Supreme Court gives them the OK next year, California clinics and their allies in the state Legislature […]
By Damon Linker, The Week America’s abortion precedents are a mess. They’re also as good as we’ll get. Even in our politically polarized time, abortion stands out as an issue uniquely defined by extremes. On one side, anti-abortion activists want the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade […]
Ryan Grim, Robby Soave, and deputy opinion editor at Newsweek, Batya Ungar-Sargon, react to CNN’s firing of Chris Cuomo.
Krystal and Saagar cover the firing of Chris Cuomo from CNN after even more accusations about sexual misconduct and covering up his brother’s behavior came to light
Krystal and Saagar provide an update on the chances Roe v. Wade gets overturned now that the Supreme Court is deliberating on a challenge to the decision from Mississippi
Anarchist News During these past 2 years, Covid deaths were not the only death toll that caused alarm. Various countries are in uproar due to the increase in femicides. Some States have declared a state of emergency, while others which have not are exhorted by feminist activists to […]
By ASHRAF KHALIL, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — As the Supreme Court court weighs the future of the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, a resurgent anti-abortion movement is looking to press its advantage in state-by-state battles while abortion-rights supporters prepare to play defense. Both sides seem to […]
By Amy Littlefield, The Nation If Supreme Court rules as expected, a group of committed abortion rights supporters is ready to fight to “liberate abortion.” Jessy Rosales stood in front of the Supreme Court Building on Wednesday, holding a yellow circle printed with the words “I had an […]
By Andrew Sullivan The case for returning the abortion question to politics. There is no question, it seems to me, that abortion is an issue where the burden on women vastly outweighs the burden on men. Up to nine months of carrying and then caring for an infant […]
Team Rising breaks down yesterday’s oral arguments at the Supreme Court.
By Matthew Walther, The American Conservative Of all the forms of divination condemned by the Church and rejected by our natural faculties of reason, logomancy is the most obviously absurd. Hobbes, the wittiest of English philosophers, tells us that words “are wise men’s counters, they do but reckon […]
By Brendan Morrow The Week The International Olympic Committee says it has held another video call with tennis star Peng Shuai after the Women’s Tennis Association again expressed “serious doubts” that she’s safe. The IOC said on Thursday that it had a Wednesday video call with Peng, the tennis […]
By Rebecca Traister New York Mag, Intelligencer The aftermath of the Supreme Court’s oral arguments this week on the fate of Roe v. Wade — in which a phalanx of right-wing justices made plain their disdain for the law — has been a festival of finger-pointing and recrimination […]
Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court heard arguments in which it was asked to overturn a nationwide right to abortion that has existed for nearly 50 years. The fate of the court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion throughout the United States and its 1992 […]
Abby Epstein, director of “The Business of Birth Control,” details the new generation of women taking a more holistic approach to their reproductive agency.
Krystal and Saagar look at the views and histories of two neocon pundits now beloved by liberals who decided to resign from Fox News in the wake of a Tucker Carlson documentary about Jan 6th
By Brendan Morrow The Week A new report from New York’s State Assembly has found there is “overwhelming evidence” that former Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) engaged in sexual harassment. The Assembly Judiciary Committee on Monday released a 46-page report following an eight-month impeachment investigation into the former governor, […]
By Helen Davidson, The Guardian The disappearance of the Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai has dominated international news in recent days, but inside China there is barely a whisper. Peng – the former doubles World No 1 – has not been heard from in more than two weeks, […]
By Joel Mathis, The Week Americans don’t want to overturn Roe v. Wade. A new Washington Post/ABC News poll indicates that 60 percent of U.S. adults want to see the abortion-rights precedent upheld, and a slightly higher number — 65 percent — believe that Texas’ new anti-abortion law […]
By Stephanie McCrummen Washington Post ARGYLE, Tex. — The vision had come as she was driving home from the Kroger, and it was so sudden and fully formed that Aubrey Schlackman began to tell people that “it was like God placed it in my head.” This was last […]
Tom Woods Show Paula Wright joins us to discuss feminism in its various forms, and what if anything it commits people to other than equal access to opportunities for women READ MORE
Team Rising reacts to Josh Hawley’s speech on, what he calls, “the Left’s attack on America – and American men.”
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen. and Robby Soave debate how the pandemic affected men and women differently.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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