Just another in a long list of shysters who made a name for themselves as some kind of right-wing demagogue, and not nearly as interesting as some of the ones who came before him. He was a product of his time, i.e. the Sunbelt insurgency within the capitalist […]
What leadership! By Marina Watts, Newsweek How did Joe Biden relax during his first Presidents Day weekend as president? By playing MarioKart with his family. During his weekend retreat at Camp David, Biden and his granddaughter Naomi played the racing video game, and he won. Naomi shared a […]
By Laura Widener, American Military News White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters on Tuesday that President Joe Biden has not ruled out using executive orders for gun control. When asked if Biden still intended to use executive action on gun control – a vow made during […]
–Audience Question: Can Democrats make Washington DC and Puerto Rico states?
I’m neither an orthodox Libertarian like Adam nor a Jacobin socialist like Ben, though I’m peripherally influenced by both traditions. Having studied both traditions for decades, I’m somewhat of a hybrid of the two traditions (a “libertarian socialist” like the classical anarchists) but unlike most libertarian socialists I’m […]
Building the new society in the shell of the old.
Like him or not, he was genuinely important for the cause of free speech and freedom of the press, which we will need in the years and decades ahead. By Paul Valentine, Washington Post Larry Flynt, one of America’s most notorious pornographers and self-proclaimed champions of First Amendment […]
Interestingly, Russia, which is far more socially conservative than the USA, is number 2. By Stephanie Kramer, Pew Research Center For decades, the share of U.S. children living with a single parent has been rising, accompanied by a decline in marriage rates and a rise in births outside […]
The neocon-neoliberal alliance tightens. Team Rising discusses Congresswoman Liz Cheney’s recent statements supporting President Trump’s impeachment despite Wyoming censure.
Listen here. How can a new generation of leftists learn from Chomsky’s practice as well as his theory? Our own conversation with Professor Chomsky on this week’s episode of Krystal Kyle & Friends reveals how important this question is to him. Chomsky hopes that his lifetime of work […]
By J.D. Tuccille, Reason In the panicked aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the powers-that-be dusted off wish lists of surveillance-state powers and began monitoring and tracking us in ways that affect our lives two decades later. The political turbulence of recent years, culminating in the Capitol riot […]
Two thoughts: 1) Ben Shapiro is a total douchebag; 2) these Politico “employees” sound like total morons. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss the reaction to Ben Shapiro contributing to the Politico Playbook.
Tom Woods Show Listen here. Howard Lichtman and Matt White of ThickRedLine.org join me to discuss what should be obvious: the connection between victimless crime laws and police abuse. They intend to do something about it, and I invite you to consider — and support — their strategy.
It’s interesting how in this segment, Krystal and Saager essentially admit that the system can’t be fixed, and then fall back on the usual FDR-love and “vote for Bernie” or whatever bullshit. Lame.
By Marc Lamont Hill, ROAR Magazine As I reflect on the current moment, I see a widening sky of possibility. The public sphere is filled with radical voices, radical ideas and radical action. We are dreaming together, envisioning a free and safe world where we finally turn to […]
Protesters again took to the streets of Portland, Oregon, on Thursday — the first full day of Joe Biden’s presidency — to let the Democratic establishment know they are still fighting for racial justice, some told CNN.
Of course. Team Rising discusses key players who are for and against the Biden stimulus package.
Media outlets are the new churches just like universities are the new seminaries. Journalist and author, Matt Taibbi, discusses Americans’ diminishing trust in traditional media.
I can think of few things that more perfectly symbolize what the Democrats are about than Biden’s placing a bust of Cesar Chavez in the Oval Office (supposedly in the place of Winston Churchill) while recognizing Juan Gaido as the legitimate president of Venezuela. Of course, the Ben […]
I’m sure these “100 civil rights groups” will be taken very seriously by Sleepy Joe and Police State Kamala. By Scott Shackford, Reason Civil rights groups across the country are urging President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, as well as Congressional Democrats, not to pass new […]
The most serious domestic issue at present. The modern police state really began with Nixon’s war on drugs in the 1970s, which was expanded by Reagan and Poppy Bush in the 80s. It then became a general war on crime, guns, gangs, etc, in the 1990s, following by […]
We now have an interesting situation where the Democrats control the federal government and most large cities while the Republicans control a supermajority of the state governments. Qurom Last week the Republican Party established a federal trifecta and with wins in the Minnesota Senate, Kentucky House, and Iowa […]
They surrendered the capital in order to provoke a patriot act 2.0.
Richie Merino does NOT want people to call what happened on January 6 “a coup” or even attempted coup. Neither does Katie. And they have a slight disagreement with a viewer and friend of the show.
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By Stansfield Smith, One World With the exit of Trump, we can expect renewed threats against North Korea and increased military action in the Middle East. We will experience not just an end to presidential condemnations of the national security state, but its further unleashing on the US […]
That would render the Republicans permanently irrelevant. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to a WSJ report that President Trump is planning to start a third political party.
By Jacob G. Hornberger, Future of Freedom Foundation The Joint Chiefs of Staff have spoken. Issuing a remarkable memorandum to all members of the Armed Forces, the JCS have declared that Joe Biden will be the new president of the United States. The memo may have been not […]
By Richard J. Evans, New Statesman A number of prominent commentators, including the historians Timothy Snyder and Sarah Churchwell, the former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright, and the Berkeley public policy professor Robert Reich has been arguing for some time that Donald Trump is a fascist. The […]
This is pretty funny. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to new rumors about Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner.
If you can’t say anything nice… By Robert D. McFadden, New York Times Sheldon G. Adelson, a cabdriver’s son who built the world’s largest empire of casinos and resort hotels in Las Vegas, Macau, Singapore and other gambling meccas and used his vast wealth to promote right-wing political […]
By Erin Corbett, Refinery 29 In the aftermath of the violent siege of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, the FBI and D.C. Police are asking the public to help identify people who planned and participated in the attack. Like clockwork, many people have been quick to assume that […]
US politics right now (and to some degree Western politics generally) seems to be kind of repeat of what happened in the 19th century when the rising industrial bourgeois was eclipsing the traditional royal, aristocratic, an clerical elites as the dominant class. Right now we have this rising […]
This guy really needs to be the subject of a comic stip where the main character is some stereotypical anarcho-loser.
This offers an interesting perspective though I tend to disagree on a few points. I prefer for the Internet to be the proverbial “Wild West.” Saagar Enjeti analyzes Trump’s removal from various social media platforms and discusses how conservatives should react.
This commentary is fairly nuance commentary. Krystal strikes me as being similar to Tulsi in the sense of being frequently lame but capable of learning. Krystal Ball reflects on Rising’s coverage of Trump’s presidency and the 2020 election specifically, noting the successful moments and the moments she regrets.
Today NBC News national security analyst Frank Figliuzzi joins Sunday TODAY’s Willie Geist to discuss how officials are able to track down people who stormed the Capitol on Wednesday. “Rest assured, if you were inside that Capitol building, consequences are coming, and it may not be a polite […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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