“The Nation” 2025 Wrapped

DECEMBER 26, 2025 The Nation 2025 Wrapped This year was filled with a lot of big news. But according to The Nation’s analytics, the stories you liked most were those about right-wing pundits, politicians, and financiers—from the assasination of Charlie Kirk, to the revelation of Elon Musk’s drug […]

12/22/25: Silicon Valley’s Dark Quest For Techno Fascism

Krystal is joined by Jacob Silverman to discuss Silicon Valley’s quest for techno fascism. Jacob Silverman: https://www.amazon.com/Gilded-Rage-Ra… Sign up for a PREMIUM Breaking Points subscriptions for full early access to uncut shows and LIVE AMAs with the hosts every week: https://breakingpoints.locals.com/sup… Merch Store: https://shop.breakingpoints.com/ To listen to Breaking […]

Congress Faces Pressure to Reauthorize Surveillance Powers Before Holiday Recess

Critics warn rushed reauthorization could entrench unchecked government spying. Dec 22, 2025 With lawmakers racing toward the holiday recess, Congress is facing mounting pressure to reauthorize sweeping federal surveillance authorities—setting up a familiar showdown between civil-liberties advocates and defenders of the national security state. Several key surveillance provisions […]

Oil Tanker Seized

Oil Tanker Seized Plus: What’s up with consumer spending, that CECOT segment, and more… LIZ WOLFE President Donald Trump ordered a “complete blockade” last week of all sanctioned oil tankers entering or leaving Venezuela—a giant escalation in his pressure campaign against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. The idea seems […]

Lawmakers threaten Bondi with contempt

MONDAY, DECEMBER 22 LAWMAKERS THREATEN BONDI WITH CONTEMPT  Reps. Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie say Attorney General Pam Bondi could face “inherent contempt” for releasing heavily redacted and incomplete Epstein files. The bipartisan lawmakers argue the Justice Department failed to comply with a transparency law they co-sponsored requiring […]

Tolkienian Right and Lovecraftian Left

Rootedness vs. Otherness Arktos Journal and Andrej Sekulović Dec 22, 2025 Andrej Sekulović explores how the literary masterpieces of Tolkien and Lovecraft remind us of the fateful struggle between living culture and engineered multiculturalism, rooted identity and foreign influx, and ethnocultural dignity versus the swamp of decay. “The […]

A strange kind of happiness

Paul Cudenec Dec 22, 2025 They’re closing the schools They’re burning the books The church is in ruins The priests hang on hooks The radio’s on ice The telly’s been banned The army’s in power The devil commands! These lyrics by the English punk group The Damned belong […]

The Right’s Supremacists

Sponsored by The University of North Carolina Press   Today in The New York Review of Books: Suzanne Schneider investigates the schism on the American right; Atul Dev revisits a forgotten American massacre; Linda Kinstler asks what Ukrainians think of the terms of Trump’s peace deal; and, from the […]

Diplomacy, corruption, politics

Yermak is not gone. Political stasis disintegrating. The true meaning of the November corruption scandal. Events in Ukraine Dec 21, 2025 ∙ Paid On November 10 of this year, Ukraine’s western-funded anti-corruption organs went public with its massive graft investigation — ‘Operation Midas’ — against top figures in […]

A Christmas Story

Sponsored by London Review of Books The Bible is unquestionably the most scrutinized “book” in history. Yet certain obvious facts about it nonetheless escape notice. For example, as Diarmaid MacCulloch points out in the Review’s December 18, 2025, the Bible is not in fact a book, but “books,” as its […]

Pirates Of The Caribbean

By Rev. Chuck Baldwin Published: Thursday, December 18, 2025 Download free computerized mp3 audio file of this column (To subscribe to my columns at no cost, click here.) The maniacal, Machiavellian, murderous monstrosities of the Trump White House fall upon the world like a monsoon. Small private boats […]